In response to “Beauty: Siren or Savior? ” in the American Conservative: the religious worldview of material life evolving to supermaterial Godhood---and not merely involution to the Inward God---gives a different perspective on the old formula of truth, goodness and beauty.
When beauty becomes connected to the traditional Logos, beauty moves away from the material world and this creates the naturalistic problem of beauty entering a transcendental world of a nonmaterial Spirit, which then leads to the worship of the idol of ideas, definitions, words, and the idol of beauty, and not the real object of beauty as Godhood.
In relation to material and supermaterial evolution to Godhood, beauty is not separated from goodness and truth, but a separation tends to happen when the spiritual dimension of goodness and truth in reality blocks out or even excludes real beauty from the trinity of truth, goodness and beauty, because the nonmaterial is worshipped.
In relation to material-supermaterial evolution, beauty does not separate itself form truth and goodness, which are values and traits that need to be included in upward evolution, because any one of these alone is incomplete.
The world of beauty is not leading us astray as a siren or temptress (see Dante and others) as long as truth and goodness are included on the path of our evolution to Godhood, which is the zenith of theses things.
The Twofold Path rescues and restores beauty, the real object beauty, to the old trinity, and even places beauty as the leading player in our progressive evolution toward the truth and goodness of real Godhood.
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