First and Last Things

Theologically, it seems not to be the attraction of Godhood that accounts for the evolution of higher beings, as Teilhard de Chardin suggested, it is the activation of the material world by the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood that seeks Godhood, which is then shaped by evolution. It seems to have little or nothing to do with Godhood Itself.

Schopenhauer's will-to-live, Nietzsche's will-to-power, Bergson's vital force seem closer to defining the Spirit-Will than any attraction by Godhood pulling evolution forward.

Unlike the God of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Spirit-Will contains the cause of life but is not also the maximum of life. The Spirit-Will contains the goal of Godhood but is not the goal itself. The maximum of life is the Godhood evolved to

This suggests that Godhood is the goal of life but not the initiator of life. The Primal Material seems to be activated by the Spirit-Will, as all life is, and they seem never to be separated. Then together they define life evolving to Godhood, first activated by the Spirit-Will, and then shaped by evolution.

I see no good reason why this cosmic dynamic cannot go on forever. It seems to be an endless cosmos with endless room and there are probably always Gods arriving. There may never be an end to evolving perfection, if there was an end then that perfection might have no further function and might therefore cease to exist.

I also see no good reason why there ever was a beginning, a first cause, which requires no less proof than the no beginning perspective.

What glorious things can evolve, and have evolved, in the cosmos, over endless time and endless space.  We need to consciously, not merely unconsciously,  join that sacred cosmic stream.

The older God was seen inwardly, which is fine and needs to be included in the Twofold Path, but real Godhood is evolved to in the cosmos, and we need to get on with it.