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THEOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND RELIGION

HEOSOPHY, Divine Wisdom, is the Spirit of Reconciliation, working harmony. It first establishes the divine balance in us, leading the activities of body and mind into harmony with the spiritual nature, and then, through immemorial ages, bringing harmony among men and the races of men, by infusing all with the Holy Spirit of God.

During the last thirty or forty years, there have been few causes of inner disharmony more poignant, and more charged with pain, than what is called the "conflict between religion and science;" which is, in fact, the contest between the external mind, with its account of the universe, and the interior spirit, with its account of the universe. And perhaps there is no field in which Theosophy has been more completely successful than in this, neither sacrificing religion to science nor science to religion, but working harmony between them, giving each its true development in the light of Divine Wisdom.

We have a recent echo of that earlier conflict in a large pamphlet bearing the title: "The Great Question of the Day, Creation versus Evolution, for the first time brought prominently before the world of science and theology alike, and overwhelmingly defended in favor of a Creative Interference; A Study in recent Anthropology." The subtitle, which, in its fulness, suggests the fashion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reads: "A series of three articles on the physical, mental and moral arguments for a direct creation of man by supernatural Agency, embodying the latest scientific discoveries." The author is Dr. Philo Laos Mills, and the pamphlet bears the Imprimatur of Cardinal Gibbons, who writes thus to Dr. Mills:

"In view of the deplorable havoc that is being wrought in our midst by the godless evolutionism and materialism of the day, I cannot but welcome most cordially your valuable contribution on the opposite side. Personally I am convinced that the days of Darwinism are numbered.