How do we make sacred our modern,
non-sacred, moral and aesthetic values without losing our
extraordinarily successful technological and economic development? How
can we keep an anthropocentric culture working within a theocentric
culture? By affirming that the material world evolves to Godhood,
that is how. The Inward God is a mirror of Outward Godhood reached
through material and supermaterial evolution.
Modernism and traditionalism need not
reject one another as they have done, we can have a transformation of
the sacred, not a rejection, the inward God first seen in the great religions is realized in outward Godhood,
bringing the new into the old. The great division between the
spiritual and the temporal does not exist when the spiritual is seen
as supermaterial. Science can join religion.
The West can lead the way in this
because we have for centuries been bringing Biblical faith together
with Greek philosophical inquiry, along with the Roman heritage,
whereas the East has been religious traditionally without this sort
of Western tension, at least until the few short decades of Marxist
totalitarianism, and even that has a nondemocratic Asian ethos to it.
We can now add a third stage in the development of Christianity,
from Neoplatonism to Catholic Scholasticism to the theological
materialism of the Evolutionary Christian Church.
The present attacks on the West by the
trendy followers of the Traditionalist School (ie. Guénon
and Evola), led by French and Russian intellectuals, goes against
this rapprochement of tradition and the modern world. Many western
intellectuals in this movement are in effect supporting the East over the West.
Yes, the West has problems, with big enemies from within and
without, yes, southern Russian was probably the home of Indo
Europeans, but it is Western culture that evolved the great developments of
science and evolution. Modernism in search of theology can find
it in the rebirth of religion grounded in our sacred evolution to
Godhood.
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