binding all together and keeping all in touch with the centre. In it the Master’s personal Teaching and comments will be given.

Again, we would emphasize the fact that this is not the plan of any man, or body of men: it is the work of the Master Himself, and every detail is in accordance with His exact instructions.

He Himself has just given to the World a little volume of philosophical instructions, The Three Truths, and of it He has said: “It is to be my measuring rod.” This has just been printed and is now available. It should be read and studied by all.

IT IS necessary for all men to face facts. Universal Brotherhood as now misunderstood is an impossibility today. This is a self-evident fact. Universal Strife is the rule, and competition the basis of existence. But people prefer to close their eyes to facts, they accept ready made opinions and, if sincere in their efforts, they aim at the attainment of a delusion.

Common sense must convince us, that national jealousies and the colour question alone, place practical Brotherhood as a general condition of life upon the physical plane, beyond the range of present possibility. It was never intended that the masses of the fifth sub-race should achieve Universal Brotherhood; that ideal and its attainment is the prerogative of a succeeding sub-race. This was clearly intimated in the earlier teachings, and had they been really studied, such confusion of ideas could not have arisen.

Brotherhood as we (the Masters) understand it, is a condition of consciousness which normally belongs to the