Scientific Religion ( 1888) Laurence Oliphant

Scientific Religion ( 1888) Laurence Oliphant

Author: Laurence Oliphant

Year: 1888

NOTE: This post features Custom EPUB, PDF and IMAGES for DOWNLOAD. ALL PARTS OF THIS BOOK ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SCIENTIFIC RELIGION OR HIGHER POSSIBILITIES OF LIFE AND PRACTICE THROUGH THE OPERATION OF NATURAL FORCES BY LAURENCE OLIPHANT WITH AN APPENDIX BY A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SECOND EDITION MDCCCLXXXVIII — 1888 — Preface to the Modern Reader To truly enter the world of Laurence Oliphant’s Scientific Religion , one must first confront his sternest warning: the danger of a “divided mind.” Oliphant posits that the modern seeker is often trapped in a state of “distracted attention,” where we attempt to understand the universe by breaking it into pieces—treating the spiritual and the physical as if they were unrelated continents. This is the struggle with dualism, which he illustrates through the tension between the “supersensible” (the spirit) and the “sensible” (the material). He warns that if we treat these as separate facts, we are forced to invent artificial “occult qualities” to link them together, which only leads to a fabricated and hollow understanding of reality. To resolve this conflict, Oliphant directs our focus toward a “point of unity,” a concept embo