Essential Theology

Will-Spirit, Mind, Divine Nature, Church And State

The Will, which is the Spirit in the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) cannot be subordinated to the mind, the mind must align itself with the Will-Spirit. This is not such a fearful thing when we see how faith in the Goal, or reasoning toward the Goal of the Will-Spirit, helps us understand life evolving to Godhood through natural evolution activated by the Will-Spirit.

The mind at it's zenith, defined as the Soul, must learn to understand the Will-Spirit and then help guide the body in the direction of Godhood, the Goal of the Spirit.

This defines the Divine as what is true in nature. The Law of God is what is in nature.

The “personal” aspect of God is the Will-Spirit within each individual that can be contacted and harmonized with the evolutionary path to the more "impersonal" Godhood. The “logos” is thus both personal and impersonal.

It is not the separation of church and state that is primary, it is adapting the state to the church in any given history or environment that defines the primary relationship between church and state, just as it is not a separate mind and will which is primary but adapting the mind to the will that defines the relationship between them.

We are not free from Divine Law yet we have a certain amount of “freedom” in how we adapt to Divine Law, just as natural selection in evolution can diverge, go sideways, go backwards or forward but still be activated by the Spirit toward the pattern of evolving to Godhood, the Zenith of the Will-Spirit.

It seems that the only way Traditionalists can be free is to be free from true nature and the natural world. This Gnosticism defines God as a denotation, an equation, not an object, not a Supreme Object. We cannot and should not be free from the very nature that takes us to Godhood by way of the Spirit.

(For an alternative discussion of these things see “A Symposium on Remi Braque's The Law Of God,” Modern Age, Winter 2009)

Gerald Celente Interview : It’s the end of the world as the Greater Depression hits after 2010

"...Mr. Celente follows over 300 trends: family, crime, war, education, consumer & business patterns which Trends Research Institute synthesizes to predict the future..."

"...We predict state secessionist movements will rival the breakup of the Soviet Union."

"The only way we can ever recover is to return to individual community, personal responsibility, local government. Next, average will disappear, Quality will return. Look at GM. Junk cars financed by junk bonds. Now owned by a junk government. As a consumer, don’t consume quantity -- consume quality."

"How will it all end?", we queried. Will the dollar survive?

"The dot com bubble should have burst and gone away in a short sharp recession. But the boys at the Fed re-inflated the economy by lowering interest rates to a 46 year low -- and in turn created the real estate bubble -- much bigger than the dot com bubble. "

"Now they’re creating the bailout bubble -- which will ultimately dwarf the real estate bubble. It will cause the implosion of the global economy world wide -- which will not be able to be repaired by creating yet another bubble. Every time the government fails, it tells a bigger lie and then a still bigger lie..."

The rest of the interview here, from Human Events.

The Confounding of Reductionism In Art

The Ideal of The Instincts

It seems to me that one of the difficulties conservatives have with imparting a “moral imagination” (Burke, Kirk) derives from the difficulty that comes from disdaining and denigrating the “naked ape” notion of man.

When you try to teach morality by appealing only to “spiritual things” while demeaning the instincts and material things, you are ignoring the 1000 pound Gorilla in the room. It is not the instincts that are bad but the teaching of goalless instincts that is bad. The Ideal of the Instincts is Godhood, what could be higher? This is far more than a mere naked ape view of the instincts.

How We Are Moral Beings

Natural Law And Divine Law

“Law for Man” Or “Law for God”? Emerson and Kirk separate these, but they need not be separated. God is also a “Thing,” an “Object.” God is as much of a “thing” as man, only God is the Zenith of Things, and the Zenith of Nature. This is how natural law can be the same as divine law.

We are moral beings in this sense of having natural laws within us, which are also divine laws; the natural laws lead in evolution to the divine laws of God. When we deny this or are ignorant of this we can be defined as immoral.

The Body And Object Too Can Be Noble

When St. Thomas speaks bitterly of man who could not “think of anything nobler than bodies” (Sum. Theol.), he is speaking of the God of the Inward Path, as the Buddha and others also saw, which defines the God seen in the Revealed Religions. This more precisely defines the Soul Within, the Zenith of the Mind. To reach Godhood requires the Outward Path of material evolution to Godhood. The Body and Object too can be noble.

Contemplation and Action as the Two Paths

Contemplation is not superior to action, both help define the Two Paths, the Inward and Outward Paths. It is through the Outward Path of evolution and action that we evolve to the God seen in the Inward Path of contemplation.

We are more than naked apes but...

Revitalizing the moral imagination

Our age requires the moral imagination that Burke and Kirk wrote about, we must make Traditions fresh and new, but this includes more than literature. Religion has rejected science and evolutionary human nature for long enough and it needs to be revitalized. If the end of moral imagination is to teach us what it means to be human then we can no longer ignore evolution in religion.

Spiritualizing Evolution

We are more than naked apes, but this is not because we reject Darwin and evolution but because we spiritualize evolution. We accept that we are animals but we are animals on the great Path to Godhood. We do not wish to puff ourselves up with definitions of a human Godhood that rejects the animal instincts. The instincts carry us to God, activated by the Spirit.

Relaxing the tension between faith and reason

The synthesis of reason and revelation has been thought to not be possible. The tension Leo Strauss saw between God-directed, revelation, and Darwin-directed, reason, can be relaxed when evolution is seen as evolving to Godhood, as it is seen in theological materialism and the Evolutionary Christian Church.

There is not true tension here, but there is a goal-directed, or teleological evolution, requiring a combination faith-hypothesis, which says that science and reason will eventually find proof of the Godhood goal of evolution now known mainly by faith or intuition. The activation comes from the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood within life which is itself material/supermaterial.

Laws of God

We have the basic laws of God within our nature, we must learn to follow the laws, after first seeing what they are.

We need to orient ourselves toward the evolutionary laws of the Kosmos, toward the Godhood of the Evolutionary Outward Path, while also seeking to know God, the goal of evolution, through the Involutionary Inward Path. This is the Twofold Path.

We can learn about the world by learning about God, but we can also learn about God by learning about the world.

The Eternal Law is the same as the natural law yet to be fully discovered. Natural law, human law and divine law are the same law in its full extent. The highest culture would harmonize these laws.

Transvaluing the Being-narrative

Being does not begin with abstract non-Being, Being is a force of nature which is only reflected or mirrored in abstract non-Being. God is in nature as the highest evolved Being, God is the goal of life and evolution.

The Being-narrative does not pass from symbol to idea to nature, Being is nature, symbol and idea only reflect the nature of Being.

The Spirit-Will is also part of nature, It is not non-Being. Spirit-Will is yet to be defined and discovered by modern science, but one day it will.

Thing-In-Itself-With-A-Goal

The Spirit, or the Spirit-Will-To Godhood, is the Thing-In-Itself-With-A-Goal, the Goal of Godhood at the zenith of evolution.

This does define a teleology, design in nature, (evolutionary teleology) which is within nature and it can be explained materially, with Godhood perhaps existing in some kind of supermaterial “spiritual atoms,'' called spiritual because it has not yet been explained by material science, although it has been much examined and limited to the non-material by religion.

Blood Activated By Spirit

We cannot and should not abolish Tradition, we cannot remove the moral or ethical foundation. We do not seek to demolish the old so that the new can be built, as all revolutionaries do. Yet we can recall that our tradition was once new.

We do not reduce humanity to biological origins when we acknowledge the biological origin of much of social behavior. Our foundation is not placed in biology, genes, race or in spiritless matter. It is not a choice between “blood or spirit,” blood is activated by Spirit to evolve to Godhood.

We do this by synthesizing Tradition and Science, the Spiritual and the Material in the Inward and Outward Paths leading to God.

Political nature of man

The nature (constitution) of man is not really democratic, it is led by the Spirit, and guided by the Soul. We are the instruments of the Spirit, individualism and democracy must be approached from this perspective. We evolve as a group. This more suggest the hierarchy of Monarchy as the smoothest running, natural system, under the right conditions. But the Spirit is flexible, adaptable, and it may advance itself best through democracy, or at least representative Republics. We could just as well say “The Republic is dead, long live the Republic” as we could say “the King is dead, long live the King.”

Good/Bad, Spirit/Body, Definition

Regarding the Spirit we can say that It is the doer and we are the instrument by which the Spirit moves the body through evolution to Godhood. But care must be taken here with the religious tendency to define the body and the person as “delusion.”

The Spirit cannot be defined as the only good and the body as the only bad, dualism should not be set up here. We do not “save ourselves” by losing our body, the body is the instrument whereby the Spirit evolves all the way to the Supreme Body of Godhood.

Both Spirit and Body are good, as the Holy Spirit and the Son are the highest good, defined by the Father.

