Holding Economics Up To Nature

Free traders cherry pick reality, fair traders do not

The free traders say that a free trade economy reflects the natural reality of the law of cause and effect, seen in the law of supply and demand, and seen in the constant growth condition of life. This much may be true, but then the free traders go on to cherry pick reality overlooking or unaware of the natural reality of group selection and genetically activated altruism and kin selection, while affirming strict selfish individualism (see the Randians).

Holding economics up to nature one affirms economic nationalism. I can agree with the libertarians that government needs to be greatly restricted, but based on nature and human nature I do not think that business should be free to trade away the manufacturing base and jobs of a nation, as it has done. Government needs to control this, as it did during the rise of all nations, with fair trade rather than free trade.

The subject-object arguments of German philosophy come down to theology in Evolutionary Christianity

Never is there a separation between body-object and spirit-subject.  For comparison, there is no purpose for the engine (Spirit-Will-Subject) of a vehicle (Object-Body) to exist other then to make the vehicle go, or activate the vehicle. Why would we want to separate the engine from the vehicle, separated they are both dead?

The subject-object arguments of German philosophy come down to theology in Evolutionary Christianity (EC). There is no duality or separation between object and subject, it is one object. Fichte and German philosophy saw the object as the projection of the subject-self. I see the object never separate from the subject-self. The Spirit-Soul-Mind (subject) exists in the object-body and does so from the micro-world of lower life to the macro-world of higher life. Each form has its Spirit-Soul-Mind-Subject at different levels of evolution which can see more and know more the higher it evolves, until Godhood is attained in evolution, which contains more Absolute Knowledge of Godhood. The lowest forms have a mind at least in the form of the Will-Spirit which actives the form to evolve to Godhood, even if it cannot think about it.

Thinking does not have to reach beyond itself, beyond material life, to see transcendental “things-in-themselves.” The activating power of life, the Will To Godhood, or the (Will-Spirit), has supreme knowledge of It's destination, which is Godhood, and we can have knowledge of this with intellectual intuition, although is a partial knowledge of Godhood or the Supreme Thing In Itself. Yes, this Will-Spirit to Godhood is “transcendental” but it is also immanent within us. And most importantly the Will is material, but in a supermaterial category. There is not a separation here between spirit and matter, there is only materiality and supermateriality.

In the Twofold Path the true task of the Involutionary Inward Path is to reach the Soul within---which is the human mind at its best---and then to see the Will-Spirit that lies at the Zenith of the Soul, where the Thing-In-Itself can be glimpsed. This is where the highest intellectual intuition is involved.

Reason and logic are found in the mind where the mind can grasp the deeper reason and logic of evolution, which the intuitive mind can then synthesize or harmonize with the Will-Spirit. Spirit-Soul-Mind is one thing, one mind, with different levels. The Body, Mind and Soul are activated by the Will-Spirit.  In the Evolutionary Outward Path the Will-Spirit knows Its goal but does not determine the paths to the goal in outward natural evolution.

Reason is not the essence of man

Reason is not the only way to perceive Reality, other faculties need to be involved, like emotions, intuitions, and even revelations. To leave these out and allow only reason is to cut man in half.

Ultimately reason and evolution are activated by the Will to Godhood, or the Spirit-Will; reason is not in this sense the essence of man, the Will to Godhood is, although man seems to be unique in using reason.

The Will knows its destination, which is Godhood, and It can and does apply reason and other faculties to find the best paths to the goal of Godhood. Animals can't know this goal, their “minds” are a simple will to live.

Contrary to Nietzsche and Foucault evolution and reality are not dictated by power, and not dictated by the reason of Aristotle, but by the Will To Godhood. Evolution seems to better define how reason works, activated by the Will to Godhood.

Preserving the Involutionary Perennial Path and Including the Evolutionary Outward Path

Eastern sources such as Taoism, Hinduism and the Brahmanic Tradition seem to have kept intact more of the original Hyperborean Tradition than the Near Eastern and Western Abrahamic Tradition. The Abrahamic Tradition seems to have derived at least some of its religion, including the ethos of the Kabbalah, during the enslavement of the Jewish people in both Ancient Egypt and Babylon, while the enslaving states were themselves secondary---though important---centers of the Hyperborean Civilization. And much was lost in translation.

