“In spite of mistakes, faulty diagnosis and much error, humanity cannot do without its doctors, its surgeons, and its hospitals. They are urgently needed, and will be for centuries to come…”

— Alice A. Bailey

Source: Esoteric Healing (1953), p. 481

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esoteric, theosophist, writer 1880–1949

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