Letter to a Spectre Regarding our Death Before the Coming Theology

As to your question of a path out, we need a new religion. Or, perhaps more accurately, we need to return to a form of understanding that allows for a traditional religion, stripped of all excess—one which follows the laws of the pre-cultic, or at least implements them. The oldest religions retain their integrity within their myths, but our thinking is so focused on the human and worldly that we cannot 'cultivate the gods' in the ancient sense. This leads to an understanding of the myths that is completely corrupted, until something of a false hierarchy of the gods develops and they become playthings for our enjoyment. 

Within the monotheistic religions we see the development of an assumed series of eternal laws, as if we humans are capable of understanding the laws of the heavens—and it is here that the Book becomes, at once, an object of sanctity, divinity, and desecration. And it is this endless sacrament of the worldly, as if we could somehow reanimate God's flesh within the world, which leads to the 'death of God'. But this is a fundamental misunderstanding of religion, and hubris regarding the limits of our power in relation to the gods. 

I am currently working on a series of myths that explain how we got into this godless situation. And I think anyone concerned with a religious future should do the same. However, despite any romantic desire for the return of traditions, a better world, it is necessary to recognise that we are perhaps more powerless than ever—as if we were petrified by the very world we created. Or, as Heidegger said, 'Only a god can save us.' This implies that the divine force of our world is unknown to us, we have lost dominion, and we are completely powerless before its judgement. I do not mean to say this to instil a fear of action, only that our decisions today come with a force as devastating as the tendency to become paralysed; as if we were now holding the Aegis Shield, waiting for a god to reclaim it or destroy us for our hubris.

Such a realisation may be too much for a world so enamoured of its own power, and religions consumed with their own world-building; and so any attempt to intrude upon these false religions and their stone laws will be met with disdain, ignorance, and visions of the coming devastation. We think that we are titans, yet we are quite the opposite—constantly reducing ourselves to an ethereal state, begging doom through our own anti-human rituals, until some dark lord ascends to feed on the ichor. 

Unfortunately, an impossible catastrophe may be the only way for humans to return to humility before the power of the gods. And yet, we must carry a single commanding parchment with us if we are to ever see the heavenly chasm close—divine forces are beyond us, and we are eternal guests, ordered as mere appearances of their sovereign will. 

The gods exist independently of human necessity, even beyond the great power we moderns are attempting to wield. Any god appearing within our world in the form of a moral order is but a spectre, a trick or memento mori begging tribute of us, to which our power may be sacrificed unto some unknown god.