Mystics In Rand

On Page 15 of her book, The Virtue of Ethics, Ayn Rand writes of the religious and secular mystics that offer a supreme deity to provide all the answers for humans: "The avowed mystics held the arbitrary, unaccountable 'will of God' as the standard of the good and as the validation of their ethics. The neomystics replaced it with 'the good of society' . . ." My response: Ayn Rand like Max Stirner notes that the supreme deity for Christians is God, and the supreme deity for secular atheists is society, but both sets of adherents worship some deity. She is advising that the individual rationally invent his own values, and does not sacrifice his reason, his life and his worth to service of some altruistic demand from some abstract deity, existent or not, secularly or sacredly sourced.