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The Oriental masses live mostly in mud huts, just as the Occidental masses did several centuries ago. Thousands of years before that they lived in caves, just as the Occidentals did somewhat earlier. Is it not clear, then, that in practical things like operating to meet the needs of life in a physical world, we have gone ahead of them? If this is correct, the assumption that we have done so in the mental or spiritual worlds is wrong. Here they can be our teachers.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 47