Even so in the West, the Kabbalah of Orthodox Judaism retains more of the Perennial Hyperborean Tradition than much of Christianity does, with Traditional Christianity retaining what little it could. I see Vatican Two changes in the Catholic Church as an attempt to recapture some of this Hyperborean Tradition from the Abrahamic and Brahmanic Traditions. But this is all speaking of the Involutionary Inward Path of the Revealed Religions.

The Theoevolutionary Church seeks to renew the “Universal” meaning of “Catholicism,” and include in its Involutionary Inward Path as much of the lost Hyperborean Tradition as possible, including insights from the Eastern and Abrahamic Traditions.  But most importantly, we add the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood, which defines the original Twofold Path.  This is obtained at least partly from modern knowledge, and it is our unique contribution to the Tradition, the Church and science.

Remembering Robertson's Ethnostates

I came across old notes on Robertson's book, “The Ethnostates,” and remembered how wise he was in his approach to ethnostates, although I do not agree with his idea of ethnostates seceding from the union. I think States Rights within the United States Constitution can include the concept of ethnostates without radical change.

Robertson said he was speaking of a time not in the present but in the future when Americans and Europeans will have reached the point where they have to choose between ethnostates or no states at all.

He felt that overpopulation and matters affecting the environment would demand international recognition of regional control and regulation.

Robertson thought the worst crime after genocide is culturecide, and the second crime to military aggression is cultural aggression.

He insisted on the sequence of “education, arouse, act” in that order, because acting before education and arousal are invitations to failure.

Robertson believed that a countries greatness does not depend on the wars it has won, or the wealth it has produced or the territory it has grabbed. A countries greatness is determined by the genius of its people and by applying that genius to unique achievement in the arts, sciences and government. (I would add religion.)

He advocated the criminalization of war, other than ethnostatist defense. Military aggression against another ethnostate should be a high crime. Empire-building is the opposite side of ethnostates.

The goal of future global bodies would be to guard the independence and sovereignty of ethnostates, not as the United Nations trying to keep the peace by bringing people together.

Robertson suggested an historical scheme different from Marx, where feudal fiefdoms (thesis) evolve to huge multi-racial political agglomerations (antithesis) eventually resolving into ethnostates (synthesis). The Marx scheme was feudalism-capitalism-communism.

The Free Ground of the Political

Evolutionary Christianity adapts from Christianity the even-handed knowledge that not just some men are free, all men are free to evolve---the evolutionary goal may be determined but the path is undetermined. This was an improvement over the pagans, eg., the Ancient Greeks with their slavery and supremacy of one group over all groups.

Civilization since Christianity says that there can legitimately be no single, supremacist, Civilized Greek, Noble Aryan or Chosen Judaic people, since all groups, all races are activated by the same Will to Godhood, or Spirit. This broad view leads to a political world with a religious view of the community, different from the supremacist religious view of communities.  All groups rightfully affirm themselves and the rights of other groups to affirm themselves.

Localism, ethnostates and light federalism are essential in allowing the best possible environment for a wide variety of separate groups to successfully survive, reproduce and evolve upward. Evolution is the last judgment, the culture and state are not a completed work of art, they offer the best known environment for ongoing creation and evolution.

Gnostic Hegel

In seeing Spirit as unfolding toward “freedom” or “liberation” from the “subjection” of nature, Hegel is Gnostic, not unlike his forebears, Plato and the esoteric versions of the Revealed Religions.

In Hegel, Spirit is opposed to (contrary to) nature, because history is the unfolding of Spirit, in stages.

In Evolutionary Christianity, Spirit is nature, or supermateriality and epiphenomenal, and It is not opposed to Itself.

The Spirit or the Will to Godhood does seek the total freedom of Godhood, which it must evolve to in nature.

“Freedom” means essentially the freedom to evolve, ultimately to Godhood. Freedom does not mean that men are without a determining nature.

This is why we affirm localism, ethnostates and light federalism, they allow the most possible freedom to evolve for the most people, and not just one people or one state.

Innovation In Revitalized Conservatism

I must say I began as a radical and then wised up. Revitalized Conservatism is not against innovation but against rule by innovation. Innovation needs to be merged or synthesized into the majority status quo which always exists. Conservatism has been wrongly depicted as against innovation. Evolutionary Christianity and theological materialism are innovations, but the hope or strategy is to have them merged into the status quo, or at least merge the status quo into them if innovation is totally blocked.

