Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Everything that rises diverges

Teilhard insists that convergent love is the primordial energy of the universe. But, speaking unromantically, love is the secondary reaction to the primary drive to evolve to Godhood, which requires reproduction and survival success, and it is this which requires love. This is an important distinction and and it separates convergence, which is Teilhard's central mantra, from divergence, which is the evolutionary drive.

Teilhard's Omega Point, or Christ, seems to come when the whole universe converges into one. The Godhood of Evolutionary Christianity comes through divergence.  The convergence of evolution is a temporary stopping point to retain positive changes acquired during divergence.

Teilhard's Omega Point has the whole universe converging at once into One in the end.  In EC there is constantly diverging evolution, with some life attaining Godhood, while other life continues the struggle to evolve to Godhood. EC's mission is to help everyone evolve to Godhood, but this is a divergent more than convergent reality, with different levels of evolutionary development at all times.

Teilhard's Christ coincides with his Omega Point in the universe, but I see Christ as involutionary not evolutionary. Christ is the Soul's identification with Godhood, but Christ is not Godhood, Godhood must be evolved to, not involved to. In EC the Inward Path is reserved for Christ and the Outward Path for Godhood.

EC does not affirm the Gnostic God of mere definition or principle, and affirms a real living object Godhood which is evolved to in the cosmos.  This suggests that when Godhood is attained in evolution it is not the same, nonmaterial God, of the definition-is-God-school.

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