Unbound reflections on upward evolution and art (from the archive)

If form is determined by content, what is ugly content? The opposite of the classical standards of beauty, simplicity, restraint, proportion, harmony, intelligence, clarity, strength...

Upward material evolution might be called  the art and science of attaining beautiful form and noble content. The goal is attaining the zenith of form and content, which is Godhood.

When we define classical standards we can't stop at human perfection, as classical standards tend to do, the ideal is Godhood which means materially evolving beyond human form and content.

In defining Godhood we channel all the subject matter we have. The Romantics used to say all the arts end in music, we could say all life, art, politics, all evolution, tends toward their highest completion in Godhood.

Not “evolutionism”, which might be called evolution for evolution's sake. That is a limitation, like art for art's sake in aestheticism. Evolution has the sacred goal of ascending levels of Godhood, for the sake of Godhood, and for the sake of the material activation within life, or Tirips,  which seeks Godhood, while it is also shaped by outside evolution.

Can we live with the discontent from seeking higher evolution and not stopping at the status quo? The conservative connection with evolution comes in ordered evolution toward Godhood, beyond the Father Within, which was first seen in the Inward Path of the great religions---now transformed in the outward path of material evolution to ascending levels of Godhood.

Revolutions, like war, tend to sweep all gains away. That might slow down evolution which over time needs the order of tradition and peace to seek and keep the best of the new, using all fields in eugenics and genetic engineering to define and attain the best, but still grounded in classical standards.