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	The 12 Spiritual Temperaments

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</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/12_Spiritual_Temperaments.html"><P><FONT color="0000A0"><I>These twelve spiritual temperaments are</I>: 1) <I>the Compassionate Server</I>, 2) <I>the Devotee</I>, 3) <I>the Intuitive Mystic-Sage</I>, 4) <I>the Intellectual</I>, 5) <I>the Dogmatic Believer</I>, 6) <I>the Monastic-Communalist</I>, 7) <I>the Hermit</I>, 8) <I>the Cynic or Freedom-Seeker</I>, 9) <I>the Ritualist-Ceremonialist</I>, 10) <I>the Yogi or Psychic-Experimenter</I>, 11) <I>the Prophet or  Trance-Channel</I>, 12) <I>the Sensual Ecstatic</I>.
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