Function and appearance in art and religion

There is a strong tendency toward dualism between function and appearance in Traditionalism making appearance far less important. In art this means the creation of icons and archetypes representing the function rather than the appearance.

However, when God is seen as a Supreme Object then the dualism between function and appearance does not apply. God is not merely an idea. More than the intellectual virtues must survive death, these need to be carried forward by the successful survival and reproduction of our genes and our body.

Let the Body be unblocked from the Great Spiritual Blockade in art and religion. We can have an archetypal art with heroes and myths representing universal functions, but appearance deserves equal treatment, the Body and Spirit both evolve to Godhood.

We need to avoid the extremes of modernism that seems to care only for appearance, and Tradition which cares only for function. Contrary to many mystics, we need not use the lowest symbols to represent a God who is only an idea, there is nothing nobler, at least on earth, than the highest evolved human body, representing the Beautiful, the Good and the True.

Imitating nature's manner of operation

The Evolutionary Outward Path in the Evolutionary Christian Church imitates nature in her manner of operation. Art was said to do this in Traditionalism.

The art of God is the work of the Son and Holy Spirit through which all things are made and evolve, defined by the Father.

Contrary to the Traditionalists it is the looks of existing things and not the ideas that is important, and it is the destination of things that is primary.

Soul and Spirit

The Soul searches for the absolute order and truth of things as they might exist in the mind of God—this is the Soul defined as the Zenith of the Mind.

Deep within the Soul is the Spirit, the Zenith of the Soul, which activates the Soul to Godhood, guided by the genius of the Soul.

Genius lies in the Soul, the immanent Spirit activates genius as individual, but the Spirit is both individual and universal.


A. Coomaraswamy said the immanent Spirit is equally artistic, moral and speculative.

Immanent Pantheism

We do not place divinity in the transcendental beyond the object universe, that is, purely as in Classical Theism (see definitions here), which held to the transcendence of God, his existence over and beyond the universe. Panentheism—unlike pantheism, maintains that the divine can be both transcendent and immanent at the same time. Whereas Pantheism holds to the divine immanence, or immanent pantheism. This places the Divine within and around mankind, indwelling and near dwelling as the Spirit or the Will to Godhood which activates within life rather than as completely remote---yet Godhood, at the zenith of material evolution, is far evolved from man and the general cosmos as to be mistaken for transcendent.

Synthesizing Religion and Psychology

The Will, or Will to Godhood, is both instinctive-unconscious and superconscious-supraconscious. There need not be a split between modern psychology and Traditionalist religion. The instincts have been wrongly driven out of religion, or virtually so, which in effect blocked the true activator to Godhood with a Great Spiritual Blockade. The Ideal of the Instincts has been grossly limited and virtually thrown out of religion.

The “demon “ of psychology is the same as the “daemon” of the mystic, the “libido” is the same as “Eros.” This is how the innocent primitive, unaware of style, art or religion can apprehend God as well as the refined metaphysician. This is not the “reduction” of religion to psychology, or reduction of psychology to biology, this is the amplification of the Material to Spirit. The material and the spiritual should not be forced apart. Eros leads to Godhood, the material evolves to the material-spiritual.

The Will to Godhood is universal, it is our way of apprehending it that may be individual, or define our “style,” our art, or our religion.

(For the Traditionalist perspective, which tends to reduce all things to Involutionary theology, see “Christian and oriental philosophy of art” by Ananda Coomaraswamy.)

New Right Definition of Tradition

Brief Excerpt: New Culture, New Right

"New Right identitarians believe a people is a living organism. As such, it can die. To guard against this a people needs a common heritage to define itself and maintain its will to live together. In this sense, tradition serves as the scaffolding around which a people constitutes itself. If there is no heritage – no transmission (traditio) from one generation to another – a people has nothing to live for and no reason to remain together. It is, then, as the horizon against which a people's existence is worked out that tradition imparts purpose to its common endeavors. As [Arnold] Gehlen writes, 'without it one can keep restlessly active...and yet lack any inner sense that all this busyness carries any moral significance.' This is why identitarians believe Europe's pagan, mythic traditions are key to its renaissance..."

Excerpt continues here..

Freedom, Abstinence and Order

The discipline of “freedom through abstinence” can be useful in concentrating the mind and body on attaining the Soul-Within, as is applied in the Involutionary Inward Path (Thanatos), which is taught in the Revealed Religions and in Stoic philosophy. But beyond this specialty it cannot be applied to the whole of life, the social and political order, where it becomes a negative freedom and can devalue the material world, even to the point of creating a Great Spiritual Blockade against evolving to God.

The Evolutionary Outward Path redeems or balances this misapplication of the Inward Path in relation to the material world, creating order through the evolution to Godhood (Eros), an order that is not the extreme of abstinence but material evolution directed by evolutionary knowledge (Ordered Evolution) to Godhood.

On reality that transcends our grasp of it

The Absolute Truth (AT) can be known only by the Supreme Objects of Godhood. AT is “in the world” only in it being in God the Object's mind and not outside his mind. Abstract Truth is Abstract Truth and does not exist on its own as an object, it exists only in the mind of a living object.

Kant closed off “the possibility of correspondence with a reality that transcends our grasp of it.” (see discussion here) We don't exactly agree, because Godhood is beyond our grasp and God perceives truths beyond our grasp yet grasps truths that are within his/her grasp.

What we would say is that we close off the possibility of truth if we try to go beyond the living object who grasps it. The denotation or definition of God does not exist as an object in itself but exists in the mind of God, which exists in the body of Godhood.

The Theoevolutionary Church responds to the challenge of the fallen culture

According to the wise Russell Kirk (Redeeming The Time) a culture develops and civilizations arise by a process of “challenge and response” (Toynbee). If a culture vigorously enough surmounts the challenge, the culture will grow in strength. But if the challenge is so great that it damages or distorts the culture—the culture can become stunted and possibly fall.

Modern culture has been such a formidable challenge that it has in fact distorted and nearly destroyed Western civilization, and particularly the Anglo-American culture. The Christian West has not been able to mount a vigorous enough and deep enough response the the great challenge. Conservatism was missing the power of science, and particularly the knowledge of sociobiology that could have a direct biological, demographic, response to the declining West, which is virtually missing in Modern Conservatism.

The Theoevolutionary Church (TC) with its Revitalized Conservatism (RC) has the great potential to be the vigorous response to the challenge of modernism and postmodernism because science and sociobiology are synthesized into traditional religion and conservatism with the Evolutionary Outward Path. The question is, will TC and RC be applied in time, or will it be the foundation and revival of our culture and our people, along with all cultures and all people, after the fall?

An End To Dualities

An end to dualities means an end to separating the physical from the metaphysical (we would rather say “tranrational”), but unlike modern science we do not eject the metaphysical, and unlike religion we do not virtually eject the physical. We include the physical and metaphysical in one whole, one evolutionary continuum, from the simple all the way to Godhood. The spiritual is material and the material is spiritual in evolution.

False Dualities

Conservatives have said that the material order rests upon the spiritual world, but this is a false duality. The material is spiritual and the spiritual is material.

The Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC) attaches science to religious aims and has not detached science or detached religion. Two Paths lead to, A. the Inward Soul and B. the Outward God, both Paths are affirmed in ECC. There is no duality here.

We must recover the religious order to survive. And the choice is not between a “Savage God” and a "Civilized God." ECC is not merely reviving paganism, we are reinvigorating the Civilized God of Perennial Religion.

Kin, Cult and Conservatism

The missing element

Russell Kirk, and a few others, (Dawson, Voegelin, Toynbee) pulled a bit of a fast one when they proposed that once a people join a cult for worship (religion), then, out of this the human community grows. Biology, genetics, kin and race are the first element out of which the cult and community grow. Perhaps this fast one was understandable, given the bias against discussing the genetic origin of social behavior following World War II. Much courage would have been necessary. Even Edward Wilson, the brilliant father of Sociobiology from Harvard University, who is not a racist, was dosed with water for suggesting such a thing.

Yes, culture arises from religious ties, but before that culture arises from kin- bonding. The reality is that dwelling together in relative peace usually relates to genetic similarities. The biological origin of much of social behavior should not be ignored. The achievements of our civilization stem from this as well as from religion.

Could this “fast one,” placed at the base of modern conservatism, explain why conservatism and the culture are not reviving? With Revitalized Conservatism this missing, vital, biological aspect of human nature is finally addressed through the Evolutionary Outward Path, synthesizing it with the Traditional Involutionary Inward Path of Religion.

The Idolatry of Denotation

“Supernatural divine influence” is said to not come from any “object,” but this is when God is defined as only the “Father,” which is a definition, a denotation. When God or Godhood is seen as a Supreme Object of Supreme Divine influence, then indeed “supernatural divine influence” can come from Supreme Objects.

The Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC) separates the intellectual form or definition of God from the ruling power of the world—as mystics have often done--but we do not “worship the dead letter,” the Idolatry of Denotation. This worship, this idolatry, has created an aversion, or more seriously, a Great Spiritual Blockade against everything material, and against positive theology.

Even so, there is a place for this “idolatry” in the Involutionary Inward Path of ECC, which works in harmony with the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.

A Very Great Sin

If sin is---to use a phrase by traditionalist Ananda Coomaraswamy---“a departure from the order of the end,” then The Great Spiritual Blockade of material evolution to Godhood by traditional religion, diverting human actions toward the Soul-Within alone, has been a very great sin. The Inward Path leads to the Soul, a great goal in itself, but the Outward Path of evolution to Godhood has been left out of religion, and that is where the great sin has occurred.

Instinct and Culture

Defining ordered evolution

It is overdo time to synthesize instinct and culture, which to this day Conservatism says is the distinction between man and animals. The Ideal of the Instincts, driven by the Will to Godhood, or the Spirit, leads to Godhood, for man or animals.

Culture changes as natural selection moves forward, but instinct requires ordered evolution to maintain positive changes. Ordered evolution affirms Conservatism.

Revitalized Conservatism defines ordered evolution in the following virtues and ethics of the Evolutionary Christian Church:
The Involutionary Inward Path, virtues: (Traditional Christianity) Prudence, justice, courage, temperance (Greek), faith, hope and charity (Christian).
The Evolutionary Outward Path, ethics ( Beyondism): Development, group solidarity, diversity, individualism, plus, intelligence, truth and beauty.

The goal of the Involutionary Virtues is to understand and see the Soul-Within, the goal of the Evolutionary Ethics is to evolve to God, activated by the Spirit.

Ordered Evolution

On Redeeming Conservatism

We take seriously Russell Kirk's (also T. S. Eliot) advice to find imaginative ways to renew our proscriptive freedoms and our inherited moral and constitutional order. Kirk thought the culture can be renewed only if the religion (cult) is renewed. This is a central concern of the Theoevolutionary Church (TC), although our “renewal” is a Revitalized Conservatism which Kirk would probably find too radical. Evolution is not an impersonal force of destiny or history, it is guided by the Spirit and the Soul, ultimately leading to God.

We do not want the conservative legacy to seem like a burden to this age, as it now does. We understand that Conservatism is a foundation, not a burden. We describe the balance between “Order and Evolution” rather than “Order and Freedom.” “Ordered Evolution” is the term we use.

A Future Less Fearful

The Theoevolutionary Church cannot be described as merely converting our religious belief into an instrument of social transformation, as secularizing religion has done, or was trying to do before it simply gave up on religion; we affirm the sacred nature of evolution which grounds our religious belief.

The doom and gloom of Conservatism at the prospect of the future, harkening up Orwell's “1984” and Huxley's “Brave New World” need not be such doom and gloom. To read the great modern Conservative writers, with their brilliant descriptions of the death wish of modern life, has tended to lead to stagnant traditionalism, rather than ordered evolution. Young people are not attracted to stagnation.

Ordered Evolution is the Conservative/futurist balance which can make the future less fearful. Our hope is that even in the “depths of calamity” (Kirk) on the ruins of Western Civilization a foundation can be laid for a greatness going into the future.

We cannot entirely foresee the future, historical determinism can be undone by evolution. But future evolution need not be severed from the order if the Conservatism of human nature—now affirmed by sociobiology-- is the ground of future evolution, as it is in TC. The Involutionary Inward Path of Traditional Religion is the anchoring structure of the Evolutionary Outward Path, as we proceed with Ordered Conservative Evolution.

Defining Philosophy

We embrace the old definition of philosophy as theology, ontology, biology, and wisdom regarding how to live.

How The Holy Ghost Can Be Love

Dante thought of the Holy Ghost as “love.”  Without invoking the Tantra, this can be true in relation to the Spirit being the Zenith of the Soul, the Seed of the Kosmic Beginning, which helps activate evolution through survival and reproduction to evolve all the way to Godhood.

The Best of Both Truth and Objects

Truth can exist outside our human minds yet not exist as an object. This sort of truth can be respected but should not be worshiped as the only supreme goal. God's mind can know Absolute Truth (we cannot) yet even with God, Truth is not a living object, it is both inside and outside God's mind, only God can think Absolute Truth or know It. Absolute Truth can be known and thought of by God but it is pure definition to Godhood the Object, as it is, or will be to us.

Higher Truths may be known in the mind of Angels and with Penultimate Gods who live on the evolutionary continuum, where truth still remains “nothing,” it is nonexistent definition, not alive, not an object. We seek to evolve to the Supreme Object, first, and only then know the Supreme Truth.

A clear, sensible essay on our economic problems

"...On the consumer end, “normal” was a death wish, “shop ’til you drop” – an obsessive compulsion by the profligate many to spend money they didn’t have but had to borrow...If it was an economic Pearl Harbor, the enemies were Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, A.I.G., Countrywide, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Bear Stearns, and all the other banks, brokerages, speculators, insurance companies, hedge funds and leverage buyout specialists that had launched the sneak attack on the American economy..."

The rest of the article here, "Looking Back on the Greatest Depression" by Gerald Celente

Nature First, Definition Second

Godhood As The Good Object

God is not defined as “Good” only because the Idea says God is Good, Godhood is first the Supreme Object, or Objects, at the Zenith of Evolution, and only with this is God truly defined as Good. The Supreme Object is Good before It is defined as such by or as the idea, contrary to Plato and much of philosophical history.

Nature First, Definition Second

When we say “according to nature” we mean “as things behave” and not as Plato seems to think “as things should behave.” Nature comes first, and the ideas and definitions come second. Ideas are a product of nature but they require a living Object to think the idea, and a Supreme Object to think a supreme idea.

Definitions

Godhood is not invisible, only the definition of God is invisible. Confounding these leads to the Great Spiritual Blockade against the world, and against material and supermaterial evolution toward Godhood.

God Is Within The Cosmos

Metaphysics usually thinks things are beyond space, time and change. Earlier religions had the Gods involved in the Kosmos even as they changed the Kosmos. Zarathustra was one of the first if not the first to say that God was both within the Cosmos and beyond the Cosmos. But many thinkers were describing this "outside" or "beyond" aspect of God as merely a definition, an idea, a form, a definition, or an equation. Other religions and philosophies followed.

Even "time" is within the Cosmos because when photons are traveling the speed of light, time seems to stop. We take the earlier position that Godhood is within the Cosmos, as a Supreme Living Object, or Objects, not outside the Cosmos.

In the Evolutionary Christian Church "outside the Cosmos" is a definition, an equation representing, for example, the Father in the Trinity. We might ask, did Zarathustra and Plato more or less think of the "Father" and God this way?

Zoroastrian discusses some of these things.

On The Gnostics

One does not “become a God” and “perfect the universe” through only Gnosis, or knowledge, while existing as a human, any more than the Inward Path leads to Actual Godhood. Attaining the Soul-Within, the goal of Traditional Religions---also the Involutionary Inward Path in the Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC)---is a very worthy goal, but it is not Godhood.

To attain Godhood we must take the Evolutionary Outward Path of material-spiritual evolution–-along with the Soul activated by the Spirit—to Godhood. These are the Two Paths in ECC.

On the Kundalini

From the perspective of the Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC), turning one direction in the Kundalini of Hinduism---and also seen in the esoteric wisdom in Orthodox Judaism---takes you to the Soul, and turning the other direction takes you to the Spirit. In EC the Soul-Goal is of the Involutionary Inward Path, the Spirit-Goal is of the Evolutionary Outward Path.

The direction of the Spirit is not “downward” to sexual desire and “upward” through the Chakras to spiritual insight, as the above organizations suggest, this creates the Great Spiritual Blockade against the evolution of the material world to Godhood, because the mind seeks the Soul, which is the Zenith of the Body, and not Godhood.

The Soul is of the Body, of the Mind, and is the Zenith of the Mind, whereas the Spirit is the Seed of the Kosmic Beginning, the Will to Godhood, the Activator of the Body-Mind-Soul to Godhood in Evolution.

The hope is for the Soul-Mind to help balance and guide the Spirit, and not extirpate the Spirit. The Spirit knows where it wants to go—to Godhood—but it can use Soul-Mind guidance along the path of evolution to God. The Soul is the rider of the Spirit steed. And the Spirit can have the Grace of God.

Religion has concentrated almost solely on the Soul and not the Spirit and this has been the main cause of many problems.

Why Isn't the Inward Path Called the Path of the Spirit?

