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 God is the highest evolved aspect of matter.  Contrary to the Platonic and Gnostic perspective, evolution does not imprison the spirit or life in matter. Evolution is the activation of the will to life within matter to evolve to Godhood. The spirit does not “escape” matter even when it attains Godhood, Godhood is materiality. We are not seeking “universality,” we are seeking the goal of universal Kosmic evolution of  matter to Godhood. Traditional religion tends to emphasize convergence in evolution over divergence (most recently with Teilhard de Chardin), whereas Godhood can be seen more through divergence.  the will to live is activating humans to evolve to the actual Supreme Object Godhood, working along with outside evolition and national selection.