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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