I think Arthur Schopenhauer came close to getting it right. He got the End-Goal wrong but the dynamics just about right. And writing in a non-academic style was also right, since philosophers do tend to be sophistical.
Here is how I would change Schopenhauer: The Will is the basic force, only it is defined as the Holy Spirit-Will, or the Spirit-Will To Godhood. Life is not meaningless, there is a strategy behind life, a reason behind it, a purpose. The Spirit-Will ultimately determines our concepts, dictates our actions and drives evolution, working in conjunction with evolution, not the other way around.
Nature does tend to care more for the species than individuals but this is part of the larger life cycle of life evolving to Godhood. Therefore, the Spirit-Will is "rational," not irrational, as Schopenhauer had it. The Will to live, to procreate, to power, is rational because the End-Goal of the Will is Godhood, which is Absolute Truth, Beauty and Goodness. But we do need to discover more of the logic and rules of the Spirit-Will to Godhood.
“Nothingness” or nirvana is not the best we can obtain, although this is the goal of the Involutionary Inward Path of the Revealed Religions (eg. the Kingdom of God, etc. ) The best we can obtain comes from the Evolutionary Outward Path of material evolution to supermaterial evolution and on to Godhood. Both Paths are affirmed in the Twofold Path of the Evolutionary Christian Church, in our Revitalized Conservatism.
All things are “becoming” as well as “being” with the End-Goal, the Zenith, of Godhood, which is the highest attainment of both becoming and being. However, Godhood then continues evolving endlessly with no beginning and no end. The Spirit-Will, is the “thing-in-itself” but the Spirit-Will needs to evolve within life to Godhood. Everything does not become “nothingness,” everything becomes Godhood, over time, with many starts and stops along the way
The Spirit-Will to Godhood, cares more about the Goal of Godhood than the paths or the means or individuals or ideas taken, but the means to this end do indeed matter. The means and ends matter little or nothing to Schopenhauer because he saw things leading to nothingness, which is the goal of the Inward Path, in its esoteric essence, of the Revealed Religions.
The means are derived from the elements of upward evolution: toward higher consciousness, higher intelligence, refined complexity, and eventually to the Absolutes of Godhood, Truth, Beauty and Goodness.
Here is how I would change Schopenhauer: The Will is the basic force, only it is defined as the Holy Spirit-Will, or the Spirit-Will To Godhood. Life is not meaningless, there is a strategy behind life, a reason behind it, a purpose. The Spirit-Will ultimately determines our concepts, dictates our actions and drives evolution, working in conjunction with evolution, not the other way around.
Nature does tend to care more for the species than individuals but this is part of the larger life cycle of life evolving to Godhood. Therefore, the Spirit-Will is "rational," not irrational, as Schopenhauer had it. The Will to live, to procreate, to power, is rational because the End-Goal of the Will is Godhood, which is Absolute Truth, Beauty and Goodness. But we do need to discover more of the logic and rules of the Spirit-Will to Godhood.
“Nothingness” or nirvana is not the best we can obtain, although this is the goal of the Involutionary Inward Path of the Revealed Religions (eg. the Kingdom of God, etc. ) The best we can obtain comes from the Evolutionary Outward Path of material evolution to supermaterial evolution and on to Godhood. Both Paths are affirmed in the Twofold Path of the Evolutionary Christian Church, in our Revitalized Conservatism.
All things are “becoming” as well as “being” with the End-Goal, the Zenith, of Godhood, which is the highest attainment of both becoming and being. However, Godhood then continues evolving endlessly with no beginning and no end. The Spirit-Will, is the “thing-in-itself” but the Spirit-Will needs to evolve within life to Godhood. Everything does not become “nothingness,” everything becomes Godhood, over time, with many starts and stops along the way
The Spirit-Will to Godhood, cares more about the Goal of Godhood than the paths or the means or individuals or ideas taken, but the means to this end do indeed matter. The means and ends matter little or nothing to Schopenhauer because he saw things leading to nothingness, which is the goal of the Inward Path, in its esoteric essence, of the Revealed Religions.
The means are derived from the elements of upward evolution: toward higher consciousness, higher intelligence, refined complexity, and eventually to the Absolutes of Godhood, Truth, Beauty and Goodness.
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