More seriously, we are evolving kosmically toward the totality of Godhood, which is a divine progress, yet need not be radical change. The Revealed Religions have blocked our instinctual nature in a Great Spiritual Blockade which needs to be unblocked even as we hold on to the Involutionary Inward Path of the Revealed Religions in the Twofold Path. This is change but not revolution.

There is also innovation required in adapting States Rights to ethnostates with light federalism, thereby holding on to the Constitution of the United States. This is more a return to what once was unspoken reality. The same return is needed from global free trade to economic nationalism. But these all need to be merged, not forced, not because we are afraid of confrontation but because we affirm the reality of the status quo.

Inner Force And Therapy

Whereas “negation” is the inner life force of Hegel's dialectic, and the Will to Power and the Will to Sex are the inner life force of Nietzsche, Adler and Freud; the Will to Godhood, or the Holy Spirit is the inner life force of theological materialism and Evolutionary Christianity.

A form of Evolutionary Therapy naturally develops out of this worldview, where the way people, cultures, philosophy's and religions compensate or overcompensate for the Will to Godhood, and how this force or drive is thwarted or affirmed defines the health of people and cultures.

On Plato

The world is not an illusion created by the mind of man as some extreme subjectivists hold, and reality is not “co-existent” with God, as Swami Krishnananda holds, the world of man is merely a lower order evolution toward higher order Godhood. This means that the lower order of evolution is not in “bondage” to material life. 

I disagree with Plato who, according to Krishnananda, believes that “by itself matter or the sense-world is quality-less, nothing; it derives values from the reality of the Ideas which give form and value to it.” Vedanta seems to agree with this and I disagree with Vedanta. I see it precisely the other way around, it is the material and supermaterial object that gives value to the Ideas.

Ideas don't range beyond the “senses,” the phenomenal world is all there is, but the phenomenal world ranges from phenomena to superphenomena or epiphenomena.  It is not Plato's Ideas that activate matter, it is the superphenomenal Holy Spirit, or the Spirit-Will to Godhood, which is not better than matter, the Spirit is part of matter—being supermatter-- and It uses matter as Its vehicle to evolve to Godhood.  What is real is the Object, not merely consciousness, which can only be conscious of the object which gives it “life.”

Vedanta seems to have a bit better view than Plato in thinking that “the activities of the material world are all consciously directed towards the fulfillment of the cosmic purpose of Self-realization. Matter is not an unwilling self but a willing cooperator in the grand scheme of the cosmos.” This lack of dualism, unlike Plato's dualism, seems right, even if Plato's Idealism does see a whole as being only Ideas, the opposite of our theological materialism.

I say that the Holy Spirit-Will (not the Demiurge) helps activate creation, but within the Primordial Material, then the Holy Spirit, along with natural selection and evolution, is the architect of the world, the cosmos is therefore the very body of future Godhood. The Holy Spirit does not require Plato's “World Soul” to create the cosmos, It helps create the world Itself.

Unlike Plato, the Soul and Spirit have not “forgotten” their original knowledge, but they do require evolution to go back to the Absolute Knowledge that exists within the Supreme Object, or Objects of Godhood, which the Soul and Spirit do not posses, thus they have the divine motivation to evolve  to Godhood. All that we know here is merely an imperfect evolution of Absolute Knowledge, and the Absolute is "only" Absolute Consciousness, or Godhood's Mind seeing and knowing the Supreme Object and Body of Godhood-Itself.

How We Can Know The Thing-In-Itself

Thinking does not have to exclusively reach beyond itself to transcendental things-in-themselves, the activating power of the Will to Godhood or the Holy Spirit Within us, which actually is material, seems to have knowledge of It's destination, which is knowledge of Godhood. Yes, this knowledge is “transcendental” in the sense of the highest evolution, but it is immanent within us and we can therefore have at least a glimpse of the Thing-In-Itself called Godhood---although evolution never ceases and there is therefore no final Thing-in-itself. It is a partial knowledge of Godhood because full knowledge, or Absolute Truth, comes only when we evolve all the way to Godhood in the cosmos.

The true task of the Involutionary Inward Path in Evolutionary Christianity is to reach beneath to the Soul—which is the human mind at its zenith-- and see the Spirit-Will that lies at the Zenith of the Soul, where the Thing-In-Itself can be somewhat grasped. It is the Soul at the Zenith of the Mind where intellectual intuition takes place, and where we can discern the Spirit-Will.

