Science is a method, a way of procedure in the intelligent mind of man in its search for truth. Religion is vital, essential, basic. It is born of the relation which inheres in the kinship of the individual intelligence to the Universal Spirit of Nature and of all life. Science is the intelligent and rational use of the mental powers of man. Religion is intuitional, spiritual perception, involving the heart, the affections. Man aspires, worships, adores, and by the light of Faith or intuitive conviction, recognizes that which he cannot explain and cannot get rid of if he tries. Science is the just weight and measure of things seen, and of the natural causes of phenomena. Religion--the evidence of things unseen. Religion, as a _fact_, can never be explained away by Science. The so-called science that assumes or undertakes to do that, is materialism and nescience. Superstition is the false interpretation of religion, and folklore and tradition are the accretions that gather around the foundations and original revelations of religion, and lead at last to obscuration and the need of a new revelation. Each genuine new "revelation" is but the rehabilitation of the primeval religion in which accretions, false interpretations, and dogmatic assertions are cast aside. Religion represents man's endeavor to apprehend and interpret the unseen; that "something more" and "something beyond" the visible, the sensuous, and the tangible. It is this conscious _awareness_ of something more and something beyond the visible and the tangible, that furnishes man with a conception of God and of the human soul. This is a natural intuition, inseparable from the _awareness_ of self. It lies at the foundation like man's self-conscious identity, and can neither be explained nor explained away. Here lies the root of all religions. The imagery of man's imagination, in his effort to apprehend the unseen, and to formulate the unknown, gives rise to myths, allegory, tradition, folklore, and in the end, to superstition, creed, and dogma. Then come priestcraft, oppression, persecution. The death of religion, the deification of the revealer or _Avatar_, and the substitution of the priesthood as of divine authority, in place of the _revealer_ or the revelation. Jove, Orpheus, Jehovah, and at last Jesus, are enthroned beyond the clouds, and priest or church assume the earthly prerogative, speak in their place, assume dogmatic authority, promise heaven and happiness for obedience, and dire penalties for disobedience, and resort to persecution to maintain their authority. The traditions, mythologies, and folklore of all the past have thus arisen. The creeds and dogmas of the present constitute the effort of man to assume exclusive dominion, and to exercise divine authority over the masses of mankind. It is only another form of the ambition of individuals for wealth, fame or power, lifting them to a "class" above the toiling, suffering, and sorrowing masses.