Why isn't the Inward Path called the Path of the Spirit and the Outward Path called the Path of the Soul, since the Soul-Mind is the highest aspect of the body?

Because the Inward Path is Involutionary, seeking the Soul-Mind-Within at the expense of the body, or by restricting the senses of the body in order to see the Soul-Within.

The Outward Path is the Path of material-supermaterial evolution, and even though it is activated by the Spirit-Within---not the Soul---it is the outside path of the evolution of the body, along with the Soul-Mind, to Godhood in the outside cosmos.

The First and Second Force

The Balance of Soul Truth and Spirit Truth

Truth is of the Mind (Soul) and of the Will to Godhood (Spirit). The Inward Path seeks Soul Truth, the Outward Path seeks Spirit Truth. Traditional Religion has sought Soul Truth, usually by blocking (mostly unconsciously) Spirit Truth.

Soul Truth is of the body, as the Soul is the Zenith of the Mind. Spirit Truth is of God, the Will to Godhood in man, activating the Body, including the Soul, to Godhood.

The Spirit is the First Force, the Soul is the Second Force. Both need to work in harmony, led by the Spirit but guided by the Soul. This is the balance sought in EC.

Traditional Religion seeks and meditates upon the Soul, EC meditates upon the Soul as well as the Spirit. “Seeking the Truth” is generally sought in the Soul-Mind, but deeper than Soul-Mind is Spirit-Truth, God's Truth, which is beyond the human mind, yet also in man, existing in the Supreme Object that is God and sought by the Spirit within man.

The enlightened Soul-Mind sees the Truth of the Spirit and conforms to it.

Awake

"Reflect: is not the dreamer, sleeping or waking, one who likens dissimilar things, who puts the copy in the place of the real object? I should certainly say that such an one was dreaming. But take the case of the other, who recognizes the existence of absolute beauty and is able to distinguish the Idea from the objects which participate in the Idea, neither putting the objects in the place of the Idea nor the Idea in the place of the objects—is he a dreamer, or is he awake?" from World Wisdom

- Plato (Republic, 476 C)

Comment: He is awake. But the Idea is far less than the Living Object itself, contrary to Plato.

The reason of a man

The reason of a man living on earth, while useful and sometimes dazzling, will often deny the reality of evolution attaining Godhood. But this has nothing to do with reality, it is like an atom denying the existence of the world.

Economic Patriotism Sweeping the Nation

"Pushed by the United Steelworkers and the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a sense of economic patriotism is sweeping the nation and materializing in the form of “buy American” resolutions being passed in every level of government across America...” more here at Economy In Crisis. 

On the anthropic principle

Primary and secondary beginnings

Was the Universe created in order to produce beings like ourselves?

The “anthropic principle” is “the collective name for several ways of asserting that physical and chemical theories, especially astrophysics and cosmology, need to take into account that there is life on Earth, and that one form of that life, Homo sapiens has attained sapience," the only kind of universe humans can occupy is one that is similar to the current one. (Wikipedia)

Somewhat contrary to this theory, the universe was created, not merely in order to produce beings, but in order to produce beings who would evolve to Godhood. Evolution to God is the primary intent and pattern, beings are produced secondary to and for this sacred path. Why? Ask God.

Spirit heart, Soul mind

The Spirit relates to the symbol of the heart, the Soul to the mind. This is seen in the following statement from Pat Buchanan: “...Rooted people love the things of the heart: God, country, family and faith. The weapons of the mind have been given to us, they believe, to defend the things of the heart.” The Mind or Soul (Inward Path) helps guide the Spirit (Outward Path) to God.

The Will Itself and Music

Music can be advanced, using advanced mathematical and emotional patterns, but it is still only sound. Contrary to Schopenhauer, music is essentially primitive. Sound is less evolved than the Body-Object.

Human evolution leads the Supreme Will to Godhood, not music, the human being as an object is closer to the Will than anything else on earth, including music.

The Will is the Spirit-Within, and its goal is Godhood. Yes, the Will has a goal. It is not a directionless or beastly power. The higher evolved in the Kosmos are therefore closer to the Will-to-Godhood. God is the Will Itself, at the Zenith of Evolution, finally realizing Its goal.

The Will To Godhood

Evolution helps define the Will to Godhood, the Spirit-Will, which is the agent—both rational and irrational—depending on the ability of the mind or Soul to grasp it—and evolution constantly develops through changes, material and spiritual changes, always raising itself—like the dialectic—to higher forms, with starts, stops, and sideways twists, all the way to Godhood.

One cannot be “free” from the Will to Godhood in some imagined “spiritual freedom,” or in atheism, because Will is Life Itself. Death may free one's Soul (the Zenith of the Body) from this Will, yet the Will lives on in offspring, because the Will to Godhood is the central activation to Godhood, via material survival, reproduction and evolution. True “freedom” from The Will To Godhood, or from evolution, comes not from killing or extirpating this Will, but from fulfilling this Will, by finally attaining Godhood at the Zenith of Evolution.

Our task is to understand the biological-spiritual direction of the Will to Godhood, which is the central concern of the Order of the Outward Path, working with science ( eg. sociobiology, eugenics, genetics) and religion (the traditional Involutionary Inward Path.)

In the Will to Godhood there is a lack of relativism that climbs (evolves) to the Goal-Zenith of evolution, which is Godhood. This is a teleological end, not a wait-to-see-the-outcome end. But since we have not evolved enough to know the precise way to evolve to God, we must study life, evolution, natural selection, etc. to find answers, while working with Perennial Religion, which has claimed to know, more or less, the God we are evolving to. Here is where the Evolutionary Christian Church combines the Involutionary Inward Path of Traditional Religion with the Evolutionary Outward Path of science.

God has “immutable laws” but they are deeply contained in the dialectic-like changes of evolution's Will to Godhood.

Is Ethnic Federalism A Viable Idea?

Ethnic Federalism is a term that needs serious exploration as a principle on which America and Europe could organize, but also Africa, Arabia, China and other states as well.

This is a way to pursue peace between states and people, based on an ethnic and linguistic federalism. People do not want to be taken over by any form of imperialism, whether racial, capitalist or socialist imperialism, or any “ism” hidden under the guise of universalism or internationalism.

Ethnic states, small homelands, have a natural identity; homogeneity is stability. Ethnic federalism can strengthen communities and offer a return to the sources of real life, traditional life.

This does not mean aggressive nationalism. When people love their own land and their own people they are able to understand how to love foreign people, they can affirm the right to differences, which can replace all the negative forms of imperialism. This is not racist ideology, this keeps differences from disappearing, this is a refuge against racial imperialism.

Ethnic Federalism is not necessarily a new concept of society, but it opens up new ways of dealing with our modern world. It seems to me that the United States already has a federal division of states, and even a Constitutional framework, which could legally harmonize with ethnic federalism; this might truly be a way to calm the growing tensions in this country, as it could be in other countries.

(Here is an article from Euro-Synergies related to this subject, which may require translation.)

Defining God and Trusting God

“Trusting God” depends very much on how one defines God. If you define God as “only” the God Within, which is really or Spirit-Within, then you will trust in a limited--however great--view of God.

If you trust the God of the Kosmos as being the Zenith of the evolution of the Spirit-Within, guiding the material world to Godhood, then you are putting your trust in a God far beyond the Soul-Within, although the Soul, having reason, can help guide the Spirit.

Evolution to God creates a less involuted person, a less passive person than the person solely devoted to the Soul-Within. To reach God we need both the Inward Knowledge of the Soul-Within and the Outward Knowledge of the evolution of the Spirit To God.

Enlightened Man

The “Enlightened Man” is not only one who has realized or become one with the Soul-Within, as we have been told by the Involutionary Gurus. The Enlightened Man has seen the Spirit as, above all, the activator of future evolution to Godhood. That is, Godhood is not merely uniting through involution with the Soul-Within, Godhood is arrival at the goal and zenith of evolution in the Kosmos, through the Evolutionary Outward Path of material evolution, activated by the Spirit.

The Spirit and the Soul-Within

The Involutionary Inward Path contacts the Soul, which is the Zenith of the Mind in the body. Scientists have found that in meditation it is the prefrontal cortex of the brain that is experiencing union with the All, not the limbic system, where such things as sexual arousal in reproduction take place.

The Zenith of the Spirit-Within is the Will to Godhood, and it needs to be working in harmony with the Body-Mind-Soul. The Spirit is guided by the Soul, and the Soul is activated by the Spirit. The Spirit-Within is the Will to Godhood of survival and reproduction. But this Spirit requires the Zenith of the Body, the Mind-Soul, and Its abilities to reason etc, to help develop sacred evolutionary reproduction and not merely profane devolutionary reproduction, which can happen when the Spirit is unguided by the Soul-Mind.

