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Consideration 125 …
Logos …
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I recently did a quick web search to find out what the various traditional teachings had made out of the word ‘Logos’. It is not often that I even see the word and I admit I use other words to convey the same understanding. It didn’t surprise me when I found the word to have been vastly corrupted, misinterpreted, and misused. The word has been around for beyond eternity but it has had plenty of time to be tweaked to mean just about anything by the Universal Mind and its teachings … and certainly far from what its initial meaning is.
The much higher understanding of the word Logos refers to the Music of the Spheres … the Musical life Current … the Sound that emanates from the Core Creator God ( staying generic here ) that first sets all in motion … so to speak … and begins the design work of all life from the Center on down … again … so to speak. This music can be heard *only* with the inner ears of Soul Itself … and if one believes that it is somewhat difficult to open the spiritual eye or the third eye … opening the ears of Soul comes after that. “Sound” comes first in all creation … followed by the Light. The predominant religions and philosophies teach only of the Light. It is quite difficult indeed to find any real teachings concerning the Sound Current … but the teachings can be found.
This inner, rather mystical Sound is *not* heard by the outer ears and is most often heard *only* within a very deep, inner, personal Silence … although obviously … if one has the degree of inner Silence to actually hear any of the Sounds of Divine Spirit … inwardly … it is *not* silent.
The word “Logos” itself can be accepted as being Greek in origin … and meant speech or word or utterance … but even the Greeks took it into the mental realms by claiming Logos to mean divine reasoning that makes sense out of the world … although they did try and keep it in the realm of “creation.” Eventually it came to mean “an appeal to logic” … bringing it nicely down into the mental realms.
Other words and understandings of the celestial music or Sound comes from the Vedas … and they somewhat refer to a transcendence of the Sound. Nada is another word often used to refer to the same general experience. Shabda often means “obtaining knowledge” or sometimes gives “authority” to the Vedas. The Buddhists often use the word “akasha” but this is often used as a reference to “space.” Sometimes the Hindus use the word “akasha” to mean the essence of all things in the material world or sometimes means “upper sky.”
Dealing directly with the Sound … the Sound that actually emanates from the Center of Existence … nudges the fortunate individual who hears the Sound into Graduate work. This celestial music offers many emanations … from actual musical movements to singular sounds. Many of the old classical musical masters heard this sound and tried to put it into musical donation in their symphonies. It is not difficult to understand that the vast majority of what “comes into” the individual does so via sight and sound … yet sadly … sound is often neglected in the overall understanding of Life.
It is difficult enough to develop an understanding of the Light … which is simply the reflection off the moving atoms in space … giving all their seen “form.” Even many of the current scientists accept that everything ( in the Lower Psychic Worlds ) is composed of the same generic atomic structure and the various forms come from the differing vibrations giving structure. Water can get a gas, a mist, a liquid, a solid ice mass, a cloud, etc. … all the same atomic structure but moving at different rates. All the different forms and structure of the Lower Psychic Worlds are “made” or designed in the same fashion. Wood, stone, fire, planets, physical bodies, etc. … again … all composed of the same generic atomic energies of the Lower Psychic Worlds.
There are some in the forum board that dispute the reality of the principle of vibration … and that is certainly acceptable for any to believe. There are many in the world that dismiss reincarnation … and these people weave their understandings around to fit that perspective. That certainly does not eradicate the principle of reincarnation in the Lower Psychic Worlds but simply affords that individual to uncover the understanding and necessity of the principle later on in their overall experiences. Again … this is the same as understanding basic math while the teachings and understanding of algebra, geometry, physics, etc. … are yet to come. Same thing. The understanding of vibration and many other valid and important principles are uncovered in their own time by each individual. We are little more than a slowly learning creature via personal and direct experience.
Soul Itself delights in visual Light and especially in imagery … although Soul would not uncover and understand this until much later in It’s education. This is one of the reasons why the television and the cell phone are so quickly accepted. Nothing like a series of visual images flashing before our eyes … physical or other wise.
At a much deeper level is Soul’s appreciation for Sound … and it behind our preference for the sound of ocean waves, wind through the trees, rain on the roof, or music in general.
Soul can use Its imagination freely … and often does … sometimes beneficially … sometimes detrimentally. Soul … most often because of the interpretations of the mind … can imagine the seeing of many visions … and these are often given great importance within society. No doubt … these help to point out just where one is apt to be on the overall Path. The difference between “imagining” a vision or an auditory experience is a high test in discernment … not easily distinguished … the discernment not easily won.
The fact that the concepts of Sound being brought down in the the mental worlds … certainly into the various religious scriptures as being “from God” … is not surprising. Mind must believe that it is the way to understand … all. I have bantered this about way too often to give it any more room here.
Actually seeing pure Light on the inner is a wondrous and lofty experience … and it is a long time in coming. Moving on to the hearing of the inner sounds … in Its various facets … is the next development. Once these two are being lived within the individual … one can expect an authentic Master to then enter their consciousness. It is the natural sequence as the individual unfolds in their understanding of Life as the Whole that It is.
More next Monday.
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