Making the world a monastery?

"Making the world a monastery" is the foundation of Christianity. (For a different view see Chronicles, January 2015). Living the ascetic life was the main theme and meaning of the Sermon on the Mount and this was the root of the social (really antisocial) values of Jesus Christ. Poverty, celibacy, obedience was (and is) necessary in the Inward Path to experience the symbolic God or Father Within. Not unlike Gautama Buddha, Jesus did not care for material life. Practical life had nothing to do with the ascetic life of Jesus.

It was the later reasoning of Catholic philosophers who adapted the ascetic values of Jesus, probably to accommodate the real necessities of human life and Church growth---Saint Thomas Aquinas was brilliant in doing this. Even though the reasoning of the philosophers kept the monastic system for the true followers of Christ, the Christian philosophers actually rejected more than transformed the ascetic life, in the the spirit of Saint Paul who told the Corinthians that it's better to marry than to burn with lust---a reluctant affirmation at best. This forever altered the traditional inward philosophy of Jesus.

But the way to deal with the delegitimizing of life and living in the ascetic Inward Path is not to reject the Inward Path but transform it in the Outward Path. The Twofold Path described in the theological materialism of the Theoevolutionary Church does not reject Christ's inward teaching. The Father Within is seen as the first symbolic inward glimpse of Godhood which can be reached in the Outward Path of material and supermaterial evolution. We do not turn away from the normal discontents of the real instincts of life, indeed, evolving material life is the only vehicle by which we can evolve toward real supermaterial Godhood.