Reason and logic are known in the mind and Soul, where the mind can grasp the deepest reason and logic of evolution and try to harmonize with it. Evolution moves more or less dialectically toward Godhood, from the simple to the refined etc., and the mind can grasp this, which is the deepest reason and logic. The task of the Evolutionary Outward Path is to make possible the evolution to Godhood.

The Soul, Reason and Logic are activated by the Will to Godhood, or the Holy Spirit, which knows Its goal but does not determine the exact paths that evolution will take in evolving to Godhood.

"Vested interests had fattened upon free trade"

..."The clarity of British thinking was not helped by the fact that certain vested interests had fattened upon free trade and established a grip upon the levers of power that was hard to break. The British establishment, seduced by the City of London’s financiers, turned towards wealth manipulation rather than wealth creation, a story familiar to us on Wall Street today..."

from "America Aping Britain's Decline Through Free Trade"

Only The Zenith Of Evolution Is True

Only the total, the whole, is true---or Absolute Truth---and this is the Supreme Object, or Objects Godhood, not the definition, principal, or Logos of Godhood, but the Supremely Evolved Object. Therefore, every other life, species, being, etc. leading up to Godhood is partially true or partly true.

This resembles Hegel's dialectical logic, but it is not the same as the dialectic, which as Idealism, deals with changing concepts more than actual objects.

"How does the interdependence of nations in a global economy look now"

“...how does the Milton Friedmanite free-trade ideology of the Republican Party, which fed Beijing $2 trillion in trade surpluses at America's expense over two decades, look now?

How do all those lockstep Republican votes for Most Favored Nation status for Beijing, ushering her into the World Trade Organization and looking the other way as China dumped into our markets, thieved our technology and carted off our factories look today?

The self-sufficient republic that could stand alone in the world is more dependent than Japan on China for rare-earth elements vital to our industries, for the necessities of our daily life, and for the loans to finance our massive trade and budget deficits.

How does the interdependence of nations in a global economy look now, compared to the independence American patriots from Alexander Hamilton to Calvin Coolidge guaranteed to us, that enabled us to win World War II in Europe and the Pacific in less than four years?...”

from Buchanan's latest

No Duality

The question of how we passover from unreality to reality is illegitimate. All is reality, and we evolve from lower reality to higher reality, from the material to the supermaterial. There is no duality. There is no passing from darkness to light, no passing from death to life. There is evolving from lower life to higher life, and eventually to eternal representation. This is the positive theology of Evolutionary Christianity.

Nature and the awareness of nature

A monk asks: "Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?" The master answers: "Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature." A Buddhist saying.

I disagree. The wonders of nature create the awareness of nature. The object of nature comes before the thought of the object. Nature is more miraculous than the awareness of nature.

Absolute materialism leads to theological materialism

The difficulties in knowing how we know (epistemology) disappear for me when I take the position of absolute materialism, and not by taking the position of Hegel's absolute idealism, where only thought is thought to exist. The object exists before the thought of the object. I exist therefore I think.

This ends for me the postmodern idea (begun by Nietzsche) that truth is only based on the system of ruling ideas of the time. Truth is based on objects no matter what system of ideas exist to try to explain objects. The object creates the description, not the other way around where the description creates the object.

But affirming absolute materialism does not trap me in some sort of truncated scientism or Marxism. In Evolutionary Christianity absolute materialism is only the beginning stage of materialism which leads to theological materialism: the material world evolves to the supermaterial world of Godhood.

The “contradictory” thing here is that absolute materialism and theological materialism are “idealism” in the sense of being thoughts about objects, and by not having yet been proven as real by mankind. These things have been proven through intellectual intuition, faith, or even by revelation. I simply don't have a problem believing these things while waiting for science to prove these things, which I expect science will one day do.

Agreeing and disagreeing with Alain de Benoist

Generally speaking, I think Alain de Benoist is the best of the “New Right” thinkers.

I believe he was right in his attack on globalism, liberalism, the melting-pot, and he was right in his support of ecology, and right in supporting federalism, with his belief in a Europe of specific peoples each with their own identity, with a kind of universal ethnostatism, defending the right of all peoples to their own “distinctness.” I would say it another way, as being against racial supremacism and imperialism, where one race is seen as noble or chosen and all others are not. The right of all races to live and evolve with variety needs to be affirmed.

