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1) There is one God, the Eternal, the Only Being;
none else exists save God.
2) There is one Master, the Guiding Spirit of all souls, who constantly
leads all followers towards the light.
3) There is one Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, which
truly enlightens all readers.
4) There is one Religion, the unswerving progress in the right
direction towards the ideal, which fulfils the life's purpose of every
soul.
5) There is one Law, the law of Reciprocity, which can be observed
by a selfless conscience together with a sense of awakened justice.
6) There is one human Brotherhood, the Brotherhood and Sisterhood
which unites the children of earth indiscriminately in the Fatherhood
of God.
7) There is one Moral Principle, the love which springs forth from
self-denial, and blooms in deeds of beneficence.
8) There is one Object of Praise, the beauty which uplifts the
heart of its worshipper through all aspects from the seen to the unseen.
9) There is one Truth, the true knowledge of our being within and
without which is the essence of all wisdom.
10) There is one Path, the annihilation of the false ego in the
real, which raises the mortal to immortality and in which resides all
perfection.
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