“God
is spirit,
and those who worship
Him must worship
in spirit
and truth.”
John 4-24
Wrong: there is no real spirit, God or Godhood is a supermaterial,
super-evolved living object or objects, Godhood is the goal of the
primary drive within life and evolution, the material drive-force which is wrongly called spirit. This is the next direction which
religion will take, called theological materialism.
The will, soul, spirit, life-force, will to power, will to Godhood, or as I call it: Tirips, is the sacred will to evolve to Godhood and nothing more than that,which is enough. It is the most sacred drive but it isn't God, it is the drive within life to Godhood which must live and adapt the life it lives within to the exigencies of natural selection and evolution. It is a material drive, but the most sacred element of the material drives. It is not a “spiritual” drive, it lives within life and is past on through procreation. It part of our nature, the most important drive of the direction of out lives and cultures are or should be the most important design our lives and cultures.
This worldview which I
define as theological materialism is the golden synthesis of religion
and science. Energy
is matter in another form, so matter is really not passive as
Newton's first law said, matter in the form of energy moves matter.
Matter in the form of energy moves matter from within matter as well
as from outside of matter.
There is
more than an outward action or reaction with matter, there is an
inward vitalism working within and shaped by outside evolution, which
is the activation of the will to life as inward metabolism, growth,
reproduction. Theological materialism amplifies this vitalist will to
life with the goal of the will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood, or Tirips.
Spirituality is not needed in religion when matter is not passive. It
is matter not spirit that is evolving to its zenith of Godhood. With
evolution we are destined to be Gods.
Andrew Balio wrote “Johann Sebastian Bach said that “The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” That is another way to say that the aim and final end of all music should be Beauty, for it has always been with beauty that we glorify God just as it has always been beauty that refreshes our souls."
The philosophy of theological materialism believes that life evolves materially to Godhood and defines that Godhood as the zenith of beauty, truth, and goodness and the fulfillment of the soul, or Tirips, which is the the will-to-Godhood activating material life. Life is then shaped by the vagaries of outside natural selection and evolution. There is endless evolution toward higher and higher truth, intelligence, beauty, and goodness, that is, continually evolving ascending Godhoods are reached. Tirips or the will-to-Godhood within life decides where it wants to go first, toward Godhood, and then the body, mind and culture, and outside evolution, follow as best they can, given the various environments life finds itself living in. But life can also fall back in devolution, new cosmos are formed again, but always giving life another chance to evolve to Godhood.
The Will to Godhood (Tirips) manifests itself through evolution, and its goal is the ongoing realization of perfected being, physically, intellectually and morally. The-will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood, or Tirips, is an inward, purely physical, activation working along with the shaping of outside evolution and selection. But even without acknowledging this inward purpose we can see that evolution has been moving toward more efficient forms, more complexity, with occasional stops and side-turnings along the way.
What is the best way to reach these goals? Bonding with a religion of theological materialism. Theological materialism (and the projected Theoevolutionary Church) will affirm the mission and path of the Third Covenant, the Cosmic Covenant of the Evolutionary Outward Path, which revitalizes Primordial Tradition, Christianity, Hinduism etc. by once again affirming the First Covenant of genetic and biological qualities within our material evolution to supermaterial Godhood as applied to the Outward Path of material evolution to supermaterial Godhood, yet also, as in the Second Covenant, this is applied to all people, all nations, all races, all people, preferably living in their own protected states or ethnostates with access to knowledge of the material evolution to Godhood. That is the synthesis of the Three Covenants in theological materialism.
I have written of the Three Covenants explaining how in the First Covenant of Primordial Tradition the Spirit and Soul of the Inward Path were understood as existing in the blood, that is, as being passed on only racially and tribally to a chosen eg. (Jewish) or noble (Aryan) people, etc.. Then Jesus Christ (and Eastern masters) brought the knowledge that the spirit and Soul-Within need not be understood and affirmed only racially or tribally but could be understood and followed by any race, any people, universally, provided they were taught the proper way to see or experience the God Within; Christianity said we were “Chosen” through faith in Christ not chosen by blood. That was the Second Covenant.
