About the Son of
God
In early jewish philosophy they
considered creation
as a continuously happening. The Logos, or the Son of God, is the
dunamis,
the creating force by which whole creation comes to being continuously,
with all creatures according their own nature. God speaks and it is, so
the Word of God is the Logos. Like Philo says: Higher then the word is
the speaker. And for that the Logos is the firstborn. The old taoists
named
it Tau. God is the architect and the Logos is the master-builder and
creates
men, ho kat' eikona anthropos, the primordial man, as you can see in
the
small children, who still live according their nature. Philo again:
There
are two temples of God. One is the cosmos, wherein the firstborn works
like a high priest, the divine Logos. The second temple is the soul
filled
with the Logos. In there the priest is the true man. So the true man is
the man who lives according his nature or according the will of God.
Spinoza
talks about living according Reason. Nowadays we would say according
your
inner voice or your conscience. If you do so compromisless you at least
will fall together with your Self or your Logos and then you are the
Logos
and the Logos speaks through you and you are the Son or Daughter of God
again. It is impossible to do the will of God and your "own" will at
the
same time, like it is impossible floating on life and manage life at
the
same time. That is because Buddha says all suffering is caused by the
will,
so no will no suffering. Your character is the unnatural superimposed
what
we call second nature, incompatible with your Logos.
Wisdom-scriptures are beyond time
for
they describe
relations in the perennial present, since past and future only exists
in
your mind. If you realize all scriptures are written by complicated men
of letters, translated by other men of letters, you can understand they
never talk about reality.
So you have extract time out of
historical writings
to discover the kernel. The Gospel of John looks quite different if you
do so and then you recognize Philo again:
From the beginning is the Word and
the
Word is with
God and the Word is God. The same is in the beginning with God. All
thing
are non-stop made by him; and without him there is not any thing that
is.
In him is life; and the life is the light of men. And the light shines
in darkness; and the darkness does not comprehend it. There was a man
sent
from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear
witness
of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that
light,
but was sent to bear witness of that light. That is the true light,
which
lights every man that comes in the world. He is in the world, and he
makes
the world and the world does not know him. He comes unto his own, and
his
own does not receive him. But as many as receive him, to them gives he
the power to become sons of God, even to them that believe on his name;
Which are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of the flesh, but of God. And the word makes flesh and dwells
among
us, and we behold his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,
full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him and cries,
saying.This
is he of whom I speak. He that cometh after me is preferred for me: for
he was before me. And of his fulness we all receive, and grace for
grace.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth comes by Jesus
Christ.No
man sees God at any time: the only begotten Son, which is in the bossom
of the father, declares him. And he still does!
Ceterum censeo it is a pity all
those
writers didn.t
realize Wittgenstein tells us in the last sentence of his Tractatus
Logico-philospicus:
"of that, you cannot speak
about, you
have to
be silent".
