Throughout history men have organized change, to alter the confines of the existing order, and to bring light into the dark places by sweeping away blindness, confusion, and fear. Long ago these tasks were begun by our greatest universal reformers — Jesus, Muhammad, Moses, Lycurgus, the Buddha — and carried to this century by countless visionary philosophers, political men, theologians, and revolutionaries. We must understand, however, that the greatest advances in human consciousness are made by people who demand too much, and thus create a situation in which their over-strained followers inevitably end up either compromisers or dogmatists. And so it is necessary constantly to redirect those advances in human consciousness and to ask how it happens, again and again, that the best become the worst enemies of the good. Dogma, suspicion, and narrow personal pride have always acted upon society's appointed overseers to persuade them to subject laws once resonant with the best spiritual and constructive ideals of an age to thought control and terror. That which began as a towering moral force, and might have remained so if allowed to remain a real part of perpetual community revival, has been shattered and allowed to dissipate into countless petty confusions and quarrels.

AVATAR is the symbol of community revival. Our goals are high, yet we are certain they will come to pass. For a long time we have remained convinced of the rightness of our task — now it is time to bring our message to the world.