Can metaphor be more than two
differences linked? The total words that the German language is so
fond of, like "Gesamtkunstwerk" (artistic
creation that encompasses various arts), which Wagner and Nietzsche
tracked to Ancient Greece, find a deeper metaphor in theological
materialism, which combines two things thought impossible to link,
the spiritual and the material.
In the grand religious/philosophical
metaphor of theological materialism the spiritual is seen as
material or more precisely as the supermaterial, and arrived at
through material evolution. Traditional religion and much of
philosophy sees it the other way around, material things are
considered grand illusions of the real spiritual world. That is a
very deep “transvalution of values” which even Nietzsche seems to
have believed, as his will to power seems to be a non-material force.
Heidegger's Being also seems to be non-material and spiritual.
In private caves and public monasteries
the ascetics sought to block the material world and material desires
so as to experience the God Within, both Christ and Buddha strongly
promoted this Inward Path. And the “truth” most philosophers
sought was seen as a nonmaterial idea. But the Twofold Path of
theological materialism sees the God within as only the first glimpse
or experience---which is a blissful experience better than drugs---of
the real Godhood reached in various levels of the Outward Path of material evolution.
The Twofold Path does not reject traditional religion it retains and transforms
it.
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