Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Overcoming cynicism in the Twofold Path
I don't believe men are innately
flawed, which is an idea that seems to have been caused from an unrealistic
definition or view of what is “unflawed.” That is, defining
unflawed man as being non-material or with few or no material desires
is at the origin of the oldest religious definition of flawed
man as being materialistic in a flawed world.
Religious gurus advocated
non-materialistic living mainly as a tool or aid in seeing or
experiencing the God or Father Within, for which materialism would be
a distraction. Non-materialism was then only secondarily described
as the preferred social behavior, for example, one could give to the
poor because the things of this world in any case were not important
in the deeper sense of experiencing the God Within---“giving” in
itself was therefore not the first value.
The Twofold Path in theological materialism and the Theoevolutionary Church retains the
experience of the God or Father Within, which is the essence of
traditional religious values and morals, without having the Involutionary Inward Path to
the Father Within overwhelm the Evolutionary Outward Path of
material/supermaterial evolution to real Godhood.
Cynicism and the view of flawed man
falls away in the Outward Path which requires the material
world to evolve to Godhood, and places the desire-free state of the
Inward Path in a secondary role, as being a symbolic glimpse of what
real Godhood may be like at the zenith of material evolution. Heroism in the
world rather than ascetic removal from the world takes precedence in
the Twofold Path.
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