86 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

dominating all the bodies, or shall we say,
the Higher Self mastering the lower Self. No
external law can make a brotherhood; it cannot
be made, it must come from within. A simple
test can be applied, which I now suggest: u Do
unto others as you would be done by." Try it in
your office, in your home, in your workshop, in
your play, at school or college, by day and by
night, travelling, working, resting; the question
is always before us : Should I like this done to
me ? You tell me this is childish. Yes, I know
it, but we are children in one sense and not in
another; in one sense we must become as little
children, but in understanding we must be
grown up.

Our dealings with our fellows would alter
very much if this simple question were asked
in our business transactions, in our schemes and
plans to upset others, in our desire for position
and longing to turn others out, in our petty
jealousies and other smallnesses; our fear of
being overlooked, not being patted on the back,
it is all these minor criminalities which make
up the world, and which mar the work for
Brotherhood. I use the word criminality—you
may find it too strong, I do not think it is—a
criminal breaks a law, and we break a succes-