Conservatism and the Theoevolutionary Church

Reason alone cannot guide human beings or we end up with a truncated, robotic structure. Intellectual intuition alone can't guide human beings or we get disorder. Tradition alone can't guide human beings or we get stagnation. But taken all together, these things lead, not to the individual alone, not to the state alone, not to universal humanity. They lead first, to evolving groups as a reference point, and finally, and most importantly, they lead to the central religious reference point of evolution to Godhood.

Tradition is powerful and needs to be affirmed, it is the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of mankind. If the classical conservatives are correct in believing that when Christianity goes the West goes, we can see the importance of tradition in the survival of the West. But tradition needs to include the Ordered Evolution---not revolution---of mankind all the way to Godhood. Tradition should not restrain evolution, it should restrain revolution.

Religious tradition is included in the Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church. The Involutionary Inward Path leads to the God-Within of Christianity (and the Revealed Religions), and the Evolutionary Outward Path leads to the Godhood first mirrored and partially known in the Inward Path.

Postmodern relativism does not balance with evolutionary conservatism, because there is a hierarchy of values, not a relativity of values, evolving from mankind up to Godhood. There are various paths to Godhood in the spiral direction of evolution, but this is not a goalless direction. Human values and morals are not aimless.

The civilizing process is not limited to the human species and human culture, the civilizing process is the civilizing of the beast as mankind evolves to Godhood, beyond the human species. Provincialism relates not merely to periods in time, as Eliot suggested, but to the human species moving beyond the human species to future species.

The “instinctive” has been more or less devalued by conservatism related to the religious blocking of material desires, which is necessary for reaching the God-Within. But real Godhood in the outside cosmos is reached through material and supermaterial evolution by way of the Evolutionary Outward Path, which is activated by the sacred instinct of the Spirit-Will To Godhood.

Politics is not an end in itself. At the core of political philosophy is the sacred evolution to Godhood. Political philosophy needs to affirm political structures that lead mankind to Godhood in evolution. This sacred goal is not meant for one exceptional group, but for all groups, which are all activated by the Spirit-Will to Godhood. This suggests a world of thousands of small states, or ethnostates, protected by a light federalism. This is the just and practical way to balance distinctive people living in the world, in harmony with real human nature as defined by sociobiology. Religion is this way the foundation of the culture.

This religious worldview is not a “liberation from history,” this is an affirmation of the evolutionary history of life itself evolving in the cosmos all the way to Godhood. And that is the deepest kind of Revitalized Conservatism.