Tuesday, June 05, 2012

The Full Use of Nature, Human History, and Tradition


T. S. Elliot's “tradition” was the full knowledge and use of history, “provincial” was not using longer-term history. This needs to be taken further to say that tradition is the full and sacred use of nature. One hears the voice of nature awakening in the religion of the the Theoevolutionary Church (TC). 

Religion has slighted nature, at least since the Revealed Religions arose, religion has even blocked out nature in the higher initiates. Science rushed in to fill the gap. The TC brings nature back to religion after being buried in the Great Spiritual Blockade. The Twofold Path can be called “classical” in the sense that classicism is balance between “opposing” forces, unity in duality.  The Involutionary Inward Path of religion is synthesized with the Evolutionary Outward Path of nature.

This is a healthier remedy for balancing culture (Apollo and Dionysus) than Nietzsche's rebirth of tragedy through the apotheoses of lone supermen, which was a worthy but desperate attempt to avoid the nihilism of relativity with hyperindivualism, and having no religion. The TC brings balance back to religion rather than rejecting religion, which defines Revitalized Conservatism.

The choice is more accurately defined as between evolution (Outward Path) and involution (Inward Path) than between "'good and evil." The material world is no longer seen as evil but as the essential vehicle to evolve to Godhood. The Spirit-Will To Godhood is affirmed which activates life to Godhood, shaped by evolution.

Nature and culture, science and religion, can be balanced, when the Father Within of the Inward Path is seen as the Godhood evolved to in the Outward Path.  This is the full use of nature and history.

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