The Initiates is to be a magazine of interpretation. To be more explicit: its aim is to be an organ of the Christic Interpretation - interpretation of truth in the light of the Christ and the light of the Christic teachings. It is the mouthpiece of the Church of Illumination and the Temple of the Illuminati. Its object is to give to the many the laws of Higher Interpretation; laws that were known to the few, even centuries before the time of Jesus, but that could not be taught generally because the multitudes believed mere faith to be sufficient for salvation, and, in consequence of this belief, were not anxious to understand and to obey the laws of right living.