Origen of Alexandria correlated the Stoic's concept of the rebirth and reconstruction of the cosmos with the active guidance and sustenance of the Logos, which is taken to be an emanation of Zeus, when Zeus turns his thoughts outwards once more.

A cosmographical feature common to many forms of Gnosticism is the idea that the Logos Spermatikos is scattered into the sensible cosmos, where it is the duty of the Gnostics, by whatever means, to recollect these scattered seed-members of the Logos and return them to their proper places ( cf.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite see Jacob's dream as a prophecy of the Incarnation of the Logos, whereby Jacob's ladder is understood as a symbol of the Theotokos ( Virgin Mary ), who, according to Orthodox theology, united heaven and earth in her womb.

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.

Eusebius was intent upon emphasizing the difference of the persons of the Trinity and maintaining the subordination of the Son ( Logos, or Word ) to God ( Eusebius never calls Jesus o theós, but theós ) because in all contrary attempts he suspected either polytheism ( three distinct gods ) or Sabellianism ( three modes of one divine person ).

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.

His cryptic utterance that " all entities come to be in accordance with this Logos " ( literally, " word ", " reason ", or " account ") has been the subject of numerous interpretations.

" 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.

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.

Six months after the events of the first movie, Morpheus receives a message from Captain Niobe of the Logos calling an emergency meeting of all of Zion's hovercraft.

11 ; these ideas were further developed by later Judaism in the doctrines of the Divine Word creating the world, the divine throne-chariot and its cherub, the divine splendor and its shekinah, and the name of God as well as the names of the angels ; and Philo borrowed from all these in elaborating his doctrine of the Logos.

* Philo, in connecting his doctrine of the Logos with Scripture, first of all bases on Gen. i. 27 the relation of the Logos to God.

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.

Logos, pathos, and ethos can all be appropriate at different times.

Holistic concepts are strongly represented within the thoughts expressed within Logos ( per Heraclitus ), Panentheism and Pantheism.

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.

The Logos, however, is not only the archetype of things, but also the power that produces them, appearing as such especially under the name of the Logos τομεύς (" the divider ").

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.

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.

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.

were made by the Logos must be understood only of the things of the visible creation,

The Stoic modification of Heraclitus ' idea of the Logos was also influential on Jewish philosophers such as Philo of Alexandria, who connected it to " Wisdom personified "

This concept of divinity is associated with that of the Logos, which had originated centuries earlier with Heraclitus ( ca.

It is worth comparing to the original Logos of Heraclitus, c. 500 BC

Classical Athens may be suggested to have heralded some of the same religious ideas that would later be promoted by Christianity, such as Aristotle's invocation of a perfect God, and Heraclitus ' Logos.

From Heraclitus he borrowed the conception of the " dividing Logos " ( λόγος τομεύς ), which calls the various objects into existence by the combination of contrasts (" Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit ," § 43 503 ), and from Stoicism, the characterization of the Logos as the active and vivifying power.

Plotinus referred back to Heraclitus and as far back as Thales in interpreting Logos as the principle of meditation, existing as the interrelationship between the Hypostases ( The ' One ', ' Spirit ' ( nous ) and ' Soul ').

The concept of the Divine Logos, translated loosely as The Divine Word, is originally credited to Heraclitus, circa about 535-475 BC.

The term " Logos " was used in Greek philosophy ( see Heraclitus ) and in Hellenistic Jewish religious writing ( see Philo Judaeus of Alexandria ) to mean the ultimate ordering principle of the universe.

" 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.

Thus, said Arius, God's first thought was the creation of Jesus Christ, therefore time started with the creation of the Logos or Word in Heaven.

In particular, the Angel of the Lord in the Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament ) was identified with the Logos by Philo, who also said that the Logos was God's instrument in the creation of the universe.

" He has said that Jesus spoke, and, indeed, when He was lying in His cradle said to Mary His mother: I am Jesus, the Son of God, the Logos, whom thou hast brought forth, as the Angel Gabriel announced to thee ; and my Father has sent me for the salvation of the world.

Alice A. Bailey claims Shamballa ( her spelling ) is an extra-dimensional or spiritual reality on the etheric plane, a spiritual centre where the governing deity of Earth, Sanat Kumara, dwells as the highest Avatar of the Planetary Logos of Earth, and is said to be an expression of the Will of God.

Highlighting these mutually exclusive claims about the designer, Dembski, despite having said that the intelligent designer or designers could be any god or gods, or even space aliens, has also said that " intelligent design should be understood as the evidence that God has placed in nature to show that the physical world is the product of intelligence and not simply the result of mindless material forces " and that " Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.