The tragic error in traditional metaphysics

The essence of metaphysics in Theological Materialism can be summarized by the following statement: The world is not illusory but real, the sacred material activation within life (Tirips) is not less real than Godhood, its main task is to help activate itself and us to evolve in the changing evolutionary material world to ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood.

Ibn Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Plotinus all say that “Brahman is real, the world is illusory, the self is not different from Brahman.” As Frithjof Schuon has said, that doctrine is the “eternal religion” of Hindu Vedantists and has been formulated and expressed implicitly and explicitly in the teachings of all traditional civilizations including in ancient Greece, the Christian world, in India, and within the Muslim world. But it contains a tragic metaphysical error.

Not unlike the other religious founders and gurus Meister Eckhart said in the Theologia Germanica, “...For if the left eye be fulfilling its office toward outward things, that is holding converse with time and the creatures; then must the right eye be hindered in its working; that is, in its contemplation. Therefore, whosoever will have the one must let the other go; for ‘no man can serve two masters.’

But the “god within” is really the material activation within life to evolve to Godhood, which does not hinder our attaining Godhood but activates us toward evolving to Godhood; the hindrance comes from seeking only the God within and thinking of it as spiritual and non-material, as Eckhart and the others did. The way of Vedanta and traditional religions in reality becomes a great spiritual blockade against evolving in this material world to real supermaterial Godhood.

Even so, we need not reject the inward path religions but conservatively view them in the Twofold Path as the first primitive glimpses of Godhood now transformed in the outward path of material evolution to supermaterial Godhood.