Nothingness Is Not The Ground Of Being

When I define the “ground of Being” I see the material/supermaterial Spirit-Will as this ground, this Essence. But this is not the ground of Being claimed by most religious mystics over the centuries. They saw, and see, the experience of the ground of Being as the end of the path, they describe it as like a time before the beginning, they see “nothingness,” with no desire to do anything in the ground of Being. This leaves the question why and how did something come from nothing?

The great mystical error, which is also stunningly arrogant, is confounding the empty yet still physical and blissful Soul-State with the ground of Being. Indeed after much discipline and meditation designed to block or stop all material desires of the flesh, one can attain the empty blissful Soul-State. But this is not the ground of Being, this is not God.

The Soul-State of the Revealed Religions can tell us what it may be like when we finally attain the fulfillment of the evolution of the material-supermaterial world, which is not the same as the abandonment of the material-supermaterial world.

It is through the Spirit-Will, the Essence, not the Soul, that one can see the purpose of Existence as the endless evolution of life to Godhood, activated by the Spirit-Will.

Again, this means that something does not come from nothing. Godhood is not nothing, and the Soul-State of attaining nothingness does not define the ground of Being or Godhood.

The Soul-State and the Spirit-Will are goals of the Twofold Path. The Soul-State is involutionary, the Spirit-Will is evolutionary. But the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul is no longer the central and only goal of religion, it is subsumed in the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.

Think of this anti-life quote : "I made a pillow of my mother's bones and remained in an undistracted state of tranquility."(Milarepa).  The arrived mystic with no desire to do anything, and no impetus whatever, can be released from this Great Spiritual Blockade.  Life needs to be allowed to evolve to Godhood in the cosmos.

Body and Spirit Unseparated

Without the Spirit-Will the Body-Mind is unactivated to Godhood, and without the psychosomatic Body-Mind the Spirit-Will is impotent.

We do not separate the Spirit-Will from the Body-Mind as the Revealed Religions do thereby damaging and degrading or even killing the material-supermaterial vehicle of the Spirit-Will to Godhood.

The Traditional Religions have taken man out of the world, Evolutionary Christianity brings them back showing the Real Path to Godhood by way of material-supermaterial evolution.

The Soul is the Zenith of the Body, but the Spirit-Will is the Zenith of the Soul, it is the Soul that has been confounded for God.

Attaining the material-free Soul-State in the Inward Path can be a blissful reminder, a virtual experience of what fulfilled Godhood will be like in the Outward Path, but it is not Godhood.

The Evolutionary Outward Path unblocks the Involutionary Inward Path, while retaining both Paths in the Twofold Path.

Light and Dark can end their mystical war in Evolutionary Christianity. The Darkness leads to Light, and the Light creates Darkness.

Flesh is not in opposition to the Spirit, flesh is the vehicle of the Spirit-Will. There are sacred evolutionary and profane devolutionary uses of the flesh, but the flesh itself cannot be seen as evil.

A proper and just social order cannot be established by those who hate the world and the flesh. The Inward Path needs to be balanced with the Outward Path, with Ordered Evolution and Revitalized Conservatism.  

How paleoconservatism can be the way out

Basically, the neoconservatives, like the libertarians, put the economy first, and the paleoconservatives put the community first, and this makes all the difference in the world. The neoconservatives are the group that led to the downfall of the American economy, for example, by investing globally and thereby destroying American manufacturing, and by supporting their investments with military interventions around the world. Paleoconservatives were outfoxed by neoconservatives who found ways to appeal to the media and to evangelical Christians.

But as the nation becomes more politically, economically and racially fractured, the Paleos could be seen as the way out, separating the fighting sides by way of promoting the independence of the nation and the independence of the states. Economic-military globalism will fade in any case as America will be too broke to proceed globally. Then the Neos may be seen as elitist enemies of the people.

The Blacks and Hispanics, and increasingly poor whites and the middleclass, will see the Neos as exporting all their jobs and keeping all the wealth for themselves. Perhaps then their will be a contest between the Paleos and Liberals as to who best can help the people, with the Liberals advocating big government—taxing the wealthy---and the Paleos seeking economic nationalism, small government, and the independence of the states. Both will stand against the power of the global Neos. But the liberals may affirm global business if they think they can tax it, which could put them in league with socialist or fascist elements.

Paleoconservatism is distinctively American, which can be a big appeal to Americans, but Liberals will probably have most of the media, and the Academy, as they do now, so the Paleos will need to gain more media and academic power to continue their superior appeal.

All the contenders for the Presidency in 2012 are directly or indirectly supporters of globalism and therefore the neoconservatives, with the possible exception of Ron Paul. But as a libertarian Paul at bottom values the free economy ahead of the community, which is why so many neoconservatives promote him. We need an economic nationalist (fair trade rather than free trade), someone like Pat Buchanan, but he isn't running, and there seems to be none else like him on the stage. But such people will inevitably rise.

Being Within Time

Being-Godhood operates within the horizon of time, as other life, with the same general causes and senses, only Godhood has attained the Zenith of Causes and Senses by way of evolving to the final goal of evolution.

Defining a Being beyond time can be only as a non-concrete concept within the mind of whoever is doing the conceiving. Eternity is related to existence within time, or to concrete objects within time, which continue through reproduction or transformation.

God is considered “confined” to time and concrete things only by way of abstract conceptions. Man's arrogant own conceptions or abstract fantasies of “eternity” are not greater than concrete existence, which seems to have no beginning and no end.

As to the origin of Being Itself, men have often leaped to create an idea of a non-concrete origin, and then worshipped that non-concrete origin. There seems to have been no origin, no beginning and no end. It is not the concept of life but life which seems to have been eternally represented.

Creation of the cosmos and all life is a “mutatio” or transforming, rather than a creating out of nothing.

This leads some to worship “time” as the one eternal thing. But time exists only in relation to concrete objects moving through time, time is not a concrete living object.

The theological materialism of the Evolutionary Church could be seen as nominalist conceptualist, in that only concrete things are seen to exist, and abstract entities do not exist other than in the mind of concrete objects with conceptual minds.  Plato's influential claim that Ideas create form and shape was in error.

Absolute Truth exists only in the Absolute Mind of Godhood, the Supreme Concrete Object or Objects at the Zenith of Evolution in the cosmos, who then continue to transform.

Socio-political reality and human destiny

We strive for human excellence socio-politically, and in evolution, keeping in mind that we cannot expect perfection from human beings. Central to Edmund Burke's conservatism was “prudence” rather than strict ideology.

Godhood is attained at the end of a long chain of evolution, reasoning and culture and metabiolgy move upward in starts and stops and backward going.

In the end, Godhood is not merely found in the head or the heart but in the Supreme Supermaterial Body, the Supreme Object. The Supreme Object is better than love, intelligence, theology or philosophy.

