Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 4

Fragment ID: 10457

I think what you write is unexceptionable as a statement of the necessary limitations of physical Science to its own field. It is only in the occult sciences that one can find the necessary connection or bridge between the spiritual and material which X is demanding from the physical sciences. X’s attitude is a sort of reaction against the old error of the materialism which used science to discredit not only the mistakes of religion, but all spiritual truth – but that phase is now over and one can be content with recording its passing without trying to reverse the process by using science to support or establish spiritual truth – spiritual truth can exist in itself and needs no such buttressing from outside.