For the creed can be repeated by the lips, but the seeing of truth as true can only come from the intellect and the spirit, and to build on the intellect and the spirit is a firmer foundation than to build on the breath of the lips.

Hence our Society has no dogmas.

Not that it does not stand for any truths, as some people imagine.

Its name marks out the truth for which it stands: it is the Theosophical Society; and that shows its function and its place in the world--a Society that asserts the possibility of the knowledge of God; that is its proclamation, as we have seen, and all the other truths that grow out of that are amongst our teachings.

The Society exists to spread the knowledge of those truths, and to popularise those teachings amongst mankind.