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CHAPTER V.
THE SECRET DOCTRINE
(CONTINUED).
Science and Religion.
The Science and the ReHgion (Theology) of the
West are in perpetual conflict. The genius of this
religion discerns Faith and Miracle as its foundation.
Science holds as its ideals Fact and Law.
This religion is necessarily illogical, while science
is ma.erialistic, and, thanks to both, mankind is as
far from any real knowledge of the nature and destiny
of the soul as it was a thousand years ago.
This conflict has long been maintained ; it is a war
to the death ; both religion and science are being reformed,
and long before the battle ceases, neither
of the original champions will be found to exist, except
in their progeny of doubtful extraction or foreign
parentage.
A reconciliation has sometimes been dreamed of,
but placed a long way off. The theory or "working
hypothesis" of Science is mechanical to the last degree.
Matter, Force, Motion, and Law without an