Monday, May 04, 2020

The metaphysical error of calling material life evil


There is no real conflict between God and the material world because, contrary to many religious traditions, religious transcendence does not transcend the material world, Godhood is the highest evolution of the material world, although it is a kind of material of which we must evolve more to fully understand.

Nietzsche rightly developed the animality of the human being in philosophy, but in replacing God, Nietzsche advanced things only as far as the superman.

Theological materialism reintroduces God again, after Nietzsche attempted to kill God. In defining Godhood as the supremely evolved living object, or objects, or supremely evolved animal, we bring Godhood back.

This means the animal, the instincts, and indeed material life, are no longer evil, especially when material life evolves to Godhood; calling material life evil was a metaphysical error which actually blocked our evolution toward ascending levels of Godhood.
 
The ethos of the revealed religions has its source in asceticism, that is, in a lifestyle of abstinence from sensual pleasures, including celibacy, withdrawing from the world, and general renunciation to pursue the spiritual goal of seeing the God within---which is really a peak material experience.

But we can conservatively retain that old Inward Path to the God within as the first imperfect glimpse of Godhood wrongly defined as spiritual now seen as materially evolving to Godhood in the Outward Path.

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