St. Paul wrote: '... for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.' Laziness makes people cling on to the letter, on to form

"People who work with the principles of Christ, principles that are eternal and unchangeable, belong to the true Universal White Brotherhood. They destroy nothing, they do not bring a new religion, but they do abandon forms that have lost their meaning over the centuries.

People who cling on to form prove only they have not understood the principles. They imagine that the form will save them. Well no, because in form we go to sleep. If we want to progress we must not rely on form so much, but work with principles instead. In his second epistle to the Corinthians, St. Paul wrote: '... for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.' Laziness makes people cling on to the letter, on to form. The spirit periodically breaks the forms to renew them, because it no longer recognizes itself in them. The Universal White Brotherhood is not, therefore, a new religion, it is the religion of Christ, but presented in a different form, appropriate to our times."