Now that I have explained in a few words the subject of initiation, I will explain the Sufi Movement. The Sufi Movement consists of three sections. The central section is the Esoteric School. In this school those who are seekers after truth and wish to follow the path with faith and confidence and trust are welcome.

Then there are two side sections. One is the kinship. Its object is to unite humankind -- separated just now by boundaries of caste, creed, nation, and race in the understanding of wisdom. In awakening the conscience in humanity, one may be able to see that the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all. In this section everyone is admitted and welcome. We can never have workers enough to work in this time of great need for human kinship. The Sufi Movement is the nucleus of human kinship, and this part represents this nucleus, formed, not with a view that all should become members of the Sufi Movement, but that all may become members of the human family in the Parenthood of God.

The other section is the devotional part of the Order. This is for people who have perhaps some belief, but are not satisfied with that belief, or for others who do not go to any particular church but at the same time have aside to their nature which needs religion and prayer. There are some who will not believe unless they are intellectually satisfied: for them this section works, to give them the elements of all religions, to give them tolerance for different religions and beliefs, so that they may learn to respect the religion of others, a religion which has perhaps inspired numberless souls but is not known to the followers of other religions. This unity of religion in prayer and thought is the real kinship of religion, nature's religion. It is taught in this section in the religious line. The central path is the path of initiation. To those entering this central path, the other two sections become open.