Civilizing The Beast

Traditionalism wants to “release” the Soul from the “domination” of the animal instincts, which Tradition considers of the lower nature. This is the Great Error leading to a Great Spiritual Blockade.

The animal instincts are activated by the Spirit, and the Soul is the Zenith of the Animal Instincts. Animal instincts direct evolution to Godhood in the sacred path.

Rejecting animal instincts leads to rejecting the vehicle necessary for attaining Godhood. What we need to do is make sacred the instincts by directing material-spiritual evolution to God.

We can therefore speak of profane and sacred instincts but we cannot define all instincts as profane. Sacred instincts are directed toward evolving to Godhood activated by the Spirit. Profane instincts devolve and move backward away from evolving to God.

We don't separate the physical world from metaphysics

Our metaphysics may seem limited to the physical world but it is a physical world not yet understood by human science. Therefore we don't need to separate the physical world from metaphysics, and we also don't have the problem therefore of reintegrating metaphysics back into the physical world. Most importantly we don't lose God by denying God in the metaphysical world, as science has done, because we have God in the superphysical world, and we evolve materially-spiritually to Godhood.

The freeing of the will

We do not separate the soul and spirit from the body, we create no dualism here.

We want to make or bodies and drives work in harmony with the Will to Godhood, or Spirit. We want to fulfill our desires not get rid of them, we want to free our desires by understanding them, by understanding the direction of desires, we do not separate these things.

What stops us from fulfilling our spiritual Will to Godhood is what we need to cancel out. We want to identify with the Spirit and the drives, not get rid of them.

This is not free will as we have heard of it, this is the freeing of the will from the ignorance and oppression that blocks it in a Great Spiritual Blockade.

Truth reflects or denotes an object and is not itself an object

Truth reflects or denotes an object and is not itself an object.
Absolute Truth then reflects or denotates an Absolute Object, which would be God (but Absolute Truth would be in the Mind of God and not an object in itself)

Now if I exchange the word “existence” for object and exchange the word “essence” for truth then I can say that “existence proceeds essence” (which I think existentialist Sartre said)

I would go further when I say that “Spirit” (Will to Godhood) is still an “object” because It is the “Seed of God” who is the Supreme Object. Which means that Spirit too is an object and not an essence.

Finally I would say that one discovers truth by becoming truth (through evolution), literally becoming truth as an object, and not merely “knowing” the truth. It is not that we are “in the Light” when we “see” the truth, we are the object itself of light. This way we cannot merely know the truth we have to become the truth (through evolution).

On Absolute Consciousness

God can be seen to be the only One who sees objects for what they actually are because God's Mind is big enough to see all; this is the true definition of Absolute Consciousness. We cannot have God's consciousness until we evolve to Godhood, and until we have a mind like God's Mind. This means that the God seen in high meditation, which is called “absolute consciousness,” is not Absolute Consciousness, it is consciousness mainly of the Spirit or Will-to-Godhood within all life in the Kosmos, which is certainly no small consciousness, but it is not God Consciousness.

Consciousness can be described as an object. This brings down to earth the ideas of transcendence beyond time and beyond the object of traditional involutionary religion and psychology. We simply have not yet seen the deepest material-spiritual dimension of consciousness, just as we have not seen the material-spiritual dimensions of the Spirit-Within, and more importantly, we have not seen the material-spiritual dimensions of God, who is the Supreme Object. We can transcend the ego and affirm our oneness with all life, but this is not Godhood or Absolute Consciousness.

Comparing Occult Cosmogonies

We do not use the terms of the Ten Sefiroth of the Kabbalah or the Hindu Chart of Correspondences, we more or less synthesize them into the Involutionary Inward Path of Evolutionary Catholicism (EC). We do not promote antagonism between them, we see here a basis for ecumenism and not a basis for imperialism, one over the other. Both the Kabbalah and Hindu Correspondences lack the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood of EC. Both probably derive from Hyperborean (Cro Magnon) sources. Studies suggest an ancient Hyperborean migration from the North founding Sumeria, Babylon, Egypt as well as points West and East.

EC does find Two Aspects of God but not as the Sefiroth does (eg. Isaac Luria and Moses Cordovera). We don't define the external as negative and the internal as positive any more than we define the Soul representing the Body-Mind as positive, or the Spirit representing the Will to Godhood as negative. We see the “Ayn Sof” of the Sefiroth, the Infinite Himself, (which Hegel called “pure being in only the purist abstraction,” or “non-existent”) as not above the other Sefiroth symbols, as Luria does—we see this entity as not God but only a mirror of God.

We cannot affirm this statement from the Zohar: “ Come and see that thought is the principle of all that is...” This places thought before object, the cart before the horse. Thought denotates the object, even Absolute Thought is the mirror denotation of of the Absolute Object, which is the Supreme Object of Godhood Attained. Knowledge of the Creator is not distinct from the created. Absolute Knowledge is defined as the Mind of God within the Object God. Gnosticism cannot legitimately rise here. Perhaps the problem comes from the need to keep God alive even as death seems to be part of the cycle of normal life.

Qualifications are said not to be possible of the “infinite himself,” but how can we therefore go on to define God's qualifications? In EC intuition, faith, spiritual and material “reason” find that Godhood is defined or attained when the Two Paths (Inward and Outward Paths) attain their highest evolution and become One.

The Spirit contains the Seed of God and the Spirit knows its goal, which is Evolution to Godhood. The Spirit is not God, the Spirit requires Godhood to be completed, just as a child needs adulthood to be completed. Evolution works within this dynamic.

Spirit-Will and Soul-Body need not be known as negative and positive or male and female, the body is not negative as it is the vehicle by which the Spirit evolves to Godhood to complete Itself. The Tree of Life in EC therefore is hierarchical and not really two parallel paths. Our Two Paths, the Inward and Outward, work in harmony with one another and with the evolutionary forces.

Let's not then make a God of geometry

“The only science which was ever developed more or less at once and in perfect order is the one that is wholly contained within imagination- geometry.”

From Just Thomism

Comment on the above: But let's not then make a God of geometry. It is not the geometry but the actual object defined (hopefully) by geometry that comes first.

Bringing back the Divine Object God

What is most divine is first the Divine Object God and second the Mind of God or the Truth. First there is nature and second the truth according to nature. Intellect understanding the material-spiritual universe is part of the material-spiritual universe. The law of God is in the Mind of God but this law alone is not God. There is a personal connection with God via the Spirit-Within and the Soul, and this Spirit is part of nature—although it is materiaspiritus--initiated originally from God. The Truth is great but is not the whole of God, the Absolute Truth is the Father aspect of the Trinity, which is God's Mind. We need to bring back the Object God, the literal, great, wise, beautiful, Divine Object God. It is this Godhood we evolve to in nature.

Supreme Object God and Absolute Truth

Contrary to many occult groups, the Creator is not “transcended” by the Demiurge who supposedly created the world. This kind of transcendence usually means transcendence into definition, equation, formula, which is nothing, not an object.

Absolute Truth “defines” the Creator of the Kosmos, but is not the actual Creator-Object God of the Kosmos--- Absolute Truth exists only in the Mind of God.

The Original Creator cannot therefore be defined as Satan, or the Demiurge, or the Light Bearer, or Lucifer, to name a few of the occult terms for the Creator. The Creator is the combined Son and Holy Spirit, Who is defined as the Father in the Trinity. And this Trinity is our goal, the Zenith of Evolution, which means our goal of Absolute Truth is related to the evolutionary goal of attaining the Supreme Object God. The definition of the Father, of Absolute Truth, is in this way Secondary to the Thing Itself of the Supreme Object, the Son and Holy Spirit.

If definition or symbol is needed of Satan, it at least symbolizes the Great Black Hole, the devolutionary, anti-life force which prevents life from evolving to Godhood. If Satan is involved in creation, eg. Big Bang creation, it is only originally at the initiation of God.

The Truth, even the Absolute Truth, cannot in and of Itself initiate anything, any more than a mathematical equation can of itself initiate anything. It can, however, define an existing object. This is how the Absolute Truth relates to God and Godhood. We seek the Supreme Object God and by attaining God in the Kosmos we will then be defined by Absolute Truth.

On the virtues

Virtue resides in the Spirit, and the Spirit is also the Will to Godhood which activates life to Godhood. The highest virtues are related to the force that leads to Godhood. This defines virtue in the older sense of “a power to accomplish the task.” St. Paul added the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity.

There are the virtues of nurture (Saints), and the virtues of nature (Heroes).

To truly revive a people the Involutionary Virtues alone will not suffice, it would be like building a structure without a foundation. We must also affirm the Evolutionary Virtues which relate to the biological origins of much of social behavior.

The Involutionary Inward Path Virtues: (Catholicism) Faith, hope and charity (Christian), Prudence, justice, courage, temperance (Greek).
The Evolutionary Outward Path Virtues ( Beyondism): Evolution.

The goal of the Involutionary Virtues is to understand and see God, the goal of the Evolutionary Ethics is to evolve to God.

Knowledge, faith, and personal contact with the Soul and Spirit

In the Involutionary Inward Path contacting the Soul and Spirit Within can bring a more personal, less abstract relationship with God. Evolutionary Catholicism emphasizes the communal nature of faith since no one evolves by themselves, even as we acknowledge a personal connection with the Spirit. Our ecumenism is based on the awareness that the Spirit exists in all people, all races, each seeking to evolve to Godhood. Here the Catholic theological virtues of faith, hope and love help, along with applying the Evolutionary Outward Path.

At this time evolution is a progression without exact maps, which is why faith can help, however, a closer and deeper study of nature and human nature grounds our faith in science and reason. We do need “faith” in the assurance that we are evolving to Godhood, and the conviction of Godhood not yet seen, but this conviction is enhanced by scientifically examining the patterns of evolution, for example, evolution has moved from the simple to the complex and toward higher and higher consciousness.

Love and power

"Where love reigns, there is no desire for power, and where power predominates, there is lack of love. One is the shadow of another."
(Carl Gustav Jung)

Comment: Both love and power are connected to the Will to Godhood, or the Spirit-Within. The duality in the above quote confuses the issue. Love leads to power in the sense that evolutionary reproduction leads to Godhood, the highest power, highest truth, highest beauty.

Selfish Enlightenment

The Soul-Within Experiencing The Spirit

I must say, directly, how selfish, hedonistic and narcissistic is the Inward Path when it is pursued alone without the Outward Path. The goal of the Inward Traditions is to experience the Divine Within, which is precisely where the narcissism exists. This is not God, this is the Soul-Within experiencing the Spirit.

The words used to describe this enlightenment, such as “lasting happiness,” the “timeless now,” etc. describe a human experience of bliss, but it all stops there, like a heroin injection completed. Zen Master Jun Po Denis Kelly, who has experienced both psychedelic and meditation states of enlightenment, says “the states were identical, but one is biochemically induced and the other is discipline induced through holding the mind still.” (EnlightenNext Sept/Nov 2009)

Union with the Soul within seeing the Spirit is simply not God, and it is a great spiritual and mystic error to claim it is, which has led to the Great Spiritual Blockade against evolving to Godhood. We cannot stop at the bliss of this kind of enlightenment, it is a great spiritual trap. God can be reached only by evolving beyond the human species and beyond the experience of the union of the Soul and Spirit, we must evolve materially and biospiritually all the way to Godhood.

The New Religious Synthesis of Evolutionary Catholicism

We have seen that the old religious stories that tried to integrate science into religion—most recently with “evolutionary spirituality”-- virtually did not synthesize sociobiology or natural evolution and left an immense gap. Political correctness no doubt had to do with this immense gap, since the findings of sociobiology affirmed traits about human nature that modern liberalism found politically incorrect. Evolutionary spirituality could claim political correctness by limiting evolution to the development of human consciousness without having to enter into the “dangerous” category of biological evolution beyond the human.

Evolutionary Catholicism opens up religion to real, biological evolution, and real, advanced consciousness, beyond the human to the superman, and beyond to Godhood. This is the religious story that can fully engage science, real science, and fully engage evolution, real evolution, without hiding from evolution. We evolve biologically and then biospiritually to Godhood, and consciousness evolves as biology evolves. The limited view of Godhood promulgated by evolutionary spirituality has created a Great Spiritual Blockade against the real world, and a block against evolving to the Real Supreme Object God.

Contra The Traditionalist School

What follows are two very seductive, and typical, notes by two important thinkers of the Traditionalists School. “Seductive” because these men had courage, which is virtually missing from many modern thinkers. But perhaps they did not have courage enough?

Evolutionary Catholicism takes a different path, which seeks to unblock The Great Spiritual Blockade of the Traditionalist School, and other Eastern and Western oriented religions and mystical schools, so that we may redeem the world. We do not affirm a revolt against the modern world, we affirm the evolutionary world and material evolution, applying Catholic and Beyondist virtues and values as the sacred path to Godhood.

However, we do not slay the Traditionalists---as they no doubt would us---because we reserve a proper place for them within the Involutionary Inward Path of Tradition, which seeks the Soul Within but often wrongly defines this as God. We introduce the Evolutionary Outward Path of the Spirit Within And Without as the vital path to evolve to Godhood, the God first seen by the Traditionalists.

