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War can be and is mass murder, where the motive is wrong. It can be sacrifice and right action, where the motive is right. The slaying of a man in the act of killing the defenseless is not regarded as murder. The principle remains the same, whether it is killing an individual who is murdering, or fighting a nation which is warring on the defenseless.

— Alice Bailey Treatise on the Seven Rays: Volume 1: Esoteric Psychology I (1936)

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