Given enough time or rather lifetimes, the master may lead him to peace and wisdom--but they can never be unearned gifts. They can come to him only through his own deserving. If people accept a spurious or a shoddy mysticism as the real thing, it can only be because they are not yet ready for it.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 7: The Path of Individuality > # 45