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"It follows that as a preliminary to all mental processes we must acquire such control of the emotions that they shall not function involuntarily. Such control is not obtained by the comparatively simple expedient of repression but by the far more difficult process of sublimation, so that the force generated by an external stimulus, instead of producing an immediate reaction of emotion, which might take place where it was not wanted, is directed to a more remote reaction, and discharges harmlessly upon another plane. Thus, an immediate reaction of resentment.is transmuted into compassion and has its issue in charity." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p101