We synthesize religion and science, reason and intuition, the material and spiritual. We seek Ordered (Traditionalist) Evolution (Beyondist) through a Revitalized Conservatism.

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“We live among ruins in a World in which "god is dead" as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hording of material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher and better - in other words a complete inversion of true values and ideals, the raising of the victory flag of ignorance and the banner of degeneracy. In such a time, social decadence is so widespread that it appears as a natural component of all political institutions. The crises that dominate the daily lives of our societies are part of a secret occult war to remove the support of spiritual and traditional values in order to turn man into a passive instrument of dark powers. The common ground of both Capitalism and Socialism is a materialistic view of life and being. Materialism in its war with the Spirit has taken on many forms; some have promoted its goals with great subtlety, whilst others have done so with an alarming lack of subtlety, but all have added, in greater or lesser measure, to the growing misery of Mankind. The forms which have done the most damage in our time may be enumerated as: Freemasonry, Liberalism, Nihilism, Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism, Imperialism, Anarchism, Modernism and the New Age. Each of these creeds - materialist at base - is philosophically wrong and discredited in practice. Our definition of modern and modernism has nothing to do with what may be 'new or in the shape of the present', instead, what is here defined as modern, is that which is cut off from the Divine, the Transcendant, or the 'Supernatural', everything that does not refer to - and is isolated from - "the immutable principles which govern everything and which are known to man through revelation." (S. H. Nasr---quoted here.)


"The civilization of the modern West appears in history a veritable anomaly: among all those which are known to us more or less completely, this civilization is the only one which has developed along purely material lines and this monstrous development, whose beginning coincindes with the so-called Renaissance, has been accompanied, as indeed it was fated to be, with a corresponding intellectual regress; we say corresponding and not equivalent, because here are two orders of things between which there can be no common measure. This regress has reached such a point that the Westerners of today no longer know what pure intellect is; in fact they do not even suspect that anything of the kind can exist; hence their disdain, not only for eastern civilization, but also for the Middle Ages of Europe, whose spirit escapes them scarcely less completely. How is the interest of a purely speculative knowledge to be brought home to people for whom intelligence is nothing but a means of acting on matter and turning it to practical ends, and for whom science, in their limited understanding of it, is above all important in so far as it may be applied to industrial purposes ?" (Rene Guenon, "East and West.")

God Unseperated

Only God, the Real, knows the Real, and only God, the Truth, knows the Truth. This knowledge exists in the Mind of God, and defines God, but this Truth is not God alone. God is the Supreme Body containing the Truth.

Some Traditions have separated God into Truth (the Father), the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Some have defined the Truth of the Father as free of the Body and the Highest God. But God's Mind is not the whole of God any more than man's mind is the whole of man.

When it is seen that material evolution is not evil, and indeed, that evolution leads to Godhood, then the Great Spiritual Blockade of the body and of material evolution can be unblocked.

Truth and the Real need to take their place in the unseperated Mind of the Supreme Object God. And the way to reach God, Truth and the Real is through evolution. The mission of the Catholic and Beyondist Virtues of Evolutionary Catholicism can help lead the way.

Deglobalization

“...trends are fast outpacing both ideologues and critics of neoliberal globalization, and developments thought impossible a few years ago are gaining steam. "The integration of the world economy is in retreat on almost every front," writes the Economist. While the magazine says that corporations continue to believe in the efficiency of global supply chains, "like any chain, these are only as strong as their weakest link. A danger point will come if firms decide that this way of organizing production has had its day..." from "The Virtues of Deglobalization" by Walden Bello (Essay here)

Religion, The Supremely Evolved Animal, And Nietzsche

Nietzsche developed the animality of the human being in philosophy (see this book). But in replacing God, Nietzsche advanced things only as far as the Superman. This was no where near far enough.

Evolutionary Catholicism takes Nietzsche's biological base, and his superman, and we reintroduce God again, after Nietzsche attempted to kill God or limit God to the superman. In defining God as the Supremely Evolved Object, or dare we say, the Supreme Evolved Animal Whom we evolve to, we bring God back. This means the animal, instincts, indeed, material life, are no longer evil, especially when material life evolves to the Highest Being: God.

We see Nietzsche's “will to power” as a new but still partial understanding of the Spirit, which we deepen and broaden to define as the Will to Godhood, so in this sense Nietzsche, inadvertently, brought us a deeper definition of the Spirit, which needs to be included in Traditional Religion, which we do.

When Traditional Religion is seen as the Involutionary Inward Path and combined with the Evolutionary Outward Path, then there was no need to radically extirpate Traditional Religion as Nietzsche tried to do. Religion discovered the Soul within, and at least partially discovered the Spirit, and this was the older beginning knowledge of God, which we can honor in Revitalized Conservatism, as long we include the vital, sacred, Evolutionary Upward Path of Ordered Evolution to God.

The error of ignoring either material nature or metaphysics

Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) seeks to bring material nature into metaphysical knowledge as something sacred and not profane. This is a transmutation of “Traditionalism” which separates metaphysical knowledge from “profane” nature. This path is made possible because we evolve in nature to Godhood.

Bringing nature into metaphysics allows the inclusion of modern knowledge, which has been more or less rejected by Traditionalism. When Traditional metaphysics ignores as profane anything related to nature it is doing the same thing in reverse that modern knowledge does in ignoring anything to do with metaphysics. Both close their minds to the other.

The Tantric notion, pointed out by Evola, which says that one cannot adore a god without “becoming” a god is, in the East, meant as an Involutionary Path only, to show that “action” is needed to reach the God Within and not to reach merely theoretical contemplation, but this is not to be seen as natural, evolutionary, material, outward action.

EC transmutes this “becoming a god” to the Evolutionary Outward Path of material evolution to Godhood, thus we give to nature, sacred, metaphysical knowledge.

Spirit Is Not An Evolian Tiger

Response to Tantra

The “union” of Soul (Shiva in Tantra) and Spirit (Shakti in Tantra) is one of the things that we are after. In a sense, the Soul is passive, the Spirit is active. The Spirit wants to activate the Soul (the Soul is the Zenith of the Body) to evolve to Godhood.

The Body must work within nature, within the evolution of nature, within the natural selection of nature. The Soul, therefore, rides the Spirit, but the Spirit is not like a Dionysian or Evolian tiger. It is the Will To Godhood; it has a goal.

Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) seeks to awaken the Spirit or the Will To Godhood within the human organism. This is not Kundalini Yoga, with its involutionary goal of awakening the “serpent power” within. Our goal is the goal of the Evolutionary Outward Path, to evolve to Godhood, guided by the Spirit, or the Will to Godhood.

Reproduction, not merely sex, is available as the path for us. Unlike the Tantra, we see more than “breathing and sex” as avenues of action. We seek more than contacting the Spirit Within to enlighten the individual. Individual enlightenment can be a selfish thing without seeing the goal of the Spirit, which is to evolve to Godhood. Ours is more than the involutionary goal of personal enlightenment, ours is the evolutionary goal of Godhood.

God does represent the unchanging dimension, but the Spirit, which initially originates from God, is the energy and activating power behind phenomena. However, the Spirit is not the mother or father of God. Let us not overestimate the Spirit. The Spirit issues from God and then becomes the Kosmos of changing dimensions of energy. We do not want to make a cult of the Spirit as Shakti seems to be in Tantra.

The “liberation of action” mentioned in Tantra and by Evola, in the Yoga of Power, is not political revolution but is evolution, material evolution, which ends in evolving to Godhood. Action has been called a very Western ethos and thus EC has been described as a “Western Yoga.” But the action we seek relates to Ordered Evolution, not revolution, guided best by Revitalized Conservatism, which best relates to human nature.

Evil in the world?

We take a page from St. Thomas but adapt it to evolution.

Regarding the reality of evil in the world, St. Thomas claims that it pertains to infinite goodness to allow evil so as to draw good forth from it. How so? We say we draw good forth through evolution, on the evolutionary path to Godhood.

The Eventual Political Consensus of Human Nature: Favoring Decentralization

We have a strong feeling that the philosophy of Leave-us-Alone federalism will gradually become a consensus, not only in the United States, but in the world. Why? Because it harmonizes with human nature. It's that simple. Human nature has strongly tended to be kin-centered, local-centered, pair bonding, hierarchical and even xenophobic, to name a few of the conservative elements inherent in human nature.

Now who fights against this constituency against human nature? Those who gain selfish advantage from a centralizing national or international regime, those who are not just socialists, communists, or fascists, but modern liberals, the products of modern liberal “education,” whose religion is totalitarian egalitarianism, controlled by a powerful elite. Large business corporations also use the government to gain personal advantage and wealth. These selfish marginal groups require centralizing government action to prevail.

So what is government good for? Michael Greve points out that for public purposes we need government for protection from force, fraud, and aggression, and to procure the things that deal with the common pool, such as roads and even the environment. But, unlike the economic libertarians, we affirm economic nationalism because it protects localism against the force, fraud and aggression of large corporations.

I think human nature will eventually win out over egalitarian uniformity, leading to the tolerance of a variety of less than perfect (in liberal eyes) states and localities. Localism is good not merely because big government does not work as well as the private world, and not merely because Leave-Us-Alone federalism more or less mimics free enterprise, localism is good mainly because the separating powers of federalism affirm human nature.

Comparing Tantra

Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) represents a new spiritual or religious or philosophical trend. We are a synthesis of the main currents of Traditional Religion, and an evolutionary extension or development or those currents. We do not reject ancient religion but we deny ritualism for ritualism's sake, as well as the narrow focus on the God Within, at the expense of the God Without.

Much as the Tantra did with Hinduism in the 5th century A.D., we will deny the exclusive concentration on the asceticism of tradition and affirm the path of evolutionary “action”; but we immediately caution an Ordered Evolution requiring a Revitalized Conservatism, and not revolution. We do not define "power" as "irrational" and Dionysian, we define power in the form of the Spirit as the Will to Godhood, with a Supreme Goal.

Unlike the Tantra, we are not only about the worship of the Inward Path, we do not concentrate merely on awakening the forces within the body. The Spirit Within seeks to activate the body to Godhood in the material world with the Evolutionary Outward Path. Tantra claims outward action, but, in fact, it does so to establish inward goals.

Ours is not the path of the Left Hand of active Tantrism, but the way of Two Paths, the Inward and Outward Paths. I suppose we could adapt Tantric symbols to call the Path of Shakti the Path of the Spirit, and not call this the Left Hand Path, but call it the Right Hand Path. And we could conversely call the Left Hand Path the path of the Soul-Body of the Inward Path. But we may not want to confuse things with this adaptation.

In EC the Spirit Within is the “Primordial Principle” which Shakti came to be known as, virtually losing her archaic maternal features. Shakti, according to Julius Evola, means “to be able to,” to “have the strength to act,” which essentially means “power”. We would translate this as the Will To Godhood, which defines the Spirit Within.

Contrary to Tantra and all the Involutionary Religions, which claim some sort of union between being (Shiva) and Shakti (power) in man only as the central goal, the Spirit (power or energy) does not unite with Being until Godhood is evolved to.

The union of Shiva and Shakti is, once again, an involutionary goal as is the goal of traditional religions, whereas the goal of EC has both an involutionary and evolutionary goal, outside and beyond man, to evolve to Godhood.

Tantra is not really “black magic” outside of traditional circles, it is very much an involutionary discipline, like the others, with perhaps less prudish methods.

(We will have more on this later)

A New Trade Agenda

..."Under the free trade system underdeveloped nations are encouraged to push down domestic wages for the sake of attracting foreign investment. Under a fair trade system only nations that encouraged higher wages would attract investment. Nations would be prompted to use the billions of dollars in foreign currency that they have collected in the past three decades to build up infrastructure and education systems which would make their workers competitive with the developed world, rather than using squalor and backwardness to their advantage while giving workers virtually nothing in return."

Essay here from "Economy In Crisis"

Contra the one-worlder “evolutionary spiritualists”

There is a popular bias in the “evolutionary spirituality” movement suggesting that because human life has been moving from small family units to empire, this should be defined as “evolutionary” and a good thing.

This plays into the one-world government movement, which has been attractive to fascists and communists, although the evolutionary spiritualists present a softer left-leaning face. But more to the point, there is sociobiological evidence that human evolution can stop or go backward when this kind of convergence takes place. And Realists have for some time shown that the world becomes more dangerous with concentrated power, and that a balance of powers in fact leads to a more peaceful world.

Evolution thrives on divergence more than convergence. It would be far more evolutionary, and historically realistic, to promote a world of thousands of independent states, perhaps respected as a federation of evolving small states, with independent evolving populations. Variety is essential if evolution, and life itself, is to continue.

Evolutionary Catholicism and Jungian Psychology

By Kenneth Lloyd Anderson

Part One

Individuation and Sacred Affirmation

The question is, how does Carl Jung define the instincts and the unconscious with which he wishes to balance the conscious mind?

Jung did not have the science of sociobiology (although he did have Darwin) to work with, which has related consciousness to instincts of survival and reproduction. That is, the conscious and the unconscious, as well as human behavior in general have been largely, although not solely, controlled by mostly unconscious instincts to be successful in survival and reproduction. Perhaps these instincts are not as atrophied as Jung considered them to be.

