Monday, February 17, 2020
How theological materialism conservatively transforms and not destroys the revealed religions
To St. Thomas and founding
ascetics from other revealed religions God is completely immovable,
unchanging, and also non-material, and the experience of God, or
beatitude, is reached and experienced by stopping or overcoming all
movable, changing, and material desires. That is the Involutionary
Inward Path to the God within.
Death too is immovable,
unchanging, and also non-material, while life is movable, changing,
and material, yet to St. Thomas and founding ascetics from other
revealed religions God resembles immovable, unchanging, and
non-material death. They even say such this things as, "He
who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My
sake will find it." Matthew 10:23. To
live in beatitude we must die to all material desires.
In theological materialism
the Evolutionary Outward Path to real Godhood is attained by evolving
to ascending levels of Godhood by way of material and supermaterial
evolution, that is, by way of movable, changing, and material life
and not by way of immovable, unchanging, and non-material death.
It's usually easier and
more humane to transform the old way than to destroy it, that is the
prudent way to change, which conservative's prefer, and so in
theological materialism the Twofold Path conservatively retains the
old Involutionary Inward Path to the God within as the first glimpse
or symbol of God, which is transformed in the Evolutionary Outward
Path of material evolution to ascending levels of real Godhood.
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