In this larger vue of religion then, man seeks to rise beyond himself to oneness with God and to be an instrument in the divine Work. This vue is fondation, the starting point of all Liberal Catholic teachings.

At this time, there were Christians everywhere, who also awakening to the greater Life and Light within the outward forms of religion. Writers such as Evelyn Underhill and Dean William Inge of Saint Paul, London were calling for religion to shift its emphasis away from concern with rewards and punishments in an after life, towards the ideal of union with God here, in this life on earth.