Let me begin by saying that Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) maintains that the central activation of the mostly unconscious instincts resides in the Spirit Within, which seeks to activate life to Godhood in evolution. It is this drive which the conscious mind needs to integrate and balance and apply to civilization. Enlightened consciousness is based in this realization of the Ideal of the Instincts, and in turn this gives unconscious instincts a sacred religious base, a base missing in both Traditional religion and psychoanalysis, which deny, block, or psychologize this ideal.

It is the Self in Jung that replaces God, even though Jung does seem to make nods in the direction of a transcendent Self. For Jung, the Self essentially remains in the human unconscious where supposedly psychoanalysis can root it out and bring it to consciousness by studying dreams, symbols, and so on.

This is a mostly worthy endeavor, but eventually the base of the activation of the unconscious needs to be understood to be the Will to Godhood of the Spirit, which helps activate both nature and nurture to evolve materially and spiritually to Godhood. This becomes far more than the balance sought of “individuation,” this becomes a Sacred Affirmation of the Ideal of the Instincts.


The Four Zeniths

In EC we say that the zenith of the body is the mind, the zenith of the mind is the soul, or self, the zenith of the soul is the spirit, and the zenith of the spirit is Godhood. Affirming the four zeniths brings psychobiological health, indeed, the need for spiritual meaning is in this way instinctive or innate.


Civilizing the Beast

The unconscious must not be reduced to being a barbarian. The instincts are not evil. Survival and reproduction are not evil, and the dynamics of evolution are not evil.

When the unconscious is understood as being activated by the Will to Godhood, or the Spirit, then the unconscious can be a source of revelation. But if the unconscious is reduced to Soul-Mind alone, the Self of Jung, then it is doubtful that this can be considered a source of the deepest revelation because this self is still human, all too human.

Too often the unconscious has been thought to be “pathological” because it can “bursts out” after being ignored and repressed. But we should not be too quick to define the actions of evolution as pathological.

The dark side (the unconscious) and the light side (consciousness) are not thought of as opposing one another in EC. The light side of Traditional Religion is represented by the Involutionary Inward Path and the dark side, more or less represented by the Evolutionary Outward Path. But this is a less than desired way of defining these things, because it is based in ancient antagonisms, gnostic antagonisms, between spirit and matter, with matter always being reduced to the dark side, even essentially defined as the “shadow” by Jung.

We use the term Civilizing the Beast in EC to mean bringing in from the cold the “beast” of material life, ending the exile of the beast caused by the Great Spiritual Blockade of material evolution to Godhood. This is one of our main responses to both revealed religion and psychoanalysis.

In Jung “good” and “evil” are relative to consciousness and not fixed or absolute, because good and evil are only within our consciousness. In psychoanalysis the unconscious can introduce a view that can unsettle religion and society. For example, if religion calls “good” a life devoid of sexuality, then the unconscious objects to this repression. But since we often cannot face the “evil” within ourselves, we “project” the evil onto something or someone else. Jung even defines war this way, as a consequence of people not able to face their own shadow side, and so they make the other side evil. The more repression of the shadow, the bigger potential explosion, such as war. I will have more on the subject of war later in this essay.

Jung preferred to channel the twin forces of good and evil into a cultural form, with a less one-sided view of religion, and with a more gnostic view that could encompass the dark as well as the light, a system that could encompass opposites. For example, Jung said, “Christianity split the Germanic Barbarian into an upper and lower half, and enabled him, by repressing the dark side to domesticate the brighter half and fit it for civilization. But the lower, darker half still awaits redemption and a second spell of domestication.”

This is precisely what EC offers. In EC the Inward and Outward Path harmonize material and spiritual evolution. The “evil” of material evolution is seen as not evil, but as the path to attain Godhood---the God first seen in the “good” Inward Path of Revealed Religion. When we speak of the Great Spiritual Blockade, we think we are more realistically addressing the problem Jung saw of blocking unconscious or instinctive forces. When we speak of The Ideal of the Instincts, this is the real inclusion required to end the repression of human nature and end our exile from nature and evolution.

When W. B. Yeats speaks in his poem “The Second Coming,” of the beast being born in Bethlehem and recognized as a co-equal, this is that same need to incorporate the dark side. We think EC can act as the “civilizing force” for the whole man, engaging both the instincts and consciousness in recognizing the true repression of the instincts. The instincts seek Godhood and consciousness needs to know this and help guide evolution in this great and sacred task.

We have been describing here some of the same goals that Jung had, but we have, if I dare say, a deeper project. We are not made whole---and mankind will not be made whole---merely by absorbing or harmonizing the human unconscious into human consciousness.

The Spirit Within the unconscious seeks to activate the instincts to evolve life to Godhood, and the unconscious, and even the Spirit, will not be made whole until Godhood is attained. God exists beyond the human unconscious, yet God is first seen in the human unconscious through the Soul, the zenith of the mind, or more rarely seen through the Spirit.

To be made whole, we require the true God of the Evolutionary Outward Path, the God first seen in the Involutionary Inward Path of Revealed Religions, and the God defined much later in the unconscious by Carl Jung.


The Shadow Behind the Shadow

Civilization is out of balance with itself, as Jung discerned. But it will not be balanced alone by incorporating the unconscious into consciousness. Deeper than the unconscious is the Will to Godhood of the Spirit, which activates both the unconscious and the conscious mind. This is the shadow behind the shadow. We will always be out of balance until we attain Godhood in evolution.

“Accepting our fate” means accepting the Ideal of the Instincts, which is our destiny of Godhood. This defines a positive theology.


On War

It is a very serious mistake to think that “projection,” or transferring unacceptable “evil” from one's own unconscious onto an enemy, alone leads to war and violence, and that the “cure” is to synthesize the evil shadow of ourselves into our own conscious minds. Evolution is competitive, and alas, competition can be deadly, but this will not cease by incorporating the unconscious.

Understanding evolution and the Will to Godhood behind life can lead to finding acceptable cultural structures which allow evolution and competition to take place. For example, various forms of federalism which promote variety, localism and independent states, might be such an evolutionary cultural structure.

Jungianism may relieve the human psyche by opening wider the unconscious, more so than an exclusively involutionary religion, but Evolutionary Catholicism includes the evolutionary drive, which drives the psyche itself.

Jung may be right in saying that Involutionary Christianity did not enough engage the darker side, but Jungianism did not engage evolution nearly enough. Jung may offer more than the “pleasing patina” which Jung defined as Christianity, but Jungianism is itself a veneer of the unconscious over the evolutionary dynamic.

Jung was pessimistic about psychic health originating from governments, or even from religions. He thought psychic health had to happen with individuals first. This seems true also of the traditional teaching of virtue to individuals first in religion, but this pessimism seems also to stem from virtually ignoring the powerful universal force of evolution, where individuals help groups survive, and group selection is a central dynamic in human life, however blocked and unconscious culturally it may be today. Sociobiology has shown that individualism, as well as Jung's ideal of “individuation,” need to be related to group dynamics and evolution if they are not to be thought of as selfish.


On Gender

We have to realize that the force and direction of the Spirit is greater than ourselves. We can perhaps agree with Jung's calling the soul the logos of animas, and calling the spirit the animus of eros, but we don't see these as gender specific. Both genders possess them.

In Evolutionary Catholicism the Soul, or animas, defines the mind (logos), or more precisely, the Zenith of the Mind, and the Spirit is defined as the Zenith of the Soul, or the Will to Godhood, working through survival and reproduction (eros) and evolution, which applies to both genders.

When the Spirit is seen as more than eros, more than connectedness and love, and when the Spirit is seen as the Will to Godhood, then talk of gender seems to fade, as both genders seek the same Godhood.

Men may be inclined psychobiologically more to logos, and women more to eros, but it is the genders working together in a complementary fashion, toward integrating the Spirit into the Soul and the Will to Godhood into the Mind, which is the central psychological and biological integration needed for both genders. We would have to disagree with Jung in his suggestion that only men have animas (Souls) and only women animus (or Spirit). Both genders have soul and spirit.

Was Jung himself blocked a bit by limiting spirituality to the unconscious human mind, which might have led to his concentration on gender differences? When the Spirit is seen as the Will to Godhood in evolution, then gender, though important, is less centered upon in religion.

Sociobiology has validated many of Jung's gender differences, which had, until recently, suffered from deconstruction as being merely social constructions. The truth remains a balance between the forces of mind, body, gender, evolution and culture.


Evolutionary Therapy

The Priest's role in Evolutionary Catholicism is to understand the intentionality of the Spirit, which the person is often unable to clearly comprehend, whereas in Jungian psychology, the therapist's role is to represent the intentions of the psyche and to see or understand the “Self”. The Priest needs to take the side of the Spirit, whereas the psychoanalyst takes the side of the Unconscious.

In “Evolutionary Therapy,” the Priest would need to mediate a deal or balance between the Spirit (unconscious) and the soul (conscious mind) which the parishioner can live with. “Befriending” the spirit may be a task which could involve political incorrect insights. Egotistical human life and modern values may seem limited in the face of the long evolution of the spirit to Godhood, beyond man, beyond superman, beyond angels and gods, all the way to Godhood.

When the spirit is blocked, It turns away from its central path. The Priests “art” in EC is to help “release” the spirit into the energy of the person and society, making the energy of the spirit available for the individual and for society---like the martial arts, we can learn to use or turn the powerful force of the spirit away from hurting ourselves into helping ourselves, and helping our societies evolve.

Meanwhile the soul, which is the Zenith of the Mind and the ego, must maintain its task to intelligently help guide or “ride the tiger” of the spirit, even as the Soul needs to stop blocking the spirit. This is the desired balance. We need to befriend, not only the unconscious, but the spirit which activates the unconscious, and we need to correctly define the spirit and its direction.

We are not merely looking for the opposite of the ego, the contrary elements of our psyche, because androgynous balance is not the goal. The great goal of the Spirit is the goal, which lies beyond us, beyond the human unconscious, at the Zenith of Evolution to Godhood. Whatever parts of our psyche seem opposed to the direction of the spirit need to be synthesized and balanced.



Part Two


A Biospiritual Form of Transcendence

Jung's “transcendent function” goes at least as deep as the “Self” within the human psyche. Some argue that Jung was also defining something beyond the human being and beyond the human psyche, but this does not seem likely. David Tacey ("How To Read Jung") believes Jung does not wish to imply that this is a metaphysical process, or is a spiritual transcendence. Jung sees this as a “natural biological process.” The creation of the third or “tertium” in Jung seems like a biological process.

In EC, Godhood is a biological form of transcendence which we often call biospiritual transcendence, to indicate the highest levels of evolution, which are, in this sense, spiritual or biospiritual.


Inflation of the Human

Using Jung's concept of “inflation” somewhat differently, there can be an inflation of the human, yet alone inflation of the ego, which seems to take place in Jungian therapy when elements of the unconscious are seen as only human forces. The Spirit Within activates us to evolve far beyond the human, far beyond the human unconscious, far beyond the incorporation of the human unconscious into consciousness.

Jung said, “A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.” ("Psychotherapists or the Clergy") This is well said, but, we would use the word spirit rather than the word soul, which takes things out of the realm of the human psyche, the seed of the soul, and its potential inflation, and takes us into the realm of evolution, ultimately to Godhood.

The cause of suffering will probably not be cured by psychoanalysis because the human psyche and the human self is seeking something beyond itself, it is seeking to evolve to Godhood. There will, of course, be the suffering related to survival and reproduction in evolution, until Godhood is reached.

Knowing the goal of the spirit will certainly give meaning to a confused neurotic. Jung seems right in giving the patient their own psychic story, or myth (what Jung called a healthy fiction), especially since they seem to need it most in the second half of their lives. Jung thought no one could be healed without gaining a religious outlook. But Jung's medicine stopped at the human psyche, which is not a Kosmic enough myth, which can inflate the human being.

Material causation goes much deeper than science now knows. We may one day understand the spirit and Godhood in physical or chemical terms, but for now we do not.

The mind is virtually reducible to the brain, which is where the soul lies, at the Zenith of the Mind. It is the spirit which lies at the Zenith of the Soul, that has transcendent properties, which go beyond the imminent or involutionary brain and soul. Yet even the spirit is inevitably bonded to the body and to matter, since the body is the vehicle of the spirit's evolution, and the only way the spirit will reach Godhood is through the evolution of the body activated by the spirit.

Establishment psychology seems to be a science, a “logos” without a soul or psyche, as Jung believed, but psychoanalysis seems to be a soul without a spirit.

Yet the logos is God to the Gnostics, which makes them, paradoxically, the progenitors of science. The Word, the Great Equation, is God to the Gnostics, which derived from Plato, Zoroastrianism, and the East.

Jung believed that the spiritual was real and natural (a deeper dimension of the real) yet he did not believe the logos was enough. Jung's spirituality was not discernible, necessarily, by reason or logic, yet it was real. This is confusing. How is the spiritual real, yet not discernible by logos? The answer is that what is defined as spiritual in Jung is really the logos, as it is defined in all the involutionary religions. It is an introverted, involutionary soul defined, an idea defined, and not really a biological process. Jung did affirm Gnosticism after all.