I think Benoist was wrong in his criticism of capitalism in the United States, which has brought the highest standard of living to the world in human history, and in the shortest time. The problem comes when capitalism is the sole cultural interest without religion or art, and when capitalism steps beyond its natural bounds of economic nationalism, intruding on the independence of other nations.

I think Benoist made the mistake of radicalism when he rejected Christianity outright, the religion of the West, preferring to go back to Indo-European paganism.  It is better to affirm the Revealed Religions as well as the natural world of the evolution of life to Godhood, in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity, which takes science into account as well. Revitalized Conservatism takes the middle way, altering the new to the old, and the old to the new, and  promotes all races and cultures, living in small states, connected by a light federalism, evolving all the way to Godhood, affirmed by a revitalized religion.

Redeeming the world of nature and the evolution to Godhood

Upsetting the devolutionary programming

The one force that can, over time, upset our unconscious ignorance, or the programs of any cryptocracy (esoteric manipulation of the minds of man ), is the Will to Godhood, the Spirit-Will within, which climbs always toward Godhood in the material and supermaterial world. The Theoevolutionary Church appeals to this force, this Will, this Spirit.

The Truth is both of the Soul (Zenith of the Body and Mind) and of the Spirit (Zenith of the Soul), but it can be misunderstood, or biased and manipulated. The cryptocracy, like Tradition, ultimately attends only the Involutionary Soul Within, the Zenith of the Mind, not the Zenith of the Soul, the Spirit, and it therefore blocks the Evolutionary Outward Path of the Spirit.

But the Theoevolutionary Church does not reject or extirpate this Inward Path, as one might expect, it is the ancient path of Traditional Religions. We synthesize the Inward Path with the Outward Path in the Twofold Path, thereby avoiding a direct war of duality, occult or otherwise. However, the devastating traditional power of defining the other as heretical or even satanic remains against us.

The world is overcome with the darkness of the blocked and enslaved Spirit-Will-To-Godhood. With Tradition we can affirm the Soul and see the God Within of the Inward Path, but we must then go deeper into the Soul and find the Spirit and Will to Godhood of the Outward Path, which can redeem the world of nature, and the evolution of life to Godhood.

Logic As The Spirit Within

Adapting Hegel's dialectical thinking, my “logic” is in the Spirit Within or the Will To Godhood, reaching its Zenith when Godhood is evolved to, where Absolute Truth is then also finally attained, but not Absolute Truth alone as a bodi-less head or Logos, but Absolute Truth in the Mind Of God in the Body of God, the Supreme Object, not the Supreme Nothingness of only principle and definition.  Emerging from Godhood it is Spirit, the Will to Godhood, which does the activating of life and evolution, then returning to Godhood. Godhood is the “totality,” the Whole, and life is partial and partly untrue until life evolves to Godhood.

In the science of evolution the sequence of categories” evolves from the simple to the complex, from lower to higher consciousness, lower to higher intelligence, from less to more beautiful, from truth to Absolute Truth, and so on, with backward goings and stops along the way, from being to becoming to being to becoming.  But this is all activated by the Spirit Within.  Evolution is amoral from without.

At the Zenith of Evolution the “opposite” of Being is not “Nothingness” as in Hegel, whose “contradiction” I symbolize as Male/Female, not as opposing pairs, but as the Union of The Gods giving birth to the Holy Spirit. I think in terms of Father/Mother/Offspring rather than thesis, antithesis and synthesis. The offspring Holy Spirit then transforms into the Kosmos and the Evolution. The inner life force of evolution is not “Negation” but the Spirit or the Will to Godhood. It is the Spirit that seeks to find himself, not God, Spirit evolves to Godhood.

Evolution never transcends the phenomenal world but evolves to the epiphenomenal world, so there need not be two kinds of logic, as Kant preferred, one for the sense world and one for the spirit world. There is no duality.

God-consciousness is not merely the end-point of thinking alone, It is the end-point of thinking objects at the Zenith of phenomena and epiphenomena. God-consciousness, or Absolute Knowledge is in the Mind of God in the Body of God.

As Hegel implied, this comprehensive system resembles turning spirals of evolution, as perhaps the triskelion symbol seen above.