There are three in unity, if I may so speak, unification of the whole race, for which seven is whole, the whole made up of the six preceding distinctions. Now the seventh is a trinity. Let us see what are the three. We have the philosophical unification and the theological unification, and the unity of those is the religious unification. Let me define.
Philosophy is the science of ultimate ground.
Theology is the science of the first principle. The unity of those two, transfused through the whole personality and applied as the dominant spirit of life in the regulation of conduct through all its demands, is religion. That is the pure, absolute, universal religion in which all can agree. Our social environment, instead of being redeemed, instead of representing the archetype mind of God, the redemptive, is cosmic. It is utterly vain for us to go and preach Christianity when just as fast as we utter these precepts they are neutralized by the atmospheric environments in which they pass.