Spiritual Logos

In EC science becomes spiritual and the spiritual becomes science. The logos, then, moves into the camp of the spiritual since definition and equations and words can be defined as spiritual and of the mind only. In EC the Object not the definition of the object is all.

The spiritual joins the material in that the material evolves to Godhood and Godhood is the Zenith of biospiritual evolution. The spiritual is therefore real and the logos is unreal in EC, which transposes the traditional structure.

Symbols and archetypes are thus of the logos and not of the spirit, since they are symbols for a thing and not a thing in themselves. Jung seems confused in denying the logos and affirming the soul in analysis, since his soul is logos.

EC affirms the Supreme Object Godhood and not merely the logos or definition of God. And furthermore the Supreme Logos exists only in the mind of God, much like reason exists in the mind of man.

Our transvaluation or transposition says that science or logos defines the world and is therefore spiritual, and religion or the spiritual becomes the world and is therefore material.

When Jung seeks the spiritual in man, he is really moving away from the spiritual, and moving toward the logos of definition and symbol, thereby denying the spiritual as he seeks the logos.

The spirit is grounded in the material because it exists within the material, activating the material to evolve to Godhood. When we try to separate the material from the spiritual we create a false duality and concentrate instead on the logos of definition. This has set up the Great Spiritual Blockade.


We need to move back to the Object, and not the symbol of the Object.

Even the logos of definition is grounded in the mind within the body, as the spirit is grounded in the body of the soul. The mind or soul doesn't exist without the body, and the spirit cannot evolve without the body. This is not the Gnostic “entrapment” of the mind or spirit, this is material reality, the reality of the Object. There is no duality in this sense, which means the Jungians, Gnostics and their forefathers in Platonism, Zoroastrianism, Brahmanism, were more or less mistaken in seeing dualities. Martin Heidegger seems to have seen duality something like this, but good luck with studying him.

In therapy Jung was worried about the ego appropriating things coming in from the unconscious and therefore Jung called for “expansion without inflation” of the ego. We see the best way to avoid the inflation of the ego is to avoid the inflation of the unconscious as well. The spirit is not complete in the human unconscious and seeks Godhood. What better way to avoid inflation of any kind, then to understand that we need to evolve far beyond the human species.


Spiritual Neurosis

A “psychoneurosis,” according to Jung, must ultimately be understood as “the suffering of the soul which has not discovered its meaning.” But it is the suffering not of the soul but the “suffering” of the spirit which we are concerned with. The spirit seeks to evolve beyond the unconscious, beyond the soul, beyond the psyche, all the way to Godhood. The spirit needs to direct unconscious material life to evolve this way. The Soul-Mind needs to discover its meaning in the evolution of the spirit. This defines the spiritual neurosis. Therefore, wholeness is more than “psychospiritual” wholeness.

We agree with Jung when Jung says that the spiritual is eminently “natural,” that it is not supernatural and that the spiritual is a deeper dimension of the real. But the deeper dimension of the natural and the real is Godhood, the Supreme Real Object which we must materially evolve to in the Kosmos. Jung does not project the “real” to this destination.


Original Sin

We can somewhat agree with Jung's definition of original sin as alienation from the base of our nature, but we have severed more than our connections with the human unconscious. We have severed our connections with the evolving spirit, and this is the true “original sin”.

We need more than a “psychological enlightenment,” and this enlightenment is not beyond the categories of good and evil, as Jung implies. There is, in fact, an ethical code related to recovery of our alienation as defined by evolution. The basic code can tell us the “pattern” that takes evolution forward toward higher and higher consciousness, from the simple to the complex, and so on. It is the very difficult Beyondist task in the Order of the Outward Path to discern the evolutionary direction of the Spirit Within material life.

The new religioscience of the late Raymond Cattell's Beyondism sought to understand evolution and sociobiology so that human beings may evolve naturally out into the Kosmos. We would continue this task, but unlike Cattell, we do continue to affirm and embrace the moral codes of “Traditional Religion” (e.g. Catholicism) through the Involutionary Inward Path, which among other things, keeps the conservative order that is so important to continued evolution. Ordered Evolution is the balance we seek in our Revitalized Conservatism.


On “Remembering the Soul”

“Remembering the Soul” in Jung's Platonic reference makes one happy or “eudaimonic,” full of happiness, but therein lies the danger of what we have defined as The Great Spiritual Blockade. We stop and swim in eudaimonic bliss and forget or overlook the evolutionary direction of the Spirit and the Body. This has been the great error of Traditionalism.

Both Plato and Jung believed that this “remembering” was a central activity of the human soul. But we have called this a Great Spiritual Blockade which needs to be unblocked. It is not only the ego that opposes this remembering, it is the eudaimonic remembering itself that is the opponent of wholeness.

The ego may be a “good servant but lousy master” (Tacey) but the unconscious can also be a diminished master since the unconscious itself must learn to take direction from the Spirit or the Will to Godhood.

Ritual in EC, as in other religions, helps us get back in touch with the Will to Godhood, the flow of the Spirit, which is the central function of the ritual. Tacey points out that the word ritual comes from the Latin ritus, relating to flow and river.

Symbolic life according to Jung is initiated by spiritual life. The symbols point toward higher reality. Later in this essay we will define the ritual of the Mass of Joy.


The Alchemy of Evolution

The “holy marriage,” “the conjunctio,” the “chymical wedding” of alchemy is seen in EC as the alchemy of evolution, leading to Godhood. Sacred Unions must be discovered in the alchemy of evolution to Godhood.

Sexuality not only symbolizes the search for the missing “other half,” it actually provides the Real conjunction of reproduction necessary to evolve to Godhood in the material world. Romance seeks the other half, the missing piece, which is why romance has often been a symbol for seeking Godhood.

The Spirit is “sick” when it does not feel connected to the Universal Spirit of the Kosmos, the “tree of life” in Hyperborean terms. The ego is often resistant to or ignorant of this connection.

The Spirit seeks more than to unite with the universal Spirit Within, the Spirit seeks to activate material life to evolve all the way to Godhood. Let us not stop the Spirit too soon, short of its goal.

It is the dams and walls set up against the Spirit, in the Great Spiritual Blockade, that we are concerned with, more so even than the walls blocking the conscious mind from the unconscious, which was the primary concern of Jung.

Nature is goal-directed toward evolution, and the unconscious is only a servant of this great goal, as the ego is the servant of the unconscious, or perhaps should be.


Biospiritual Health

It is our biospiritual health that we are concerned with, not merely our psychological health. We need to be in contact with more than unconscious human archetypes, we need to seek Godhood beyond the archetypes of the human species. Jung was concerned that religion damned up the unconscious, but we are concerned that the unconscious has damned up the Spirit, the Will to Godhood.

It is not only “psychic hygiene” we are concerned with but biospiritual hygiene. There has been no religious cosmology or cosmogony to affirm the forces of evolution which so essentially drive us. Contacting and including the unconscious is simply not enough.



Part Three

New Age

According to Jung, as religion and religious symbols have collapsed, we have opened the Pandora's box of the unconscious. And this process has increased since the time of Jung. New Age and neopagan organizations proliferate as the old religious symbols have declined.

The New Age has affirmed a so-called “evolutionary spirituality” which nevertheless defines only the evolution of human consciousness, not the evolution of the human species to super species and beyond to the gods---although it makes little fearful nods toward actual biological evolution. Therefore, in our opinion the New Age will not suffice in the search for religious symbols, just as Jungian psychology seeking to make a truce with the unconscious, was not enough.

The Spirit, the Will to Godhood, does not go away because we do not think about it, or know it. It is an instinctive force at the base of life, and EC is now paying attention to this primal force.

Religion, not psychology, is the “therapeutic system” we require, but we need a religion of biospirituality, and not one that denies even the validity or importance of the material world, as traditional religions essentially tend to do.

If we ignore the sacred symbol of evolution, it will not go away, it will break out in ways that seem uncivilized to us. Imperial racism is one example of this. We seek to “Civilize The Beast” of evolution with the religion of Evolutionary Catholicism. (“Civilizing The Beast” is our blog title, from Nietzsche, or Yeats)

We do not wish to kill the 'beast' of evolution, as modern conscious life has tried to do, and thereby putting up a dam that will burst out occasionally in brutality. Evolution needs to be an ecumenical activity, and all people, all races, all states must be allowed to biospiritually evolve in what we call an Ordered Evolution, helped along with Revitalized Conservatism. This view finds imperial or colonial racism unacceptable.

We would not want Jungian psychology to become a therapeutic system which frees us from the necessity of dealing with the Spirit Within or the Will to Godhood and human evolution, by directing all our psychic energies into the human unconscious alone. We could tragically end the path of evolution to God if we are unable to unblock the forces that block evolution. We could even end human life itself.


Homo evolutus

The order of evolution has been unbalanced. Nietzsche wrote in “The Genealogy of Morals”: “All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly, turn inward—this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his 'soul'.” It has been suggested that here might be one of the sources of Jung's psychological dynamic.

While this may be true of the Soul, which is the Zenith of the Mind, it ignores the Spirit, which activates both mind and body from within, as the vital force in life and evolution. The spirit is not merely the product of outward life internalized, even if the soul may be. Nietzsche's Will to Power is more essentially, or more precisely the Will to Godhood, the Spirit in EC. Nietzsche's Will and Jung's unconscious need to be finer tuned to the dynamic of evolution.

Jung said at one point, “the gods have become diseases,” but what he could have said was, in Jungianism the gods have become the human unconscious. We have been insisting here that the gods are real objects, biospiritual, beyond the human species, and beyond the human unconscious, and they can be evolved to.


The Cultural Slumber

We wish to awaken the Spirit, the Will to Godhood, from It's long cultural slumber, and not merely awaken the human unconscious. We are speaking of the source and activation behind the human unconscious. We understand that these are powerful forces and it should certainly be emphasized that the Spirit does not belong to one people or one state alone.

Ours is an ecumenical approach. All people, all states, need to be allowed to evolve in variety, to the gods, and ultimately to Godhood. This is the central mission of Evolutionary Catholicism.

We think that the scientific, philosophical, political, and psychological cultures can become religious cultures, as these fields synthesize in the future. Material evolution needs to be seen as religious with a material-spiritual-numinous end.

Spiritual forces were relocated in the human unconscious with Carl Jung. They need to be relocated again in the Will to Godhood of the spirit in evolution.

Prophecy and the religion dynamic have been moved from priests to philosopher, to psychologist, to the artist. Prophecy needs to be brought back to the priests, where it began. Yet the patterns seen, the intuitive beauty of the cosmic “system” does seem to require the eye and imagination of the artist.

Jung thought we could not go back to the old religion, at least he could not go back, even to the great rituals of the Catholic Mass. The symbolism no longer worked for him, it did not express what he needed psychologically, and he did not, or could not found a new religion. So, basically, he went back to dreams, to the original Shamanic guide for man, back to the great primitive darkness.

We cannot agree with this solution to the loss of the old religion and the loss of the symbolic life. Revitalization, not revolution is the solution. For example, orthodox Judaism and the Kabbalah learned a great deal from the older religion of the Zoroastrians during Jewish captivity in Babylon, and the Zoroastrians learned a great deal from their cousin in Vedism, and Vedism seems to have been founded in the Hyperborean religion of an Arctic Homeland before the “cataclysm”. We would point out to the revolutionary minded that these great religions were overlaid, one upon the other, with changes that were adjustments to the conditions and new knowledge of the time, that is, they were philosophical, political, psychological and biological adjustments to the times. The old ways were retained, but revitalized.

EC is seeking to revitalize religion by bringing the old symbols in line with the modern world, and with knowledge of evolution, finding revitalized symbols.

Can we retain the “ecstasy” of being outside the human ego in religious ritual, which Jung believed was missing from modern, non-religious life? Ritual can supply this, but it needs to be ritual that modern men can believe in.

The ego and the unconscious are “trapped” in the body in present time. We need to untrap this entrapment through the use of new ritual, by contacting the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, which lives at the Zenith of the Soul, as the Soul lives at the Zenith of the Mind, and the Mind contains the ego. It is the Spirit that seeks Godhood, not the Soul or human mind which activates us to Godhood.

Ritualization of this great goal in EC symbolically represents the actual, real, spiritual-material goal of evolving to Godhood at the Zenith of Evolution where supreme ecstasy is the reward.


The Mass of Joy

This is the liturgy of joy, The Mass of Joy, of the Evolutionary Outward Path in Evolutionary Catholicism. The Traditional Mass of the Involutionary Inward Path, the Mass of Tradition, the Mass of Sacrifice, is retained as it is in Traditional Catholicism, and in the Orthodox tradition, and the Sacred Liturgy of the Mass of Joy is added in Evolutionary Catholicism.

This symbolically revitalizes the old symbols, newly expressing the needs of the ego, the needs of the Soul, and the needs of the Spirit to attain Godhood. The Liturgy of the Mass of Joy in the Outward Path, like the sacrificial Mass of the Inward Path, must contain poetry, passion, nature, love, survival, reproduction, music, and ritual escape from the daily entrapment of the ego and the soul, and it must give expression to the goal of the Spirit.

