The book's ethic is universalist and thin by design: the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, do the will of the Father, and treat the ascent as a matter of individual choice. It prescribes no diet, no calendar, no sabbath and no prohibitions, and there is no body that could enforce one if it did. Readers who want a religion out of it have to build it, and the movement has argued for seventy years about whether to. The most that has happened institutionally is a copyright fight and a schism between the Foundation and the Fellowship in the 1980s.