The optimistic religious view of nature

It seems to me that the catastrophic end-of-the-world myth of the Germanic Ragnarok is the northern version of Greek tragedy, along with the Germanic catharsis of great feasts, drinking and poetry, whereas the ancient Greeks handled the more or less same sense of tragedy with their catharsis of tragic dramas. This was a cyclic worldview, which did include life surviving somehow and coming out the other side of the great catastrophe. Many modern philosophies seems also to be existentially tragic, or at least try to be, taking their attitude from Nietzsche's ideas on life and tragedy.

This blog has an ultimately optimistic religious view of nature, seeing tragic cycles within nature, but always seeing a steady linear evolution of life from the simple to the complex. Heroes and martyrs and tragedies occur but ultimately life evolves all the way to Godhood in the cosmos.

However, along with this cosmic optimism it is vital that a utopian vision, a religious vision, is built not merely on abstractions and visions, which most utopias are built upon. Utopian and religious visions need to be combined with an Edmund Burkian kind of conservatism, then the vision supplies the sacred goal, and tradition does not stagnate as it is prone to do. Ordered Evolution defines this dynamic. Also theological materialism grounds the end-goal of Godhood solidly in biology and in material and supermaterial evolution.  The Twofold Path brings the Father-Within of the revealed religions in harmony with our outward evolution  to Godhood.