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The Soul and its Mechanism - Conclusion |
We stand expectantly awaiting the dawn of that day when
religion will stand upon a scientific basis and the truths to which the ages bear witness
will be substantiated and proven, for, as Dr. Pupin further tells us: "Yes, God's
spiritual realities are invisible, but they are illustrated and made intelligible by the
physical realities revealed in the physical things which are made. According to this
interpretation of the Apostle's words the physical and the spiritual realities supplement
each other. They are the two terminals of the same realities, one terminal residing in the
human soul, and the other in the things of the external world. Here is one of the
fundamental reasons why Science and Religion supplement each other. They are the two
pillars of the portal through which the human soul enters the world where the divinity
resides." Then there will emerge a new race, with new capacities, new ideals, new concepts about God and matter, about life and spirit. Through that race and through the humanity of the future there will be seen not only a mechanism and a structure, but a soul, an entity, who, using the mechanism, will [152] manifest its own nature, which is love, wisdom and intelligence. Science has even recognized this ultimate possibility and noted that the trend of the evolutionary process is towards a more perfect adaptation between the form and the life. Everywhere throughout creation a purpose is working out, a will towards perfection is manifesting. That purpose and that will are controlled by love and wisdom and those two types of energy - the purpose of spirit and the attractive force of the soul - are intelligently applied to the perfecting of the matter aspect. Spirit, soul and body - a divine triplicity - manifest in the world and will carry all forward towards a consummation that is pictured for us in the Scriptures of the world in a wealth of imagery, of color and of form. Browning's vision of this truth and his expression of it will sum up for us the results of our study and will be a fitting close for this essay: "- and
God renews - Browning, Robert, Paracelsus. |
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