Divine Attachment To Nature

Buddha's disciple, pushed by Buddha, at first sees a flag in motion, then he sees the wind in motion, then finally he sees the mind in motion, which I think also defines Western Idealism. Both dwell on the mind and not on the world of nature which they consider unreal, more or less. In the Bhagavad Gita (3: 4-9) Krishna gives advice to Arjuna regarding how to perform work yet not remain in the karmic grip of nature and sense objects. This is also like St. Paul telling his followers that if they must marry then they must, but it is far better not to marry and seek God Within.

They all lead to rejecting the real world (which they call unreal) in favor of a definition or principle or blissful condition not of the real world.  Nature is always the enemy in the Inward Path of Traditional Religion and one must rid the body of all attachment to nature. If some connection to real life is allowed they say we must deal with it without any attachment to it. One attains this goal by completely emptying oneself of ones ego so that one can be “One” with the Father, containing nothing of oneself.   Jesus, Buddha and others attained this condition.

This is all part of the Great Spiritual Blockade against nature evolving to Godhood, Real Godhood, which is a Godhood not the same as the immaterial, virtual God or Father Within of the Soul. This inward condition is a blissful glimpse of Real Godhood which can be attained by fulfilling, not getting rid of, divine evolutionary desires of nature which seek to evolve to Godhood---but not profane devolutionary desires. True Godhood is attained in this Outward Path.

That being said, both Paths are included in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity. Ordered Evolution and Revitalized Conservatism define the social philosophy of the Evolutionary Christian Church where the importance of synthesizing the new into the old is understood. But the Traditional definitions of the Higher Self and Lower Self are reversed, with the Lower Self defined as the Soul at Zenith of the Mind, where virtual God is seen, and the Higher Self at the Zenith of the Soul, where the Spirit-Will can help guide us to evolve to  Kosmic Godhood. We must move beyond the centripetal Inward Soul to the centrifugal Outward Spirit-Will.