The Spirit alone, without the Mind-Soul is merely unguided Prana, Dionysian bioenergy, which can lead to devolutionary reproduction without the guidance of the Mind-Soul. The Soul, alone, without the Spirit-Within (Will to Godhood) can lead to static bliss at best, or merely bliss addiction with no Will to evolve further to Godhood. At worst, it is the complete neglect of the body and the Spirit-Within.

The Soul-Within is not God or Godhood but is a guide to Godhood. The Soul, which is the Zenith of the Mind, is activated to evolve to Godhood by the Spirit, which is the Will to Godhood. The Soul is the goal of the Involutionary Inward Path, and Godhood is the goal of the Spirit in the Evolutionary Outward Path. One could say that the Spirit is the Spark of the Soul.

We do not deny the goals and insights of the Inward Path to the Soul, we include them. But we insist that the greater insight of the Spirit-Within is the evolution of the Spirit-Within and the Soul-Within to Godhood through material evolution, affirmed in the Evolutionary Outward Path.

Is the Theoevolutionary Church A Science?

The Theoevolutionary Church is a religion and a science, synthesizing both, claiming both. Each side ideally keeps the other from arrogance or presumptuous bias. We do not wish to manipulate either science or religion to serve TC. We descend from both religion and science.

Why Pure Science Is Not Enough

Unlike pure science we can pre-state the way the world evolves, and we can also predict it as well. The natural laws, for us, are sufficient to describe the pattern of evolution, natural selection is not even lawless, and God is more than merely the “creativity” of the universe. We can even suggest what causes the Kosmos to evolve.

We do still need the agent God, and He can still be a fully natural God. The material evolves to Godhood.

Reason and science are important, but they remain insufficient. We need to use emotion, intuition, imagination, and yes, revelation and oracles to understand the Kosmos. And courage, too, is vital, because the universe does evolve in a linear way, with reversals and turns as well, but this means there is a higher and a lower order of complexity and consciousness, which may not fit politically correct versions of an egalitarian world; scientists and humanists in general have been inexcusably weak (biased) in this area.

The Politically Correct Evolution of Technology

The emergence of a new form of life through technology and cultural evolution has become the politically correct way to bypass human evolution, that is, let machines evolve, not humans (see the “Singularity Institute For Artificial Intelligence”) This is a tragic mistake. We can have both, we must have both. God is not a machine of technology, God is a natural object at the Zenith of Biological-Spiritual evolution, and we, life, must evolve to Godhood, along with our technology.

Human Nature Outlawed

Nature and Human Nature is simply outlawed, bypast, in many laws and positions put forward by the Liberal Humanists and Socialists. This is absurd and would be dismissed as absurd if it were not so damaging to our culture and civilization.

Revitalized Conservatism affirms real human nature, which is where the true harmony occurs with people and nature, although this does not preclude such things as competition, resentment; even hierarchy, if anything, it applauds these natural things.

"A trip where the journey is not half the fun..."

..."These foreign policy failures and military defeats — or even more embarrassing “victories” — become just two of a larger series of crises, including the economic crisis (depression followed by runaway inflation), foreign exchange crisis (collapse of the dollar), political crisis (no one in the Establishment knows what to do, but the Establishment offers the voters no alternative to itself), energy crisis, etc. Together, these discrete crises snowball into a systemic crisis, which is what happens when the outside world demands greater change than the political system permits. At that point, the political system collapses and is replaced by something else. In the old days, it meant a change of dynasty. What might it mean today? My guess is a radical devolution, at the conclusion of which life is once again local.

That would be, on the whole, a happy outcome. But I fear this will be a trip where the journey is not half the fun..."

"On War #300: Retrospective" By William S. Lind, April 15, 2009

More of the grim article here

On Gender

Defining gender seems to be up in the air today, but it need not be. Sociobiology defined gender by looking back at the Paleolithic, which evolved the very same gender qualities we have today. Gender is defined very clearly as being Traditional, all the rest is noise and propaganda for various causes.

Conservatives and Libertarians

Basically, Libertarians put economics above the community, Conservatives put community above economics. There are variations in this, such as, “Conservative Libertarians” and “Libertarian Anarchists,” but the difference between Libertarians and Conservatives is defined by where they place their values and morals regarding community and economics.

Economic production can only be considered a means to a higher end. In the Evolutionary Christian Church the highest end is our evolution to Godhood and all that this requires. Free Enterprise has been a marvelous dynamic for creating wealth, and it must be affirmed, but it must also be subordinated to the community; yet not so subordinate as to destroy incentive, as happened with Communism. Light subordination of economics, as in Light Federalism, is the healthy balance between economics and the needs of the community.

The Evolutionary Christian Church is the religion of the future

With the Involutionary Inward Path each people will have its version of the Perennial Religion, which will bring the long dreamed of ecumenism. With the Evolutionary Outward Path each nation, each people will affirm its own history, its own separate development and evolution. Each people will be a people of God on the evolutionary path to Godhood.

The Decline of Serious Music : A Review of “Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts,” from American Masters, PBS Wed 4-08-09

The musical decline of serious music since 1945 led us to Philip Glass, as music began to lack a sense of tone, key, centering, and lack a place to return to. (See “Can There Be Great Composers Any More," by Webster Young.)  Glass seems to be trying to bring tonal music back, but he has not.

Composers rejected the historical retelling of past ages. They said “to hell with the past.” This attitude is reflected in all revolutionary movements, including political movements. In revolutionary movements each person is on their own, they can't refine previous techniques. This is important because our present achievements are as much the result of past achievements as personal genius. Mozart did not invent most of the features of his music, he improved on the work of past composers.

A conservative, or neoclassicist builds on the past. His work is a culmination of what went before. He does not need to create a mini-revolution and be innovative in all ways. The ancient classical ideals involved beauty and harmony, clarity of form, nobility of subject, and meaningfulness. Meaningless beauty is not classical. The concern that the work be only original rather than asking how beautiful the work is, has created mediocre works, because all past musical tradition has not been involved in the work.

The “new” is not rejected in neoclassical music, as the revolutionaries falsely claim to advance themselves, the old should have a grain of the new but not a whole field of untested grain. In modern music and modern art the new is a destruction of the old. So why would composers (or any kind of revolutionary) wish to destroy? Why not develop old forms rather than discard them? Why destroy old forms when destroying them only alienates audiences and ruins the economics of serious music?

We cannot really know the psychology of individual revolutionaries, but we can see patterns and general traits. The key to understanding Philip Glass seems to reside in his stated belief that if you don't like his music, don't listen to it, he could care less. Glass is syncretistic, fusing widely different forms, he has attempted to combine the melody and rhythm of Hindu music with the melody and harmony of Western music; but he ended up rejecting Western harmony for a monotonous version of Eastern melody and rhythm.

Often individual modernists are simply not a part of the old neoclassical culture. Often the modernists simply have no talent for neoclassical music. Often modernists have problems with authority in general. Often modernists are egocentric, or megalomaniacal. Or often modernists display all of these traits. Philip Glass is defined in all of these categories.

Certainly a return to neoclassicism will one day be strongly fueled by the usurpation of this inferior clique. We need artists and critics to begin to speak out against this usurpation.

The Protectionists Were Right

The Protectionists Were Right - On the Idiocy of Interdependency and Export-Driven Economies by Kent Welton, essay here at Economy In Crisis.

Our Differences With New Age Involution

The New Age and the Wilberian perspective calls for change in the “Memetic and Psychic” aspects of the human population, which places the New Age in the Involutionary Inward Path of Traditional Religion. The new human species they call for, e.g. “homo noeticus (EnlightenedNext 2008) physically resembles Homo Sapiens but has a “marked increase in consciousness.” This is defined as “evolution.” But it is really involution.

The Evolutionary Christian Church calls for more than the conscious evolution (really involution) which defines the ancient Inward Path. We seek to combine the Inward Path of Involution with the Outward Path of Evolution. The coming species will evolve far beyond the human species, and far beyond increased human consciousness. God-Consciousness is not human-consciousness. We can reach the Soul-Within through religious disciplines involving the Inward Path, but this must not be mistaken for God or Godhood. This grave mistake creates a Great Spiritual Blockade against the evolution to Godhood.

Mediation of the Divine Plan

Evolution is the scientific version of both the human alchemy of the Kabbalah and Hegelian concepts of mediation, which can now be mediated through the Evolutionary Christian Church. We will evolve to Godhood through mediated evolution. We can harness the energies of left, right, science, and religion, for evolution. Evolution used to be a matter of chance, now it can be a matter of choice.

However, affirming Conservatism, we evolve forward while looking back to see what was possible for humans in the past. We recognize the Divine Plan that guides humanity and the Kosmos. We don't neglect history but we don't neglect the future either.

