Someone said “Hope” usually
requires a founding myth/religion. European and Eurasian
intellectuals have gone back to the science-hating and
progress-hating Traditionalist School. But William Hamilton said, according to Robert Ellwood, that America is the most worldly of
places yet the place where the sacred can be realized because America has always believed that we can begin
again.
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Ellwood points out that Eliade thought
the sacred is camouflaged in the profane, and Freud and Marx thought
the profane is hidden in the sacred. I interpret this seeming
paradox with theological materialism: the formerly profane material
world evolves to the sacred supermaterial world of Godhood. The two
worlds have fought one another when they needed to be joined in the Twofold Path.
The various fields can come together in a
total knowledge field, with science, religion and art joined in a
new humanistic theology. How does this come out politically when
the sacred and profane are joined? Independent regions and states
protected internally and externally by a light federalism, not unlike the Founders wanted for America, can allow
evolution to take place in variety, and with continuity, all the way
to Godhood in the cosmos. Totalitarianism has not proved to last very long.
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