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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