Not merely spiritual theology

According to Walter Kaufmann (“Critique of Religion and Philosophy”) God's answer to Moses was, “I am who am (He who is).” I think these words can be interpreted as Godhood being a living object, a supreme object, and not merely a spiritual definition or mathematical form, a being at the highest point of material-supermaterial evolution, not a Being beyond being, not a Gnostic God with no connection to the material world, but a Godhood arrived at in the world by way of material-supermaterial evolution.

This Godhood might also be seen as, “I am the pure act-of-being” (St. Thomas) but only if the act of being is seen as a supermaterial existing object and not something beyond the actual world. I have an impossible fantasy of St. Thomas seeing this material-supermaterial Godhood at the end of his life when he said all his writings seemed like so much straw compared to what he had seen. He supposedly also asked to hear the 'Song of Solomon” on his death bed, not theology, and this could be seen as a work examining material beauty and not merely an analogy of spiritual things---but this is probably not what St. Thomas saw.

This is not the same inward interpretation of God as Moses, Jesus or Buddha, this is an outward revitalized Godhood, hypertrophied into the natural world. This is not Augustine's God of “I am he who never changes.” A Godhood arrived at through material evolution certainly changes. This is the Godhood of theological materialism and not merely the God of spiritual theology. To adapt a saying by St. Anselm, this interpretation both understands in order to believe, and believes in order to understand. Both science and faith need to be applied at this time to this worldview.