He states that "To see the effects of slow starvation, to walk through those barracks where thousands of men had died a little bit at a time over a period of years, was a new kind of horror. We lost scores every day in spite of all the medicine and food we could rush to them."

The doctor was drawn to one Polish Jew who had been a prisoner in the camp for six years, during which he lived on the same starvation diet, slept in the same airless and disease-ridden barracks as everyone else, and yet showed not the slightest physical or mental deterioration.

According to Dr. Ritchie, "His posture was erect, his eyes were bright, his energy boundless. We came to him with all sorts of problems: the paper work alone was staggering in attempting to relocate people whose families, even whole hometowns, might have disappeared. But, though this Polish man worked 15 or 16 hours a day, he showed no signs of weakness. His compassion for his fellow prisoners glowed on his face; and it was to this glow that I came when my own spirits were low."

The man explained that he had lived in Warsaw with his wife and five children. Then the Germans came, and, when they reached his street, lined everyone against a wall and machine gunned them to death. Because he happened to speak German and a few other languages, they placed him in a work camp.

"I had to decide right then whether to let myself hate the soldiers who had done this. I was a lawyer, and in my practice I had often seen what hate could do to people’s minds and bodies. Hate had just killed the six people who mattered the most to me in the world. I decided then that I would spend the rest of my life loving everyone with whom I came in contact."

Without knowing it, he had performed a supreme act of white magic. The power of compassion that he invoked by his resolve to love everyone brought about a phenomenal occult condition affecting his body, the food and environment in such a way that perfect health and well-being became for him a reality.

Dr. G. Purucker always said that "Love is the cement of the universe. Learn to forgive. Learn to love." I wonder why we don’t take those words to heart, and, like the lawyer, throw hate out of our lives, and love everyone we meet? It shouldn’t be a problem. After all, what else is there to do?