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Logos and however
There is, however, a difference between the Egyptian and Hebrew logos mythologies: in Genesis 1 the divine word of the Elohim is an act of " making into "; the word of Egyptian creator-god, by contrast, is an almost magical activation of something inherent in pre-creation: as such, it goes beyond the concept of fiat ( divine act ) to something more like the Logos of the Gospel of John.
The Logos however are rarely if at all seen on television as NBC has used its own logo with the word " Macy's " in script and " Thanksgiving Day Parade " in a bold font.
This philosophy is still religious and mystical however, insofar as Hegel sees history as culminating in the unity of God with the world, but at the same time, Hegel also affirmed and imputed a Logos or teleology to human history, and fully recognized that both evolutionary and revolutionary transformations took place in history.

Logos and is
" Arianism " is also often used to refer to other nontrinitarian theological systems of the 4th century, which regarded Jesus Christ — the Son of God, the Logosas either a created being ( as in Arianism proper and Anomoeanism ), or as neither uncreated nor created in the sense other beings are created ( as in Semi-Arianism ).
In the system described by Irenaeus, " the Unbegotten Father " is the progenitor of Nous, and from Nous Logos, from Logos Phronesis, from Phronesis Sophia and Dynamis, from Sophia and Dynamis principalities, powers, and angels, the last of whom create " the first heaven.
Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.
" In the original Greek, Logos ( λόγος ) is used for " Word ," and is often used untranslated.
In the Christology of the Logos, Christ is viewed as the Incarnation of the " Divine Logos ", i. e. The Word.
The figure of Orpheus is prominent throughout the narrative, and Clement contrasts his song, representing pagan superstition, with the divine Logos of Christ.
According to Clement, through conversion to Christianity alone can man fully participate in the Logos, which is universal truth.
Christ, the Logos incarnate, is the Paedagogus of the work's title.
To Clement, sin is involuntary, and thus irrational, removed only through the wisdom of the Logos.
To Clement, scripture is an innately true primitive philosophy which is complemented by human reason through the Logos.
It is never irrational, as it is founded on the knowledge of the truth of the Logos, but all knowledge proceeds from faith, as first principles are unprovable outside a systematic structure.
According to Clement, there is no way of empirically testing the existence of God the Father, because the Logos has revelatory, not analysable meaning, although Christ was an object of the senses.
In terms of Christology, the Oriental Orthodox ( Non-Chalcedonians ) understanding is that Christ is " One Nature -- the Logos Incarnate ," of the full humanity and full divinity.
A term that comes closer to Coptic Orthodoxy is miaphysite, which refers to a conjoined nature for Christ, both human and divine, united indivisibly in the Incarnate Logos.
* Logos ( Gr. " word ")-the underlying order that is hidden beneath appearances,
The Church Fathers interpret Ezekiel's vision of the human likeness upon the sapphire throne () as a prophecy of the Incarnation of the Logos from the Theotokos ( Virgin Mary ), who in many ancient church hymns is called the " living Throne of God ".
This prologue is intended to identify Jesus as the eternal Word ( Logos ) of God.
The Prologue is a hymn identifying Jesus as the Logos and as God.
* Jesus is identified with the divine Word (" Logos ") and referred to as theos (" God ").