All humanity is activated to evolve to Godhood, therefore, supremacy and imperialism lead inevitably to endless conflict which threatens the whole.

A way has to be found that allows for our evolutionary destiny while taking into account our imperfections.

Human nature is kin-centered, ethnocentric, patriotic, pair-bonding, traditional, therefore, political philosophy cannot ignore this for long without being reminded of it when society snaps back, often violently, from ideologies with little relation to human nature.

The realities of human nature, and our evolutionary destiny, suggest that mankind requires a variety of small virtually independent states, protected with a light federalism, and guided voluntary by the Church in upward evolution to Godhood.

Folk Religions and Philosophical Religions

"Philosophical religions” believe in a Principle of existence, or supreme wisdom, and do not always believe in actual Gods, as “folk religion” does, says Alexander Bard, who affirms the philosophical principles of Zarathustra.

The condescension of religious philosophers toward folk religion is ill founded. Gods do exist, they are evolved to in material and supermaterial evolution, and any philosophy describing them is secondary. The living object and Supreme Object come before any principle explaining them.

The ancient primordial folk religions, at least in this basic ontology, were more right then the later philosophical religions who look down on them.

The Great Religious Error

When the Bhagavad Gita (15:1-3) uses the metaphor of the cosmic tree with its roots above the ground and its branches below, it is a clear, unintended, picture of the great religious error.

The roots of materialism are rejected, trans-valued, into the roots receiving sustenance from nothing, from spiritual thin air. Materialism is thus utterly rejected in defining God and spiritual things.

For many centuries a single-minded conflict between nature and spirit has been set up that has utterly wasted much of the energy of evolution which seeks to evolve to true Godhood.

It is enormously arrogant to think that man can be God without first evolving far beyond the human species. This is the great religious error of confounding the God-Within, the Father-Within, with Real Godhood.

Yes, we must also affirm Christ, the Father Within (Atman, Brahman), which is experienced at the deepest part of the Soul. This virtual experience of God can strongly remind us of the evolutionary cosmic goal of Real Godhood. But we cannot remain blocked there in the bliss of virtual Godhood.

We must move forward in the Evolutionary Outward Path, which leads material life in evolution to supermaterial Godhood.

How the future can determine present events

Chance and natural selection do take place, of course, said Teilhard De Chardin, but there is a guided force in the selection process. I agree.

The Spirit-Will within activates life to evolve to Godhood, working along with chance and natural selection. This is how the future can determine present events, just as the past can determine the present.

Grounding the Ground of Being

Causal ontology

Being is confined to concrete things, but concrete things range from the simple material to the complex supermaterial. Godhood or Being is the highest evolution of supermateriality.

Being's “essence” is the same Spirit-Will essence as that which activates the simple material, only with Being, the Spirit-Will has reached the goal for which It activates all life to attain.

This grounds the "groundless" ground of Being of Heidegger and St. Thomas. Causality does attain Being Itself. It does not “limit” Being to be linked to causality.

Why does it limit Being to “simply” be the Being of beings? This seems to be seen as a limitation only if one prefers nonmateriality, mathematics, language, etc, to a grounded, concrete materiality-supermateriality.

Being Itself will not disappear, as it is feared, if Being is “confined” to the concrete. This fear seems to be based on a dislike of or escape from the grounding in materiality. Being does not disappear but is transformed into cosmic Godhood by way of evolution, which is certainly not a disappearing. This superconcrete transformation is the real “transcendence.”

Man does not make his way to an existing Being in time, man evolves to the Zenith of material-supermaterial evolution, which is the real Being or Godhood in time.

Man does not merely gain access to the “meaning” of Being, man can become Being, man becomes Godhood by way of evolution.

It is the Spirit-Will within, which is material or supermaterial ,that bestows Itself on man, not Being. Being needs to be evolved to. The Spirit-Will is not Being.

The Great Spiritual Blockade of materiality-supermateriality by theology and philosophy needs to be unblocked so that life will not be trapped in groundlessness, and so that life can be allowed to evolve to Godhood.

Reality and the Pattern of Ecumenism/Synthesis

Science and reason should not alone perceive Reality. Intellectual intuition and faith are also vital in perceiving reality. But those who apply reason/science and those who apply intellectual intuition/faith often reject one another.

The problem is that there seems to be a dominance of wealth over both science and faith, and they are made to submit to wealth. Even power tends to submit to wealth.

There is something deeper than science, wealth and power dominating these drives and that is the sociobiological drive to survival and reproductive success. Human beings, as other animals, have not always been conscious of their sociobiological imperatives.

Yet there is something even deeper then wealth, science, power and sociobiological drives, and that is the activation of all life to evolve to Godhood. Here, finally, we can have the ecumenism/syntheses.

This seems to mean that intellectual intuition/faith lead the way in perceiving reality, followed by wealth, power, science and sociobiology drives, not necessary in that order.

I believe that both science and religion will one day affirm supermateriality and Godhood.

The principle pattern of materialism evolving to supermaterialism and then on to supermaterial Godhood reconciles the warring camps. This takes all life outside the confines of wealth, science, power and sociobiology. Great civilizations have always been grounded in the sacred.  This offers life a  real divine imperative. 

The Joining of the Inward And Outward God

“ If the Evil Spirit himself could come into obedience, he would become an angel of light again, and all his sin and wickedness would be healed and blotted out and forgiven at once.” (“Theologia Germanica”)

The phrase, “the Kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21) speaks to the Involutionary Inward Path, not directly to the Evolutionary Outward Path. The central mission of the the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) is to unite the Inward Path with the Outward Path in the Twofold Path.

Jesus speaks always from the perspective of the Inward Christ, the Inward Father, the God-Within. Jesus is the Western spokesman for the God-Within, Jesus is a great mouthpiece for the Christ Within.

The Revealed Religions West and East center on the Involutionary Inward Path, the same God-Within, the same Christ, but they use different symbols and meanings from different cultures. As Ravi Ravindra says, Christ is the way but Jesus is a way. This is the center for a religious ecumenism. 

With the the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) comes recognition of the Evolutionary Outward Path, which is synthesized into the Involutionary Inward Path. The Outward Path leads life to Godhood in material-supermaterial evolution. This is not the God-Within which gives a blissful reference to Godhood, or gives an identification with Godhood. This is the Supreme Supermaterial Object Godhood at the Zenith of Evolution in the cosmos.

True Godhood can be blocked by centering exclusively on the Inward Path. The right flow of energies from outside in (Inward Path), and from inside out (Outward Path) needs to be balanced. There is interplay between these energies relating to Ordered Evolution and Revitalized Conservatism.  The Twofold Path is the great joining of the Old and the New, the Beast and God, the Pagan and Christian.

An undivided, optimistic view of man and the cosmos

Man should not be seen as the apex of all evolution. We are evolving to Godhood and this means evolving far beyond man.

