THE LIFE WE SEEK

The Life We Seek ~ 466 ~ them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.6 Jung’s verdict is conclusively reinforced by the words of the former president of the New York Academy of Science, A. Cressy Morrison: The richness of religious experience finds the soul of man and lifts him, step by step, until he feels the Divine presence. The instinctive cry of man, “God help me,” is natural, and the crudest prayer lifts one closer to his Creator. Reverence, generosity, nobility of character, morality, inspiration, and what may be called the Divine attributes, do not arise from atheism or negation, a surprising form of self-conceit which puts man in the place of God. Without faith, civilization would become bankrupt, order would become disorder, restraint and control would be lost, and evil would prevail. Let us then hold fast to our belief in a Supreme Intelligence, the love of God and the brotherhood of man, lifting ourselves closer to Him by doing His will as we know it and accepting the responsibility of believing we are, as his creation, worthy of His care.”7