What Our Philosophy Offers

The Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC) provides a new conceptual framework for understanding and interpreting human society. The old theoretical tools are no longer valid, ECC presents a new guide, a new power system, new concepts, a new future, and a new synthesis.

Unlike revolutionary philosophies, ECC purposefully does not liquidate the past world views of either tradition or modernism, we reconcile and synthesize them in a Revitalized Conservatism. This keeps EC from becoming only more “opium for the intellectuals” (Raymond Aron). ECC is based in the reality of natural science along with Perennial Religion.

We do not affirm the anarchic libertarianism that grew out of the modern French philosophical rejection of all authority and power. Our master is Godhood, and the Spirit-Within and the Soul-Within life which activates and guides life, working along with natural selection, evolving all the way to Godhood.

We avoid the tyranny that often comes from the “Hegelian Dream” (Bernard Levi) of truth coming into the world, by affirming Conservatism, small steps of change in a Revitalized Conservatism which still embraces evolution. This conservatism keeps us away from the will to tyranny that infects most structures of power. We therefore do not agree that the ECC contains only the “seeds of totalitarianism” (Gluckmann). All material systems do not become Stalinism or Hitlerism.

And we do not speak of the tyranny of reason or the oppressiveness of science, we require all the reason and science available to understand the Evolutionary Outward Path to God, which works in conjunction with the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul-Within. We are not afraid of power as the new anarchic libertarians seem to be, we sublimate power to evolve to God.

We are, however, still a “school in the making,” we are one of the first--if not the first--traditional religious theologies to fully embrace sociobiology and futurism in the path toward Godhood. Our gurus are not Marx, Foucault or Solzhenitsyn, but Jesus Christ, Raymond Cattell, Edward O. Wilson, and of course Darwin.

If the truth of a theological and philosophical system is it's realization in the world and in history, then the truth of theological materialism and the ECC is yet to be fully realized. We do not want to be only a “terror of theory,” yet we do not deny the ideal that we want to attain Godhood at evolution's zenith. We think we offer a new theology-philosophy that is more than merely opposition to old ideas, we offer a new movement with sound, coherent ideas or our own, which involves all systems.

(This essay is a response to “The Poverty of the New Philosophy") by Fatos Tarifa, Modern Age, Summer, 2008)

The Spirit-Within Is Not Trapped

The Spirit-Within is not trapped, as was covertly and overtly suggested by both the Gnostics and Traditional Religion. The Spirit-Within is with us to help, to guide, to activate and give life to our Soul-Body, it is our contact with the True God of the Kosmos. The Spirit-Within evolves with us to Godhood, where it attains its Supreme Goal.

The Grand Reconciliation

Adjusting to the framework of reality

Religion needs to fit into the deep framework of evolution, which defines God's world. However, a Conservative will not force culture into reality but will take smaller steps in this direction. Our task is to resuscitate and include traditional religion in the wake of evolution and modern science which have all but abandoned religion.

The Evolutionary Christian Church keeps the framework of traditional religion within the Involutionary Inward Path and moves or reconciles this framework into the framework of evolution in the Evolutionary Outward Path. We reach Godhood this way, by managing tradition and counter-tradition, counter-revolution and revolution, left and right, in and out, science and religion.

Religion and science are not evil toxins that must be insulated from one another, they need to fit into the same framework.

A New Melody Within The Form

Revitalized Conservatism and the Neoclassical Return in the Theoevolutionary Church

The conservative and the classical perspective defines innovation as taking place one small step at a time. Classicism developed forms and did not reject or discard past forms. Classicism required “beauty and clarity of form, nobility of subject, meaningfulness, and catharsis in a work of art.” (see “Can there be great composers anymore,” by Webster Young) Also, classical art begins from nature and builds on nature. Modernism and the revolutionary perspective define the new as individualistic, completely original, iconoclastic. Modernism destroys form as its basic principle.

Revitalized conservatism and neoclassicalism apply innovations to past and evolved forms in politics, art and culture. But this applies to religion too. Innovation in religion builds on past forms, and this includes most importantly building from nature, using and idealizing nature.

Religion has gotten away from nature and neglected the “chord of nature,” for example, in virtually rejecting evolution in nature, and more or less rejecting science as well. The Theoevolutionary Church (TC) returns to the classical and conservative principle of including nature in religion, politics and art, as well as building on past forms.

Rejecting all innovation of past forms can create the same barrenness as destroying all past forms in the name of originality. TC owes its form to past forms yet redefines a new melody within the form. This defines Revitalized Conservatism and Neoclassicism within the 

Theoevolutionary Church

From Ecumenism to the Evolutionary Outward Path

First and Second Force In the Theoevolutionary Church

Uniting the Two Paths

In the Theoevolutionary Church, the Second Force is more or less the proscription of the Traditionalist School. This seems to be the path of ecumenism. The proponents of this school (Guenon, Schuon, Burckhardt, Lings, Nasr) believe that all the world's religions, in their original forms, from the Hindus and Kabbalah, to the Revealed Religions, are equally valid and lead to what TC (not the Traditionalist School) defines as the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul-Within. But since this school is highly critical of the material world, yet alone critical of modern thoughts and ideas, this is only the Second Force in TC for ecumenism in the world.

The First Force embraces the Evolutionary Outward Path, and the Activation-Within requiring the sacred advance of material-spiritual evolution all the way to True Godhood. The material world is blocked in the Great Spiritual Blockade of the Inward Path, described above, which is only the Second Force of ecumenism leading to the Soul-Within. Unlike the Traditionalist School, we do not reject the Inward Path as they reject the Outward Path. Both Paths are necessary.

Balancing history and reason

Conservatism at its best balances reasoning with experience, historical experience, the actual behavior of men and women and their cultures.

Fundamentalist Conservatism largely ignores reason and affirms only historical experience. Fundamentalist Liberal-Socialism largely ignores historical experience and affirms only reason.

Revitalized Conservatism seeks to balance reason by guiding evolution forward through looking back at historical experience.

The Denaturing of God

The Highest Materiality/Spirituality, or God, can be called “spiritual” as long as materiality is not rejected by the term spirituality. God is a real Being, the highest evolved materiality in the cosmos. God is in nature as a Being, even as God created nature. God is a living Being.

When God is seen as pure abstraction, pure spirituality, this is not a “victory” over nature, it makes religion stale, a technical game. We see this has happened with religion in the East and the West. Religion has essentially abstracted God from nature, discarded the material world, the way modernist painters discarded realism and naturalism. Clever flim flam to include nature in religion by religious thinkers, some of them brilliant, does not change the basic rejection of the material world by religion.

God has been too much described as not a part of nature, and this abandons the great inspiration from nature. God has been replaced by abstractions and definitions. God must appear within nature not outside of nature. The beast of nature unites with the beauty of nature when nature evolves to Godhood.

A strong understanding of God in nature is the true basis for religion. The denaturing of God began long ago with ancient religions and philosophers. God became philosophical, increasingly less physical. Apollo requires Dionysus. Spirit requires the material. This is the dialectic of life and evolution.

Nature too often seems to collapse in religion. Pagans seemed more attuned to nature, nature and God did not seem to be at odds in Paganism. Humans need to reacquire the religious magic, the wisdom to transform nature into Godhood. Nature evolves to God, which defines the importance of nature.

God As Object Before Name

“A monk says: 'Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature? The Master says: “Yes, your awareness of nature.” (From World Wisdom Inc.)

God is “nameless” in the sense that God is an Object, not a name. We can correctly name God only when we name the Object God. God came before the name of God, not after the name.

The Inward Path sees the Soul-Within, which is not the Divine Object God, but the Soul of the Body, the highest aspect of the body, but this is not the Seed of God or the Activation of God—the Spirit is the Seed of God and the Will to Godhood. It is this Soul-Within that appears to some as nameless in as much as it is not God but the Soul of the body.

Seeking Absolute Knowledge is seeking to think like God. Seeking the Highest Good is seeking to act like God. Seeking the Highest Beauty is seeking to look like God. These define the Divine Object, the Trinity. Seeking any one of these alone is not the Complete God. The Inward Path tends to seek Absolute Knowledge alone, which tends to be the way of Traditional Religions.

Because God comes before the naming of God, seeking the Highest Good and the Highest Beauty seems to be more important than seeking Absolute Knowledge because Goodness and Beauty define God as the Divine Object, whether God is or is not defined by Absolute Knowledge.

God is more a biological imperative than a mathematical imperative, since we evolve to God. This brings science back into religion where it belongs.

