Toward a psychology of theological materialism: comparing Christianity and Paganism

Even Carl Jung, who is usually portrayed as sympathetic to paganism, thought that German paganism was “primitive” compared to Christianity. Was It?

German paganism was clear and straightforward, as the are the German people, and it was more complex and whole than modern people have thought it was.

Like all the great religions, Christianity, in essence, tried to block out the material world and material desires to experience the Father Within. It was so-called civilized religion which blocked out what Jung called the “lower half” of human nature, or the desires of the material world, Paganism did not block out civilized religion.

The origin of the world in the myths and metaphor's of the pagan Yngvi-Freyr-Nerthus---if seen as the Spirit-Will and Primal Material in theological materialism---seem to me to be a better description of the origin of the world than the Big Bang, or creation by the “Final Cause” of St. Thomas.

Neither Paganism or Christianity affirmed the evolution to Godhood of material life, the divine goal of the so-called lower half of human nature, which is really in this sense the upper half of human nature.

We recover our whole selves in the Twofold Path, where the Inward God of Christianity is fulfilled in the real Outward Godhood reached through material-supermaterial evolution. We balance the divine activation of life by the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, with the outward shaping of evolution.

This does not awaken a “blond beast,” this awakens the divine path of evolution to Godhood for blonds, brunettes, blacks, whites, Christians, Pagans, Hindus, atheists, and all life in the cosmos.

This is how we make good the misdefined primitive in us, this is how we civilize the beast.