'The museum he Ptolemy set up in Alexandria was in effect the first university in the world. ... It was however a religious body only in form, in order to meet the legal difficulties of endowment in a world that had never foreseen such a thing as a secular intellectual process'. This is said in Wells' Outline of History. The Master spoke of it and compared it with the Church of the True Word.
"When people, like most, cannot imagine a Free Thinking person, with no 'Sperrits', you have not the choice of admitting your sanity. It then, remains a choice between insanities, between religions. Thus you tell them that you are of the Church of the True Word. As Epictetus says, you just clap your hands with the children."
"But when they ask who we worship, what then?"
"Then you say: 'Truth', see Seneca, who said 'What is true is my possession'. But in case they ask you to explain further, do as in Sinclair's book. Tell them that you are not allowed to discuss things with the non-initiated. It could damage the brotherhood of man. All that are True Words, you lie not, only speak in metaphors."