Our Purpose

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=35 BGCOLOR="#BBBBBB" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" GSNS Home page"><IMG SRC="0c190480.png" border=0 width="400" height="72" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" GSNS Home page">Home</A> </div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About us">About us</A>   |   <B>Our Purpose</B>   |   <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Information">Information</A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Textbooks">Textbooks</A>   |   <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Life in Action">Life in Action</A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact us">Contact us</A>   |   <A HREF="id195.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Publications">Publications</A> </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="3" CELLPADDING="10" CELLSPACING="10" WIDTH="585" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#AAAAAA > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#AAAAAA HEIGHT= 598 ><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="1ac8d570.jpg" border=0 width="141" height="343" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#AAAAAA WIDTH="380"><div> <B>  From J.E. Richardson - addressed to </B></div> <div> <B>Students and Friends of the Work</B></div> <div> <B>in the early 1900's</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>“The one great, uplifting, and impelling purpose of The Great School, at this time, is to inspire you with the Faith that sustains the Soul in the goodness and the sufficiency of the Creative Intelligence through every duty, every responsibility, every trial, every hardship, every disappointment, every failure, every tragedy of human life – because of your assurance and absolute conviction that all these are but transitory, ephemeral and impermanent experiences, incident to your permanent development and Soul Growth.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Through the seeming tangle of these fleeting and fugitive experiences, the Soul finds its way to the “peace that passeth understanding,” and to the permanent and enduring happiness with which Nature rewards your Faith in the righteousness of her decrees.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Whatever the immediate trials and seeming failures of your life may be, keep forever in mind the happy consciousness that the trials, temptations, hardships, sorrows, and disappointments through which your pathway leads, are but the evanescent and fleeting shadows of life and, of themselves, have no substance you need to fear. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Meet them serenely and without flinching and, one by one, they will vanish as vanishes the mist and the fog before the dispelling power of Nature’s beneficent sunlight.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Build you a Temple upon the Rock of Faith and by your Works make it a monument of Beauty for the world to enjoy.”</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#AAAAAA HEIGHT= 27 ><NOBR><div>  Happiness</div> <div> by J. Otto Schweizer</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#AAAAAA WIDTH="380"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="27" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="380" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>T</B><B>he </B><B>G</B><B>reat </B><B>S</B><B>chool of </B><B>N</B><B>atural </B><B>S</B><B>cience</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > is an organization of men and women devoted to the study and application of natural laws as these function and operate in all realms of life. It has students in many countries of the world. The general purpose is to conduct a work of education along moral, ethical and spiritual lines, as outlined in textbooks known as the </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>H</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>armonic </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>S</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>eries</B>. The specific Purpose is to help individuals live in harmony with the Constructive Principle in Nature, thereby attaining self-unfoldment and self-mastery, leading to individual health and peace. Thus they become wholesome units in the aggregate of individuals who comprise nations. The School makes no charge for its Instruction. It is a gift to all who qualify to receive it.  </FONT></div> <div> The School is nonprofit, tax exempt, and practices nondiscriminatory admissions and policies. Its accepted students, regardless of race, creed or national origin, have equal opportunity to enjoy all the rights and privileges available and to engage in the full curriculum offered by the School.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>The School teaches:</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">That there exists a Universal Intelligence which is revealed in Nature by the establishment of an intelligent order governed by certain inexorable laws.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">That all life is endowed with the same potential for growth and refinement. Nature is absolutely and unconditionally just and is involved in the evolution of individual intelligences.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">That Man's essential Self or Soul is an immortal, evolving entity possessing simultaneously, a body of physical material and a body of spiritual material.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">That there is a Principle in Nature that impels the individual to attain higher and higher levels of consciousness.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">That men and women are invested with Free Will and Choice and are held personally responsible and morally accountable for their deeds within the scope of their knowledge. The Law of Compensation is recognized and the standard of value is personal effort.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">That prayer is a means of communication with other individuals from whom response may be expected if the need is genuine, the attitude unselfish and the motives worthy.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">That knowledge of and willing conformity to the Laws of Nature are rewarded by the attainment of Self-Mastery, Poise and Happiness.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">That by the persistent application of intelligent effort to "the living of a life" in conformity with the Laws of Nature, an individual may personally demonstrate that there is a spiritual existence and a continuity of life after the incident called death.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  </div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width=35 BGCOLOR="#BBBBBB" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>