The new/old transfiguring goal

The transfiguring goal for Friedrich Nietzsche in his early writings was the creation of great men. Although that is important it is not nearly enough. Renewal requires the religious goal of our evolution to Godhood in the cosmos, which brings a far more exalted renewal of consciousness, and contains the power to revive religion, philosophy, and art in the enlarged modern world.

It is not tragic music, as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer thought, which expresses “the immediate language of the will,” it is evolution. It is not the Will To Power but the biological Will To Godhood, or Tirips, that activates life, which natural selection and evolution then shape, that is the real source for a renewal of mythopoetic power. Evolution is the super-epic for art, glorifying the struggle to attain Godhood.

Art can bring religion to life but art is not religion. Religion and philosophy can recognize evolutionary religion as what we need, and art and religious rituals can affirm it. Politically our evolution can even be democratic if we want it, with a federal system respecting and protecting the independent parts of the whole, maintaining the separate variety in ethnostates, which can advance evolution best, even with cooperative competition, as we gradually evolve beyond the human sub-species toward ascending levels of Godhood---that is the way to revive the decaying world and invigorate the new/old transfiguring goal.