Logos and only
According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.
Thus, only the Logos incarnate suffered and died on the Cross and therefore the Son was able to suffer without suffering.
The old philosophers and law-givers had only a part of the Logos, while the whole appears in Christ.
" Happiness is a good flow of life ," said Zeno, and this can only be achieved through the use of right Reason coinciding with the Universal Reason ( Logos ), which governs everything.
Nestorius rejected this proposition, answering that, because the human soul was based on the archetype of the Logos, only to become polluted by the Fall, Jesus was " more " human for having the Logos and not " less ".
Monophysitism ( or ; Greek: monos meaning " only, single " and physis meaning " nature "), is the Christological position that, after the union of the divine and the human in the historical Incarnation, Jesus Christ, as the incarnation of the eternal Son or Word ( Logos ) of God, had only a single " nature " which was either divine or a synthesis of divine and human.
He assigns an especially important position to the Logos, which executes the several acts of the Creation, as God cannot come into contact with matter, actually creating only the soul of the good.
Not only did the two legs of the chi remind early Christians of the Holy Cross, " it reminded them of the mystery of the pre-existent Christ, the Logos Theou, the Word of God, who extended himself through all things in order to establish peace and harmony in the universe ," in Robert Grigg's words.
This was the official crest until 1974 when the centenary logo was used, and which continued to be used with only a slight modification made in 2010. right Logos used on the official match programmes from the 1920s to 1954, showing a single shamrock surrounded by an oval had no relation to the official jersey emblem. The only time an Irish jersey had a single shamrock was when the Ireland side toured Chile and Argentina in 1952 and Argentina in 1970, and in both series no caps were awarded.
He studied with Peter Lombard in Paris, and wrote Eulogium ad Alexandrum Papam III, quod Christus sit aliquis homo, a treatise refuting Abelard's doctrine that the humanity of Jesus was only a garment clothing the Logos.
The identification of Jesus as the Logos which became Incarnate appears only at the beginning of the Gospel of John and the term Logos / Word is used only in two other Johannine passages: 1 John 1: 1 and Revelation 19: 13.
The Logos are assumed to be for Macy's use only for example the logo is on the Grandstand tickets, the ID badges worn by parade staff etc.
She is the captain and pilot of a Zion hovercraft, the Logos, the smallest ( and therefore most maneuverable ) ship in the human fleet with a crew of only three: herself, weapons expert and First Mate Ghost, and Operator Sparks.
* The World of Life Spirit: related to the Ego's life spirit aspect ; home of the Christ ( The Son, the Solar Logos ); inhabited by the Lords of Individuality, a Hierarchy of Elohim astrologically associated to Libra ; higher Memory of Nature, events from the earliest dawn of our present manifestation, open only to Adepts and higher Spiritual Beings
were made by the Logos must be understood only of the things of the visible creation,
According to the surviving fragments, God was originally only One Being ( hypostasis ), but at the creation of the universe the Word or Logos went out from the Father and was God's Activity in the world.

Logos and archetype
In both Kabbalistic and Neoplatonist systems, the Logos, or Divine Wisdom, is the primordial archetype of the universe, and mediates between the divine idea and the material world.

Logos and things
The first 14 verses of the Gospel of John are devoted to the divinity of Jesus as the Logos, usually translated as " Word ", along with his pre-existence, and they emphasize the cosmic significance of Christ, e. g.: " All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John presents a " higher " Christology than the synoptics, meaning that he describes Jesus as the incarnation of the divine Logos through whom all things were made, as the object of veneration, and more explicitly as God incarnate.
" The idea that all things come to pass in accordance with this Logos " and " the Logos is common ," is expressed in two famous but obscure fragments:
For though all things come to be in accordance with this Logos, humans are like the inexperienced when they experience such words and deeds as I set out, distinguishing each in accordance with its nature and saying how it is.
Norman Melchert interpreted Heraclitus as using " fire " metaphorically, in lieu of Logos, as the origin of all things.
Justin very clearly distinguishes the Son, or Logos, as being an Angel and an Apostle of God, but not the one true God himself, the Maker of all things, as Justin calls him.
The Logos pervades the cosmos, whereby all thoughts and all things originate, or as Heraclitus said: " He who hears not me but the Logos will say: All is one.
Heraclitus of Ephesus on the western coast of Anatolia in modern Turkey ( 535-475 BCE ) posited that all things in nature are in a state of perpetual flux, connected by logical structure or pattern, which he termed Logos.
In its relation to the world the Logos appears as the Universal substance on which all things depend ; and from this point of view the manna ( as γενικώτατόν τι ) becomes a symbol for it.
Teilhard argued that the Omega Point resembles the Christian Logos, namely Christ, who draws all things into himself, who in the words of the Nicene Creed, is " God from God ", " Light from Light ", " True God from true God ," and " through him all things were made.
" The Absolute Being, the Father, who had begotten all things, gave an especial grace to the Archangel and First-born Logos ( Word ), that standing between, He might sever the creature from the Creator.
The Gospel of John identifies the Logos, through which all things are made, as divine ( theos ), and further identifies Jesus as the incarnate Logos.
Philo also wrote that " the Logos of the living God is the bond of everything, holding all things together and binding all the parts, and prevents them from being dissolved and separated.
John starts with an eternal overview of Jesus the Logos and goes on to describe many things with a " higher " level than the other three ( synoptic ) gospels ; it represents Jesus ' Ascension, and Christ's divine nature.

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