“He who does not practice altruism; he who is not prepared to share his last morsel with a [person] weaker or poorer than himself; he who neglects to help his brother man, of whatever race, nation, or creed, whenever and wherever he meets suffering, and who turns a deaf ear to the cry of human misery; he who hears an innocent person slandered, whether a brother theosophist or not, and does not undertake his defense as he would undertake his own — is no theosophist.” H.P.Blavatsy, Lucifer, November, 1887

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