The Great Modification

Evolutionary supermaterialism is the fulfillment of Involutionary spiritualism

Since at least the Renaissance with the revival of classical philosophy, beginning in the 14^th century, there has been a slow and steady turning away from involutionary religions---although Plato was an involutionary philosopher as well.

This has been a great historical modification of tradition, not always understood by the modifiers. As a result, involutionary religion has been thrown away at times in favor of science, or other times it has been reconciled by religious philosophers such as St Thomas Aquinas, who one could say, tried to harmonize the differences between the inward and outward paths.

In the modern world the outward path of materialism has gained much ground, even if fanatical religious movements have risen in defense of traditional religion. Yet the morals and ethics of civilization have been largely determined by the Involutionary Inward Path of religious philosophy. Priests and religious philosophers have insisted on exclusive control of the morals and ethics of society derived from the Inward Path, and secular thinkers have given us mostly modified versions of the Inward Path.

Why has the human world continually tried to modify the religious Inward Path? The Inward Path, at its essence, blocks the material world in a Great Spiritual Blockade, originally for the purpose of experiencing or seeing and knowing the God Within. Material life, seeking to live and prosper, naturally reacted to this blockade. It did so by sometimes utterly rejecting the Inward Path and sometimes by modifying the Inward Path. At this time science and secular humanism have grown strong in utterly rejecting the Inward Path of traditional religions.

In affirming the Twofold Path, the Theoevolutionary Church joins the Great Modification of the Renaissance to harmonize and synthesize the Inward Path of spiritualism with the Outward Path of materialism and supermaterialism. We do not reject the great experience of seeing the God Within, which was the central concern of the Revealed Religions. We think of the Great Modification unfolding throughout much of human history as an almost blind attempt to discover the material and supermaterial Outward Path of Evolution to Godhood.

Godhood was glimpsed inwardly as a most blissful and sacred experience, but it was a virtual experience of what Godhood will be like when reached in the Evolutionary Outward Path, after evolving beyond the human experience. All the blind groping away from the Inward Path can be seen as a positive and constructive attempt to understand and reach the Godhood of the Outward Path. Religion and science can join one another. Evolutionary supermaterialism is the fulfillment of Involutionary spiritualism.

This means that human civilization can revitalize the morals and values of social philosophy, looking outward toward evolving to Godhood, while retaining the inward first experience of God. We are evolving upward to Godhood in the cosmos and we need to apply our religion and science and social philosophy to this sacred goal.