When scientists and philosophers accept this point of view, the entire concept of existence will be transformed

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for importance. Science and spirituality converges into Wisdom of Consciousness.

The universe is an entity that we can grasp from the outside by means of science & from the inside by means of religion

"The lack of understanding that prevails between men of science and men of faith comes from the fact that the former base their convictions on visible, objective reality, whereas the latter base theirs on an invisible, subjective reality. But both points of view are incomplete, because each has a tendency to give priority to one aspect to the detriment of the other.

The universe is an entity that we can grasp from the outside by means of science, and from the inside by means of religion, because the human being itself is a unity capable of living in both the objective and the subjective worlds, in both the exterior and interior worlds. Instead of opposing each other, science and religion should complete each other. In any case, it is not science that opposes religion or vice versa, it is scientists and people of religion who oppose each other, because their knowledge is incomplete."

"Just as religion has never been able to annihilate science, science will never be able to wipe out religion, because they are founded on identical laws. There is neither division nor contradiction between the two. Divisions and contradictions exist only in the minds of ignorant people who do not know how God created the universe. Science properly understood can help believers concentrate on what is essential, and religion properly understood gives science its true dimension. Each has its specific function, and from now must co-exist within every human being. Yes, if science and religion are to cease waging war in society, they must first call a truce in each human being, because it is here that the ravages are greatest. When a man of faith opposes a man of science - and vice versa - he believes he is attacking an adversary exterior to himself. Not at all! He is attacking himself."

Science, like religion, is responsible for the evolution of humanity. The true scientists are those who see the possible consequences of their discoveries in all realms of life, including the psychic realm; for the physical and psychic worlds obey the same laws, and every discovery made in the physical world can also be applied to the psychic world. Physicists have made discoveries about the waves and energy currents that circulate throughout space, as well as about light and its power. The practical application of these discoveries has been extraordinary, of course: the telephone, radio, television, the laser… and so many more besides! But what benefits have human beings themselves derived from these for their own evolution? They should have understood that they themselves emit and receive waves and currents, that their thoughts possess the same powers as light. It is dangerous when the only applications for scientific progress are practical ones that make life easier. Scientific progress should indicate new psychic and spiritual directions. Only then is it true progress.

Many Christians abandon religion because they think scientific discoveries contradict or dispel the truths of faith. Well, this proves they have understood nothing, neither about science nor about religion because, quite to the contrary, the discoveries made by science actually emphasize the truths of faith, which are the truths of initiatic science. In reality there is no conflict between science and religion. They walk together, and moreover art walks with them. The three are linked. Science is there to give human beings light, religion to give them warmth, and art to give them activity. And because in human beings they are held together, they should neither be separated nor should preference be given to one at the detriment of the other. If God has given human beings an intellect, a heart, and a will it is so that they may work together; so that the intellect may do its work in the field of science, the heart in the realm of religion and the will in the realm of creation, of art.

"Any attempt to attack religion in the name of objectivity, of science or of reason is an enterprise doomed to failure, because we can no more suppress religious feeling than we can suppress other feelings. This is a domain in which reason by itself has no place. The sense of the sacred, the need human beings feel to be connected to a higher world, to the divine world in which they have their origin, is inscribed in their very structure. We may try to deny it, to fight it, or to pull it out by the roots, and for a time we may even succeed. But this success will not last and, sooner or later, we will also have to recognize all the harm such efforts have caused, not only to individuals, but to society as well."

"Because of the enormous advances made by science, many scientists, thinkers and philosophers believe it could replace religion, which, as far as they are concerned, only stupefies human beings. Why not replace religion with science? That’s fair enough, provided they can take science to another dimension and broaden the field of inquiry.

What was to stop science and religion from being two ways of looking at the same reality, with science focusing on the physical world and religion on the spiritual world, since man was made to live in both worlds simultaneously? All it would have taken was for people to be aware of the dual aspects of reality and not to want to favour one at the expense of the other. And yet, what the West has done over the course of the last few centuries is either reject science in the name of religion or else reject religion in the name of science. They haven’t understood that the truth lay in the harmonious balance of the two. For the universe is a unity."

"Religion is first and foremost a science based on an understanding of human beings as they were created in the image of God. We can say, therefore, that the foundations of religion are inscribed in the human being himself. When God created us, he put his seal on us, and no matter what we do, we cannot rid ourselves of it, because it is written in our basic structure. In this sense, human beings are not absolutely free; they cannot escape this imprint, this schema according to which their entire being is constructed. On the other hand, they have the greatest possible freedom to manifest the divine predestination they bear within them. This is why there are so many religions which, depending on where and when they came into being, have taken on such a rich diversity of forms."

"True religion is the science of connection. So, it is no use repeating that the word ‘religion’ comes from the Latin religare ‘to connect’, if all Christians have in their heads is separation.

You will say, ‘But the connection implied by the word ‘religion’ refers to our connection with God.’ That’s true, but, if a connection with God is accompanied by separation from everything else, what meaning does it have? The same bond that links the Creator to his creatures connects all creatures to each other and to all the elements of creation. True religion is based on an understanding of this link. So true religion also includes science, the knowledge of nature and its laws. That is why the separation between science and religion, of which some people are so proud, is totally meaningless. Those who separate religion and science have not truly understood either."

