Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Religions are united in the Inward Path and transformed through the Outward Path


I have to agree with Rene Guenon---although I don't affirm the religious philosophy of the Traditionalist School---that the way to reconcile the conflicting demands of the various religious forms is to see the shared esoteric core between them. A single tradition is concealed under the outer forms which degenerated over time.

Where Guenon splits the esoteric and exoteric, while seeing them as two faces of the same doctrine, I separate the Inward from the Outward Paths in the Twofold Path, seeing the Inward Path as that ecumenical core of all the great religions, and seeing the Outward Path and theological materialism as the next religious-philosophical development. This at last brings the material world and evolution to religion, including past excluded science as a tool.

The Inward Path, or more formally the Involutionary Inward Path, led to seeing the God or Father Within for all the great religions, which is their ecumenical unity. The Evolutionary Outward Path includes the Inward Path but sees it as an early mirror of real Godhood reached outwardly through material and supermaterial evolution.

The great religions can join together as one, which they are at their core, and they can retain but transform the Inward Path into the Evolutionary Outward Path to real Godhood. Since I live in the West I apply Christianity to this sacred evolution through the Evolutionary Christian Church.

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