The Saint and Hero of the Twofold Path

Buddha was the most courageously honest of the founders of religion in admitting that the core of his religion was that suffering is caused by attachment to material desires and the removal of attachments will end the suffering. The other revealed religions either disguised this as esoteric truth for a few or they intellectually complicated this concept. This simple idea is behind the basic attitude toward the material world of all the great religions. The bliss of becoming completely free from material attachments is defined as the God Within or the Father Within in other religions. This is the basis for ecumenism between the religions.

This is described as the Involutionary Inward Path in the Theoevolutionary Church, and it can be a hedonistic back-out from responsibility for evolving life if it is the only purpose of religion, and if it leaves out the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood reached through material evolution. The Inward Path can lead to the Soul-Bliss of no-suffering identified with God but this is “only” a mirror of what Godhood will be like at the zenith of evolution, and this Soul-Bliss should be seen and applied as such. The Inward Path requires the ascetics of the elimination of material drives which is the path of the saint. The Outward Path requires all the sufferings and joys of material life refined in Ordered Evolution and is the path of the hero. Both paths are affirmed in the Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church.