We cannot separate spirit from matter

All kinds of problems have come from religiously trying to figure out how matter can come from pure spirit. This is where the “downgoing” and “involutionary” versus “evolutionary” ideas come from, as well as the Gnostic and Traditionalist School dislike and even hatred of matter, and therefore dislike of science.

We cannot separate spirit from matter, they are matter at different levels. Therefore, the cosmic birth is not a “downgoing” from spirit to matter but is the birth of less refined matter which than evolves up to refined matter, and sometimes to Godhood. This religious view stops the Great Spiritual Blockade against matter that religion has carried on for too long, which has actually stopped the evolution to Godhood.

For us the word “involution” is applied to seeing the God-Within, which is not evolution, involution needs to block all the desires of the flesh in order to see the God-Within. But the God-Within, which can be retained as symbolic in the Twofold Path, must not be mistaken for real Godhood which must be evolved to, materially and supermaterially. God is a Super Object, not a “spirit,” although Godhood attained is the most refined and evolved matter there is.