ABSTRACT
Natural religion and science are two facets of the one reality. Religion remains as it always was the chief motive power, the heart of the life of human societies, and without it, as without the heart, there can be no rational life. The word "god" conjures up better the nature of the agency. The essence of natural religion, however, lies in an active enquiry into the nature of reality, and the spirituality based upon it is by its nature active, inquiring, and devoid of outer endorsement. The aim of asceticism in natural religion is to convert emotional hatred into emotional love, but this cannot be achieved without that aim of emotionally grasping the very nature of life itself. Spirituality is the emotional assimilation by the individual of religious teaching. As psychoanalysis aims to free the emotional self from slavish dependence, any such spirituality will always be inimical to psychoanalysis.
