Divine goals

A goalless divine existence for nature is shared by both pagans and scientists who see the world more as the rhythm of natural life, a dance, rather than traveling toward a divine goal. This helps explain the let-it-flow, laid-back attitude of modern pagans, and the confident sarcasm of the scientists regarding goals toward the divine in nature.

Christianity and other monotheistic religions, and the more ecumenical traditionalist school, do see a goal to existence leading to the divine, although it is an inward goal to the God Within.  Modern pagans seek the sacred  more in nature, although it is a cyclic nature with no divine end-goal. I agree with the Christians and disagree with the scientists and pagans, but our goal of evolving to outward Godhood is not the traditional goal of monotheistic religions, although we include the Inward Path.

At the same time I presume that science will one day affirm a natural evolutionary goal within the philosophy of naturalism, the goal of Godhood in nature and evolution, that is, life seen as evolving toward more and more consciousness, intelligence, complexity and beauty all the way to the zenith of these things, which is Godhood.

Spengler might say that this striving toward a beyond goal has to do with the Faustian spirit, especially among northern people, but I say it is the activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood within all life, later shaped by outside evolution.