Monday, December 17, 2012
The art impulse and the sacred totality of religion
We don't need duality in the art world
any more than we do in theology or philosophy. With evolution the
incomprehensible infinite of the Romantic becomes the clarity of the
Classical. Beauty becomes truth and truth beauty. This is the goal
affirmed in the art philosophy of Evolutionary Realism.
It is more than admiration for the
infinite which causes our art passions to be exited, as Burke said
(which Jung called the numinous mystery), it is more essentially the material Will-To
Godhood, or Tirips, the zenith of the instincts, that excites our passions,
which can be fulfilled only in our material-supermaterial evolution
to Godhood. Here the infinite becomes clarity, beauty becomes
truth. This is also how we counter Kant and say that reality can
be known.
Certainly we are imperfect, as the
Christians demand, but our evolution to Godhood can bring
perfection, which means we should not permanently dwell on our
imperfections seen only in the Involutionary Inward Path, it is in the
Evolutionary Outward Path where we can reach perfection in ascending levels of Godhood.
There is a sacred totality here: we arrive
at health by fusing self, society and Godhood with the Will or Tirips which activates life to evolve to Godhood. Evolutionary therapy, art, political philosophy, the sciences, etc., can fuse in
this mission. In this holistic view religion is the way out of the
problems seen in these now separated areas. It is perhaps this religious
perspective that is the “total art work” that we
have been searching for in the West since the Ancient Greeks, which art can only affirm.
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