Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Once again we must balance Apollo and Dionysus
It seems that the new (but perhaps
older) northern god Apollo brought patriarchy to the old southern
Furies of matriarchy in Ancient Greece, and this can perhaps be seen
developing in the tragic dramas. Dionysus seems to have been part of
that old matriarchal theology.
A more ordered rational Apollo
superseded the more instinctive, emotional Dionysus---or call it a
transformation, retaining the old in the new, which is the old
dynamic of conservatism, rather than a radical or militant
revolution.
Then Christianity came to the West and
reformed (really blocked) Dionysian instincts, replacing the more
instinctive “eye for an eye” of Judaism with the blocking of the
desires of the flesh so as to experience the bliss of the mindful God
or Father Within (not unlike Buddhism).
A new natural balancing was therefore
required, because both the later Greeks (Socrates) and Christianity
went too far in blocking the instincts of the old Dionysian Furies.
But then Friedrich Nietzsche, in his final thinking, went too far and
virtually killed Apollo in affirming Dionysus, rather than
conservatively synthesizing or transforming emotional Dionysus into
ordered Apollo.
So once again we must balance Apollo
and Dionysus by transforming the Furies of Nietzsche and Dionysus
into the ordered Apollonian evolution of material life to
supermaterial Godhood. Ordered evolution replaces the old conservative term "ordered liberty" in a deeper conservatism.
This sacred evolution is the task of theological materialism
and the Twofold Path, which can work with modern science. The Involutionary
Inward Path to the God Within is transformed---and not rejected---in the
Evolutionary Outward Path of material evolution to real supermaterial
Godhood.
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