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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 365
QUESTION Xo. 182.
How is it that not many who study the highest philosophy
interest themselves in bettering industrial condi-
tions, such as the abolition of wage slavery, which is as de-
grading and brutal as Negro slavery?
Answer: All occultists recognize the crying needs of
the day, and none long more ardently for the day of liberation,
the day when brotherly love shall be a fact, when
the nations shall beat their swords into plow share and
their spears into pruning hooks, as prophesied by Isaiah,
but they go about making these conditions in a different
way. Socialistic Labor Unions and such like organizations
are seelnng to better conditions, but the occultist maintains
that their methods are inefficient, and frustrate lasting
realization of their object, for there can be no doubt that
it is men who make conditions and not conditions that make
the men. If, therefore, we seek to better humanity and
raise their standard of right and wrong, if we seek to ele-
vate their ideals, then when men have become better, as a
natural consequence, conditions will be better.
Under the present conditions, when a labor union, by
strike or through the employer's fear of a strike, have suc-
ceeded in gaining a better condition, the employer at once
commences to plot how he may checkmate them and frustrate
their object. He bands together with other em-
ployers for mutual protection and these organizations are
always at war with the labor unions. The better conditions
which are obtained by one are continually changed by the
other. When, however, the employer as well as the em-
ployed have been Christianized and have learned to do unto