The false duality running through human history

We can retain religion, we can have Godhood, we can have ethics, embodiment, and transformation, but if we want reality in these things we cannot have transcendence of the material world. We "transcend" toward Godhood through material evolution.

The painting by Raphael, "The School of Athens,"of Plato pointing toward the heavens and Aristotle pointing toward the earth illustrates the false duality running through human history, although that wasn't Raphael's meaning.

There is the supermaterial, there is Godhood, but these divine things are evolved to in the material, not spiritual world. This means that science and religion have been falsely separated and need not be.

It is better to call spiritualism what it is, and is not, than to try to synthesize materialism into spiritualism by keeping it in a system of duality, as the great intellectual fathers of the church tried to do,

But with the Twofold Path conservatives and traditionalists need not reject the spiritual Inward Path of desire-free ascetic living, which can be seen as the first human inward glimpses of real Godhood now understood as reached in the Outward Path of material evolution.