“The thing we have to develop in the world today is the world citizen and bring to an end this crude nationalism which has been the source of so much world hate.”

—  Alice A. Bailey

Source: The Unfinished Autobiography (1951), Chapter 6

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esoteric, theosophist, writer 1880–1949

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