Synthesizing the Hero and the Saint

Two seemingly opposite views of the hero and the saint come together in the Twofold Path of the Evolutionary Christian Church. This is not the same as when the pagans changed to Christianity (partly by the sword), and not the same as St. Thomas intellectually bringing the Socratics into Christianity.

This means seeing the saint as the embodiment of the Involutionary Inward Path, and the hero as the embodiment of the Evolutionary Outward Path. The saint experiences the Father-Within in the Inward Path by essentially blocking all material desires, and the hero defines the God Without in the Evolutionary Outward Path of material-supermaterial evolution to Godhood, the Godhood first glimpsed by the saint inwardly.

This perspective does underplay the inward paths of primordial tradition which seem to have been precursor to the God Within of the great religions, but they seem to have originally been applied more to warrior disciplines, which were later hypertrophied by the priests.

This is a healthier synthesis than affirming only one of these paths. This leads to a synthesis of science and religion, the spiritual and material, left and right, tradition and progress, which have not got along as well as this before.