Bowl of Saki for January 26
THE BRAIN SPEAKS THROUGH WORDS; THE HEART IN THE GLANCE OF THE EYES; AND THE SOUL THROUGH A RADIANCE THAT CHARGES THE ATMOSPHERE, MAGNETIZING ALL. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by -- Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
In
the explanation of the idea of “Logos” included particularly in the
Christian religion, it has been forgotten that each word or doctrine has three
discrete interpretations according to the “degree of understanding” and
according to the “plane of application”. Really these two mean the same
thing, for accordingly as the understanding is expanded, so will the subtler
plane be contacted.
However,
when man lost the power and ability to contact the higher sphere, the mind began
to consider the manifestations of three Logoi, as if they were all separate, and
spoke of the triune God This trinity has no reality except in the human mind; at
the same time it is a very real thought and arises from the natural tendency of
the human mind to analyze. And so it can be said at the same time that God is
Triune, yet in the absolute sense He can be and is nothing but Unity above all
explanations.
Mentally
interpreted, Logos means word, or perhaps reason or doctrine. The brain, as the
delegate of mind, expresses physically through words. But on the heart plane,
Logos means Light and Law (Latin “lex”, “legis”) and one can see the
resemblance between these words showing that they came from one root. The actual
root was this Divine Light as expressed in the mental plane. As Jesus Christ
said, "The light of the body is in the eye," so that Divine Light from
the heart plane, passing through the mental plane is divulged in the physical
eye of man.
But
while Logos means word or thought or reason or doctrine mentally, and Light or
Law spiritually, it is also true as the Bible teaches, that first was the Logos,
and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God, the Logos was in the very
beginning with God. That is to say that Logos was and is the very emanation from
the Arsh-throne of God and is this universal Power-Love ocean-stream of
vibrations.
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