Rescuing the Material World in the Twofold Path

What has not been sufficiently understood is that all the vows of poverty, the disparagement of material things, the hatred of material desires, and all the public morality that was created around this rejection of material things, was originally the development of esoteric mystics seeking the God Within, the Father Within, exclusively, by ridding the body of all material desires so that they might see the Father Within. This was the Involutionary Inward Path of the great religions.

The general population, and some theologians, have taken these strictures against materialism to be against materialism mainly for the sake of social well being, with little or no understanding of the original goal or purpose for the strictures against materialism. "Heaven" for the mystics was not a distant golden mansion in the sky, heaven was the blissful experience of the Father Within.

In the Twofold Path it is the Evolutionary Outward Path of material evolution to Godhood which rescues or rearranges materialism away from its exclusive disparagement by the mystics of the Involutionary Inward Path. The God seen inwardly is only a mirror of the Godhood reached outwardly by material evolution. However, we do not make an evil of the Father Within of the Inward Path, as the mystics made an evil of the material Outward Path. We require the material world to attain Godhood by way of evolution, and the Father Within can be seen as the first glimpse pointing the way toward evolving to Godhood in the cosmos. This lends itself to the wise conservative path of change and Ordered Evolution, which almost always works better than radical change.  The new includes and transforms the old.