The
Third
Covenant acknowledges
the biological origin of our social behavior which can end the
intellectual separation between political ideologies and religious
covenants, pointing
toward the religious/political/cultural solution of the
ethnopluralism hypothesis, often written about here. It is a
conservative transformation---not revolution---that can bring about
an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which is the sociopolitical or
political/cultural structure most in harmony with kin-centered and
ethnocentric real human nature which evolved many thousands of years
ago and remains with us today. Each ethnostate, each ethnic group,
each race, can have access to knowledge of our sacred material
evolution to supermaterial Godhood, and can pursue that sacred
evolution in their own way in their own protected states, in the
variety that is conducive to evolution, perhaps aided by nonpartisan
international sociobiological research centers, as Raymond Cattell
suggested.
The forced
imperialism,
supremacism, and multiculturalism of the world
will give way to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, in line with real
kin and ethnic-centered human nature. I think the real debate in the
U.S. should be over how we can conservatively adapt the
Constitutional separation of of powers and states to an
ethnopluralism of ethnostates. Cooperative competition between small
ethnostates and regions, protected internally and externally from
imperialism,
supremacism, and multiculturalism by some sort
of federalism can bring the variety and creativity that
evolution prefers, as we all materially evolve toward Godhood.
Conservative Christians see materialism bringing only narcissism and nihilism into the world, and they look forward to the religious “re-enchantment” of the world. They believe only traditional religion can restore a politics and a culture oriented toward the highest Good.
But conservative Christians are mistaken about materialism. Materialism can give us a Godhood that includes both religion and science.
Conservative Christians think that our disenchantment with the religious world coincided with scientific advances but scientific advances have given us the best way to repair and re-enchant the world. Meaning can once again pervade the world, producing men and women capable of restoring a politics and a culture based in the evolution of the material world.
There is a way to reconcile and synthesize these things: Godhood is evolved to in the material world. It is the material will to Godhood that replaces the will to power and the spiritual drive. The “first cause” is the material activation within life, Tirips, or the will-to-Godhood activating material life, and then life is shaped by the vagaries of natural selection and evolution. There is endless evolution toward higher and higher truth, intelligence, beauty, and goodness, that is, continually evolving ascending Godhoods are reached. But life can also fall back in devolution, new cosmos are formed again, but always giving life another chance to evolve to Godhood.
We
can repair the world not tear it down. We can conservatively keep the
old ascetic inward path to the "god" within in the Twofold
Path, but only as a symbolic glimpse of the real Godhood reached in
the outward path of material evolution to real Godhood. The Twofold
Path can make room for the traditional, non-object-idea-only
definitions of the God-Within, or even the bliss feelings of
Father-Within of the Inward Path of the great religions---this is
included but transformed in the Outward Path of the evolution to Godhood in
theological materialism.
What someone called the
“primal plot” usually does not include the evolution of life to
Godhood, which is the real primal plot. It does not begin in Eden and
end in Golgotha, or Nepal, or Mecca, that is only part of the plot.
It begins at the various primal origins of various universes, all of
which appear to be evolving material life toward Godhood. Some make
it, some do not. That is the material primal plot as well as the
sacred path. The ultimate purpose of life, which includes art and
culture, is not merely to confirm a “maker” but to affirm the
sacred path to Godhood of material and supermaterial evolution,
guided by the activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood within life.
Esoteric traditionalism advocates that all civilizations and peoples should return to the spiritualism of their traditional cultural archetypes—but that includes different forms of paganism, and not only the orthodox Christianity of the traditionalist Dugin or the Islam of Guénon. The biological origin of social behavior, and naturalism, is given short shift among the traditionalists, as well it might, because the biological origin of social behavior points toward the biological evolution of life toward a real living Godhood, and not a god which is attained only in the minds or hearts of men.
The highest possible
degree of the spirituality in Traditionalism leads to the decline of
the material body due to the Great Spiritual Blockade of life and the
body with the Inward Path to the god-within. But the Half-Truth of the
Inward Path can join the Half-Truth of the Outward Path to end the
spiritual blockade of the Outward Path of material evolution toward
real Godhood. We can bring survival and reproduction back to the sacred,
after it has been largely exiled by Traditionalism due to its
materialistic content which is considered inferior.
