The archaeology of creativity: the potential of apotheosis (article 1)
Abstract
Due to the diversification of practical and spiritual production, the non-trivial task of epistemological explication of such a significant segment of human symbolic experience as religious world definition is actualized. The operational framework of the research was a block of philosophical (reflection), general scientific (deduction, induction, tradition, abduction), and private scientific (reconstruction) ways of mastering realities. It is shown that the traditional claims of apotheosis (the doctrinal expression of which is theology – theosophy) to conceptualize the capital themes of existential peace-building through the coherence of «private goals – eternal values» are being eroded by the secular interpretation of absolute vital principles. Theodicy is being replaced by Anthropodicy. It is demonstrated that the cultivation of «oneself» and «oneself in the world» is based in modern times not by cult-ritual (magical) techniques, but by secular service to generic «absolutes».