Redefining the Devil (from 2011)

Traditionally the following clarification would be cryptic, hidden in esoteric initiation, perhaps dollars would be exchanged, power attained. A step by step approach might be less volatile, less controversial, but we have a long way to glory, a very extended path to Godhood, and for this the Gordian Knot of asceticism needs to be cut, not tediously unraveled. Knowledge is power, but we have a very long way to Absolute Truth. The mystery needs to be illuminated so that we can proceed in evolution. Secrets don't help this cause.

Religious occult tradition says that the “Devil” or “Satan” guards the gate to heaven and that we cannot come to God without first coming to the Devil. But the Devil is only a symbol. This concept is directly related to materialism versus spiritualism, with the Devil standing for materialism. The Traditional approach of the Involutionary Inward Path defines the Devil as materially obstructing the Path to the spiritual Inward God, the Father Within, the virtual God of the Soul.

That God of the Soul can be attained only through blocking all the material desires, or the Devil, by applying the various religious inward disciplines, depending on the religious culture. But attaining the Father Within is only a virtual, blissful, reminder of what existence will be like when we finally attain real Godhood through the Evolutionary Outward Path. The Inward Path can be retained in the Twofold Path but it is transformed in the Evolutionary Outward Path.

Theological materialism and the projected Theoevolutionary Church redefines spiritualism, we can civilize the beast of materialism in the evolution of life to Godhood, not by blocking material evolution which is the only way to real Godhood. This is how we pass through the gate to heaven, by synthesizing and subsuming the material dynamics of the symbolic Devil into the Evolutionary Outward Path, from the material to the supermaterial and on to ascending levels of Godhood.

Redefining the “Devil” this way finally brings religion together into a sublime cosmic unity---religion and science, the spiritual and material, the sacred and profane, God and the Devil---so that we get on with evolving to Godhood.