Complete and perfect toleration is demanded in the Society, and this is so well observed that it has never given out a doctrine which the members must believe in. People with all sorts of religion and with no religion at all belong to it. It has broken down the caste distinctions of the Hindus and Buddhists who come within its pale, which nothing else could do. True universal brotherhood was something other people had thought of before we did, but universal brotherhood is not practiced, much as it is spoken about. Christianity was to have brought it about, but it has not succeeded.
Nations are armed to the teeth against each other.
Universal brotherhood is not something sentimental. We are actually united and feel each other's thoughts and actions. The progress or the lack of progress of one community or one nation has its effect on every other in the world. Theosophy is derived from Greek words meaning the wisdom of the gods. The Christian Bible says that the gods created man.