The divine essence, the Trinity, describes every aspect of reality. From incarnate matter through essential energies and forces by which matter comes into being and returns to no-thingness, reality is sacred, divine expression. Hindus say, "There is nothing that is not God."
"The One has no limits. It is neither form, nor formless. It is indivisible. Everything that exists, exists in It. It seeks only Itself. It is eternal and the giver of eternity."
~The Apocryphon of John
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.*
~ Gospel of John
Buddhists prefer not to imbue reality with a divine immanence. But of course they value reality, with equal concern. Buddhist ideology goes straight to awakening and alleviation of suffering as its primary assertions, rather than assigning a theology. Of course, the alleviation of suffering is also the highest agenda of Hindus and Christians.
All of these consider the goal of attaining God-consciousness (enlightenment, or the awareness that all of what we experience is [divine] relationship as One) as the ultimate state of being, from which naturally flows compassionate doing and relationships of natural order.
Buddhists prefer not to imbue reality with a divine immanence. But of course they value reality, with equal concern. Buddhist ideology goes straight to awakening and alleviation of suffering as its primary assertions, rather than assigning a theology. Of course, the alleviation of suffering is also the highest agenda of Hindus and Christians.
All of these consider the goal of attaining God-consciousness (enlightenment, or the awareness that all of what we experience is [divine] relationship as One) as the ultimate state of being, from which naturally flows compassionate doing and relationships of natural order.
May you know yourself as a divine expression of God within the divine expression of God.
_/\_Peggy @ ECUMENICUS
Art: Creation, 13th century Byzantine mosaic, St Marks Basilica Venice
*Heraclitus (ca. 535–475 BC), used the term, Logos, for a principle
of order and knowledge. Aristotle referred to "reasoned discourse,"
Stoic philosophers used Logos as the divine animating principle of the
Universe, Philo (20-50 CE) adopted the term into Jewish philosophy. The Gospel
of John identifies the Logos, through which all things are made, as divine
(theos) and further identifies Jesus as the incarnate Logos. The Hebrew
equivalent to Logos is dabar or creative expression.
The colloquial
meaning of logos among the religious Greeks of the first century was "god
of gods", the divine mind of the gods or "supreme knowledge,"
also known as gnosis (awareness, enlightenment, insight). ~adapted, Brad Scott, The Dabar of Elohyim or the Logos of God.
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