70 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

in a practical form, and must come to naught
unless the ideal of working for the whole
is maintained; so long as each nation acts
as a separate unit for its own benefit, no
League of Nations can be secured. This is no
easy task at the present stage of evolution of
the world. It is called natural to think of one-
self. This is a heresy, and born of an erroneous
idea of individualism. The natural law is the
law of God which ever unites and knows no
separation either of nations or peoples or tongues
or persons.

This union then is one great truth towards
which Theosophy points. It is a striking fact
in the report that has been received of the
Third Assembly of the League of Nations, which
is just over, that the dominant note struck is one
of unity, of freedom, of responsibility to all
nations large or small, and a desire to work
peaceably with all and to help all.

The Theosophical Society seeks to gather
together students of Theosophy in all countries.
It has National Societies in thirty-seven
countries, and the first object is " To form a
nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Human-
ity, without distinction of race, sex, creed, caste
or colour," thus carrying out as a primary
object the idea of drawing all men together in