But the Mass of Joy does not merely provide escape from the ego and the soul, it revitalizes the activation of life, and centers on the great goal of evolution, which is to attain Godhood. This can even give ancient reference to Dionysian joy, but it is an ordered joy, in ordered evolution, not the old shamanic, frenzied, berserker, revolutionary form of evolution, it is evolution guided by the morals and ethics of traditional religion, with the same virtues and vices as Traditional Catholicism, while at the same time re-invigorated the virtues with the great virtue of the Outward Path, which is Evolution.

Human beings do need to spend time in ritual. Jung spoke about the indigenous people of Australia spending more than half their time in ritual ceremony. Compare that to the non-religious life of modern men. No wonder people seek Dionysian sensation in modern life. Their egos and souls desperately need the sacred, and they do not often know it. To Jung, this defines “neurotic,” and we would agree. “The vacuum” created by the loss of ritual life is being replaced by pathology, disease and degeneration." (Tacey).


“When There Is No Vision, the People Perish” (Proverbs 29:18)

The “World Spirit” the Spiritus Mundi, the dreaming world, which Jung called the “Collective Unconscious” is not the same as the Holy Spirit seen in Evolutionary Catholicism. The World Spirit is the activation to Godhood within the Kosmos, within life. The dreaming world of the collective unconscious is human all too human. Although other animals also dream, the collective unconscious exists within the Soul or within the Zenith of the Mind, and within the biological body. The Spirit is deeper, at the Zenith of the Soul, It is the Will to Godhood, which activates the collective unconscious and the body.


Redefining War

Earlier, we brought up the subject of war being the result of pent up unconscious forces from the loss of ritual religious ways to release these forces. Yet war was common among indigenous people who spent very much time in the ritual and transcendence of religion. This seems to contradict Jung's views on war as pent up unconscious forces.

The problem here comes from not fully recognizing the kosmic forces that move through us. Evolution is sought by the Spirit Within and evolution has, unfortunately, often involved war. This is an uncomfortable fact, even though during war, survival and reproduction are often side-stepped or halted.

Rituals of transcendence will not alone stop wars, as history and evolution have shown. The Spirit needs to be civilized. As mentioned earlier, we use the term Civilizing the Beast. Ordered Evolution is also the phrase we use. Ideally, all people need to be given the space and freedom to evolve. Ritual and religion can affirm this evolution to Godhood, and provide, not only an outlet, but a direction for the realized goal of Godhood.

We are “unitary” in seeing the Traditional Religions as deriving from the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul Within, and we can be “universalist” in seeing the Evolutionary Outward Path as the path of all people, all races, all states, seeking to evolve to Godhood. This takes us into political philosophy, and the Revitalized Conservatism we affirm, which can lead to the Ordered Evolution of man beyond man to Godhood.

The advantage of EC is that is can affirm a return to literal thinking, even resembling the “fundamentalism” of the oldest religions, while at the same time embracing evolution and science. We do literally evolve to Godhood, the Supreme Object, not a symbol, not a logos only. This is virtually a literal interpretation of Godhood, and of course, literal interpretations have been scorned by modern theologians.

This literal interpretation of evolving to Godhood does not contradict reason as much as scientific skeptics like to think it does. When the pattern of evolution is hypertrophied into end goals, it keeps one's feet on the ground. Metaphysical fact need not be metaphor or symbol here. Metaphysical fact is physical fact in the evolution to Godhood. A = A.

At the same time the Zenith of Evolution is enhanced by faith, symbols, imagination, ritual, and liturgy. The Spirit Within needs to be contacted. Its goals need to be experienced in ritual and symbol. This suggests the mystery and unknowable reality of religion and ritual that we psychologically crave, which transcends reason and affirms “intellectual intuition” or supra-rational thinking.

Has the guiding light of revelation deserted us, as Jung believed? Evolutionary Catholicism believes that revelation is still possible. Dreams may be a substitute for revelation, but they are not enough. Jung seems to have personally believed that dreams and intuition were all that we have left, since the old religions could not be believed in, and so Jung returned to the original primitive guidance of man through dreams. We think that more than this is not only necessary, but possible.

We do not think we have to settle for a return to an earlier age, for example, to primitive times of dreams, as the only method of revelation. Science has given us the marvelous tool of evolution, which we believe is ultimately a very powerful and sacred religious tool.

We can even keep the glorious churches and the great religious works, which the movement of psychology and the modern world have virtually relegated to the trash. But we need to invigorate Tradition with the sacred knowledge that the God seen from within of tradition, is the God reached through material evolution. The Soul of the Inward Path is vast, but the Spirit of the Outward Path is vaster.

The Post-Modern condition of brokenness, discord, perspectivism and relativity was the result mainly of the destruction of the religious path. We think that religion can be put back together again, but we will need a new coat and new hat, designed by evolution and science, and perhaps a new heart.


End

(This essay began as a short review of David Tacey's "How To Read Jung," but then it expanded.)

Purpose or Purposeless?

Force, energy, or instinct are wrongly interpreted as “purposeless” in most religions, and intellect or consciousness is supposed to direct chaotic instincts, like riding a horse.

This perspective brings us away from life, from the material world, which is viewed beneath the sophistry of much of spiritualism as purposeless and inferior. “The Real” in most religions is beyond intellect and beyond the material world, and this has created what we call The Great Spiritual Blockade against life itself.

The problem can be understood with the knowledge that force, energy or instinct do have a purpose, a sacred purpose directed toward evolving to Godhood. Material life is the vehicle for the force of the Spirit to activate material life to Godhood. The mind, or at least the Soul, which is the Zenith of the Mind, can learn to assist the Spirit or force in Its goal of Godhood.

The Conservative Pace Toward Federalism

Why does the far Right and the far Left jump first to advocating revolutionary force or violence? This seems like arrested development, or a problem of impulse control. People are conservative. Human nature is conservative. It is as simple as that.

We don't need revolution to advance Federalism, for example, Michael Greve suggests that Congress need not affirmatively abolish federal entitlements. It need merely fall down on the job of creating them. The Supreme Court simply does not need to cooperate with Congressional desires for big national government.

Eventually we need to create Constitutional limits to Federal power, or rather we need to reaffirm the original Constitution. We are too big, and we need to empower, or re-empower the regions and states with great independence and variety. The fact is that the Constitution's structure and text is Federalist. But, “eventually,” is the key word here. It can't be done overnight.

Every advance toward independence can lead to further advances. Slow change, incremental change, may not seem like much, but these changes can lead to Constitutional constraints. This is better than advocating revolution, looking for one big solution, or doing nothing.

Greve reminds us of the pull of the two poles, one toward federalism, the other toward centralizing, which continues. Tocqueville warned us about the centralizing tendencies of democracies, but people are actually becoming increasingly discontented about lobby-ridden government, and this can be a basis for revival. In some areas, e.g. civil rights and federal entitlement programs, the revival has been under way with Supreme Court constraints. New liberal Justices, however, may try to reverse this revival.

Greve thinks that Federalism's future hangs on cooperation between the Supreme Court and political constituencies. The Supreme Court can be constrained by the political environment, and the Leave-Us-Alone constituencies, mentioned in an earlier post, seem to be the only existing force for Federalism.

Unlike Greve, I argue that Federalism's chief virtue is evolutionary, having citizen choice, state independence, and competition, relate directly to Ordered Evolution. Federalism constrains big national government, stops monopolistic movements and gives autonomy to the people and the states. Most importantly, Federalism can allow the Ordered Evolution confirmed by nature, which is affirmed in Evolutionary Catholicism. Without evolution, we cannot reach Godhood, the goal of nature. How about that for Federalist incentive?

The bottom line, the foundation, the historical base of culture is religion, which has always provided direction for human behavior. Therefore, along with reviving Federalism, establishing the virtues of Evolutionary Catholicism is our first concern.

The Spirit As A Benevolent Activator

The Spirit Within knows its goal, and it activates the body to evolve to Godhood. The Spirit is a benevolent activator, and so the evolution of the Body and the Soul and Spirit within the Body can take various paths, depending upon natural selection, cause and effect, and the laws of evolution. The cause of the Spirit is followed by the effects of evolution.

Evolution is not really the “coming outward of the within” it is the activation of the within of life. The Spirit needs the Body to reach its goal. This definition redeems the material, which has wrongly been called the “imprisoner” of the Spirit (see the Great Spiritual Blockade).

The activating vibration, or instinct, or Will to God, of the Spirit Within, is the nearest man can come to God at this time. Understanding this Ideal of the Instincts can explain much of the world.

We would describe the Tao, the flow of reality in the Kosmos, not as all peace and security, but as evolution leading to Godhood. Godhood can experience supreme peace and supreme security, but we cannot, not until we attain Godhood in evolution.

The Quest For More Than Living

The quest for what Germans call mehr als leben, “more than living” is central to experiencing the Spirit Within,but this is also the problem with the quest.

More than living? Living is enough, if one lives right, if one lives harmoniously with nature, with human nature, and with evolution.

Human impatience, human short-term thinking, leads to desire for the reward before the work is done.

Partial enlightenment, longing for the Absolute, defines this desire for more than living.

This quest, too often, leads to the Great Spiritual Blockade against our natural evolution to Godhood.

Detachment from sensory perceptions, as Buddha and others advocated, means ultimately detachment from evolving to Godhood.

Seeking the Spirit Within, with the Involutionary Inward Path, should never be seen as the goal. It should be seen as a great glimpse of the goal of evolution to Godhood, through the Evolutionary Outward Path.

No Easy Way

The states now favor centralization, not federalist choice, contrary to the Founders who thought the states might deprive the government of its legal authority. Michael Greve says the emasculation of the states was largely due to Constitutional changes that the Founders could not have foreseen, such as the great expansion of federal taxing and spending powers through the federal income tax with the 16th Amendment. The competition among states turned into a race for federal dollars.

According to Greve, at least campaigns for term limits, school vouchers, color blind civil rights laws, restrictions on political expenditures of trade unions, and abolition of bilingual education are alive and doing well in the states.

Decentralizing simply will calm things down. Nationalizing every subject creates too much national noise and much trouble in the country. But can we repeal the New Deal, the Great Society, and the pre-communism-fascism of Big Government? Or is federalist power to the states futile?

The liberals are nationalist in orientation, the Paleoconservatives are not (although economic nationalism may be a necessary exception). Yet there seems no easy way. Demographics and human nature, more than legal finagling will lead to change. The latest financial crash makes money scarce coming from the federal government or from any other place, and this may help the devolution.

Impressionistic truths and empirical truths

Philosophy and religion often have no real objects in mind, they speak of unreal objects such as ideas, equations or spiritual truths. Science at least tries to mirror material reality with its mathematics, although with such things as String Theory so far we know only denotations, equations, hypothesis, or faith.

What activates material life and where is material life going? Here probability based on evidence can help us find what is real, the real has to be based at least on reading evolutionary patterns, such as evolution moving from the simple to the complex, and evolution moving toward higher and higher consciousness. But belief in the dynamic of material evolution attaining the Supreme Material Object, or Godhood, is also based on intuitive faith in the goal of material evolution, and related to generations of mystics who have seen at least a God-Within using intuition, faith and revelation.

To limit ourselves to what science can prove empirically is to live in a stunted world, and to live with perhaps one third of the truth. Faith is more impressionistic than empirical, yet it can also be the truth. Faith is broader than hypothesis, faith is like the hypothesis of the mystical world. But faith can also be informed by the empirical world, eventually.

In Evolutionary Catholicism both impressionistic truths and empirical truths are used in both the Inward and Outward Paths to help define the truth.

It's Not the Math, It's the Thing Itself

It's not the math, it's the thing itself that the math only represents, symbolizes, or denotates which is Real.

Math may be “real” in accurately representing a real object, but the real thing is the thing represented by math.

The following interview with the edgy, interesting, young, cosmological math professor from MIT, Max Tegmark, alas, with his “mathematical universe hypothesis,” seems to be saying that math is a real object, and not saying that only the object of math is real. But somehow he seems to be on our path too, because he is working with real mathematical objects and not just merely descibing real objects. We could say that God is one of those Objects, that is, thee Supreme Object.

Discover magazine: “...I see where you’re heading. Without these descriptors, we’re left with only math.

Tegmark: The physicist Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay in the 1960s called “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” In that essay he asked why nature is so accurately described by mathematics. The question did not start with him. As far back as Pythagoras in the ancient Greek era, there was the idea that the universe was built on mathematics. In the 17th century Galileo eloquently wrote that nature is a “grand book” that is “written in the language of mathematics.” Then, of course, there was the great Greek philosopher Plato, who said the objects of mathematics really exist.

How does your mathematical universe hypothesis fit in?

Well, Galileo and Wigner and lots of other scientists would argue that abstract mathematics “describes” reality. Plato would say that mathematics exists somewhere out there as an ideal reality. I am working in between. I have this sort of crazy-sounding idea that the reason why mathematics is so effective at describing reality is that it is reality. That is the mathematical universe hypothesis: Mathematical things actually exist, and they are actually physical reality....”

