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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE LIBRARY OF HEALTH Vol. III. MARCH, 1900. No. 11. WHAT IS SPIRITUAL SCIENCE? "I report, as a man may of God's work--all's love, yet all's law."--Robert Browning. What is Spiritual Science? At the beginning I might say that Spiritual Science is both a religion and a science. Science has had comparatively little to do with the religions of the past; in fact, up to the near present, science and religion have been antagonistic, religion fighting science at every step, and science looking upon religion in many cases as simply a devotional mental condition. Physical scientists say that science is truth demonstrated. We believe that there is a religion that can be demonstrated right here, which does not take the future into consideration, neither does it the past. It is an applied Christianity which is perfectly scientific from the beginning to the end. Suppose we take the scientific theory of the universe--the materialistic theory--and consider that theory carefully. We find even there that science is based on conjecture. We find that it Copyrighted, 1900. starts with an atom, a particle of matter so fine that it is invisible to the human sight; therefore we can no longer regard this theory from the physical point of view. So, the theory of the materialist is mental; the whole basis is a mental one. Now, when science takes exception to religion and says that religion is made up to a large degree of credulity and superstition, religion might retort that science is based on conjecture. If science were on the right and true basis, its conclusions might be true. But no one knows for a certainty that the basis is true, any more than the religionist knows that his basis is the true one. Spiritual Science declares that there is an Infinite and Eternal Intelligence from which ...
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