We need more than the micro history of man, we need the macro history of the cosmos. To do this we need to apply scientific empiricism, intellectual intuition and religion.

History and nature are related, and Godhood and man are related. The material-natural or the supermaterial-supernatural are all on a continuum of evolution, the difference is in higher and lower evolution.

We attain Real Godhood through evolution from the natural to the supernatural, the material to the supermaterial.

Traditional religion gives us a glimpse, a virtual reference, a blissful reminder of Godhood through the Involutionary Inward Path, but Real Godhood is reached in evolution through the Evolutionary Outward Path.

This is essentially an undivided, optimistic view of  man and the cosmos.

Theological materialism is not a Godless materialism

Theological materialism does not describe man's fate without God, as in standard materialism. Theological materialism is not man-alone without God but man activated by the Spirit-Will to evolve to Godhood.

The materialism of science, Marxism, liberal humanism, etc., does not allow Godhood or the Spirit-Will. These materialisms usually therefore acquiesce to an elite of scientists, technicians, politicians etc, with little or no religious grounding.

Man-centered philosophy tends to lead to dictatorial elites. Theological materialism is not man-centered, the Spirit-Will within material/supermaterial life activates life to evolve to Godhood, shaped by evolution from without. Intellectual intuition and faith play as big a part in theological materialism as they do in traditional religious spiritualism.

Theological materialism does not lead to Big Brother Materialism any more than religious spiritualism leads to Big Brother Spiritualism. Theological materialism does not call for a dictatorial class of priests or scientists. Priests guide the church in upward evolution to Godhood, aided by science and the humanities, and with the voluntary affirmation of the people.

Godhood is the sacred goal in theological materialism, this is not a horizontal end. Evolution moves from lower consciousness to higher consciousness, from materialism to supermaterialism.  This can suggest light federalism, small independent states, representative government, which best allows the variety of life to evolve to Godhood, with Ordered Evolution, and with the Revitalized Conservatism of the Twofold Path, not revolution.

How to save the American economy with a value-added tax

"... In the U.S. we tax our own citizens and then ask foreign countries to loan us the difference. Everywhere else in the world they tax their own citizens and then charge foreign corporations for entry access to their market.

U.S. companies annually pay an accumulative average of more than $550 billion to these foreign VAT systems.This money goes into the coffers of foreign governments; it pays for their bullet trains, alternative energy plants, universal health care, and free/subsidized access to a university education. Every year we in America continue to ignore our own needs in these areas due to lack of funding.

If the United States had a value-added tax, we would first need to lower income taxes and corporate taxes, leaving more money in the pockets of companies and individuals who can then go out and buy things in the economy. You then replace those lost taxes with a national consumption tax and build revenue on the things that people buy. In 2009 the United States imported $1.9 trillion worth of goods and products. If we had in place just a 10 percent VAT we could have raised $190 billion from those imports..."   ( essay here, from "Economy In Crisis")

Repairing The Great Theological and Philosophical Error

Assigning the Spirit to “elsewhere,” not connected to worldly causes, or natural causes, was the Great Theological and Philosophical Error. The material and supermaterial world was blocked, disparaged, hated by the mystics, even if they tried to concede to the less enlightened of the world in various ways, (eg, it is better to marry than burn, etc) This in effect meant blocking and disparaging Godhood, because Godhood is attained through material/supermaterial evolution.

What the traditional mystics were speaking of was the goal of the Involutionary Inward Path to the Father-Within, or the God-Within, which is not Godhood, the God-Within is the Offspring of Godhood. In the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity it is acceptable and enlightening to attain the Father Within in the Involutionary Inward Path, but it not acceptable to stop there in the desire-free bliss of identification with Godhood, Real Godhood must be evolved to in the Evolutionary Outward Path.

Materialism and spiritualism need to be synthesized into supermaterialism, the left and right hand need to join. To civilize the "beast” of materialism is to evolve from materialism to supermaterialism and on to Godhood. The devil is said to guard the gate to heaven, and this is usually interpreted in terms of blocking the material desires of the devil, to pass through the spiritual gate to heaven by way of the Involutionary Inward Path. But this can also be interpreted as attaining supermaterial Godhood by way of material evolution to Godhood---no devil, no Godhood, no materialism, no supermaterialism.

Self-abnegation leading to the Father-Within of the Involutionary Inward Path is only half of religion. Self-fulfillment leading to Godhood of the Evolutionary Outward Path completes religion. This is the major theme of the Twofold Path in Evolutionary Christianity. This is the way to repairing The Great Theological and Philosophical Error.

Evolution and Purpose

Science has described evolution as random change without purposive direction and without inner direction. I think there is also a guiding force in the selection process.

Science and the synthesis of evolutionary biology with genetics have said that inward genetic mutations create the genetic diversity which supplies the raw material for natural selection to act upon. Perhaps it is here that direction and purpose also help influence mutations, along with the other causes of mutations. Both intuition and empiricism can be applied in studying this subject.

I am speaking of the Spirit-Will as that influence in activating life to evolve to Godhood, shaped by evolution. Entropy can influence but not kill this drive, it always rises with life, seeking to activate life to Godhood.

I have used the awkward word “outvolution” to distinguish this purpose from the rigid random chance applied to the word evolution. In any case, direction and purpose need to be included in evolution.

Overcoming The Oblivion Of Being

How can we overcome what Heidegger called “the oblivion of Being?” I redefine what has been defined as a subsistent ever-present Being and instead speak of a Supermaterial Transforming Being, or an evolving and reproducing Being.

This means that a subsistent ever-present Being in the old metaphysical sense does not exist and that Being exits in the elements of being-offspring, much as our ancestors exits in our genome. The Spirt-Will is this ongoing material activator within life which moves forward always and only through material evolution.

Meanwhile old cosmo's offer continual chances for life to evolve to Godhood, overcoming entropy, time and again, or beginning again after collapse.

Being/Godhood is “oblivious” to us for the reasons that St. Thomas Aquinas gave: our understanding remains concealed due to the infirmity of our minds, which I explain as lower and higher levels of evolutionary development, and not to spiritual enlightenment. Being itself does not “withdraw” as Heidegger suggests. The only “withdrawal” is not a withdrawal but a transforming reproduction.

Equal in Spirit-Will, Unlike in Group

All people, all groups, all races are equal in one respect: the Spirit-Will within is the same within all living things activating life to evolve to Godhood. But this does not mean all men are the same, this simple means that we are activated by the same Spirit-Will, which is the most important part of life, since it is the purpose of life in the Kosmos to evolve to Godhood.

Evolution prefers variety and divergence as much or more than it likes convergence, so the activating Spirit-Will within, shaped by evolution from without, creates variety, different people, different races and cultures, evolving in their own way to Godhood.

