Sir Arthur Keith said that “The law
of Christ is incompatible with the law of evolution---as far as the
law of evolution has worked hitherto.” This is like the dilemma
St. Thomas Aquinas faced, when the exhuming of Aristotle's Reason seriously threatened to topple the faith of Christianity.
The Twofold Path in the Theoevolutionary Church makes Christianity compatible with evolution by seeing the Inward God, or the Father Within of Christianity, as the first
intuitive glimpse of the Outward Godhood attained
through material-supermaterial evolution in the cosmos.
But this compatibility is not done simply
as strategy, this is knowing that historical and religious
reality require a long term Ordered Evolution to Godhood, which combines the
importance of Conservatism and Ordered Evolution with progressive evolution.
The Inward God of Christianity is reached by blocking
the mammalian instincts, by blocking “all the desires of the
flesh,” (not dissimilar to the inward God of eastern religions), whereas the Outward Godhood is reached by affirming and
sublimating the drives of biological evolution toward Godhood.
Higher civilizations manage to redirect
mammalian instincts in more spiritual directions, and the zenith of
the instincts, the Spirit-Will, seeks to activate material life to
evolve to Godhood. The Outward Path is like swimming downstream in the current
of life, the Inward Path is like swimming upstream as an ascetic against the
currents of life. These two streams are made compatible when the ascetic Inward God is seen as the precursor to Outward Godhood attained through evolution.
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