Addressed to the Progressive Intelligence of the Age by John E. Richardson with Florence Huntley
The Great School of Natural Science (GSNS) is an organization of men and women devoted to the study and application of natural laws in their evolutionary development
as they forge characters worthy of soul consciousness.
The general purpose is to conduct a work of education along ethical and spiritual lines, as outlined in the textbooks known as the Harmonic Series. The specific purpose is to help individuals develop the self-mastery to live in harmony with the Constructive Principle in Nature, thereby attaining soul-unfoldment, leading to individual happiness, health and peace. These become wholesome, wise, compassionate beings 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.
The one great and impelling purpose of The Great School, at this time, is to impart Knowledge of Nature's Constructive Principle to the Individual in the Living of a Life while on this physical plane. Natural Science defines the exact nature of the Ethical Life one must live in order to derive the greatest Soul benefit, not only for himself, but for the betterment of mankind as well. The Message of the Masters is filled with scientifically demonstrated facts of life beyond physical death that continue to inspire, to uplift and impel the Individual Intelligence to aspire to higher truth.
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.
THE SCHOOL TEACHES:
- That there exists a Universal Intelligence which is revealed in Nature by the establishment of an intelligent order governed by certain inexorable laws.
- 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.
- 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.
- That there is a Principle in Nature which impels the individual to attain higher and higher levels of consciousness. This principle impels but does not compel, meaning the individual is free to make personal choices. The individual encounters forces opposing this principle, and thus is engaged in a struggle to evolve.
- 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 standard of value is personal effort towards a harmonic relationship with Nature's Constructive Principle.
- That prayer is a means of communication with other individuals on the spiritual and physical planes, from whom response may be expected if the need is genuine, the motive entirely unselfish, and all personal efforts have proved insufficient. You may pray to God, or to the Powers of Good. You may pray to your spirit friends, and brothers, without naming your unknown power to whom you look for aid. It matters not. The same intelligences hear your prayer.
- That knowledge of and willing conformity to the Laws of Nature are rewarded by the attainment of Self-Mastery, Poise and Happiness.
- 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 there is a spiritual existence and a continuity of life after the incident called death.