These differences and variety can to be applauded by advancing the practical application of many small states within a light federalism, which makes possible the advancement of the Spirit-Will in all people, and not just one people. Small independent states also can allow the time for beneficial mutations to take hold as evolution pushes us forward. This is not a radical political change, for example, the original United States Constitution already affirms small independent states within a light federalism.

Human beings are capable of cooperative competition, indeed, we must be if we are not to deny human nature, and evolve. We need to find relative harmony among human beings, while protecting our differences and our evolution to Godhood. No matter how much we love ourselves now, eventually we will evolve beyond the human species, to higher species, and continue on to Godhood, if we can work with our differences.

Godhood As The End Of Metaphor

The true name of Godhood is known only by Godhood, It cannot be a “forbidden word” for human beings to utter because it is not possible for human beings to know this word. We may have a mistaken word for God, or a word for a God that is not really God, but it is highly arrogant to claim that we can or do know the Word for Godhood, secret or not.

The same applies to the definition of Godhood, which is not possible for humans. We can use symbols and metaphors, we can stretch beyond our knowledge to define Godhood with metaphysics, metabiology or poetry, but it requires Absolute Knowledge and Absolute Truth to correctly define Godhood, and only Godhood contains these Absolutes. It is not that we do not wish to define Godhood, we cannot define Godhood.

Yet even Godhood Itself has to use symbols, or Absolute Symbols, to define Itself. Godhood Itself is not an Absolute Word, Idea or Principle. Absolute Symbol's remain symbols uttered by Godhood Itself, while Godhood is a Supreme Supermaterial Living Object or objects. Because we have no choice but to stretch for symbols to define ascending levels of Godhood, it does not follow that Godhood must be an immaterial symbol. Godhood is not immaterial but supermaterial. Here is where ontological errors creep into theology, metaphysics and philosophy.

When Godhood Itself does utter the Word or Definition of Itself, this becomes finally the end of metaphor. The word metaphor means meta (beyond) and pherein (to carry), to carry beyond, as Frederic Turner pointed out in his excellent essay on symbols in the American Arts quarterly. Godhood is the the final goal of “going beyond” as metaphor does, and as evolution does. With Godhood attained at the Zenith of Evolution we have reached the Zenith of going beyond. But even then there may be continuing ascending levels of Godhoods.

We do need a grounding for our metaphors, a foundation for our biology, otherwise we can become lost out in the stars. Tradition and Conservatism are the ground for our metaphorical and real-life evolutionary advances. We must not be lost to the world since it is the world that needs to evolve to Godhood. This illustrates the concept of Ordered Evolution in the Theoevolutionary Church (TC). We require both the order of tradition and the change of evolution. This is foundation of the Twofold Path, with the Involutionary Inward Path leading to the Father-Within, and the Evolutionary Outward Path leading evolution to real Godhood.

Restoring Art and Culture

Evolutionary Realism can be the answer to the disaster of the modern deconstruction of art and culture. All real content has been lost, there is no leading narrative, no history, no myth, no religion allowed in postmodern art, unless it is applied “ironically,” and so on. New realist artists have been developing (see Newington-Cropsey Center) but they are having problems applying content to their new/old skills. To simply try to return to the Renaissance can be stale and decadent if there is no modern cultural goal.

Realism needs to be applied not only to the past and present but to the future, theological materialism  and the projected Theoevolutionary Church can provide the relevant sacred content for Evolutionary Realism, with the new yet old narrative of  life evolving from the simple to the complex, toward the Absolute Beauty and Truth of ascending levels of Godhood. Classical tradition, figurative art, beauty as an objective, with Godhood as the goal, this can be applied to provide the sacred affirmation required for great art and culture.

Why I am not a phenomenologist

I believe that reality beyond sense or supersense does not exist. That which the phenomenologist's acknowledge as beyond physical reality is in most cases supermaterial, if exists at all. However, when phenomenologists do believe in a realty beyond even the supermaterial, it is not reality merely because they define it as reality. We remain “limited” (how can reality be limited?) to material/supermaterial reality.

The affirmation of  supermateriality as reality derives from intellectual intuition and faith---after-all, Godhood is supermaterial and we have not yet known or become Gods---therefore I leave myself open to the charge of not believing in reality, or even believing in a phenomenological reality. Granted, science and religion have not discovered supermaterial reality, but I see no reason why they will not do so one day. Perhaps we can synthesize the biologist and metaphysician into a metabiology. I think that's what I'm doing here.

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How Godhood Completes Itself

I agree with St. Thomas that Being or God is the fullness of Being—plenitudo esse—and the fullness of truth and perfect Being---but I would add Godhood as the Zenith of Evolution.

Being is not just “act,” not just dynamic energy, energy and act are not all that Being is. Even so, Being is not static, immovable, permanence. Being is a Supreme Living Object, living and reproducing as life does.

Old cosmos remain, sometimes mired in entropy, sometimes reawakening with big bangs etc., on the path of evolution to Godhood.

This suggests the universe is an unending multiverse of being and becoming.

Two Paths In Seeking The Divine

In the Twofold Path the Involutionary Inward Path seeks the divine by fleeing from the natural world. The Evolutionary Outward Path seeks the divine through the evolution of the natural world.

This is not the same as the Left-hand and Right-hand Path, where both left and right paths seek the same goal of the Involutionary Inward Path, the God-Within.

The Inward Path was and is the path of all the mystics West and East. Teilhard De Chardin seems to have sought the divine through the natural world, yet he too was grounded in the Inward Path to the Father-Within, which was more involution than the evolution he claimed.

It is the Evolutionary Outward Path which truly seeks the divine through the natural world, by affirming the material world evolving to the supermaterial world of Godhood in the cosmos.

The daunting task of the Theoevolutionary Church is to add the unorthodox Evolutionary Outward Path to the long, heroic, history of the Involutionary Inward Path of the traditional Church, by way of Revitalized Conservatism and Ordered Evolution. In this mission we will be said to be heretical, foolish, or worse, and so we try to proceed by seeking neither approval or disapproval, and by seeking only Godhood.

Sense and Supersense

Idealism? Phenomenology? I would put it this way: there are things that exist beyond the normal subjective experience, not merely in the normal sense but in the supersense of them. I don't define these things as beyond material reality but as supermateriality. This means that things exist beyond our normal subjective experience which are still part of sense experience. This seems like a kind of phenomenology, but not about a phenomena beyond the senses, as phenomenology can affirm, I don't affirm a non-material reality, I affirm a supermateriality.

Knowledge can come from studying the world but also from tapping into the Spirit-Will within, which means tapping into what is probably a supermaterial realty with the supersenses. The Spirit-Will exists at the Zenith of the Soul, and the Soul exists at the Zenith of the Mind, and all are materiel. The mind can see these things in an intellectual intuitive sense, at least at this stage in our evolution. These things can remain in the realm of both religion and science when science and religion are projected into the future, when the gap between science and religion in metaphysics can be closed or united. This is theological materialism.

