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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