The Great Religious Error

When the Bhagavad Gita (15:1-3) uses the metaphor of the cosmic tree with its roots above the ground and its branches below, it is a clear, unintended, picture of the great religious error.

The roots of materialism are rejected, trans-valued, into the roots receiving sustenance from nothing, from spiritual thin air. Materialism is thus utterly rejected in defining God and spiritual things.

For many centuries a single-minded conflict between nature and spirit has been set up that has utterly wasted much of the energy of evolution which seeks to evolve to true Godhood.

It is enormously arrogant to think that man can be God without first evolving far beyond the human species. This is the great religious error of confounding the God-Within, the Father-Within, with Real Godhood.

Yes, we must also affirm Christ, the Father Within (Atman, Brahman), which is experienced at the deepest part of the Soul. This virtual experience of God can strongly remind us of the evolutionary cosmic goal of Real Godhood. But we cannot remain blocked there in the bliss of virtual Godhood.

We must move forward in the Evolutionary Outward Path, which leads material life in evolution to supermaterial Godhood.