Sunday, June 28, 2015
Saving religion and philosophy from abstract principles
God is only an abstract principle in
most religions, and Being is only an abstract principle in philosophy.
When this is more or less realized, people often become atheists or
postmodern Nietzscheans.
But God, or more precisely Godhood, can
be retained when Godhood is understood to be a living supreme object,
or objects, which we can evolve to in the material and supermaterial
world.
The Twofold Path retains the old
abstract inward God or Father, which is transformed in the outward
path to Godhood attained through evolution.
The Inward God is sought by way of the
ascetic denial of human desires and is seen here as the symbolic
experience, often blissful, of real Godhood reached through
evolution.
Central values and morality are
transformed to outward evolution rather than toward the inward denial
of instinctive drives. This can save both religion and philosophy
from mere abstract principles.
Science can this way enter the province
of religion and be guided by the goals of religion and philosophy
rather than by amoral technological progress.
What was the goal set by the program of
creation at the beginning of the cosmos? I believe the activating goal---defined here as the Activation To Godhood, or the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood---is for
life to evolve in the material and supermaterial world to Godhood.
Various early and later religious and
scientific myths have developed sometimes beautiful attempts to portray
the creation and goals, or lately non-goals, of the cosmos. The more intelligent we can become the greater will be
our understanding in pursuing the sacred evolutionary goal toward Godhood.
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