Interview continues here

Rational and Supra-rational

Rationality is important but so is “intellectual intuition” or supra-rational thinking. Of the two methods, supra-rational thinking is superior. But it does not mean one affirms the irrational. Aristotle seems to have believed this. We would say it this way: pursue reality through intellectual intuition, aided by rationality.

Spirit and Matter

Spirit and matter are of one essence and not dualistic, just as energy can “freeze” into matter, and matter can unfreeze into energy.

It's not really accurate to say that matter is the inferior aspect of spirit and spirit the superior aspect of matter, spirit is really super-materiality and not something apart from matter. Better to say matter has various levels of evolution all the way to Godhood.

This means you really can't define spirit and matter as good and evil, but you can define matter as evolved and unevolved.

Evil in the world? God creates Kosmic evolution where some evolve and some do not evolve.

Plato thought that matter was the passive principle, moved by the spirit, which is almost accurate, except that matter and spirit work together evolving to Godhood. God is not all spirit, God is the highest evolved aspect of matter and spirit together as One, usually defined (only defined) by the Father in traditional religions.

A body is both enspirited matter and enmattered spirit, and priority is not given to spirit in this definition.

Contrary to the Platonic and Gnostic perspective, evolution does not imprison the spirit or life in matter. Evolution is the activation of the spirit within matter to evolve to Godhood. The spirit does not “escape” matter even when it attains Godhood, Godhood is spirit and matter at their supreme goal together as Godhood, which can be defined as supreme materiality and supreme spirituality combined.

We are not seeking “universality,” we are seeking the goal of universal Kosmic evolution of spirit and matter to Godhood. The religious error has been in seeking a “universal spirit” alone minus the material aspect of the spirit, and without the evolution of the spirit within matter. Traditional religion tends to emphasize convergence in evolution over divergence (most recently with Teilhard de Chardin), whereas Godhood can be seen more through divergence.

Humans have contacted the spirit within man and have defined this as attaining the universality of Godhood. We emphasize that the spirit within is not God, blissful as it may be to contact the spirit--- the spirit is activating humans to evolve to the actual Supreme Object Godhood, far beyond the human-experienced Spirit.

As We Move Toward a Federalist Position

As we move toward a Federalist position in national politics, bringing more and more power back to the States, we want to avoid being too strident, too angry, or looking like a populist or racist jihad---this shuts the door.

Revitalized Conservative development, accepting small inoculations at a time without overwhelming the system, Ordered Evolution, is the way to go. Even the secessionist movement is too revolutionary.

We do require some form of economic nationalism to protect our manufacturing base, which, along with national defense, and keeping the peace with general justice, are about the only things national government should be involved in.

To repeat, we are talking here about a loosely connected Leave-Us-Alone coalition of: Populist, grass roots, gun owners, school choice, home schooling, term limits, property rights, religious advocacy, tax limitation, small business owners---and we add (although some of these need to be tamed down) the New Right, national anarchists, localists left and right, libertarians, secessionists, etc.

It will be long and slow, like moving through the mud, but it appears to be the only game in town, baring any big unforeseen events, which could change the speed of acceptance or rejection.

On History

Christians have thought of history as the path of God's Will, whereas Karl Marx thought of history as an impersonal material force of progress toward a certain end. Russell Kirk said that Hegel and Marx “deify” history.

“History” does not make history, mankind makes history, but the the Will to Godhood, the Spirit Within also makes history in conjunction with natural evolution. And here Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) affirms the positive Christian idea of history as the path of God's Will.

Providence, or God's Will, created the Kosmos and natural evolution, with natural selection, and nurture and nature, etc. as forces of change, evolution, and even devolution. The forces of survival and reproduction can at least somewhat predict future behavior. The genetic pool can predict future behavior.

Mankind will take the path that leads to the successful survival and reproduction of ourselves, our kin and our group. But mankind also will be activated by the long term goal of evolving all the way to Godhood. That is, we are not here merely to survive and reproduce for the sake of survival and reproduction, we have a Divine evolutionary goal. The reductionism of empirical science does not tell the whole truth.

EC holds that life seeks to evolve to Godhood. But natural selection allows for variations and freedoms within the path of the Will to Godhood.

The Real Shadow

Civilizing the Beast is truly integrating the Shadow and not partially, as is often done with Jung's conception of the Shadow which only goes as deep as the human unconscious. We confront the instincts, with all their primitive power, and we integrate or refine them with the Ideal of the Instincts, the evolutionary goal of life which is Godhood. This is a Shadow most people have not confronted.

The Constituency

Some Uncommon Optimism

I see the separate powers of the United States under the original federalism of the Constitution gaining ground as the existing “Leave-Us-Alone” constituencies and the growing influence of the sociobiologists gain ground with both the grass roots and the intellectuals. Michael Greve listed them as a universe of loosely connected, partially overlapping property rights advocates, term limits movement, home school and school choice organizations, right to life groups, gun owners, tax limitation initiatives, certain religious denominations and lay organizations, and small business owners. We would add, along with this Paleoconservatism, the New Right and perhaps even the trendy national anarchists, as well as sociobiologists (or evolutionary psychologists) and perhaps some physical anthropologists. We cannot make laws against human nature which will last for very long.

Government doesn't have to be reinvented, and this can be accomplished legally. To develop their egalitarian programs, the liberals required the central control of the government, as they sought the destruction of localism and federalism. The Leave-Us-Alone constituency, in much the same way, should seek local control and the diversity of federalism through the Supreme Court.

Evolutionary Catholicism makes itself available to all states, all people, all races, promoting religiously founded Ordered Evolution and Revitalized Conservatism for all, as states and people recover their natural independence, which seems inevitable in the course of time and history.

This is an uncommon and optimistic note for a corrupt and declining country, but I think it is realistic. The alternatives, for example, a Latin American Style Democracy or some form of Caesarism, are a future to be avoided. It is the most natural thing to separate fighting parties when it is obvious that they cannot get along. Even if the large scale corruption of empire comes first, history suggests that empires always devolve back to small states with harmonious populations.

History Repeats

We could be headed for some form of Latin American “democracy” where class fights class, race fights race, with a ruined economy and with military creating order from time to time. And democratic “Caesarism” could come with Americans giving up their freedom to a single master who can supposedly fix everything.

A better alternative would be to secure the States of America, without having to change or break down the United States Constitution, with something as natural and independent as “informal ethnostates.” This is not revolutionary change, the Constitution already gives great power to the states. This is the sort of federalism, territorial democracy and representative government that makes sense. And indeed, it reflects more what the Founders had in mind.

Object before knowledge of the object

“If there were not some first, our knowledge would never be anything more than a hypothesis...”
“This is probably the position of the naturalists and physicalists... All successful knowledge is scientific, all scientific knowledge is hypothetical, therefore etc...”
“St. Thomas and Aristotle implicitly respond to this criticism by the simplest route: they show that there is something known first...”
(From Just Thomism)

My comment: We go deeper into nature and say that before there can be something known of a subject, or known of an object, there is an object. This includes knowledge of the Supreme Object God.

Why, Who, Where?

Life is an endless evolution toward Godhood, the highest form of life in the Kosmos.

Consciousness does not evolve on its own, it evolves within the material world.

Life evolved up through species long forgotten, and is yet to evolve into species not known by man.

We are finite now, but by evolving to Godhood, and then by continuing on in the evolution of future Kosmos, we can become “infinite.”

We contain within ourselves all the evolution of the Kosmos, at least up to our species and our time. We also contain the Spirit Within, which is beyond our own time and our own species, although the Spirit is also contained within ourselves.

We are here primarily to evolve to Godhood. We primarily measure our value by how much we have advanced in consciousness and complexity toward Godhood.

On Idolatry

It is not idolatrous to see God as a Supreme Object. It is idolatrous to see God as only a Word, Logos, or Denotation. This is opposite the usual definition of idolatry.

When past men saw God as a white haired, bearded, old man sitting on a golden throne, the so-called primitives were closer to describing God then the sophisticated theologians who pictured God as a mathematical Logos.

God is not invisible. God is only very difficult to see with human abilities.

The Kosmos contains the elements of God as the “offspring” of God, and within these elements is God's Spirit, activating the elements to evolve and mature to Godhood. Godhood Itself contains the Spirit but It is Spirit evolved to Its highest form in the Mind of God within the Body of God as the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit does not exist on Its own as a Word, or Logos, or Golden Equation, the Holy Spirit exists within the Supreme Mind-Soul of God as the Spirit exists within the Mind-Soul of man. We are the image of God in this respect.

God is always tangible, an Object, although a Supreme Object.


Evolution Before Art

The activation of the Spirit Within is first and foremost designed to urge man on to evolve to Godhood. The fact that man creates beauty or engineers new objects is a secondary use of the activating Spirit, although this creativity is obviously also important.

Virtue and the Fall

This has been a time of the destruction of virtue, but which virtues have been destroyed? The True Fall was the fall from the virtue of evolution.

The Involutionary Inward Path affirms the virtues of the ancients or the virtues of Traditional Religion. The Evolutionary Outward Path affirms the virtue of evolution. Catholic and Beyondist Virtues work together enhancing the virtue of evolution.

Human Nature and Federalism

“The Federalist Papers” talked about competition between States and the Federal Government “for the affections of the people” and they did not really say much about competitive business, and so on. James Madison wrote, “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite.”

When I speak of the United States as becoming laboratories of evolution, I have in mind the Federalist idea of healthy competition and variety. Federalism of course also protects us from outside forces and keeps the peace between states, which is the main task of the Federal Government.

I think that the forces that are eventually tearing us apart can eventually pull us back together again. The United States and the Constitution actually accommodate human nature, and human nature prefers such things as localism, strong attachments to small states, and even ethnicity.

Thinking of Federalism this way, with the States as laboratories of evolution, requires a hospitable political climate, or perhaps more accurately, a less favorable political climate. When we are at each other's throats perhaps then we will see the sense in “devolution” and the restoration of the separate enumerated powers of the original Federalism of our Constitution. Like Evolutionary Catholicism, the restoration of Federalism needs a supporting body of citizens.

Who might they be? Michael Greve (Real Federalism) suggests that they are a conglomeration of leave-us-alone populists, grass roots gun owners, school choice and home schooling groups, the term limits movement, property rights groups, religious advocacy organizations, tax limitation groups, small business owners, and so on. But we would also like to see the the Left, the New Right, the far right, and even the anarchist right perceive the practical sense of legal Constitutional Federalism.

Libertarian and Conservative Misapprehensions of Human Nature

Russell Kirk writes of John Stuart Mills “imperfect apprehension of human nature” leading to the libertarianism of today. But conservatives also have an imperfect apprehension of human nature.

Libertarians believe in personal liberty or freedom as the whole end of everything and they seem oblivious to the positive achievements of the use of force throughout history. Yet conservatives seem virtually oblivious to biological evolution even as they affirm the wisdom of their ancestors and Tradition.

Ultimately it is evolution which determines the tradition and wisdom of one's ancestors. It is success in survival and reproduction which sets the tradition and wisdom of one's ancestors. As it turns out, one of the best arguments for affirming conservatism is that it has been the best philosophy for long term successful survival and reproduction.

Evolution is not an affirmation of neoterism—the lust for novelty—which is the weakness of the libertarian in their completely open view of “freedom.” Long term evolution takes place best in traditional societies. During war most positive actions cease.

We are circumscribed by our sociobiological human nature as if, as suggested by E. O. Wilson, we are on a leash which allows just so much freedom. The leash of human nature, however, tends to include the traditions of conservatism, that is, pair bonding, kin centeredness, group altruism, hierarchy, even ethnocentrism.

Like conservatives, we also suggest a deeper religious source of human action and human nature in which the Spirit Within, or the Will to Godhood activates human nature. There is a dialogue between the activation of the Spirit and natural selection in evolution. Although traditional conservatives do believe in a transcendent moral order, and libertarians (or liberals) do not, we believe that we are evolving to Godhood in nature, activated by the Spirit and formed by evolution.

Evolutionary Catholicism, of course, is not the same as Marx's dialectic materialism, which has no spiritual activation and no Godhood goal, although Hegel's view, which Marx transvalued, might have anticipated evolutionary spirituality.

Ontology is not mathematics

Ontology is not mathematics (see Plato and Badiou). Ontology consists of the Real Supreme Object Godhood, as well as God's Real “Offspring” in the Kosmos.

Sacred Mathematics reflects Reality, profane mathematics does not reflect Reality. Both can be created. In this sense human philosophers, theologians and mathematicians who define God's mathematical form will likely be applying profane human mathematics since only the evolved God,or perhaps a penultimate God, knows the mathematical formula of God.

We can evolve to Godhood, activated by the Spirit, guided by the Soul-Mind, in natural evolution, where we may then know the mathematics of God. But even then, the mathematics of God will mirror the Real Supreme Object God (the Son and Holy Spirit), as the Mind-Soul of God lives within God the Real Object and not apart from God in a mathematical form or denotation, which is closer to the Real definition of the Father in the Trinity. This is a transvaluation of the usual way to define who or what mirrors who.

