Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Potentiality and Actuality

Absolute Actuality is Godhood or Being, potential actuality is the rest of the beings in the Kosmos. This is a variation on Aristotle. Potential actuality seeks to evolve to Godhood and Absolute Actuality.

This more or less affirms the inner force which has been called entelechy and orthogenesis, leading to teleology, which I define as the Spirit-Will activating life from within.

Life is activated from within to evolve to Absolute Actuality or Godhood, and life is shaped from without by natural evolution. Evolution is more like directed chance.

The more static view of creationism developed in theology with God creating the world in one non-evolving step. This creation was overshadowed by science which rejected God altogether.

Now the evolution to Godhood can be seen as both creation and evolution. When Absolute Actuality or  Godhood is attained in evolution then Godhood creates or transmutes into the potential actuality of the next Kosmos.

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