Traditionalism gave us
hubristic authority beyond the material world, beyond the stars, and
Traditionalism continues to supplant astronomy and biology with the
exclusivity of the spiritual Inward Path. But life and beauty can be
religiously exhumed from this material neglect. The
Inner God is the Outer God we must evolve to. The Order of the
Outward Path of evolution to Godhood brings the real return
to the traditional cultural archetypes where
reproduction and evolution to Godhood can be reaffirmed.
The object is superior to the idea of the object. A thing doesn't really need the idea of a thing; Spiritualists, intellectuals etc, elevate ideas into gods. The living or dead objects are the the real things no matter what you call them. The object is superior to the idea of the object.
In the battles between the right and the left, the replacement the spiritual by the material, the group by the individual, the will to power versus reason, Nietzsche against Aristotle, there is a way to reconcile and synthesize these things: Godhood is evolved to in the material world. It is the material will to Godhood that replaces the will to power and the spiritual drive.
The “first cause” is the material activation within life, Tirips, or the will-to-Godhood activating material life, and then life is shaped by the vagaries of natural selection and evolution. There is endless evolution toward higher and higher truth, intelligence, beauty, and goodness, that is, continually evolving ascending Godhoods are reached. Life can also fall back in devolution, new cosmos are formed again, always giving life another chance to evolve to Godhood.
We can conservatively keep the old ascetic inward path to the "god" within in the Twofold Path, but only as a symbolic glimpse of the real Godhood reached in the outward path of material evolution to real Godhood. The Twofold Path can make room for the traditional, non-object-idea-only definitions of the God-Within, or even the bliss feelings of Father-Within of the Inward Path of the great religions---this is included but transformed in the Outward Path to Godhood in the theological materialism of the projected Theoevolutionary Church.
And evolutionary conservatism believes that if real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.
Political philosophers talk of ideologies, like the Great Reset, religious philosophers talk of covenants, mysticism, etc, like the Traditionalist School, I believe the Third Covenant, the Cosmic Covenant, surpasses both of these.
As Michael Rectenwald said in his excellent essay on Klaus Schwab, chairman of the World Economic Forum, “What Is the Great Reset?” (Imprimus, Dec 2021) “Another way of describing the goal of the Great Reset is “capitalism with Chinese characteristics”—a two-tiered economy, with profitable monopolies and the state on top and socialism for the majority below...While approved corporations are not necessarily monopolies, the tendency of the Great Reset is toward monopolization—vesting as much control over production and distribution in as few favored corporations as possible, while eliminating industries and producers deemed non-essential or inimical. To bring this reset about, Schwab writes, “[e]very country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.”
As have said
before, my view of the absolute importance of
human evolution kept me away from the brilliant seduction of the
Traditionalist School which is where the Alt-right turned. Many have
now gone over to the school of Guenon, Evola, and the Russian Dugin,
and embraced a non-populist, old spiritual religious, imperialist,
hierarchy of rule, and have downplayed or even rejected the idea of
science and evolutionary progress. Why didn't
the Alt-right feature
more Western geniuses, men like the brilliant British/American
psychologist Raymond Cattell, or the great Neo-Darwinist field of
sociobiology, rather than converting to the West-hating Russian
imperialist Aleksandr Dugin and his Traditionalist School teachers,
Guénon and Evola who
did not find science (a jewel of the West) nearly as important as
Eastern spiritualism (a
jewel of the East).
I
wrote of Three
Covenants
explaining how in the First
Covenant
of Primordial Tradition the Spirit and Soul of the Inward Path were
understood as existing in the blood, that is, as being passed on only
racially and tribally to a chosen eg. (Jewish) or noble (Aryan)
people, etc.. Then Jesus Christ (and Eastern masters) brought the
knowledge that the spirit and Soul-Within need not be understood and
affirmed only racially or tribally but could be understood and
followed by any race, any people, universally, provided they were
taught the proper way to see or experience the God Within;
Christianity said we were “Chosen” through faith in Christ not
chosen by blood. That was the Second
Covenant.
Theological
materialism
(and the projected Theoevolutionary Church) affirm the mission and
path of the Third
Covenant,
the Cosmic Covenant of the Evolutionary Outward Path, which
revitalizes Primordial Tradition, Christianity, Hinduism etc. by once
again affirming the First
Covenant
of genetic and biological qualities within our material evolution to
supermaterial Godhood as applied to the Outward Path of material
evolution to supermaterial Godhood, yet also, as in the Second
Covenant,
this is applied to all people, all nations, all races, all people,
preferably living in their own protected states or ethnostates with
access to knowledge of the material
evolution to Godhood. That is the synthesis of the Three
Covenants
in theological
materialism.
