Notes on ascending and descending Art (from 2009)

Art should be ascending more than descending. Traditionalism only descends to the soul within, seeing no ascent through materialism, it sees the soul as non material.

In positive theology the “Dance of Shiva” brings Atma (spiritual) back to Maya (material), not Maya back to Atma, as in negative theology. The inner is brought to the outer, the inner is only secondary to the outer, not the other way around. 

We can bring Eros, survival, and reproduction back to the sacred, after it has been largely exiled by Traditionalism due to its materialistic content, which is considered inferior.

Material beauty can be exhumed from its neglect by Traditionalism. “Eros with ethics” was the way someone defined advanced paganism but this was lost in the spiritual abstractions of the Inward Path of Revealed Religions. The Order of the Outward Path of Evolution to Godhood in theological materialism brings material ethics back, this time with an evolutionary ethics for our reproduction and evolution to ascending levels of Godhood. This can bring real Beauty back to religion. 

Taditionalism made an idol of the Soul Within even as it virtually rejected the earth and the material world calling these things idol worship. God is a Sacred Supermaterial Object evolved to in the world, not merely an equation outside the world defined as Perfect Truth. Traditionalism gave us a hubristic authority beyond the world, beyond the stars, and Traditionalism continues to supplant biology with the exclusivity of the Inward Path. 

The essence of material survival and reproduction is the thirst for evolving toward beauty, truth, and Godhood. When this Sacred Goal is missing, sex and reproduction can be defined as profane.