Now, the Asiatic theory of emanation and absorption is seen to be in harmony with this grand idea.

It does not hold that, at the conception of a human being, a soul is created by God out of nothing and given to it, but that a portion of the already existing, the divine, the universal intelligence, is imparted, and, when life is over, this returns to and is absorbed in the general source from which it originally came.

The authors of the Constitution forbid these ideas to be held, under pain of eternal punishment.
In like manner they dispose of the doctrines of Evolution and Development, bluntly insisting that the Church believes in distinct creative acts.

The doctrine that every living form is derived from some preceding form is scientifically in a much more advanced position than that concerning Force, and probably may be considered as established, whatever may become of the additions with which it has recently been overlaid.
In her condemnation of the Reformation, the Church carries into effect her ideas of the subordination of reason to faith.

In her eyes the Reformation is an impious heresy, leading to the abyss of pantheism, materialism, and atheism, and tending to overthrow the very foundations of human society.