The religion of the future

The Zohar says “everything lies veiled in numbers” but the opposite seems true, numbers are substitutes for Objects. The great obsession with numbers has given numbers a plastic life of their own.

True Being, Godhood, or the Supreme Object has been forgotten, or never known, replaced by numbers or symbolic ideas, imposed upon culture, making culture more of a machine than a living thing.

Evolutionary alchemy, and not numbers alchemy, is the evolution to Godhood, or civilizing the so-called beast of materialism into Supermaterial Godhood, the base into gold, by way of Ordered Evolution.

This is the central activation of all life from within, which is then shaped from outside by evolution.  All living things, all people, all races, and not just a noble Aryan, chosen Jew or enlightened Buddhist, can take part in the evolution to Godhood. 

A Just world can find a way, a political configuration to affirm this sacred evolution to Godhood.  We suggest a nation, or world, of small states, virtual ethnostates, with their independence protected by a light federalism, and guided in evolution, voluntarily, by the Church. 

Truth is a property of Being, Being is not the property of truth

Heidegger seems to have thought that Being is a property of truth, whereas St. Thomas thought truth is a property of Being. I would agree in this with St. Thomas.

But Being as the foundation of truth is a real, supermaterial object, and not a non-material “spiritual” object in the sense of spiritual meaning a non-material or non-supermaterial thing. Being is Godhood made of Supermaterial Substance at the Zenith of Evolution.

Being does not have a permanent non-material presence beyond all truth or beyond objects. Being is the Absolute Truth when Being describes the Supreme Supermaterial Object Being. Who else could describe Absolute Truth?

Being transforms and that transformation or evolution is the permanent evolving presence of living evolving objects in the cosmos which seek to evolve to Godhood.

On Desire

Desire is rooted in the sacred instinct of the activation to evolve to Godhood, which defines the Spirit-Will. Then consciousness processes this desire or instinct, and higher consciousness affirms and attempts to be in harmony with this drive. The higher the consciousness, and the higher the intelligence, the more we can know of the drive of the Spirit-Will and how to reach the goal of the Spirit-Will. The Spirit-Will activates life from within, evolution shapes life from outside.

This is why it is so dangerous to see desire as merely lower than the mind, lower than reason, and it is especially damaging to try to block or stop all desire, as many religions do, thinking that this is all that is required to be enlightened. There is profane desire, which is devolutionary, and sacred desire which is evolutionary.

The Inward Path to the Soul Within is reached by ridding the body of all desire, it should be thought of as a virtual state simulating Godhood. True Godhood is reached only by fulfilling sacred drives in the Outward Path, not blocking them with various forms of logic or bodily subjugating in the Inward Path. The Twofold Path puts the two paths in their proper place, allowing Ordered Evolution.

Regaining the Transcendent Moral Imperative

With a transcendent moral goal one can see past any particular stage in evolution. Godhood is the highest level of evolution and not any one lower level or species of evolution. Once the evolution and purpose behind evolution is affirmed then comes the various methods for fulfilling this sacred presupposition.

For us, this leads to a nation or world of small states, or ethnostates, protected by a light federalism, and guided, voluntarily, by the Church, in our evolution to Godhood. This political philosophy allows the affirmation of human nature as it is, for example, the love of ones own people, most recently affirmed by sociobiology, while at the same time affirming the activation behind all life, all people, all races, to evolve to Godhood.

One can see, for example, how fascism could deny the variety and diversity of life by promoting only one people, one subspecies of life, which could be dangerous to overall evolution should one genetic pool not adapt to natural or sociobiological problems that can arise.

Perhaps the Traditionalist School has been resurrected in an attempt to try to revive a transcendental imperative for the racialist movement, which had been largely missing, due to the science-oriented social Darwinism that helped form modern racialism. But the Traditionalist School also promotes one noble or chosen people or elite, ruling imperialistically over all others, and it also follows a more esoteric version of the same Involutionary Inward Path as the Revealed Religions, which despises natural evolution.

The Theoevolutionary Church affirms a transcendent moral imperative without despising natural evolution in proclaiming true Godhood as the Zenith of material/supermaterial evolution. This moral imperative understands that life must evolve beyond existing species to higher and higher species all the way to Godhood. Therefore, many small states are affirmed, each evolving at its own pace, protected by light federalism, and guided, voluntarily, by the Church on the long path to Godhood. This will help retain the necessary variety and divergence, which allows for overall life to fulfill its overall moral imperative.

Revitalized Conservatism and Ordered Evolution this way can bring the new into the old, with Order and Conservatism protecting the gains of evolution, and Revitalization and Evolution continuing the transcendent moral imperative of evolution to Godhood. The Twofold Path affirms both the Inward Path of Tradition and the Outward Path of Evolution.

One of the greatest contributions of Aristotle

One of the greatest contributions of Aristotle was the idea that motion is caused by incomplete entities striving for completion and perfection. This reaffirms the root definition of the activating Spirit-Will in the Theoevolutionary Church (TC), with the Spirit-Will activating life to Godhood from within while being shaped by evolution from without. Science does not acknowledge this concept of motion, as it seems to involve various forms of teleology, vitalism and orthogenesis, wheras science tends to attribute purpose to the “process” of random evolution rather than to purpose.

For Aristotle motion ceases when things move to simple perfection, whereas in TC Perfection or Godhood leads to new Kosmic Godhood followed by new strivings for Godhood.

It seems like a weaker excuse to separate faith and reason into different subjects with different proofs. The faith or intellectual intuition behind seeing goals and purpose in evolution, with evolution moving from materialism to supermaterialism, needs to be validated by science.

There are perhaps beginnings to this, with such things as the work of  Francis Heylighen.

How we agree and disagree with St. Augustine and St. Thomas regarding Being

How does the relationship with the Intellect relate to Being or Godhood? The Intellect is in Godhood's Mind, as it is in our mind, only the Intellect is evolved to its Zenith in Godhood's Mind, they are never separate. Also, as in humans, there is knowledge coming from the Spirit-Will and from the experience of Soul, which exists in the Mind and Body of Godhood as they do in us. The intellect never stands outside the Body of Godhood, just as Truth never stands outside the Body and Mind Of Godhood.

This would seem to affirm both St. Augustine and St. Thomas in the sense that they thought of truth as “that which is” (St. Augustine) and of Being as the foundation of truth, or Being as prior to truth. (see “Heidegger and Aquinas” by Caputo) Only substances “truly are” to St. Thomas, and this too we affirm, in the sense that substances are eternal as the stuff from which material and supermaterial beings are made.

We seem to depart from St. Augustine and St. Thomas in the way they define Being as “permanent presence.” Godhood is the consequence and reward for attaining the Zenith of Evolution. Permanence such as there is in this sense is within the evolving life of the cosmos, or within the activating Spirit-Will within life as it activates Godhood Itself. Godhood is self-subsistence and eternal only in this evolutionary sense.  Both existence and essence are objects and Supreme Objects, material and supermaterial, which are ever evolving.   

