B538 <=> B540 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 539]

“When there began among them and soon became inevitable the habit of allocating one another to these various maleficent castes of theirs, then from that time, in the common presence of each one of them, there were gradually crystallized two particular quite opposite what are called ‘organic properties,’ the manifestation of which, little by little, even ceased to depend on either their ordinary consciousness or on their ‘subconsciousness.’

“These two properties consist in this, that they always behave towards each other either, so to say, ‘haughtily’ or ‘servilely.’

“During the manifestation of both these properties there are paralyzed in them all relations on what are called ‘equal terms’ with anybody whomsoever, thanks to which not only the inner sincere but also even the outer ordinary habitual relations have become established among them in such a way that already it has become quite usual, particularly in recent times, that if someone belongs to a caste considered higher than the caste of another, then in everything and always in relation to this other there arise in him impulses called there either ‘haughtiness’ or ‘contempt’ or ‘patronage’ or ‘condescension,’ and so on. And if somebody considers his own caste lower than that of another, then there will infallibly arise in him impulses which they call ‘self-abasement,’ ‘false humility,’ ‘sycophancy,’ ‘bootlicking,’ ‘cringing,’ and many other such specific impulses, the totality of which constantly corrodes in their presences what is called ‘awareness-of-one’s-own-individuality,’ which ought to be present in them also.

“The said property which already became inherent in their common presences gradually led to this, that they lost the habit and automatically ceased to be able to be sincere with other beings similar to themselves, even with those belonging to their own caste.