Friday, March 04, 2016
Future transformations of religion
To bring about better feelings among
the religions I wish Christians and other religion's would understand that "monotheism" was
pan-monotheism, as Schuon pointed out, and not only Judaic-Christian.
The East probably initiated the One-God conception in the Vedas, and before that
Shamanistic peoples were really monotheists even as they had lesser Gods in
the mix.
Following that, we can move on to
understanding the Twofold Path and the nature of the virtually
exclusive Inward God of traditional religions, which was seen or
experienced after ascetic discipline applied to first stopping the
desires of the flesh, which was the foundation of Christ's (and
Buddha's) teachings.
Then we can move on to the Outward Path
which transforms the Inward Path experience or symbol of Godhood into
the material evolution of life to supermaterial Godhood.
These I
believe are the future transformation required as seen in theological materialism.
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For fun, but perhaps also to help bring
about positive or ecumenical feelings among competing ethnic groups,
here is a very loose racial reinterpretation of Schuon's poetic ideas
on the four points, directions, and colors in primordial Shamanism:
Mongoloid, Yellow, East---light,
knowledge, peace
Red (proto and Native American), Red,
West---fertilizing, water, revelation
Negro, Black, South---warmth, life,
happiness
White, White, North---Cool, purity,
strength
We can let ethnic groups be as they are and as they have been for millenniums, and let them evolve forward toward Godhood
with their own qualities, in ethnic regions protected by federalism. Poetic, yes, but also realism in relation to the powerful group-selection in real human nature.
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