Prologue (pers)
In the beginning we made earth - heaven already existed.
First we shaped the densities. We did this by simply contracting the space, which focused the light. The method is, that if you contain it correctly, with the appropriate resonances, it will start manifesting Order. Once it had cooled sufficiently, we were able to shape it. Something akin to the glassblower.
Immediately, I ask you the question of what is light when there is no darkness? Or what is light really, as far as is known today? It is essentially packetised energy—represented as intentional waves—waves that have a direction.
To continue, I will now say we focused the energy.
However, pausing another moment, I ask a second (compound) question: What is energy, and how can there be something remotely like energy as we define it, before there was anything to produce energy (which itself needs energy to produce energy. Similar to the question of the first spark that we saved to introduce fire into our lives.) So the energy we speak of is nothing like what we call energy—but to make things easy for us we will call it simply energy. Or as is common nowadays, dark energy.
This is just the manifestation of the material. The emanation of the spiritual into the material must have its proponents, the beings/entities/energies with which the material is manifest. To us it is an emergence, to the spiritual beings it is a "leaving" of the spiritual realm to attach oneself in some way to the material realm, knowing the dangers of interacting with this density.
This is the fundamental existential and scientific question: Is man able to understand, or comprehend the Will that manifested this all? My answer is a resounding "NO!". The reason is simple. Even the smallest infinity cannot fit into the finite.
In the beginning
'In the beginning was the Word' means 'In the beginning was Logos' which means 'at the beginning of everything, there was the entity we know as G-d, who embodied, and created, the rational principle on which everything is founded'.
‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’
This is the apostatic stance - where there is One, he sees two.
Science is the Logos made manifest. If you sing a song for long enough, the reality of the song will emerge.
‘In the beginning was the Word.’ The original Greek text has Logos, for which ‘the Word’ is our English translation. But Logos is a word that comes with a lot of meanings packed into it, and ‘the Word’ is only a partial reflection of this densely significant word. This term, ‘the Word’, is not found in the Old Testament, and its use in the New Testament is down entirely to John.
Isaac Asimov links John’s ‘In the beginning was the Word’ to the Greek philosophy of Thales of Miletus, who lived in the seventh century BC. Thales argued that, contrary to the idea that the world was largely erratic and unpredictable in its operations, it was actually subject to rigid laws of nature, and that these laws could be discovered using reason and observation. This is the beginnings of both rationalism and empiricism, if you will.
This meant that God – or, depending on which belief system you subscribed to, a whole pantheon of gods – created the world upon some clear and knowable principle, and that this principle is constant rather than changeable and arbitrary. One of Thales’ followers, Heraclitus, used the term ‘Logos’ to refer to this rational principle. ‘Logos’ means ‘word’ but it also denotes the entire rational structure of knowledge as Thales and Heraclitus had theorised it.
And as the term ‘Logos’ was taken up by more and more philosophers, it came to refer not to some abstract entity but to a thing, even a person: the person who had created this orderly system of knowledge and principle in the world. Logos, if you will, became personified. This tradition spread beyond the Greek world, and was taken up by the Jewish followers of Yahweh, or the Old Testament God. In Jesus’ time, a man named Philo the Jew popularised the term Logos as a reference to the rational aspect of Yahweh.
‘In the beginning was the Word’ means ‘In the beginning was Logos’ which means ‘at the beginning of everything, there was the entity we know as God, who embodied, and created, the rational principle on which everything is founded’.
Well, as Asimov explains, at the time John was writing there were some philosophers who tried to keep God and Logos separate. Logos was not synonymous with God, but merely one power that he possessed, if you will. God, being spiritual, was removed from the rational and scientific processes of the world: he could not be associated with material things, as an elision of ‘God’ with ‘Logos’ would imply. These philosophers and mystics were known as ‘Gnostics’, from the Greek meaning ‘to know’.
For these Gnostics, because the world is material, God could not have been directly responsible for creating it. Instead, they believed some sub-divine and more malevolent entity had done that. Because the world is full of evil, the Gnostics reasoned, an evil being must have had a hand in its creation. Plato famously called this being the ‘Demiurge’. And for Gnostics, Yahweh – the Old Testament version of God – was really the Demiurge, this inferior being to the true God, and the Demiurge was the one who had brought the (flawed) world into being.
For the Gnostics, Jesus was the true God, as opposed to Yahweh, the creator and Demiurge. And the Gospel of John, and those opening lines, set themselves against such a Gnostic interpretation of God and Creation. God and Jesus, God and Logos, Logos and Jesus: all are one and the same. Or, as John more poetically (but obscurely) puts it: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’ That is, at the beginning of all things there was Logos, the creator of everything. And Logos was not only with God, but Logos was God. As the succeeding two verses of the Gospel of John make clear, Logos and God are the same being:
1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1:2 The same [i.e., Logos, the Word] was in the beginning with God.
1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
That is, Logos was God, and Logos made ‘all things’. God made all things, but God was Logos, or the Word.
Jesus represents the feminine, and the crucifixion (Fiction of the Cross) of the feminine. Essentially, because he received (feminine) the punishments that were meted out to him (masculine)—and died.
Thus humans won that battle against God—who sent His "son" (according to Christian theology), and we simply hung God up on a couple of pieces of wood, held there by nails and let him die. And G-d did not intervene! Thus either Jesus was not the son of G-d, nor (G-d Himself)—which would be an anathema to the Catholic narrative. Or we defeated—in fact, killed&mdash God himself.
And we would probably do it again. Interestingly enough, there is a Buddhist saying which goes something like: "If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him!".