..In this book, to sort out the whole situation as simply as we can. We will endeavour to produce a guide book to progress for those of us who accept… - Vera Stanley Alder

Secondly, we will build up a vision of what the future could be like if humanity so chooses — for “without vision the people perish”.

The old ways of life are steadily losing their hold. Labour revolts. Culture revolts too. They are all subconsciously reaching for something different and better. They realize that science and culture, education such as it is, orthodox religion such as it is, have not saved men from a process of self impoverization and mutual extermination in a variety of forms.

By this time... the living through and the acting out of spiritual or ethical principles would have begun to be an intrinsic part of people’s lives, and orthodoxy as we now know it would have ceased to exist. Religion would no longer be an ‘aspect’ of human living but the almost unconscious foundation of every activity.