out of every nation, race and people; they are of every color and of every school of thought, yet they speak the same language, learn by the same symbols, and tread the same path. They have rejected the same non-essentials and have isolated the same body of essential beliefs. They form the subjective background of the new world, and constitute the spiritual nucleus of the coming world religion; for they are the unifying principle which must eventually save the world.

“Religions in the past have been founded by a great Soul, by an outstanding Spiritual Individual, a world Saviour, the stamp of Whose words, life and teaching has been set upon the race and has persisted for many centuries. What will be the effect of the work of a group Saviour? What will be the potency emanating from the work of a group of Knowers of God, enunciating truth and banded together subjectively in the work of saving the world? What will be the result of the mission of such a band of world workers, who supplement each other’s efforts, reinforce each other’s message, and constitute an organism through which spiritual energy can make its presence felt in the world?

“Such a body of workers now exists, with its members found in every land. Relatively they are a few and far between, but steadily their numbers are growing and increasingly their message will be heard and accepted. In them is vested the spirit of construction; they are the builders of the New Age. They are the new group of world workers.

“Connected with these two groups—the reactionary dogmatists and the subjective group of mystics, is a large number of the new generation of young people. They belong to neither group and their ideas are largely disorganized by a recognition of the position of both. They do not belong to the past and refuse to recognize its authorities. They do not belong to the inner group of mystics, for they have not reached the point of direct personal knowledge. They only recognize two things in themselves; a demand for personal liberty and freedom, and an intense and eager quest for knowledge. They despise the tradition of the past; they reject the old formulations of truth because of their apparent failure to produce an harmonious and happy world, and they