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separate castes and creeds and nations and
people break down under the law of re-birth,
and the theory of chance, of luck, breaks down
under the inviolable law of cause and effect or
action and reaction. How useless to pride
ourselves on being born in one class, under any
particular flag. Next life we may be in no
caste and in some other country. Separation
seems to drop out under the shadow of the
Divine Wisdom, for the teaching is essentially
one that unites, one that calls for union.

I refer often to the separation of caste and
creed. The Divine Wisdom helps us to under-
stand the nature of these separations in
certain stages of evolution. The East has
a caste system founded on life's necessity;

the West has a caste system founded more
or less on greed. The system of the East
has a sound foundation built on a reasonable
tradition. In the West we do not call it caste,
but I think we may say that money is the
necessity that rules position there. Some will
disagree with me and say that birth rules. I
believe that birth had a greater consideration at
one time of the West's history, but money is
far ahead now and gains ground every year.
It has been often said to me that the war