God is God whether we have a name for God or not

“The tào that can be told is not the eternal Tào
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

The unnameable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin of all particular things.”
(Tào Té Chīng)

Why does God or the Absolute have to be expressed only in negative terms? Why does the understanding of the Ultimate Reality often define Nothing in Traditional religious understanding? Ultimate Reality can be referred to directly as a Divine Object, not a name only, not a nameless nothing, but a Being, God, who is part of the world as the highest evolved Being in the Kosmos. Naming God does not make God less, unless God is nothing, or unless God is only considered a name. And the name or definition of God alone is not God. It does not matter what the name of God is, God is God whether we have a name for God or not. In any case, we are too ignorant at this stage in our evolution to accurately name God.

Human power and God's power

Do we not have the right to “tamper” with nature? We are made in the image of God, and if we are wise we can be creators, not as great as God, but we can be evolving creators. Contrary to various religious perspectives that center solely on the Soul or Spirit of the Inward Path, we have to believe in human power. We can renew the earth. We can certainly reach the stars and beyond, we must.

What we want to avoid is the tyranny of scientism, with no concern or understanding of God, discarding the great Mystery, and God's creation. We want to avoid science divested of religion, which even now is leading to the destruction of the earth. Science need not build “Satanic mills,” science and religion can build a new Eden.

One of the things we like about the times leading out of the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment was the occult combination of science and religion. We seek to once again combine religion and science, as the Involutionary Inward Path of Tradition joins the Evolutionary Outward Path leading to the evolution to God.

Two Doctrines

Traditionalism has cautioned that spiritual seekers must be willing to both follow a Doctrine as well as "walk alone" if need be---especially in spiritual seeking it is easy to go astray.

The Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC) more or less follows two Doctrines, Traditional Chrisitian and Beyondist, and walks alone with the synthesis of the Inward (Chrisitian) and Outward (Beyondist) Paths. When synthesized the Two Doctrines become greater than the sum of their parts.

Founders of religion seem to have developed new Doctrines, but the Traditionalist School believes that they have revealed another aspect of the Perennial Truth presented for a different age. In this sense ECC is a New Covenant. We do not consider ourselves to be syncrenistic since we are finding deeper meaning among the ancient and modern forms.

We look forward to bringing a great spiritual and scientific revival, not a “replacement theology” but a synthesizing unity.

Solutions to America's Economic Problem

From Economy In Crisis

Revitalizing, Not Revolutionizing, the City of God and the City of Man

Permanent and Changeable Things

It has been stated that if the Church and State are considered to be founded in sacred authority then the church and state may not be disobeyed except to obey the higher duties of divine and natural law, therefore the revitalizing of Conservatism in the Theoevolutionary Church is based in this exception of obeying higher divine laws. The laws of the Outward Path are evolutionary and the laws of the Inward Path are involutionary and the Inward Path is revitalized by the Outward Path.

The Soul-Within involves the "Changeable Things" City of Man—particularity). The Spirit-Within involves “Permanent Things" City of God—universality). The universal is synthesized in the particular through evolution. The “Principles” of Universality (Leo Strauss) are enshrined in the Spirit-Within and are realized through Tradition, History and Evolution (Russell Kirk) These need not oppose one another. What has been missing is knowledge of the activation of evolution to Godhood by the Spirit-Within in the Outward Path, previously mainly considered static spiritual definition through the Inward Path only to the Soul-Within, although blissful and enlightening.

All of life, from church, state, the arts, and business are a means to a higher end, our evolution to God.


Claes G. Ryn, one of the better conservative thinkers, considers these things in a somewhat different way in his essay from 2007 "The decline of American intellectual conservatism"

The Tragedy of Religious Social Philosophy

There is much flim flam in religious social philosophy. Religion would really like to say: “Look, basically, material life is not spiritual life, and material life must be completely blocked to see God Within.” But only a small number of humans can take up the celibate life, and leave the world, to center on the Soul Within and God. Life is all around, everywhere one looks there is growing life, changing, dying, being born, it is not easy to turn away from life or to tell humanity to turn away from life.

There has been very clever and subtle reasoning and rationalizing, by very clever and subtle religious philosophers, which basically tried to soften the stark fact that material life must be blocked to see the Soul-Within. Life is so strong that it has certainly continued to turn away from spiritual things, one way or the other. Spiritual philosophers have managed to divert, soften or sublimate the stark natural drives of life. But only partially, and in some ages more than others. Most of the time spiritual life has lost out to material life, and this has been bemoaned by religious thinkers. Millions of people have been caused to feel like religious failures, or considered worse, by being religiously misdirected in this way.

The Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC) believes that spirituality will continue to lose ground to materialism mainly because there has been a tragic religious mistake made by established religions in relegating material life to a secondary and expendable position in religion. Material life should have been seen for what it is, a sacred path to attain Godhood through material evolution. If this had been known or affirmed all along, much of the flim flam in religious social philosophy could have been avoided.

The Soul-Within (which is the zenith of the body) can continue to be affirmed in religion, and in religious social philosophy, as it is in ECC, with the Involutionary Inward Path, but this is not done at the dark expense of virtually dismissing the Spirit-Within and material life. Religious social philosophy can then be less rationalizing, more direct, truer and healthier. But most importantly, we will not have cut off attaining Godhood, by tragically misusing the Great Spiritual Blockade, which has muddied and complicated religious social philosophy for the past two thousand years. With the Evolutionary Outward Path we can attain God through evolution, the God we have first seen from the Soul-Within.

An economically conquered nation

..."As an economically conquered nation we have no ability to resist this economic and political pressure. Our factories are shuttered and our industries are unproductive. This country imports consumer goods which could and should otherwise be made at home. It exports its wealth, strength, and prestige in exchange..."

Article from "Economy In Crisis" here

On Spiritualism and Satanism

The Involutionary Inward Path is not alone “of God” any more than the Evolutionary Outward Path is “of Satan.” This sort of terminology plays by the false rules of those who see material life as evil and Satanic, and only spiritual life as good and Godly. These Paths are united, synthesized in the Evolutionary Christian Church, as they always have been united since the birth of the Kosmos.

Satanism accepts the spiritual terminology of its competitor, in the Great Spiritual Blockade, believing that material life is evil, which Satanism then rebelliously affirms as good. False spiritualism also affirms this terminology believing that only spiritual life is good.

Material life evolves to God, although it is a material-spiritual life that is really the zenith of material evolution. This is the true Synthesis of the Mystery: Spiritual Alchemy unites with Material Alchemy. Let there be an end to double-mindedness and two-faced duplicity.

Building The New Temple

Method of the Gordian Knot

We like the legend of the Gordian Knot, the insoluble problem solved in a simple and clean way, outside the games and overcomplications played. The occult and esoteric traditions can be approached this way. The danger, however, is that one will appear either barbarian or enlightened.

Ecumenism is enhanced by seeing the Established Religions, along with their varied yet similar arcane techniques (eg, Hindu alchemy, the Kabbalah, etc.) all as directed essentially toward attaining the Spirit-Within, the God-Within, which we define as the Involutionary Inward Path.

The Evolutionary Outward Path must now be included, we need to know that we must evolve to God, and not only see and experience the God first glimpsed by seeing the Soul-Within, through the Involutionary Inward Path.

This applies the Gordian Knot method to reveal the new Pristine Tradition of the Order of the Outward Path. The new Temple is being built by evolving materially to Godhood. Both the Inward and Outward Paths are now applied in this revitalized conservatism.

Defining Beauty

Truth and beauty may go hand in hand but it is truth that gives testimony to beauty not the other way around. The Object needs to be redeemed from the definition of the object.

Recovering beauty means recovering the object as sacred.

Beauty has a biological imperative.

In defining beauty we lean toward the Aristotelian sensory approach more than the Platonic mathematical ideal.

How we deal with secularism and nihilism

Kant's reaction to secularism and nihilism was to say that “reason” can define even the Christian moral law. Darwin's evolution appeared to rule out a teleological or religious view of nature. Nietzsche said that since Christianity is untrue, then Christian morality is untrue, which would lead us to nihilism; but Nietzsche continued by saying that we could overcome nihilism by saying yes to life without meaning, saying yes to life beyond good and evil. Post-modernism followed this lead. And so the world now stands.

Theoretical materialism and the Theoevolutionary Church deals with these problems by saying that orthodox religion, the revealed religions, or more deeply, the Perennial Tradition, are all true regarding the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul-Within--and we too affirm this Inward Path--but the traditional religions are tragically missing the Evolutionary Outward Path of evolution to real Godhood.

We reaffirm a teleological view of nature by affirming the pattern of evolution, from the simple to the complex, toward higher consciousness and beauty, and by religiously taking this evolutionary pattern to the zenith of Godhood. Not only do we embrace science, we embrace in many ways the new sociobiological science of Beyondism, that is, Cattell's religion from science, but we go further than Cattell in affirming future evolution all the way to Godhood, the goal of the Spirit-Within of the Outward Path and the symbolic goal of the Soul-Within of the Inward Path.

