The Metaphysics

Human beings do see only an appearance of the real world, as suggested by Idealism, but we see enough of the real world to discern much of reality, which does exist outside us, and is real. We see how other people and other animals perceive the same world as we do to a lesser or a further degree of reality depending on the capacities of the senses---an eagle sees more than we do, a dog smells more etc. This reality should not lead to relativism or perspectivism in philosophy, it simply leads to various life forms seeing various amounts of the same reality.

These perceptions and representations of the world by human individuals are not as separated or individual as suggested by Idealism, there is an archetypal human nature that is mainly biologically derived, which is at the origin of much social behavior. The idealist critiques of Kant and Schopenhauer diverge away from the biological materialism of Darwin and sociobiology, which we affirm.

We are not merely objects of perceptions alone looking at the world, we are activated by a material Spirit-Will which essentially defines “life” itself. Random evolution takes place after the activation of the Spirit-Will. The Spirit-Will is not the sole "thing-in-itself" as it was with Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the Spirit-Will never separates itself from life or the object it inhabits and activates, life and the object are the only vehicle the Spirit-Will has to evolve.

As in standard materialism, our theological materialism affirms the primacy of the material world, all things are material. But some things are supermaterial, arrived at through material evolution. “Matter in motion” not only works according to natural laws, matter in motion is activated by the Spirit-Will within life and matter, which is also a part of the natural laws. In this way all life seems first in service to the Spirit-Will within matter, and secondarily to evolution which shapes life and matter. Again, random evolution takes place after the activation of the Spirit-Will.

Patterns can be seen in evolution, the evolutionary process has shown a direction toward higher, more complex, more intelligent, more conscious forms, as well as going backward and sideways. This direction toward higher evolution is the result of the activating Spirit-Will always seeking greater and greater success in survival, heading for eternal success, eternal representation---which defines Godhood, the goal of the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, or Life.

This goal of Godhood reached by material and supermaterial evolution is the sacred reason why there was no need to exclusively renounce the world. Renunciation can remain within the Involutionary Inward Path leading to the Father Within (in Christianity) which is attained or experienced by blocking all material desires. But the Inward God is only a mirror of real Godhood which is reached in the Evolutionary Outward Path (the opposite of Plato's view). This is the Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church.

Nietzsche radically extirpated religion from his worldview rather than seeing Godhood reached outwardly through the Will To Godhood. Nietzsche tried to transvalue the negation of the Will of the great religions, and of his mentor Schopenhauer, with his affirmation of the Will To Power. But Nietzsche's Will remained the same spiritual-idealist Will, transvalued into the affirmation of a random, goalless, Dionysian, power drive designed for use by superior individuals, and relative of values.

It is not knowledge alone, or gnosis, that allows the highest goals to be reached, it is the evolution of the material and supermaterial world which allows the highest goals to be reached. The Unconcealed of Heidegger, which defines truth, is an Object. Absolute Unconcealment is attained by the evolution of life to the Supreme Supermaterial Object, which is Godhood.