The Third
Covenant acknowledges
the biological origin of our social behavior which can end the
intellectual separation between political ideologies and religious
covenants, pointing
toward the religious/political/cultural solution of the
ethnopluralism hypothesis, often written about here. It is a
conservative transformation---not revolution---that can bring about
an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which is the sociopolitical or
political/cultural structure most in harmony with kin-centered and
ethnocentric real human nature which evolved many thousands of years
ago and remains with us today. Each ethnostate, each ethnic group,
each race, can have access to knowledge of our sacred material
evolution to supermaterial Godhood, and can pursue that sacred
evolution in their own way in their own protected states, in the
variety that is conducive to evolution, perhaps aided by nonpartisan
international sociobiological research centers, as Raymond Cattell
suggested.
The forced
imperialism,
supremacism, and multiculturalism of the world
will give way to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, in line with real
kin and ethnic-centered human nature. I think the real debate in the
U.S. should be over how we can conservatively adapt the
Constitutional separation of powers and states to an
ethnopluralism of ethnostates. Cooperative competition between small
ethnostates and regions, protected internally and externally from
imperialism,
supremacism, and multiculturalism by some sort
of federalism, which can bring the variety and creativity that evolution
prefers, as we all materially evolve toward Godhood.
We require that real human nature and the natural laws discovered by intuition and proven over time by science be included in religion and political philosophy, with a religion and political philosophy that admits the biological origin of human social behavior. Then we require the conservative principle that reform should repair, not tear down established cultures when working to establish a religion and political philosophy that admits the biological origin of human social behavior.
For example, the biological origin of social behavior and real human nature, which is genetically kin and ethnic centered, leads naturally to regionalism, localism, and eventually an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all ethnic groups or races, black, brown, red, white, or yellow. A federalism of the American variety with strong states rights can work for future ethnostates. The Constitution certainly gives the states independence and freedom, especially with the Tenth Amendment, which means that radical solutions such as revolution or secession are not necessary.
As
to religion, theological materialism sees material
progress
as life infused with the upward climb of evolution toward ascending
levels of Godhood at the zenith of material evolution, which we can
and should aid with the evolutionary sciences. Natural law in
evolutionary conservatism brings a conservatism grounded in the order
of material evolution to Godhood. The coming species can evolve far
beyond the human species, and far beyond increased human
consciousness to God-Consciousness, which counters both the
stagnation of traditional conservatism and the nihilism of empty
spiritualism.
I would say my political philosophy is Russell Kirk modified by Wilmot Robertson, that is, I give importance to earlier ancestral genetic, ethnic, racial connections—which has been left out of conservatism, at least since William Buckley read it out of modern American conservatism---like building a house without a foundation. Evolutionary conservatism adds to and deepens basic conservatism by affirming the biological origin of social behavior. Human nature is biologically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection. Like the liberals and neoconservatives conservatives block or conceal the ethnic-centered and xenophobic parts of human nature due it seems to universalist religious or liberal edicts.
If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.
As
to religion, which was fundamentally important to Kirk, conservatives are skeptical of human progress and “shun the worship of
material progress, particularly when that progress is linked to
government efforts to improve human nature.” (Clyde Wilson)
Theological materialism sees material
progress
as life infused with the upward climb of evolution toward ascending
levels of Godhood at the zenith of material evolution, which we can
and should aid with the evolutionary sciences. Natural law in
evolutionary conservatism brings a conservatism grounded in the
transcendent order of material evolution to Godhood, the coming
species will evolve far beyond the human species, and far beyond
increased human consciousness to God-Consciousness, which counters
both the stagnation of traditional conservatism and the nihilism of
modern thinking.
In an essay on Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn in Chronicles, Lee Congdon quotes Solzhenitsyn saying
that a political system should not be measured by its military power
or the size of its economy, but by the sum of the spiritual progress
of individuals under its authority. Deeper than politics and
economics is religion and the spiritual. Solzhenitsyn made it clear
that his concerns were fundamentally religious and moral—the state
structure was of secondary significance. I agree in general, but religion and science need a deep tuneup.
