Any path is only a path
They all lead nowhere
The question is:
Does this path have a heart?
Pro Logos
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
Saint John’s
Logos (Word) is Plato’s
Idea (Ideal): the perfect conception of a thing. God
is Great; God is One; and God is Truth; and the one
greatest truth is Existence. The totality of that which
exists as manifest Reality (This) reflects a total
Abstraction (This-ness) that can only be known in
reflexion. And the perfect essence of This is known as That
~ the unseen Spirit of Existence.
And That (Tat) is the Truth (Sat).
Prologos
Religion has commonly been derived from the Latin
Ligare (to bind), with the intensive prefix
Re- indicating Concentration, and thus a binding
together ~ Constraint, Obligation, or Bondage. The true
nature of this Bond, however, is revealed through a
consideration of alternative derivations.
Ligare: to bind, as in Ligature.
Legare: to bestow, as in Legacy.
Legêre: to read, as in Legend.
Legere: to choose or gather, as in Legion.
Re-: intensive prefix.
Re: ablative of pronoun
Res (a Thing).
Religion was anciently derived from the phrase
Rem
Legere (to Choose that which is right).
Religion (in some minds) has come to mean
Re-Ligare
(Obligation or Bondage to the established Rule).
When the “established Rule” and “that
which is Right” are in harmony, there is no choice!
Although, when freedom of choice is denied, the concept of
Religion is changed.
Creator (Abstraction) and Creation (Construction) are
conceptual twins, whose æternal bond is realized by
the discerning mind. A full knowledge of Creation (Manifest
Reality) inspires an edifice of Abstraction (Unmanifest
Reality) that grants strength to those minds possessed of
it. The predictive and strategic abilities of those with a
correct understanding of the nature of Things seem magical
or miraculous to those without such knowledge. Religion is
both a Bond and a Boon. It is the tale of Things as they
truly are, to be read as inspiration from the Lives of
Saints and as experience from the Book of Life.
Reason recognizes a Legion of categories, and
discrimination selects Truths from the flood of Chaos to
dispose a formidable Host. It is an army of Ideals, both
light and dark forces in opposite array, at ease together
in the harmony of
Jñâna-Yoga (Union
through Knowing). That body of True Knowledge is the
Universal Abstraction (God-head) whose matrix is the basis
of Legend. It is the Knower’s Ark that can raise men
from the depths of Ignorance and into the brilliance of
Illumination, where the entire spectrum of Reality is
beheld. Each Distinction or Quality (
Guna) is an
essential Spirit (
Bhûta or
Gana) that
must be grasped by the mind and pressed into the service of
Reason.
Light and Dark are necessary contrasts, neither being
manifest unless by comparison with its twin; and neither
abstract nor concrete Reality may be realized without such
dualities. It is surely
Lucifer who supports the
Light. The assignation of each distinction to its
appropriate rank depends on perspective alone, and general
notions of plus:minus, white:black, male:female, good:evil,
etc., are impossible to maintain. The principal foe of
Truth (
Logos) is the irrational illogic of Untruth,
which must be eradicated before Ignorance is dispelled and
the apparently irreconcilable antagonism of opposite
Natures is resolved.
The Mind of God is perfect Knowledge, which is a perfect
reflexion of Reality, or true Unreality; and any man who,
through experience and reason, has come to such an
understanding is indeed the Son of God, whose own mind is
one with the true mind of that One. That Mind is your own
True Mind. Faith becomes redundant when certain Knowledge
is attained; and the Gift (
Datta) of that Oneness is
a Blissful Awareness.
The guidance of those who have gone before can ease the
crossing, and such a navigator is called
Tîrthankara (Ford-maker),
Guru
(Teacher), or
Nâtha (Lord).
In the beginning was
Vâk, and
Vâk
was with
Yahva, and
Vâk was
Yahvî.
In the beginning,
Yama was with
Yamî,
and the
Yamau was
Yahvî.
All things were made by her; and without her was not any
thing made that was made.
In her was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness
comprehended it not.
That was the
Âtmâ, which lighteth every
man that cometh into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the
world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to
become
Nârâyanâs, which were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will
of man, but of
Nârâ
(
Yahvî).
And
Vâk was made flesh, and dwelt among us
(
Yeshu), and we beheld his
Yajña as
Yahva, the only begotten of
Yahvî, full
of
Shiva and
Satî.
And of his
Brmhanam have all we received, and
Namah Shivâya (grace for Grace).
No man hath seen
Nara at any time, the only begotten
Nârâyana, which is in the bosom of
Yahvî, he hath declared him.
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