Thursday, March 03, 2011
I see a sacred Will To Godhood as Spirit, Nietzsche saw an irrational will to power
More On Essence, Existence and Godhood
Existence doesn't derive from essence, as St Thomas seems to suggest, existence is activated by essence---the two are never separate. And it is not essence alone that denotes “reality,” as St Thomas seems to suggest, existence and essence together denote reality, unseperated. And “denote” is not the word we want here because they are reality as an object not merely a denotation.
Essence is not the “cause” of existence, essence activates existence. Even when Godhood is attained, essence or the Holy Spirit activates the existent Supreme Object which is Godhood, and then Godhood creates new worlds with Offspring-Essence-Existence-Objects whose existence is also activated by their essence or Will To Godhood.
Not “Time” but evolution is the unity in which being (becoming Godhood) and Being (Godhood) come to pass.
I agree with Heidegger (see “Heidegger and Aquinas'” by John Caputo) in his thought about the early Greek idea (before Plato/Aristotle) of a fluid “coming to presence” of Being, and then this moving Being was later made into a rigid present-ness of Being. Nietzsche seems to have thought this way too about the early Greeks. I see a sacred Will To Godhood as Spirit, Nietzsche saw an irrational will to power.
Being is not brought to a rigid presence when Godhood is attained, Godhood (Being) then transforms in the fluid movement of begetting the next Kosmic Godhood. There appears to be no end or beginning to this evolving cycle, there is only the Supreme Goal of Godhood followed by new evolving Kosmos.
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