Conservatives and Libertarians

In “Redeeming The Time,” Russell Kirk said that libertarians live by one simple principle, the notion of personal freedom as the whole end of the civil order, and even of human existence.

They carry the 19^th century abstractions of John Stuart Mill on liberty to absurdity.

The only thing true conservatives share with libertarians is a detestation of collectivism, and they share nothing else.

There is no great gulf between libertarianism and libertinism.

The final emancipation for religion, convention, custom and order is annihilation.

Liberty and justice are established only after order is secured, without the state man's life work would be brutal and short.

The three imaginations

Of the three imaginations defined by Russell Kirk, who was often referring to Edmund Burke, that is, the moral imagination, idyllic imagination and diabolic imagination, only the moral imagination is affirmed by Kirk and the paleoconservatives. But we can affirm all three.

We have not lost the transcendent end goal, which would define decadence. But our end goal is the Zenith of Evolution, where true Godhood is attained in material-supermaterial evolution. This is where we apply our “moral imagination.” Whereas the transcendent moral goal of traditionalism, at least esoterically, where it really matters, is the Father Within, the Soul, reached through the Involutionary Inward Path, by ridding the body of all material desires.

But our “idyllic imagination” relates to the Zenith of Material-Supermaterial Evolution, which must not be mistaken for mere humanism or idealism, it is a transcendent moral order that brings us to Godhood in evolution.

Our “diabolic imagination” relates to civilizing the beast of materialism into the great goal of Godhood. The material-supermaterial world has been defined as an evil beast by the Inward Path when it is in fact the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.

Having the use of all three imaginations gives us an expanded imagination. Both the Inward and Outward Path are affirmed in the Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church.

The Leveler

President Obama and the democrats are mainly levelers, as Russell Kirk defined them in “Redeeming The Time,” always trying to pull down the prosperous classes through crushing taxation to pay for “entitlements” for an abstraction called the poor. This hurts the poor most by causing oppression of industry and commerce.

Things seem to be moving toward the bread and circuses Roman emperor who united with the mob to pull down the propertied classes with taxation until the ancient economy collapsed---the frontiers could not even be defended.

Many wealthy people are paying almost half their income on taxes. It is a struggle between the forces of individual achievement and the forces of equality.

Eric Voegelin said a tolerably just society is one where aspiring natures are free to exercise their talents, but the large majority of people, who desire merely a quiet life, are secured against oppression by the aspiring natures.

Are we headed for a Latin American brand of democracy---with class against class, with the economy periodically ruined by inflation---and with a semblance of order restored from time to time by the military?  Better to have our original constitutional vision of small independent states protected by a light federalism, and with economic nationalism.

We can know the object on a shifting evolutionary scale

Rather than saying we can only see with our senses and can never fully know the object, it would have been better for Kant to say we can know the object on a shifting evolutionary scale, from the simple senses to the super senses. Then, with enough evolution of the senses, the “object” can eventually be fully known by the senses, that is, known exactly for what the object is in all its Absolute Truth. But this can be known only by the highest evolved object, or objects, in the cosmos, Godhood, who can see the Absolute Truth of all Objects, as nearly as possible.

It was an illusion to think that there ever could be something other than the senses seeing the object or the super-senses seeing the super-object. Ideas exists in the body and in the mind and not outside the body and the mind. Godhood Itself is a Body and a Mind, Godhood is not an idea outside of the Body and the Mind.

Essence, such as the Spirit-Will, is a living object and can be super-material and is never not material. Existence is material and super-material. So let us not look for essences that are immaterial or not connected to the senses or the super-senses of the body or the super-body. We see other objects with less or more clarity with our senses or super-senses depending on our level of evolution, and we never see more than that, and in this sense there is no more than what we see with our senses or super-senses.

Godhood is a Supreme Living Object, not an immaterial idea or immaterial essence, and only Godhood can see Absolute Truth because Godhood has evolved Absolute Senses within an Absolute Body, and we have yet to do so, so we see less of the truth of an object than Godhood does.

Is complexity better than simplicity in evolution?

Is complexity better than simplicity in evolution, as Teilhard De Chardin suggests? The question should be is higher evolution better than lower evolution? Higher evolution can be complex or simple. Higher evolution is defined as higher intelligence, consciousness, beauty, goodness and power, among other things.  Often these things are more complex than simple, but simplicity sometimes refines and civilizes complexity, which can become slow, difficult, even decayed.

Aristotle thought “motion” was caused by incomplete entities striving for completion, moving from diversity to simplicity and arriving at a completely simple, motionless state. An interesting precursor dynamic to Evolutionary Christianity, but the the motionless goal seems to have been more of an idea than a living object.  Godhood as a goal is not the end of motion, the Great Union of Godhood results in the Great Motion of the Transformation of Godhood into a new Kosmic Godhood whose beings then strive back to Godhood, activated from within by the Spirit-Will and shaped from without by evolution.

The Acts That Bring being Forth

(To Aquinas and Heidegger)

“Being,” or Godhood is not the act that brings being forth, that is the mission, drive, or activation of the Spirit-Will. But Being is an Object, a Supreme Object or Objects which like all life are activated by the Spirit-Will-Godhood.

The Spirit-Will, for all intents and purposes, is what brings beings forth, but the Spirit-Will activates life for the purpose of activating life to evolve to Godhood, which means that the Spirit-Will is not Godhood, the Spirit-Will seeks Godhood, this explains Its purpose and life's purpose.

It is the the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which is material or supermaterial, that activates rather than "brings forth" the new cosmos.

Absolute Truth, Beauty and Goodness define Being or Godhood. Perhaps only Godhood has the Mind-Soul, Spirit-Will and Body to see the Absolutes. We must evolve to higher and higher levels to not only understand the Absolutes but to Become the Absolutes, when and if the Supreme Object Godhood is attained in evolution.

Absolute Truth therefore does not "stand outside of Being" or Godhood, It exists in the Mind-Soul Of Godhood, and the Mind-Soul of Godhood stands within the Supreme Body of Godhood, and the Absolute Spirit-Will also stands within the Supreme Body of Godhood. Truth is a property of objects of Being, Being is not a property of Truth, and Being is a Supreme Object, or Objects evolved to.

Godhood is a Supreme Object or Objects containing all these things. Human beings also contain these things, body, mind-soul and spirit-will, but at a far lower level of evolution. This is what I think is meant by human's being the likeness of God.

What is history?

I disagree with Spengler that World history is the biography of the rise and fall of civilizations (The Decline of the West). History is the biography of the evolution of life to Godhood. Life rises, life falls, life advances, but the overall thrust of history, not only on earth but in the Kosmos, is the evolution to Godhood. This is the sacred view of history, seeing only human history can be a truncated or even profane view of history.

