Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Theological materialism condensed


Nominalism says that only concrete things actually exist, abstract entities do not actually exist. Naturalism says only natural forces and entities make up the world. So perhaps a kind of nominalistic naturalism describes theological materialism, although I don't like to use those terms.

In theological materialism Godhood is defined as a concrete object, or objects, not an abstraction, a supermaterial object, not really spiritual---Godhood is a living thing which life can evolve to become in the natural and supermaterial world. There is no phenomenal/noumenal distinction, there is only the material and supermaterial. No duality in metaphysics is necessary, eventually no separation between religion and science is necessary.

Bergson said God is a verb rather than a noun, but I see Godhood as both a verb and noun. Godhood is both a thing and a material action, as life evolves to the super-life of Godhood.

Esoteric concealment is mainly the inability to discern supermateriality, and so the material world is confounded with the spiritual. The supermaterial is there, even if not yet well known.

Form is related to meaning, no meaning no form, no form no meaning. Living objects develop their form from the meaning that activates life, which is to evolve toward Godhood, while interacting with the environment, evolution, survival, and reproduction, sometimes evolving sometimes devolving.

Real Godhood is outside of ourselves, the God or Father Within is a symbolic experience of the real Godhood we evolve to become, not from, which is described in the Twofold Path.

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