It has been said that politics is down stream from culture, and culture is down stream from religion. But religion has been slowly dying since the the 17th and 18th century Enlightenment, and it's demise has been speeding up since then. Science has not filled the gap although for many in the West it has tried to take the place of religion. Both religion and science need a tune up where they can take things from each other.
I would say the Enlightenment was 50 percent right in affirming science, and traditional religion was 50 percent right in affirming religion, but the Enlightenment was 50 percent wrong in smearing religion, and religion was 50 percent wrong in smearing science.
It is true that attempts were made to synthesizes these things. The Enlightenment affirmed Deism with God defined as nature, and religion tried bringing more rationalism into religion, but they really didn't like each other much, and that dislike grew worse as science advanced and religion faded.
Theological materialism retains religion and Godhood but religion and Godhood are reformed by evolutionizing religion, philosophy and politics, which is different from the Teilhard de Chardin project to evolutionize religion while retaining an entirely non-material, spiritual, trinitarian God.
We don't look to experience merely the symbolic God Within the human brain or heart, as traditional religion has done---although this is retained in the Inward Path---the Twofold Path seeks to save religion not destroy religion.
A rebirth of religion is needed. Perhaps the theological materialism of the projected Theoevolutionary Church will help bring science, art, philosophy and religion back together. The material world and mankind will materially evolve on earth and in the cosmos to ascending levels of real Godhood, the Godhood first seen only virtually, as a mirror, in the inward paths of the great religions.
Conservatism and traditionalism will not achieve full maturity until they accept the biological origin of social behavior. This can lead to strengthening the separation of powers and states in American conservatism because that fits best with real human nature, which is genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection followed by individual selection. If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism.
We need to love and protect our own groups, states and nations, as human nature and our human instincts intend us to do, but we also need to think and move beyond the human species toward evolving future and better species, all the way to Godhood. This is a worldview which can overcome the loss of religious direction and the nihilism of modern thinking. Religion can be retained but natural law in evolutionary conservatism brings a conservatism grounded in the transcendent order of material evolution to Godhood, which counters both the stagnation of traditional conservatism and the nihilism of modern thinking. The coming species will evolve far beyond the human species, and far beyond increased human consciousness to God-Consciousness.
Everyone already practices eugenics when they choose a mate based on attributes that are related to their genetic heritage. Gene editing companies are now offering services in “agbiotech, biobanking, cell therapy, DNA sequencing, stems, synthetic biology, and vaccines.” GeoffreyMiller reports that China has been running the world's largest and most successful eugenics program for more than thirty years, which is driving China's ever-faster rise as the global superpower.
Human nature systematically evolved to prefer kin and ethnic group because those traits were more successful in survival and reproduction of the genes of individuals and groups. Even altruism, being for others, was created as the preference for kin and ethnic group; altruism obviously weakens as we move out toward universalism.
If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.
The
instinctive and logical social outcome of discovering and defining
real human nature leads to a religion which affirms Godhood as the
zenith of material evolution, and eugenics the way to get there.
Godhood is not seen as apart from material life or otherworldly
(spiritual) but as the goal of ascending levels of materially evolved
life, rationally reached at the instigation of the will to life.
Godhood as the zenith of life and material evolution is then defined
as ultimate truth, beauty and goodness.
Evolutionary conservatism is a biologically informed approach to the study of human behavior and politics, evolutionary conservatism adds to and deepens conservatism. Theological materialism affirms the material biological evolution of man all the way to Godhood; but in a conservative way.
Evolutionary conservatism adds to and deepens basic paleoconservatism by affirming the biological origin of social behavior. Human nature is biologically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection.
Even "order," which is so important to Burke and Kirk, is put in place because orderly societies are more successful in survival and reproduction than disorderly societies. But like the liberals and neoconservatives the paleoconservative's block or conceal the ethnic-centered and xenophobic parts of human nature due it seems to universalist religious edicts.
If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.
Paleoconservative 's are very skeptical of human progress and “shun the worship of material progress, particularly when that progress is linked to government efforts to improve human nature.” (Clyde Wilson) Theological materialism sees material progress as life infused with the upward climb of evolution toward ascending levels of Godhood at the zenith of material evolution, which we can and should aid with the evolutionary sciences.
