Living Objects Evolve To Supreme Objects As Godhood

Assuming that the experience St. Thomas had the last three months of his life was mystical, when he is said to have seen all his writings as so much “straw”---and assuming this is not explained profanely as Thomas having a stroke, since he died three months later---I see this experience as Thomas attaining the goal of the Involutionary Inward Path, which is reaching the Father-Within, the God-Within. And this was not unique to Thomas and the West, mystics in the East have also attained this condition.

But Godhood is not merely “experiencing” God,  this is not merely a beatific vision, not merely a “union” that is seen or known while one is still human. Real Godhood does not “pass beyond the sphere of representational thinking” (Caputo), although at this stage in our evolution it is difficult to represent God. St. Thomas was seeing, as other mystics have seen, the Soul-Within, the Father-Within, at the zenith of the human mind. But this is not Godhood.

Godhood is a Supreme Living Object attained through the evolution of the material-supermaterial world. This is the Evolutionary Outward Path. We can use reason, metaphysics and science as a ladder to help us attain Godhood, but Godhood will not be attained or seen by these intellectual things alone. We become a Supreme Living Object which can be represented as a living Object, although only a God could accurately do so.

The essence of metaphysics is not a vision but an evolved object. As a living Object, or Objects, Godhood transcends reason, but It does not transcend objects, living objects evolve to Supreme Objects. Absolute Reason exits within the living Object Mind of Godhood.