As we evolve toward real Godhood

The most St Thomas Aquinas offers us is to “see” God in his essence, to “know” God is the best we can do.

But to know God is not enough, we need to become Gods by evolving in the material world to ascending levels of real Godhood. Of course, traditional religions call that an evil desire and assign it their most evil designation: satanic.

The evolution of life is not satanic it moves inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its random elements, and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward higher and higher more effective living forms, all the way to Godhood.

If anything is evil it is the turning ones back on the material world and the sacred desire within life to evolve to the zenith of success in survival and reproduction, which is real supermaterial Godhood.

But a battle over who is evil is not necessary, at least not on the part of theological materialism, which affirms supermaterial Godhood reached by material and supermaterial evolution yet conservatively considers the evolutionary Outward Path as an improvement on the Inward Path to the symbolic inward God of Traditional religions, not an evil. (see the Twofold Path)

The activation of material life toward evolving to Godhood is the unchanging constant, but values within this basic instinct can conservatively change, as the inward will to Godhood, or Tirips, works along with outside natural selection and evolution making new discoveries and presents new challenges as we evolve toward real Godhood.