Joining The Paths

It may be a nice thought to think that we may merge back into the Lord forever liberated from the wheel of birth and death, providing we follow the spiritual path to Masterhood, but this is an incomplete ideal. The wheel of birth and death is turned by evolution and it does not stop turning, even if we attain Godhood by way of material and supermaterial evolution. A final end or original beginning may fit a human mathematical pattern but there seems to be no beginning and no end to the cosmos.

Evolution provides the cosmic pattern. The Inward Path in religion can lead to liberation from the pull and grip of material desires, but this is a liberation confined to the individual mind and body of the person liberated. Traditional Masters say, conveniently, that it is Satan who rules the cycle of life and death and that Satan objects to spiritual Masters who supposedly can take any soul out of the cycle of life and death. When the Inward Path is exclusively followed this can be a scare tactic damaging or blocking the evolution of life to real Godhood.

The right-hand-path and the left-hand-path are defined mainly in Eastern religions but they can be correlated or made clearer with the Inward and Outward Paths in the theological materialism of the Theoevolutionary Church (TC), although it is not a perfect fit. The Inward Path relates to the right-hand-path in seeking the Soul or Father Within where the God Within can be experienced, providing that one inactivates or ends or all the desires of the flesh and blocks the material world. The Outward Path relates to the left-hand-path of the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood which actives material life from within to evolve to Godhood, always shaped by outside evolution.

The great religions more or less followed the right-hand-path seeking to limit the influence of the material world so as to pursue the God Within, whereas the left-hand-path seeks active, conscious, upward evolution toward real Godhood in the cosmos. We can apply knowledge of the God Within from the Inward Path or right-hand-path as a metaphor or symbol-experience for real Godhood reached in the Outward Path or left-hand-path through material and supermaterial evolution.

No evil/ good, devil/saint dichotomy needs to be conjured in relation to the Twofold Path. The Inward Path of the spiritual Masters which leads to the Father Within needs to move on to the Outward Path of material and supermaterial evolution to Godhood. Satanists and spiritual Masters can join together in the Twofold Path.

Attaining the perfect state of spiritual bliss is rarely defined as hedonistic or self-indulgent because the desires of the body and the world are usually considered evil, and the state of the blissful Father Within cannot be reached without blocking these desires. But the individualistic bliss of the Inward Path can be hedonistic if it blocks the path to real Godhood reached by material and supermaterial evolution. Reaching Godhood in the cosmos involves more than swimming in the bliss of the Father Within. The Father Within is not nearly enough, it must lead to the Outward Path of evolution to Godhood in the cosmos.

This suggests that different nations, different ethnic groups have evolution to balance and contend with religiously. It is antiquated human strategy to promote the imperialism of one nation, one group, against all others as exclusively superior, even if this sociobiological tactic enhanced survival in hunter-gatherer times--- this behavior now brings the overpopulated world together to destroy the imperialist group. Cooperative competition between small states and regions, protected internally and externally by some sort of light federalism, can bring the variety and creativity that evolution prefers.

We are all evolving in our own ways within and beyond the human species to higher species, and then on to Godhood, and in this sacred adventure we need to cooperate, not destroy one another or destroy the earth. We need to apply all the science and religion we know. This is the way we Civilize the Beast.