Friday, June 22, 2012
Uniting the natural, human and divine orders
Why was there a revival of Greek and
Roman culture in the Renaissance? Perhaps the great ascetic block on basic instincts from the great religions was too unnatural to keep the
earthly pagan myths from reviving? It was also due to general,
ongoing, human curiosity and love of knowledge. Religion broke from nature and than science broke from religion. This was a major
shift for humanity. But science was too one-sided
on the other side of unemotional, nonreligious reason. Kant tried to keep
the faith by separating faith from reason. This was followed by the
Romantic revival of the 19th century, which tried to bring
back emotion and myth again superseding science and traditional
religion. Nietzsche and Jungian psychology followed, and
eventually the relativistic ethics of postmodernism. I see this all
as reaching for a unity lost when first the pagan world declined and then the great religions declined.
There is a unity between the the
natural, human and divine orders and that unity is connected through
the sacred material evolution to supermaterial Godhood. The Twofold Path in the
Evolutionary Church is the bridge between the ancient
religions and modernism, between the natural and divine worlds. We
evolve in the material and supermaterial world to the Godhood first
seen and mirrored in the religious involutionary world of the past.
This is a re-allocation of faith and knowledge, a new “myth”
based in religion and science. Faith and knowledge do not have to be
separate. The religious-scientific narrative of our evolution to Godhood unites the
natural, human and divine orders. But the divine needs to be seen as not beyond the material world but as the supermaterial zenith of the material world.
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