OUR OTHER OBJECTS. ENQ. Will you now explain the methods by which you propose to carry out the second object? THEO. To collect for the library at our headquarters of Adyar, Madras, (and by the Fellows of their Branches for their local libraries,) all the good works upon the world’s religions that we can. To put into written form correct information upon the various ancient philosophies, traditions, and legends, and disseminate the same in such practicable ways as the translation and publication of original works of value, and extracts from and commentaries upon the same, or the oral instructions of persons learned in their respective departments. ENQ. And what about the third object, to develop in man his latent spiritual or psychic powers? THEO. This has to be achieved also by means of publications, in those places where no lectures and personal teachings are possible. Our duty is to keep alive in man his spiritual intuitions. To oppose and counteract—after due investigation and proof of its irrational nature—bigotry in every form, religious, scientific, or social, and _cant_ above all, whether as religious sectarianism or as belief in miracles or anything supernatural. What we have to do is to seek to obtain _knowledge_ of all the laws of nature, and to diffuse it. To encourage the study of those laws least understood by modern people, the so-called Occult Sciences, _based on the true knowledge of nature_, instead of, as at present, on _superstitious beliefs based on blind faith and authority_. Popular folk-lore and traditions, however fanciful at times, when sifted may lead to the discovery of long-lost, but important, secrets of nature. The Society, therefore, aims at pursuing this line of inquiry, in the hope of widening the field of scientific and philosophical observation. ON THE SACREDNESS OF THE PLEDGE. ENQ. Have you any ethical system that you carry out in the Society? THEO. The ethics are there, ready and clear enough for whomsoever follow them. They are the essence and cream of the world’s ethics, gathered from the teachings of all the world’s great reformers. Therefore, you will find represented therein Confucius and Zoroaster, Lao-Tze and the Bhagavat-Gita, the precepts of Gautama Buddha and Jesus of Nazareth, of Hillel and his school, as of Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and their schools. ENQ. Do the members of your Society carry out these precepts? I have heard of great dissensions and quarrels among them.