Godhood As The End Of Metaphor

The true name of Godhood is known only by Godhood, It cannot be a “forbidden word” for human beings to utter because it is not possible for human beings to know this word. We may have a mistaken word for God, or a word for a God that is not really God, but it is highly arrogant to claim that we can or do know the Word for Godhood, secret or not.

The same applies to the definition of Godhood, which is not possible for humans. We can use symbols and metaphors, we can stretch beyond our knowledge to define Godhood with metaphysics, metabiology or poetry, but it requires Absolute Knowledge and Absolute Truth to correctly define Godhood, and only Godhood contains these Absolutes. It is not that we do not wish to define Godhood, we cannot define Godhood.

Yet even Godhood Itself has to use symbols, or Absolute Symbols, to define Itself. Godhood Itself is not an Absolute Word, Idea or Principle. Absolute Symbol's remain symbols uttered by Godhood Itself, while Godhood is a Supreme Supermaterial Living Object or objects. Because we have no choice but to stretch for symbols to define ascending levels of Godhood, it does not follow that Godhood must be an immaterial symbol. Godhood is not immaterial but supermaterial. Here is where ontological errors creep into theology, metaphysics and philosophy.

When Godhood Itself does utter the Word or Definition of Itself, this becomes finally the end of metaphor. The word metaphor means meta (beyond) and pherein (to carry), to carry beyond, as Frederic Turner pointed out in his excellent essay on symbols in the American Arts quarterly. Godhood is the the final goal of “going beyond” as metaphor does, and as evolution does. With Godhood attained at the Zenith of Evolution we have reached the Zenith of going beyond. But even then there may be continuing ascending levels of Godhoods.

We do need a grounding for our metaphors, a foundation for our biology, otherwise we can become lost out in the stars. Tradition and Conservatism are the ground for our metaphorical and real-life evolutionary advances. We must not be lost to the world since it is the world that needs to evolve to Godhood. This illustrates the concept of Ordered Evolution in the Theoevolutionary Church (TC). We require both the order of tradition and the change of evolution. This is foundation of the Twofold Path, with the Involutionary Inward Path leading to the Father-Within, and the Evolutionary Outward Path leading evolution to real Godhood.