Second and Third Birth in the Twofold Path

Evolutionary Christianity moves beyond the second birth of the Inward Path to the third birth of the Outward Path. This is the next meaning of being “born again.”

We join with the tradition of the Inward Path when we synthesize tradition with the Outward Path, which helps explain Revitalized Conservatism and Ordered Evolution.

The Inward Path can help us understand the goal of the Outward Path. The Inward Path says “I am,” the Outward Path says “I will become.” The second birth is a baptism by the calming waters of the Soul, the third birth is baptism by the activating fire of the Spirit-Will.

Ravi Ravindra said one needs to be prepared not only to understand truth but also to withstand truth.

The Inward Path helps to make the imperceptible Outward Path perceptible, much like art can do in Evolutionary Realism.

On The Twofold Path

It's not the will of God it is the Will to God that is the more accurate phrase. We evolve to Godhood, the Will is the Spirit-Will within, which activates life to evolve to Godhood, working along with natural selection. Let's not mistake the Spirit-Will for Godhood.

The evolution to Godhood is the concern of the Evolutionary Outward Path. Jesus Christ, and traditional religions, were concerned with the Involutionary Inward Path to the Father Within, the Soul State, which is nevertheless not Godhood, it gives the desire-free virtual bliss of Godhood as a reminder of the great goal of desire-fulfilled Godhood.

The importance of the Inward Path has to be measured with the future Godhood of the Outward Path. One must not get in the way of the other. The “innovations” of the Outward Path don't change the importance of the conservative, permanent, inward things.  But then nothing is more permanent than the Spirit-Will which activates life to Godhood, and this too must be conserved as a permanent thing.

Religion has been too separate from the earth, too separate from material things, and this has had much to do with the slow decline of religion, perhaps with the exception of fundamentalists who nevertheless seem closed to the Outward Path. Rather than strict humanitarianism, which denies the divine and declares humans as all there is, Evolutionary Christianity affirms the divine goal of Godhood in evolution. The Twofold Path addresses this concern, it can save religion by including the real world, and teleological evolution.  But most importantly, it can open up the spiritual blockade against evolving to Godhood.

No Phenomenal-noumenal distinction

I don't see a phenomenal-noumenal distinctions, there is only material and supermaterial. This means there is no duality in metaphysics. This should also end the separation between science and religion, and perhaps between reason and faith.

Esoteric “concealment” is more the inability to discern the supermaterial, which is therefore confounded with non-material and spiritual. The supermaterial is there, we just don't see it.

There is also no reason to esoterically separate the phenomenal and the noumenal into genders, as both the East and West does. This usually disparages the material world and lowers one of the genders metaphysically, which then affects human gender.

Evolving male and female life is not dualistic, their union is a lower form of monotheism, leading to more gender and more unions evolving all the way to the supermaterial Godhood.

Murdoch's claim to be conservative is a sham

I find myself more irritated by the media than I usually am watching Murdoch's destruction of the 168 year old newspaper, “News of the World,” even if the paper was vulgar. Hacking into the private lives of citizens to sell more newspapers would not have happened if we had not lost the two principle that Russell Kirk said the West depends upon, archiac as they may sound: the spirit of the gentleman and religion. The rise of Murdach and his ilk has happened along with the destruction of these Western values.

Murdoch's claim to be conservative is a sham, the neoconservatism of Fox News isn't conservatism. True conservatism subordinates economics to higher ends, economics is only a means to the development and well-being of the community. Murdoch and his media empire are busy reshaping and modifying the public mind against traditional economic nationalism into a global monster of decadence and destruction.

Can we recover? T. S. Eliot said there is no such thing as a lost cause, defeat and dismay can be a preface to our eventual victory. Some people say we should welcome the fall of the West so that a new healthy culture can rise. Some men advocate totalitarian racialism, seeking to exclusively save the people of the West. But there are too many people, to many cultures, too many races on earth to expect exclusive rights for any one people. We need to shrink back to small, independent states, virtual ethnostates, for all people, all races, protected with a light federalism. Nothing else seems realistic.

Involution and Outvolution

Ends or goals in teleology can be seen as natural principles and as a central explanation for life in the Kosmos. Life and the Kosmos are purposive. The Zenith of Evolution relates to everything in the Kosmos.

Ethics has a teleological ethos in Evolutionary Christianity (EC). Right and wrong relate to evolution and devolution. The vitalistic activation of biology by the Spirit-Will is teleological. Evolution and natural selection shape life from without, and the Spirit-Will activates life from within.

But as science developed it rejected teleological explanations. Science will not agree to a teleological or vitalistic element in evolution, it rejects the activation of life finding its way through evolution from the simple to the complex all the way to Godhood.

Even tough it may sound awkward at first, I think I will introduce the word “Outvolution” to include teleology and vitalism which the word “evolution” rejects. The word Outvolution also balances better with Involution. The outward going Evolutionary Outward Path, and the inward going Involutionary Inward Path are then affirmed in the Twofold Path in EC.

The Gordian Knot of Ontology

To many philosophers, Being is thinking. That is, at least definitions, principles and equations first seem to require the mind to see and know. But this is not Being.

Others seem to prefer a principle as Being which is mindless, or existing without a mind or body.

Being defined as Godhood has a Mind and Body, as we do, but far more evolved at the Zenith of Evolution. This means that only the Mind of Godhood can accurately define the Mind and Body of Godhood with Absolute Truth.

Taking the mind only as Being, or taking a principle as Being, is less than half a God. Minds and principles are incomplete without a body. The bias against the material in favor of the non-material is strong in philosophy and theology.

It often seems that thinkers prefer the dazzle of complication to unadorned simplicity. Perhaps philosophy, like other things, reaches a stage of overcomplexity until the complexity becomes an impediment to truth, than it reverts back to simplicity.

Theological materialism defines a supermaterial Godhood which is evolved to from the material to the supermaterial. Perhaps this is more like cutting the Gordian Knot than disentangling ontology.

Reinterpreting Hinduism

I reinterpret the Hindu “Prakriti” as all there is. “Purusha” is then the offspring of Prakriti. These can be seen as “substance” and “essence” and of the same materiality as the rest of the material world, but at different levels of supermaterial evolution.

The Supreme Gods and Goddesses of Prakriti unite in creating Godhood at the Zenith of Evolution. Godhood can then be defined as “Universal Being” but this definition or principle is not Godhood, the Supreme Object of the Great Union is Godhood.

The doctrine of Universal Being or non-duality attempts to define God but defines only the principle or denotation of God and this is not the Supreme Object Godhood.

Only Godhood can accurately define Godhood, no human mystic can, Godhood must be evolved to far beyond the human mystic mind.

The principle of non-duality in Vedanta is really the human Soul-State free of material desires and is not Godhood.

