The question of motive, however, has to be answered from within, not from without. Generally speaking, there are three considerations necessary to the solution of any problem. Anyone who makes a decision does so according to some conscious or unconscious assumption. This may be based either on speculation or on knowledge, on guess-work or on practical experience. The application may be good or bad.
Appearances constantly deceive.
To see beneath them is the great task. Only Adepts are said to be able to do so truly and completely. Universal Brotherhood, for instance, can be regarded as an underlying principle of all life and a fact in Nature. Or, when not denied altogether, it may be thought of as no more than a practically unattainable ideal. The whole teaching of Theosophy is to show the folly of this notion by demonstrating the soundness of the principle and the necessity for living accordingly.