Federalism

The United States can be laboratories of evolution. But this requires a return to the balance between states and the federal government, a revitalization of the sovereign states. This, of course, will not be easy. Nationalism, like globalism, takes away variety and competition, and hinders the distance in separation required for evolution to take place. I am not here emphasizing so much a competitive federalism, although competition is very important, I am more suggesting a return to the places of our birth, our residence, our home.

The ideologies of secession or anarchy take away the important protections of national defense, the assurance of objective justice, as well as the shielding of the manufacturing base of the states with some version of economic nationalism. These are the real tasks of the national government. Historical Conservatism teaches us that it is healthier to legally revitalize than to tear down in revolution an established government. A return to the Federalism of the Constitution therefore makes sense.

Meanwhile, religion can do its work, helping to instill virtue in individuals, which is the most important way to change the world. Which virtues? Which religion? We, of course, prefer Evolutionary Catholicism, which synthesizes Traditional Christian and Scientific Beyondist virtues.

Beyond Strauss

Leo Strauss (see this excellent article on Strauss by Claes Ryn) seems to have used sophistical analysis in defining some aspects of Conservatism. He twisted Edmund Burke's meaning of the inevitability of the power of Providence in saying that Burke gave into “the new” if the new had enough power behind it. (See Kirk's “Three Pillars of Order” in Redeeming The Time” )

Could we conclude that the reason Strauss did this was so that he could emphasize Plato's “conservatism” more or less minus Christian conservatism? Could we say that Strauss hinted that Plato's “Guardians” might be compared to modern neoconservative "guardians?"

In any case, Evolutionary Catholicism seeks to retain the Classical-Traditional religious synthesis within our Involutionary Inward Path and add evolution to our Evolutionary Outward Path. That is, we seek ecumenism among all the world's religions because we define them all as existing within the Involutionary Inward Path to the God Within, and we add to them the natural law principles of evolution, with the goal of evolving to Godhood. This basically defines both Ordered Evolution and Revitalized Conservatism.

Where We Differ From Conservatism

Evolution and the Moral Imagination

When Burke spoke of the wisdom of the ancient structure of our civilization and the “contract of eternal society” he was not speaking of evolution, but he should have been. There is nothing older or more eternal on earth or in the Kosmos than the process of evolution. Human history and the moral order of our civilization, which Conservatives prefer to follow, as they well should, are not as ancient or eternal as evolution.

In the spirit of Conservatism we seek, with Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) to “refurbish the wardrobe of moral imagination” (Burke-Kirk), perhaps like Plato and Burke, by adapting the ancient structures of evolution to civilization and to religion. In EC the Involutionary Inward Path of Traditional Religion, which taught us primarily about the Soul and the God Within, is refurbished with the Evolutionary Outward Path of the Evolution to Godhood, the way to the Real God.

Evolutionary Sociobiology has taught us that the enduring principles, social institutions and human nature, defined by Conservatism, are grounded in the enduring principles of Evolution, which in fact, help ground the ancient religion that conservatives affirm.

Some conservatives think that “natural law” is an inadequate basis for political authority, but we would turn that around and say that the moral order without consideration of the natural law of evolution, is an inadequate basis for political authority. Indeed, EC believes that evolution is a theological concern in essence.

The Two Paths In Relation To Tradition

The Involutionary Inward Path relates to Traditional religion, revealed theology, and Traditional morality. The Evolutionary Outward Path relates to evolutionary knowledge, science, naturalism, but also revealed theology. The Inward Path shows respect for the Traditional beliefs of the people, which are interpreted as symbolic representations of the natural evolution to Godhood, seen inwardly as the Path to the Soul. Do we shield new ideas under old religious ideas? The symbols of the Inward Path simply symbolize the Outward Path.

The bottom line: we could say that the Kabbalah is a copy of the original Zoroastrian system, but the Kabbalah made some advances over the older system, for example, making God more involved in the world, and emphasizing less than the Zend Avesta a supreme pure abstraction beyond God. In Evolutionary Catholicism (EC), Being and Thought blend in God, which seems unlike the Zend Avesta and somewhat more like the more monotheistic Kabbalah. However, since the Kabbalah, in essence, describes God beyond “evil” matter, we cannot agree. Pure Abstraction of the Absolute exists in the Mind of God only, and is not the creator of God. Therefore, we do not need to remove God from the material world. God is the Supreme Object at the zenith of the evolution of the world.

In EC the Involutionary Inward Path absorbs some of the views of both the Zend Avesta and the Kabbalah, but then we see these views as symbolic representation of the Evolutionary Outward Path, where nature evolves to Godhood. This is our advance over the Traditional mystical systems.

In EC at the end of days, the Great Black Hole of Satan becomes part of the Holy Spirit and God. This cosmogony does seem to tally with the oldest Zoroastrian texts and the texts of their disciple, the Kabbalah, which has the Prince of Darkness, Sama-el, becoming an angel of light at the end of his days and thus returning to Divine Grace.

Reconstructing Not Deconstructing Social Philosophy

Defining Revitalized Conservatism

It is important that Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) is understood as not a rebellion against the old moral order. Indeed, evolution for us depends upon the old moral order retaining any good evolutionary changes or mutations - - - an unstable society cannot evolve easily, during war, for example, survival and reproduction greatly decrease.

However, we do not have a dead, cliche-ridden reaction to the new, or to evolution, as many conservatives do. We are moralists, but also naturalists, evolution is central to Ordered Evolution.

We derive our politics from the ethics of both the old moral order and from evolutionary ethics, which define our Involutionary Inward and Evolutionary Outward Paths.

Our Revitalized Conservatism seeks to revitalize the old order, certainly not destroy it. We believe, like Burke and Kirk, that a “just state” contains a “tension” between authority and freedom, which we define as Ordered Evolution.

With the help of scientists such as Edward O. Wilson and Raymond Cattell, we are seeking what Louis Bredvold called “the reconstruction of social philosophy”. (Bredvold was speaking of the efforts of Plato and Burke. See “Redeeming the Time," by Russell Kirk)

We see the great wisdom inherent in evolution, wisdom that is beyond the intellectuals, wisdom relating to ancient and eternal principles which are still mysterious. It is this wisdom which we seek to synthesize with the old moral order.

We think Hegel's “March of History” is better defined by evolution than by anything else, even if we do not know all the elements of eternal evolution.

To ignore the natural laws of evolution is to ignore the Kosmos, the Spirit, and Godhood. And if we do ignore evolution, the eternal laws will operate, in any case, for good or ill, regarding human ideals.

We should act in light of the principles of evolution as well as our old moral order, the old moral order can be harmonized with evolution because the God of the old moral order, defined in the Involutionary Inward Path, is reached through evolution.

Even economics can be tied to the ancient order of both the Traditional moral order and the natural order of evolution. Economics falls apart when we believe only in commercial contracts, as we have again seen in the latest “depression.”

Is There A Way To Transform Racially Destructive Forces Into Racially Constructive Forces?

The appalling video of the white student being beaten by blacks on the school bus, for trying to sit down in the only available seat, could symbolically represent the majority in America who have learned that fighting back against egalitarian social engineering will cause more trouble (accusations of racism), than accepting the status quo.

What is to be done? Is there a way to transform racially destructive forces into racially constructive forces? We can, legally, concentrate on making the states more autonomous, more self sufficient, more independent from federal programs of social engineering, which have tried for years to deny or root out cultural, biological, and psychological differences between people or between races. The differences are at the very root of human nature and cannot be rooted out.

We must let people, and states, group together as they naturally prefer to do, and we must stop trying to assimilate everyone into one egalitarian, monoracial empire. History clearly proceeds from small virtual ethnostates, to multiracial empires, and then back again to small ethnostates. It is time to reaffirm this reality. Another Civil War might this way be avoided.

The Great Spiritual Blockade against the material world

“It is not only the case that we reject the putative dualism between matter and spirit, we annul the antithesis in the synthesis of the spirit. Only the spirit exists, nothing else, not you, not this room, not the things and the objects that pass before us in the fantastic cinematography of the universe. All that exists, exists only in so far as it is thought, and only when thought, not independently of my thought.” Benito Mussolini, former leader of Italy

The above quote from Gornahoor (Evolian site) is about as clear as can be in showing how the Great Spiritual Blockade against the material world can devolve. We too reject the dualism between spirit and matter, but we combine them in the material-spiritual evolution to Godhood, which is activated by the Spirit. We would emphasize the opposite, that only the material object exists in various degrees of evolution from matter to Matter-Spirit and eventually to Godhood.

"Globalism vs. Americanism"

by Patrick J. Buchanan

..."Let us do unto our trading partners as they have done unto us.

As they rebate value-added taxes on exports to us, and impose a value-added tax on our exports to them, let us reciprocate. Impose a border tax equal to a VAT on all their goods entering the United States, and use the hundreds of billions to cut corporate taxes on all manufacturing done here in the United States..."

essay here

We can be creative within the strictures of determinism

Our Will, Our Spirit, is not free, but we can be creative within the strictures of determinism, we can create new things. So we agree with Nietzsche when he speaks about accepting our fate but then living well, positively, within the determinism.

Ultimately we feel best when we live in harmony with the Will To Godhood, which is the Spirit Within that activates natural evolution to God.

God's Will, the Natural Order, and Ordered Evolution

God's Will, which includes the Spirit Within life, or the Will-To-Godhood, does have a correlation to the natural order. The conditional base of political rule is that the political rule be in harmony with God's Will, and God's Will is reflected in the natural order and specifically in natural evolution. If the political order serves the Divine Order then it is qualified to rule. If it does not, then God and nature will go against the political order.

Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) is somewhat flexible about political philosophy because evolution can harmonize with different systems, as long as the political systems harmonize with evolution. We are here on earth, and we are living in the Kosmos, for the purpose of evolution to Godhood, and this evolution is central to God's Will and central to the Spirit Within which activates life in the Kosmos. The Revitalized Conservatism affirmed in EC does not rule out even much-abused usury or banking if it operates in harmony with the natural evolutionary order. We are not here on earth solely to make money or gain political territory. These are only means to more important evolutionary ends.

We are partial to the American Constitution, which we support. If followed as it was originally written, the Constitution allows great freedom to the states within a light federalism, which is an ideal structure to allow the desired variety within the independent evolution of people and states. This could also apply to Eurasian politics which could provide thousands of independent, lightly federated states.

What we are seeking is Ordered Evolution which places us in the Conservative, not radical base of political philosophy. The American Constitution, when followed, is ideal for balancing order and evolution, which Russell Kirk also eloquently pointed out, although Kirk, like most conservatives, was not all that positive about evolution and he used the term 'freedom' rather than evolution.

Those who define 'heresy' by saying that God's Will has no correlation to the natural order, are in theological error, and if they do not include natural evolution in God's Will, they themselves may be accused of heresy in going against God's Will.

God does not exist outside the Kosmos, and outside the material world. God is the Zenith of Material evolution at the Zenith of the Kosmos, and as such, God's Will is central to the natural order and to evolution.

Comparing Theologies

We could agree with the Kabbalah if it did, in fact, take away the dualism between God and Nature of the Persians and Indians and make God an absolute unity of cause and substance. The God of Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) is also a unity of cause and substance, a Supreme Object in the Kosmos.

But matter still remains an evil principle in the Kabbalah, as with the Persians and Indians. The Kabbalah allows for more interaction with God but the world is still dualistic, divided between the matter of the gross world and the Spirit of God. We cannot affirm this view.

Among many other things the Kabbalah received from the Zend Avesta during the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, was the mystic geography of the world divided into sevens, seven rivers, seven parts of the earth, seven races, etc. But the Kabbalah then gives a racial and national character to the pantheistic Persians and Indians when it suggests that the sacred laws were given to only one people. On the contrary, EC sees this mystical geography more as seven federations, seven races, and we cannot affirm making an exclusive racial or national right to the laws of God. Godhood is possible in evolution for all races and all nations.

In the Kabbalah, in a manner of speaking, God is an abstract idea with “flesh” put on that idea, God is not of this world even though God creates this world. God is both cause and substance and not merely cause, as God is with the Persians and Indians. This is not exactly the way God is defined in EC.

In EC, God is both substance and cause, but the idea of God exists within the Mind of God. The Mind or the Word is not alone defined as God with flesh put on the Mind or Word, as it seems to be in the Kabbalah. In EC, God is an existing Supreme Object with a Mind and a Holy Spirit. The only “Abstract Absolute” is within God's Mind defining or denotating Itself, and this is how the “Father” is defined in EC. The Father, or God's Mind defining God, does not exist on Its Own as an Idea, or as a Supreme God, as it does in the Kabbalah, the Abstract Absolute definition of God exists in God's Mind, and God's Mind exists within the Supreme Body of God, as the human mind exists within the human body.

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Trinity in EC, defines the Father as being Within the Mind of God, and the Son as the Body of God, and the Holy Spirit as the Spirit or Seed of God. It is this Spirit, this Seed of God, which is given to the Kosmos at the birth of the Kosmos, and this Seed is also the Will-To-Godhood in the Kosmos, activating life to evolve to Godhood. This is the Trinity in EC.

