Only by the rooting in the Father-Life is the Brother-Life intelligible.

And because the Theosophical Society knows no limit of creed, no limit of religion, and declares that every human being is, in his own essential nature, one with the Supreme Life and the Supreme God, because of that its Brotherhood is universal, and knows none as outside its pale.

Every man, no matter what he is, is recognised as brother.

He comes not into the Brotherhood, nor can he be cast out from it.

His Spirit, his Life, places him in it: it is a fact beyond us, above us.