Natural law in evolutionary conservatism brings a conservatism grounded in the transcendent order of material evolution to Godhood, which counters both the stagnation of traditional conservatism and the nihilism of modern thinking. The coming species will evolve far beyond the human species, and far beyond increased human consciousness to God-Consciousness.
We
need to love and protect our own groups, states and nations, as human
nature and our human instincts intend us to do, but we also need to
think and move beyond the human species toward evolving future and
better species, all the way to Godhood. This is a worldview which can
overcome the loss
of religious direction and the nihilism of modern thinking.
If matter is condensed energy then energy is matter in another form, so matter is really not passive as Newton's first law said, matter in the form of energy moves matter.
I believe matter in the form of energy moves matter from within matter as well as from outside of matter. There is more than an outward action or reaction with matter, there is an inward vitalism working within and shaped by outside evolution, which is the activation of the will to life as inward metabolism, growth, reproduction.
Theological materialism then amplifies this vitalist will to life with the goal of the will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood. Spirituality is not needed in religion when matter is not passive. It is matter not spirit that is evolving to its zenith of Godhood.
The will (Tirips), or the will to materially evolve to Godhood within all life is rational and is a sensible, reasonable explanation for Godhood and how to get there, which solves the dilemma of Nietzsche (and Schopenhauer) over the differences between truth, the will, art, science, the rational and irrational. Godhood is not seen as apart from material life or otherworldly (spiritual) but as the goal of ascending levels of materially evolved life, rationally reached at the instigation of the will, as well as by super-reason and science. Godhood as the zenith of life and material evolution is defined as ultimate truth, beauty and goodness.
If we ask why does “life” “live?” Why is life animate rather than inanimate? Why does life have metabolism, growth, reproduction? Why doesn’t life just sit there doing nothing? Why has life persisted time and again in evolving from the simple to the complex under the most extreme conditions?
It is more than an outward action or reaction, there is an inward vitalism working within and shaped by outside evolution. This is the activation of the will to life, and when it is amplified it is seen as the will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood.
This brings the real world into religion and religion into the real world, and most importantly it unblocks the long-blocked natural path to evolving to real Godhood, the real purpose of existence, which is only reflected in the God-Within. This means a trans-valuation of Plato's and I dare say Nietzsche's world, long overdue. The so-called irrational is really rational.
The-will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood,---“that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” (to adapt Keats). The goal of evolving to Godhood need not deprive us of either science or religion. When Godhood is seen as a naturalistic and theological goal, the goal of evolution, then biology and theology need not settle for the empty spiritualism. Nature and philosophy can be seen as life materially evolving toward ascending levels of Godhood.
The
main problem with traditional asceticism is that it blocks the path
of material
evolution to real
supermaterial Godhood, which requires
material desires, but channeled
desires that need to genetically and culturally funnel evolving
life-forms toward the supermaterial zenith of beauty, truth and
goodness. This allows material science to enter religion as a
help-mate. That is the future of religion and science transformed.
I see the great process of evolution as activated from within every atom and within every cell of living bodies, which then react and adapt to the various outside environments that life lives in. This activation is the same activation that leads to the desire to successfully survive and reproduce. And this activation is a material/supermaterial activation, not spiritual. I see “evolution moving inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its random elements, and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward higher and higher more effective living forms,” as Raymond Cattell put it.
The-will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood,
or Tirips, is an inward, purely physical activation working along
with the shaping of outside evolution and selection. But even without
acknowledging this inward purpose we can see that evolution has been
moving toward more efficient forms, more complexity, with occasional
stops and side-turnings along the way.
Matter was Spirit to Teilhard de Chardin. He believed he had resolved a core conflict of the split between Matter and Spirit, between Body and Soul. He believed he understood that the evolution of matter was one and the same with the evolution of spirit (consciousness).
"The Way Teilhard Saw It"
Spirit did not by the touch of the divine
call lowly Matter to life,
rather Matter was Spirit
from the absolute
beginning
latent with unimaginable power
in the embryo of a cosmic mustard seed
dreaming of bursting into flower!
-- Charles C. Finn, August 10, 2021”
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