This line of work is, really speaking, the fulfillment of every activity of our Movement. One activity of our Movement is the esoteric school in which people are initiated and advance grade by grade individually developing their soul towards the attainment of spiritual perfection. There is another activity which is devotional and which is called the Church of All, or the Universal Worship. It is a religious activity, religion not in a sectarian sense, on the contrary a religious activity which brings souls to the true religion, which stands above all sects. But whether we strive in the path of religion, or we journey through the path of mysticism, it is for one object that we may be best fitted to live the ideal of Brotherhood.

If a person was so great a mystic that he was the greatest Master or if a person was so pious and religious that he was the greatest Saint, still if he did not live the ideal of brotherhood, it would not avail much. Spiritual realization is attained in practical life by observing the ideal of brotherhood. At this time when the world needs the ideal of brotherhood more than ever before in the history of the world, it is our privilege and destiny to do all we can to bring about this ideal in our own lives first, and thus to spread it in the world. Any problem or theory, or doctrine studied, is of no value unless it be practiced. Ten thousand people calling out brotherhood and one person living it is equal or even better. Brotherhood is not a materialistic, it is a spiritual ideal.

The materialist cannot understand brotherhood for the reason that the materialist can say another brother is as good as me, and therefore my happiness is in sharing all my good with another. But the spiritual person says that other person is me, his happiness is mine, and therefore the highest ideal of brotherhood which spiritual realization can teach, materialism cannot teach. Therefore this activity, which is now going on to bring about a world-brotherhood is not being successful, because the life of brotherhood which is its very breath is the realization of the same God in oneself as well as in the others. The work of the spiritual man is to forget his false self and so to realize the true self which is God, and this true self not only in him, but in his neighbor also.

There is no doubt every man more or less loves the idea of brotherhood. I don't say this is true of a person who is not sane, but a normal person cannot deny that the ideal of brotherhood is the only ideal which can be called religious or spiritual. The question is how to practice this ideal which is easy to know. The difficulty is that practice needs sacrifice, needs humility, needs endurance, needs patience, needs forgiveness, needs brotherly sympathy for every soul who stands near one. It is the power of love alone which will raise man through the pettiness of human nature to rise to this ideal, the true purpose of the soul. God bless you.