"Those who have undertaken a true inner work feel themselves increasingly sustained by the conviction that no one can deprive them of the discoveries or the gains they are making. They know above all that they cannot really count on what comes to them from the outside. They never know whether at any moment they may be deprived of electricity, the telephone, the car – all these inventions of which the twentieth century is so justifiably proud, and which are now so indispensable to their lives. If this is the case, why expose themselves to such eventual loss?

It is not my wish that science stop its research; on the contrary, I want it to progress; but in a different direction. Since the universe is a unity and the human being is a unity, it can be said that science is in search of the same certitudes as religion, but by other means. If it understands how it must orientate this research from now on, it will come closer to the real discoveries of the great spiritual masters and, in doing so, it will contribute to the true progress of humanity."

The Threefold Economy: Preparing for a successful transition into the third millennium. The transformation of science, politics & economics

All the political and economic conceptions of the past were rooted in a specific national consciousness. Although this level of awareness represented progress in the course of historical development from the individual to an ever larger community, it no longer represents a viable instrument for shaping our future.

The challenge now facing us is to use the advances of civilization achieved so far to release our slumbering potential and to preserve humanity from global disaster. This can be done by integrating nationalistically-oriented patterns of thinking and behavior in education, politics and economics - that continue to promote a mentality of separateness - into a superordinate global conception.

THE HUMAN ORGANISM

- The whole human being
- The bodily organs
- The cells of the body

In the human organism, the organs and cells form an indivisible whole. Each individual organ and its cells can live only because they are embedded in the life of the organism as a whole. All parts perform their specific tasks for the benefit of the whole. (The heart beats for the whole body. In like manner, the lungs breathe, the stomach digests and the legs run for the whole body ...)

THE GLOBAL ORGANISM

- All of humanity
- The nations of the world
- Individual human beings and enterprises

In analogy to the human being, the 197 nations within the global organism form the organs necessary for life. At the present stage of the development of civilization, they too can survive only as parts of an indivisible whole. Today, every nation must fulfill its specific mission as a part of the whole for the benefit of the whole.

Those who bear responsibility in politics, science and economics in all nations are faced with the challenge of preparing to shape the global organism as an indivisible whole and to organize it for the benefit of all 197 nations.

Despite tremendous progress in science, society and technology, all sectors of today's civilization are beset with increasing difficulties, collisions and misunderstandings. And the social sciences are quite unable to propose relevant solutions with any hope of success.

The social sciences are losing their ability to anticipate the further development of education, politics and the economy. They are based on outdated assumptions and are insufficiently aware of the reasons for the present crisis of global civilization: for it is the inevitable expression of an egoistical mentality that the world can no longer tolerate in this form.

THE OLD IMAGE OF MAN

The change of mentality that is urgently needed cannot take place as long as the sciences - and above all the social sciences - base their premises on an egoistical-materialistic image of man that assumes him to be an egoist by his very nature, incapable of changing. The story of human evolution thus far certainly supports this thesis when observed from outside. But all truly great human beings from the domains of philosophy, religion, art, politics and economics whose example and commitment have brought human civilization a decisive step forward prove just the opposite. Explicitly or implicitly, they were aware that at his core man is not egoistic and materialistic, but sunlike and divine.

THE NEW IMAGE OF MAN

If the core of the human being is sunlike and divine, then according to the law that "each seed gives forth of its likeness", the egoistical mentality that can be seen and felt everywhere cannot represent a final state, but is merely a temporary phenomenon. The most critical and urgent question facing the sciences - in particular the social sciences - concerns the nature of the true essence of man and the consequences of the answer for education, politics and economics.

The key to resolving the apparent contradiction between these two images of man lies in gaining an insight into the dual nature of the human being. Man has two natures, a higher and a lower one. Whereas his lower, egoistical nature is highly developed, his higher sunlike nature is for the most part still in a state of profound slumber.

Although the development of the lower nature represents a necessary stage in the process of human evolution, it has now reached its zenith as a civilizational pattern and has even gone beyond it to some extent. Science, politics and economics are faced with a momentous decision: whether to cling to the curriculum of the lower nature that is now completed from an evolutionary standpoint - be it out of a lack of insight, out of laziness or for reasons of personal interest - or whether to make a start on a curriculum designed to develop man's higher nature with its exacting demands. The impulse of transformation for the social sciences, politics and economics that such a step requires will now be outlined and combined into an overall picture.

The new world view and image of man is the source of the threefold economy. This in turn gives rise to three transformation sciences that bring the threefold economy into being in gradual states:

- The science of man - the basis of a new education
- The science of universal laws - the basis of a new jurisprudence
- The science of social organism - the basis of a new economics

These three sciences pour out over the social sciences like a renewing, quickening and transforming force - just like the light, warmth and life of the sun. The transformed social sciences in their turn renew and transform politics, and both together transform the economy.

The threefold economy now acts on the human being as a harmoniously-coordinated interplay of education, politics and economics - renewed in their core - and gives him effective support in the process of changing his mentality and in satisfying his true universal, collective and individual needs.

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