The Aryan Path March 1938

Now the scientific ideas of 2 000 years ago have been superseded with the result that the teaching of the Scriptures in these matters is now definitely utrue ;--for example the astronomical doctrine of the solid heaven and the stable earth the geographical dotrine of a heaven above and a hell beneath the physiological doctrine that a substance called the soul leaves the body at death the [...] What is to the point is that part of the Church still insists upon the literal truth of the Christian Bible refuses to abandon any part of the traditional teaching of the Christian religion and consquently retains the obsolete science together with the spiritual truths. [...] There are many causes for the modern worship of the State and the modern religion of nationalism ; some are economic some are political ; but one of the most important is the decline of official religion in the Western world coupled with the persistence of the need to believe. [...] Hence there is now no need for those who accept the results of the physical sciences to write off as they had once to write off as subjective illusions the experience of religion and the promptings of the moral and the aesthetic sides of their natures ; the nineteenth century gulf between scence and religion is in a fair way to being bridged and the way is open to a reconsideration of the re [...] The figures of the Three Fates weaving the destiny of humdh beings and the grim picture of Hades the dark abode of the dead.