The world does not evolve from matter to spirit and then stop there at Nothing, the world evolves from supermateriality to materiality then back to supermateriality again, endlessly, with Godhood occasionally attained at the Zenith Of Evolution. Only a principle or definition can be a nothing, or no-object.

Vedanta, like the Revealed Religions, affirms only the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul Within and it does not contain the Evolutionary Outward Path of evolution to Godhood. Evolutionary Christianity contains both paths in the Twofold Path. Call it a Western yoga, requiring Western knowledge and wisdom, as well as Eastern knowledge and wisdom, and also future knowledge and wisdom yet to come.

No Unbridgeable Gap

Religion has insisted on an unbridgeable gap between the spiritual and materiel, between God and man. Religion has insisted that men cannot reach God by way of material life.

Religion has said that man can be filled with God by emptying himself of all material desires. This symbolizes and identifies with God but this is not Godhood. Involution to the Soul-Within is this way confused with evolution to Godhood.

Man has blocked his evolution to Godhood by insisting that God cannot be reached by material means. This theological error needs to be corrected so that the true destiny of life in the Kosmos can be fulfilled by evolving to Godhood.

There is no real gap between the spiritual and material when the spiritual is understood to be supermaterial. Then the theological materialism of Evolutionary Christianity may be understood.

Kosmogonia

Adapting and changing Teilhard's terms to the philosophy of the Theoevolutionary Church, the “primal point” would be the beginning of a new cosmos, which then begin the long evolutionary path to Godhood. The “omega point” would be Godhood. And the “alpha point” would be the stopping of evolution in such things as great black holes, where life leftover from an older cosmos eventually has another chance to evolve to Godhood. Godhood needs to be independent of entropy, the collapse of all forces. A new kind of cosmic Godhood emerges. Godhood transcends many of the building blocks that composed It.

This cosmogony, or to use the more graphic Greek word, Kosmogonia, is not like Teilhard's cosmogony. Teilhard's omega point resembles more the destination of  involution to the Soul-Within than evolution outward to Godhood. The outward goal of Godhood is confounded with the inward path to the Soul-Within, evolution is twisted to resemble involution. Both paths, the Inward and Outward Paths are necessary in the Twofold Path. One without the other makes an incomplete religion.

The evolution to Godhood relates not merely to individual men, or individual mystics, but to groups, small states, ethnostates, moving at their own pace.  Evolution takes place most vitally at the group level. No one group has exclusive rights to evolve. Imperialism is stopped in favor of creative, independent, evolving states, with light federalism protecting their independence and evolution over time, bonded by religion, without which no real culture or civilization can rise or last for long.

Being and beings

Thinking belongs to Being and in some cases being, it is part of Being and being, but thinking is not itself alone Being or being.

Philosophers and theologians have often virtually defined thinking as a Being in itself, and this takes thinkers away from the living object, which can lose the object in abstractions.

Thinking is not required to bring Being or being into presence, Being and being are present and exists without thinking about them.

However, the fullness of truth and thought, the "absolute" about Being, can only be seen and known by Godhood at the zenith of evolution, lesser beings must evolve to higher gradations of truth to know what Godhood knows.

Being derives from being, in an ongoing birth and evolution of various cosmos, and there appears to be no beginning and no end. The Spirit-Will is the activating engine from within working with evolution from without. Since the Spirit-Will seeks Godhood by riding the vehicle of material life in evolution, the Spirit-Will is not Godhood.

There seems to be an eternal balancing of the dyad, the penultimate Gods and Goddesses, the Spirit Will and the Primal Material, which are never separate.

The Third Birth

The movement from the natural material self to the spiritual self has been called the second birth. The Evolutionary Outward Path in Evolutionary Christianity defines the third birth, that is, when the Spirit-Will is recognized and affirmed as the activating force of evolution to Godhood.

The third birth is really part of the natural first birth and is symbolically called the third birth to distinguish from the first and second births.

The second birth can blind men to the Spirit-Will by blocking all the material desires, as we attempt to attain the bliss of the Soul-State, which is not the destination of the Outward Path. The second birth Soul-State is a virtual and symbolic reminder and identification with what Godhood will be like when Godhood is attained in evolution,

The Garden of Eden is the story of the second birth of the immaterial Soul-State, when men woke up to their material desires. This is transvalued in the third birth of the Outward Path. Here material life is not seen as evil but as the vehicle by which we evolve to Godhood. In the Outward Path the devolution and stagnation of evolution is evil.

But the two births are included in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity. One without the other, that is, turning ones back on the past, present or future makes an incomplete religion. The future is built on the past and present in the Ordered Evolution and Revitalized Conservatism of Evolutionary Christianity.

The battle between God and the Devil, the world and the word, the material and the spiritual is civilized and synthesized in Evolutionary Christianity; we need to continue our evolution to Godhood. As in Evolutionary Realism in art, the imperceptible needs to be made perceptible.

How Anthropology Is Theology

The Church is literally the “body” in that we evolve in the material and supermaterial world to Godhood as evolving physical objects.

Anthropology is theology in the sense that living objects evolve to supermaterial Godhood. This is why sociobiologists, physicists and various engineers are included in the Outward Path of the Theoevolutionary Church.

The Church needs to know where it is going with futurism as eschatology, not so much of end times as the Zenith of Evolution, and then of ongoing new Kosmic Godhood.

Teilhard's Biggest Error

Even though he made a valiant attempt to include evolution in Christianity, the biggest error of  Teilhard De Chardin was in confounding involution with evolution. Modern evolutionary theologians make the same mistake.

Christ is not evolved to, Christ is involved to, by way of the Inward Path. The Christ-State, or the Father-Within, is attained inwardly by blocking all material desires, and by arriving at the Soul, which, at least symbolically, exists at the Zenith of the Mind.

Evolution is the work of the Spirit-Will, not the Soul-State, which exists, at least symbolically, at the Zenith of the Soul. The Spirit-Will activates material life to evolve to supermaterial Godhood, by way of the Outward Path.

It is not Christ but Godhood which is reached at the real “Omega Point” of evolution in the entire Kosmos. The Christ-State is a virtual or symbolic state of identification with Godhood, relating to that great time when evolution is fulfilled, not denied. To stop at the Christ-State is to die to the world, as Christ (and Buddha and others) asked us to do. Never-the-less, both Paths are affirmed in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity.

There can be freedom in the determinism of evolving life, as man cooperates with or harmonizes with the evolutionary process. Research in this process is an ongoing need, as we are transformed through evolution. (see Raymond Cattell regarding preliminary research in sociobiology)

Political philosophy matters, and Teilhard's involutionary and convergent religious view leads to collectivism and centralization, whereas the evolutionary and divergent religious view of Evolutionary Christianity leads to de-centralization and divergence, with only a light federalism to protect the divergence and de-centralization, and most importantly, to protect evolution in its long path to Godhood.