This is how we deal with the secularism and nihilism of the present world.


For the older conservative view of dealing with these things see “Conservatism, Christianity, and the Revitalization of Europe,” by Lee Congdon, from First Principles.

Ethnostates? Perhaps. But Without Federalism? No

If the members are given the liberty of states rights, federalism (like empires) can keep the peace, otherwise states do war against one another, as history has shown, time and again. With states rights, variety and freedom are vital for evolution, but economic nationalism and national defense are vital advantages of federalism. If followed, the United States Constitution is a great document for separating the powers while keeping them lightly united.

Eros and Thanatos

Eros can be a symbol of the Evolutionary Outward Path and Thanatos a symbol of the Involutionary Inward Path. Thanatos is not literally the “death wish,” the senses and the body are immobilized to see the Soul-Within. Eros is more than the sum of life-preserving instincts of the Spirit-Within, it is the Will-to-Godhood.

Exaggerating Thanatos can lead to the Great Spiritual Blockade, exaggerating Eros can lead to profane and directionless life. Someone defined paganism as “Eros with ethics,” which seems to be on the path to the ethics of Christianity, and eventually to the Theoevolutionary Church.

In the Theoevolutionary Church, Eros and Thanatos should be more balanced between the Inward And Outward Paths. The God Drive of the Spirit activates the sex drive with a preference for Perfect Beauty and Perfect Action (Perfect Goodness) which is reached in the Trinity through evolution.

Recovering from a bad cold. Back soon.

How to survive the coming climate change

..."So if only a fraction of the planet will be habitable, how will our vast population survive? Some, like Lovelock, are less than optimistic. "Humans are in a pretty difficult position and I don't think they are clever enough to handle what's ahead. I think they'll survive as a species all right, but the cull during this century is going to be huge," he says. "The number remaining at the end of the century will probably be a billion or less."

John Schellnhuber of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research in Germany is more hopeful. The 4 °C warmer world would be a huge challenge, he says, but one we could rise to. "Would we be able to live within our resources, in this world? I think it could work with a new division of land and production..."

essay here from New Scientist

Production Will Elevate Us from the Downward Spiral

..."The easiest and most efficient way to pull ourselves out of the current recession is to produce, produce and produce some more. Manufacturing creates the wealth that could replace all that has been lost over the past year. Failure to recognize that will only prolong the recession. We must recognize that it is impossible to import and spend our way out of such dire economic circumstances..."

article here from Economy In Crisis

Perfecting human nature?

Culture can be seen as instinctive, assuming ones culture is affirming human nature, and human nature is essentially conservative, preferring home, family, kin, localism, monogamy between man and woman, nationalism, and religion's that affirm these things. Anti human laws and values follow from cultures that do not follow human nature, as with Leftist organizations.

When Aristotle said that human nature needs to be perfected by society he did not have all the knowledge of human nature that sociobiology has later provided, which affirms that human nature works best in small conservative states, even ethnostates, perhaps working together in a federation.

The true perfection of human nature moves upward in biological evolution reaching its zenith in Godhood, and this long term evolution works best in stable ethnostates where positive mutations can gradually take root and advance---this is the essence of Revitalized Conservatism.

Confusing the map with the territory

..."Structuralism has been valuable in drawing our attention to the importance of relations. However, the cardinal sin of structuralist thought– and these assumptions still remain pervasive today –lies in its tendency to, as Bateson would put it, confuse the map with the territory. That is, the structuralist makes a map of relations among nodes in a network, but then treats this map as if it were itself a real and abiding thing such that these relations are abiding and eternal. The entities inhabiting the network then get treated as epiphenomena of this map of relations, such that it is the structure that is real and the entities populating the network that are illusions. This is a specifically Platonic tendency within structuralist thought"...

Essay here,from Larval Subjects.

Singularity avoids political incorrectness

Ray Kurzweil's Singularity, predicting that humans and machines will merge around 2045, during an era of conscious machines, when human genes merge with artificial molecular robots, which might seem politically incorrect but is really another dazzling way to avoid far more politically incorrect genetic engineering and human selection.

Singularity needs to be adjusted to the pattern of evolution, respecting the millions of years of natural selection of life that is wiser than we are. Molecular robots and such, which can be used in positive ways, need not be done at the expense of genetic engineering patterned after natural evolution. We want to avoid the great blowback monster Golem destroying all life and evolution.

To define is not to know, to be is to know

The definition is the mirror of the object, the object is not the mirror of the definition. The image on the cave wall is not the object and is not reality.

To define is not to know, to be is to know. To be or not to be is indeed the question. We seek to be or attain Godhood through evolution applying the Outward Path, and not “merely” to know God through the mirror of definition applying the Inward Path.

Know thyself

"We tend to engage in “a pre-conceived, self-confirming journey for validation, rather than a quest for knowledge.” ... “We must catch ourselves in the act of trying to verify our own preconceptions.”...This is a problem for armchair scientists long on theory and short on experimentation.... “The distinction between true believers and skeptics comes at the point of interpretation of phenomena, and attributions of source of events or perceptions.” Iona Miller

"America needs an Industrial Policy"

Pat Buchanan "Metrics of National Decline"

Regarding purpose in evolution

Here is how Raymond Cattell put it regarding purpose in evolution, which I agree with. Evolution has so far had a discernible direction—in spite of stagnation and retreat—to higher, more effective, living forms.

Creation does seem to imply a Creator, however, what we can see is an ongoing process of organic and inorganic evolution. The Theoevolutionary Church seeks to be one with the evolutionary process, as did Cattell's Beyondism (which remains politically incorrect at this time)

Meanwhile, our minds are not yet fit to handle such questions as “ What happened to time before time began?” But we can grasp a meaningful pattern which is little more than the evolutionary process, and we can follow that pattern, until our minds can answer such questions.

The Theoevolutionary Church moves forward from Cattell to views on God, evolution, the Trinity etc.

Art and evolution

The idea in art philosophy is, as mentioned above, that art can at least grasp a meaningful pattern toward higher living forms, and if one defines these ultimately as Perfect Beauty, etc. art can symbolize these. It seems less profane when you see God as a Beautiful Object rather than a spiritual definition which therefore sees object-art as profane.

He is within all things

We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know that He is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and all the four-legged animals, and the winged peoples; and even more important, we should understand that He is also above all these things and peoples. When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as He intends.

- Black Elk

from World Wisdom

On religious, racial and political infighting

How does the Theoevolutionary Church deal with the ancient problem of religious and racial infighting? (A) By correctly and courageously defining the Revealed Religions as coming from the same Involutionary Perennial Religion/Philosophy. This allows the supreme religious ecumenism, not religious supremacy. And (B) by revealing the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood, which affirms biological evolution to God, in harmony with the Traditional Involutionary Perennial Religion/Philosophy. This affirms racial differences, not racial supremacy.

In turn this leads to (B), Revitalized Conservatism. Revolutionaries (religious, racial or political) believe that the given civilization has to fall before the hoped for civilization can rise again, as something new. But Conservative principles of order and tradition are also a solid base for evolution. The Inward Path works in synthesis and harmony with the Outward Path. In America, we seek to return to the genius of the American Constitution, which affirms strong independent states within a strong nation, but not imperial supremacy. The Theoevolutionary Church supplies the universal bond and future of religion, at the service of the world.

About us

The Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC) has a symbolist, ritualist, and inspirational association with Traditional Christianity and Perennial Philosophy. We use the term “Catholic” to mean “Universal,” and religion is no longer Catholic in this sense. Our task is to unite the Inward Path of these revealed religions in a true ecumenism with the Outward Path of Evolution. Sciences such as Sociobiology, and the religion from science called Beyondism, also play an important part. The members are a mix of many religions and those interested in occult movements and futurism. There are no official connections with traditional church, occult orders or scientific organizations. ECC maintains this Internet presence covering many topics. 

A child should understand epistemology

God exists as you and I exist, not merely as your “idea” of me. The abstract is the abstract. Definition is not real, it is the shadow of the form, under the shade of the tree of form.

A child should understand epistemology. There is too much noise, too much complication, too much verbiage in philosophy. And theology is no better. Nietzsche got it right when he talked about the will to power of most priests and philosophers. They like to dazzle the hell out of us. But the truth is what we want. And the truth is a real object, and not merely a definition.

Buchanan: "Buy American or Bye-Bye America"

..."We may be at a turning point in history. For we are about to choose
whether to fully and finally cast our lot with globalism, or to
become again a nation and people who put Americans first..."

Patrick J. Buchanan's column here