The Whole Truth

Roy Masters

I began this book by saying that there was something about death that troubled me as a child, that it seemed somehow out of order. Of course, death is part of God’s plan, but it is not His plan that we submit to it in defeat. We are meant to have victory over death.

What if we made our ultimate goal a search for this victory, this Ultimate Reality? What if we genuinely yearned to discover the mystery of our direct relationship with our Father God, who is the Supreme Relative, mankind’s physical and metaphysical parent spirit? 

What if the pain and angst we all feel is due to a separation caused by the “gravitational pull” of our animal egocentricity, drawing us away from the Father toward a black hole of self-centered, spiritual oblivion? Hell is a most terrible reality, but, thank God, it is not the only reality.

What if our destiny, truly fulfilled, is to be saved from that ego pull, that death-centered, mortal world of time and space and matter—saved by Him who watches over us, the patiently waiting Heavenly Father who has loved us from the very beginning?

He remains eternally beyond the time, space, and matter of His Creation—untouched by death—in the Heavenly realm where we ourselves ultimately belong. May it be so with you.

Please avoid two traps. The first is believing that to be a scientist you must abandon or cut yourself off from God. The second is believing that to be properly religious you must abandon or cut yourself off from emerging science.

The opinion that sound religion and sound science are natural enemies is deeply entrenched in our culture, but it is nevertheless a false notion. Sound religion and sound science both seek to understand realities that are important to our lives.

A receptiveness to both is essential to wise and happy living.    

   


"We must seek, and be receptive to, a sound understanding of both God and physics. "

Of course, there are versions of “religion” and “science” that are unsound—and enemies of true wisdom. For example, the Catholic Church put Galileo under house arrest, banned him from speaking about his scientific views, and even banned his writings for more than 300 years, until late in the 20th Century.

That sort of “religion,” which makes itself an enemy of truth and those who wonder about it in new or unorthodox ways, needs to be opposed. All people including scientists need protection from that sort of “religion.”

But we should also guard against “science” that is determined to ignore religion in any form—including that “still small voice,” and the misgivings and other guidance it gives us from time to time.

If we cut ourselves off from that, or enter into a persistent rebellion against it, we will not resist the temptation to pervert our science by developing all its worst and most inhuman possibilities—and bring about our own ultimate destruction.

Such perversions of “religion” and “science” both need to be opposed.

  

However, a sound understanding of both scientific and religious realities is essential if humanity’s long and awkward struggle toward the better future we all yearn for is to continue.

Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” I believe he meant the whole truth about everything—whether we might characterize it as scientific or religious. We must seek, and be receptive to, a sound understanding of both God and physics.

If we shun either, we will be hiding from part of the whole truth that could set us free.