“Dualism” in EC relates to “Devolution” and “Evolution”. Satan is defined as The Great Black Hole at the Kosmic Center and God is defined as The Great White Mountain at the Kosmic Summit. Satan, in EC, might be compared with Ahriman and God with Ormuzd in Zoroastrianism, however, unlike the Persians, we do not define a Zervane Akerene, an Eternal timeless principle beyond God or beyond Ahriman and Ormuzd. Our God is that Eternal Timeless Object at the Kosmic Summit still existing in the world. Unlike the Kabbalah, and unlike the Persians and Indians, our God does not relate to matter as evil. Our God is the Zenith of material evolution.

"A New Model for U.S. Manufacturing"

"What would have happened to the United States of America if it wasn’t for the vision of Alexander Hamilton? Back in the latter years of the 18th century following American independence, most politicians and even Adam Smith himself advised America away from developing a manufacturing economy. According to Smith, stopping the importation of European manufacturers would have obstructed instead of promoted growth in the United States."...

continue here at Economy In Crisis, 09/10/09 by Jack Buffington.

A skull that rewrites the history of man

It has long been agreed that Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution. Then these bones were found in Georgia...

By Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independent...Here

Meliorism Light

I affirm not only evolution but an upward pattern or direction in evolution---with stops, starts and backward-going along the way. That is, I do believe that life is ever getting better and improving in the Kosmos and that humans can aid in that betterment.

But I am also realistic. In my evolutionary world, sin is primarily entropy and Satan defines a Kosmic Black Hole at the Kosmic Center, whereas God is the Great White Mountain at the Kosmic Summit, the Zenith of Evolution in the Kosmos.

Why Is There Suffering In the World?

The Spirit Within is really born for evolution, or struggle and suffering, to combat devolution and entropy (or evil), so that the Spirit may evolve along with the body to Godhood and immortality, when the Spirit has accomplished Its task of evolution. This helps explain suffering in the world.

Nations or states also have their “spirit,” as do the variety of ethnic groups or races, which like the Spirit, must struggle and combat devolution and entropy so that they may evolve with their people to Godhood.

Evolutionary Catholicism wishes to affirm this variety in evolution. We wish to bond with this evolution, and help this evolution to Godhood, and thus redeem the suffering in the world.

Toward Proof of God, Spirit, and Soul, in Evolution

The Universal

The Spirit Within is the “universal” element, this is the “common nature,” not the “treeness” or “humanness” of things. The Kosmos is “connected” by the Spirit not by logic or the mind or their “essences” as tree or as humans.

The Spirit as “universal” is not merely inside the mind only, as Ockham suggested, and things in the world are not merely shadowy “representations” of the Spirit, matter is far more important than that. The Spirit requires matter, the Spirit activates the material world to evolve to Godhood.

The One and the Many

The “one and the many” is the Spirit Within the Kosmos and within life. Each thing is not completely individual, depending on the Will of an Almighty God, unless the “Will” is defined as the Spirit, which then must be defined as the Will-To-Godhood.

God is approachable through the Spirit, and God can be more or less reached via the Spirit, depending on one's discipline in the Involutionary Inward Path.

Beyond Human Reason

God is at this time mainly beyond human reason and beyond human conception but we can reach greater and greater understanding of God as our consciousness and intelligence and mystical discipline evolve. We should one day have deep empirical proof of God as we examine probable spiritual atoms and apply vastly advanced physics. “Faith” therefore can also know God, since we are yet to evolve to fully know the God we are speaking of.

The Spirit is not the “Form” behind matter; Spirit is the activator of matter. It is the Soul or the Zenith of the Mind that “sees” the Spirit and the Spirit is the Zenith of the Soul.

No Dualism

The mind is not a different substance than matter. There is no dualism here. But the Spirit also is not a different substance than matter. The Spirit is the Zenith of the Soul,the Soul is the Zenith of the Mind, and the mind is the zenith of the material body.

The Continuum

Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) is a system that unifies God and the world. The Kosmos is a material-spiritual continuum, from the simple to the complex, all the way to Godhood, activated by the Spirit Within, working through material evolution (perhaps this is our form of Pantheism.)

Things exist whether we can define things logically or not. But our minds, bodies, and ideas are evolving, something like Hegel's dialectical development, and this evolutionary (not dialectical) process moves human beings and the Kosmos closer to God (Hegel's Absolute).

The parts lead to Godhood, the highest evolution in the Kosmos, the Kosmic Summit, which may or may not mean that the “parts lead to the whole.”

Games of Language

Language games are language games, like mathematics. Language and math may or may not define or denote reality. Objects exist whether they are named correctly or incorrectly. As we evolve, we name and measure things closer to reality.

Ideas mirror real material things, real advanced objects, and the idea of God is a Real Supreme Object. This is opposite the usual view in metaphysics. One day this news will please both mystic and scientist, both positivism ( because things are real and God is a Real Thing), as well as fideism (having faith in God despite lack of scientific evidence may be correct after all.)

Evolutionary Realism

We are defining not so much a “metaphysical realism” as an evolutionary realism. We accept that God exists and can be evolved to, and we accept that God could be connected to the cause of the Kosmos, but we also accept that we will eventually define the Kosmos in a rational and scientific order and continuum.

The Involutionary Inward Path and Evolutionary Outward Path of EC reflect both faith and science in this way.

Evolution harmonizes with Aquinas's fourth and fifth demonstrations of God's existence: the gradations of less and more to an ultimate standard, and with natural things having a purposeful end or Zenith in Godhood.

On The Origin of Theological Traditions

Toward Redeeming The World

It seems clear that the Kabbalists of Judaism follow almost precisely the same theological Traditions as the Persian Zoroastrians and their Zend Avesta (see "The Ethical Conceptions of the Gatha,” by Jatindra Mohon Chatterjee, and “The Kabbalah” by Adolphe Franck.) But rather than defining this as a bad thing, I think it is very important that Judaism managed to salvage this ancient Babylonian theology, virtually alone in the West, when only the Brahmanic religions of the East managed to maintain a close cousin to the Zoroastrian theology in the Vedas and in Hinduism.

In any case, Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) sees both the Abrahamic and Brahmanic traditions stemming from an even older Hyperborean Tradition. This Tradition and its cousin branches are all defined within the Involutionary Inward Path of EC, which essentially sees the Soul and Spirit Within as God or as coming from God. These systems ultimately see matter as an evil principle.

EC has connected the Involutionary Inward Path of existing Traditions with the Evolutionary Outward Path of the evolution of the material world to Godhood, in an Ordered Evolution which retains the past with the present and future in a Revitalized Conservatism. Matter is not ultimately seen as evil in EC, but as the substance by which the Soul and Spirit evolve to Godhood.

In this way EC redeems the world, while at the same time prudently affirming the ancient Involutionary theological Traditions, which see the Soul Within but do not see the Spirit evolving with matter to Godhood.

Evolution Without Fascism

Evolutionary Catholicism is not fascist. Evolution certainly can be achieved without fascism. Evolution does not require slavery, top-down oppression, or the suppression of free enterprise. Ordered Evolution balances the Order of Tradition with the advance of Evolution, in a Revitalized Conservatism, which, at least in the U.S., affirms light federalism with great freedom of the states. And in Europe and Asia perhaps we can affirm something like Aleksander Dugin's Eurasia of thousands of independent, lightly federated states.

Justice and Ordered Evolution

In reality, humanity can claim no rights against nature. In the end nature is superior to the state and therefore state laws should be grounded in natural law.

Natural law is justice defined as the highest law. Problems come in defining natural law where prudence is not always followed. Politics is the art of the possible. The conservative legal proposition, borrowed from the Federalists, says there can be no order without law, no law without morality, and no morality without religion. Natural law can be taught by the Church but secured through the order of the states. Anarchy allows chaos. But what is to keep the state from becoming oppressive?

A just society has the balance of Ordered Evolution, where the advance of evolution does not suppress the unadvancing. Ordered Evolution can be defined as "just" when evolutionary advancement is free to advance, but where most people with regular unadvanced lives are protected against oppression from evolutionary advancement.

Eric Voegelin defined justice something like Ordered Evolution. But he compared “aspiring natures” with those who desire a “merely quiet life.” Voegelin, Kirk and other classical conservatives understood that inequality is the natural condition of human beings and that such virtues as charity must assist those not favored by nature. It is profoundly unjust to try to transform society into a mass of equality.

In Evolutionary Catholicism the Involutionary Inward Path is the ground of the majority of people, the Evolutionary Outward Path is the ground of evolutionary advancement. The virtues of the Involutionary Inward Path (Faith, Hope, Charity and Courage, Justice, Prudence, Temperance) are balanced with the virtues of evolution in the Evolutionary Outward Path. Evolution is grounded in the sacred and religious advance to Godhood.

Ought And Is

An “ought” can be drawn from an “is,” nature is evolving to Godhood and we ought to evolve with it. This is the real consciousness of the Spirit Within.

The immanent and transcendent teleology of human natural desires

In his blog “Darwinian Conservatism” Larry Arnhart says ...“If human beings are by their natural desires directed to certain ends or purposes, then we can see those ends or purposes as intrinsic to their nature, regardless of whether these ends have any cosmic reference. Darwinian biology supports such an immanent teleology because it recognizes the goal-directed behavior characteristic of various animal species, including the human species.”

But we say that human morality depends on an immanent teleology of human natural desires, leading to a “transcendent” teleology, in the sense that nature evolves to Godhood, that is, human beings will evolve to the next and the next and next species, all the way to Godhood. We are directed to this end as the Kosmos is directed to this end.

This is the goal of the Evolutionary Outward Path first glimpsed in the Traditional Involutionary Inward Path, which sees (at least mystics see) the Soul or Spirit Within yet needs to further see the teleological direction of the Spirit Within evolving to Godhood in the Kosmos.

Balancing Past and Future

Religion and Tradition have been increasingly decaying, and science has not filled the great gap. People feel that a time of big change is approaching. Even the bread and circuses of the consumer world have not filled the gap. People are anxious and worried about the future, how will the future go?

Two responses to times of great change and trouble were suggested by Arnold Toynbee (EnlightenNext June/Aug 2009): we become either “archaists” or “futurists.” Today I would point to Evolian Traditionalists on the archaist side, and people like Ray Kurzweil on the futurist “Singularity” side, as examples of one-sided responses to great change, with both virtually rejecting the other side.

Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) applies both sides, with the return to Traditions of the Involutionary Inward Path, and the Beyondism of the Evolutionary Outward Path. EC affirms Revitalized Conservatism and Ordered Evolution, which balances the past and future in a masterplan of evolution and tradition. The future need not be feared if we can balance the past and future this way.

Ecumenism but...

“... Christianity is founded on the primordial fall of one single man, Islam on the nature of mankind, or rather of man as such, Buddhism on the suffering of man and Hinduism on the illusion of existence, whether human existence or other.' Frithjof Schuon from heylight

Perhaps, but they are all of the Involutionary Inward Path. As such they have great room for ecumenism. But at the same time they all can lead to The Great Spiritual Blockade because they all teach Involution only to the Soul or Spirit Within and they do not teach Evolution to the Godhood Without. We need both.

Equality, Inequality and Ordered Evolution

All men are judged “equal” only in the sense that no matter what one's position or status is, we will be judged by our compliance with the Spirit Within or the Will to Godhood.

Envy is still a vice in Evolutionary Catholicism (EC) and demanding equality of condition is not only an envious vice, it is a fall from grace, a devolutionary and profane direction of behavior.

But socially, “equal justice under law” applies to the high and the low, which helps keep the peace, and this is an old Western position we can affirm.

Envious egalitarianism is dangerous and often used by political leaders to pull down the successful and get votes from the unsuccessful.

The central virtue of the Evolutionary Outward Path, which is evolution, should strengthen the cause for defining justice not as equality of all, but defining inequality as Aristotle did when he said that it is unjust to treat unequal things equally.

The Christian virtues of the Involutionary Inward Path still apply, that is, faith, hope and charity (plus the classical virtues of courage, justice, prudence and temperance) which give much grace to the evolutionary virtues of the Outward Path.

What we want is the balance of Ordered Evolution, where the Inward Virtues mainly deal with Order and the Outward Virtues mainly deal with Evolution.

Individual and Group Selection

Western individualism increased during the Enlightenment in the 1600's and from here the modern world seems to have progressed away from the traditional world, and then democracy and technology were affirmed over Tradition. But this individualism in the West became unbalanced with super-individualism leading to the present decay of Western Capitalism.

We agree with the branch of Sociobiology which says that the most vital selection takes place at the group level. What is best seems to be the balance between individual and group selection leaning toward the group, defined in Revitalized Conservatism, and reflected in Cattell's Beyondism.

Instincts to Survive and Evolve

The instinct to survive and the instinct to evolve are related. We survive so that we may evolve. There is a false separation set up between evolution and survival in the mystical traditions because the mystical traditions tend to limit evolution to the evolution of consciousness.

Survival is not on a lower level of the ladder of development, it is the prime ground of evolution. Only when we are virtually drunk in the consciousness of the Soul Within could we see survival as a lower level of development.

This is why both the Inward and Outward Paths of Evolution are included in the evolution to Godhood. The Traditional Inward Path alone is human all too human, the Outward Path leads beyond the human to Godhood.