vol. xxx, no. 4 april 1926 universal brotherhood - a fact in nature

THE THEOSOPHICAL PATH
universal nature and equity governing the physical, mental, moral and spiritual education ~vill
be taught on the broadest lines. Through this teaching the material and intellectual life of
the age will be spiritualized and raised to its true dignity; thought will be liberated from the
slavery of the senses; the waning energy in every heart will be reanimated in the search for
truth and the fast dying hope in the promise of life will be renewed to all peoples.
Katherine Tingley, at the ceremony of the laying of the corner-
stone at Point Loma, California, February 23, 1897, of the building
which shall stand as the visible center of activities, and home of the
School of Antiquity, said the following:
Few can realize the vast significance of what has been done here today. In ancient times
the founding of a temple was looked upon as of world-wide importance. Kings and princes
from far distant countries attended the ceremonies of the foundation. Sages gathered from
all parts of the world to lend their presence at such a time; for the building of a temple was
rightly regarded as a benefit conferred upon all humanity.
The future of this school will be closely associated with the future of the great American
republic. While the school will be international in character, America will be its center. This
school will be a temple of living light, and illumine the dark places of the earth. And I appeal
to all present to remember this day as one of great promise, for this new age must bring a
blessing to all.
Through this school and its branches, the children of the race will be taught the laws of
spiritual life, and the laws of physical, moral and mental development. They will learn to
live in harmony with nature. They will become compassionate lovers of all that breathes.
They will grow strong in an understanding of themselves, and as they attain strength they
will learn to use it for the good of the whole world. Rejoice with me, then, and may you all
share in the blessings ol this hour, and in the brightness of the future which contains so much
of joy for all humanity.
The quotations just above given state clearly and unmistakably the
essence, spirit and purpose of the School. No intelligent man or woman
can mistake their meaning and tone. According to them there is some-
thing more in life than the gratification of personal desires, or the ac-
centuation of the personality; something more in education than the
storing of the mind with information and facts, or the acquirement of
intellectual treasures; something more than even study of the highest
philosophy or the contemplation of the loftiest ideals. They call for
an awakening of the noblest energies of the soul and spirit of man, and
the employment of all his powers of mind and heart and body in the ser-
vice of the human race. They arise out of and imply and teach the
Universal Brotherhood of all men as a supreme fact in Nature. They
demand right living and not merely right thinking. They are in accord
with that superb declaration of Thomas Carlyle: "The end of man is
an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest."
And linking the Purpose of the School more directly with our at-
tempt to explain its Meaning and the Idea that lies back of its founda-
tion, we may say .that it is to put that Idea into effect; it is to recover
the lost knowledge of Antiquity and to apply it to the needs of the pre-