The foundations of any real spiritual path is self-knowledge (gnosis), which also provides an opportunity to change the world.  Through self-improvement, the individual can directly impact the emergence of a better society. Lecture quote:

"Those individuals who have stood out in the course of time, such as Beethoven or Mozart or Jesus, are individuals who learned how to awaken the consciousness, to utilize the consciousness itself as the commanding intelligence to dominate and best use this organism that we inhabit.  This is actually the whole reason, the whole purpose of the existence of all the ancient mystery schools.  If we look at and study any ancient mystery school such as the Essenes, the Greeks, the ancient Aztecs, the Tibetans, any of the ancient mysteries, we discover that their primary message was intensely psychological."