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JOHN 1:1

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

In biblical symbolism, “the beginning” is not a moment in time.
It’s the inmost point of the soul, the silent origin where the divine touches human consciousness. It’s the MONAD‑point, the seed‑center, the point before anything has unfolded into thought, emotion, or form.

“The Word” (Logos)

This is the divine idea, the archetypal pattern of the soul.
It’s the blueprint of what the human being is meant to become.
Not a spoken word, but the inner structure of meaning, the spiritual DNA.

It is the FIRST‑BORN within the soul:
the Christ‑principle, the seed of God, the latent divine life waiting to unfold.

“The Word was with God”

This means the divine idea exists in perfect union with the divine source.
In the soul, this is the ATMAN‑point, the inmost identity that is never separated from God, even when the outer personality is unaware of it.
It is “with God” the way a seed is with the tree that produced it.

“And the Word was God”

This is the shock of the verse:
the divine seed in you is not merely from God, it is of God.
The essence of the soul’s highest nature is the same essence as the Divine.
"I and the Father are one"

In Mysticism, this is the Hiranyagarbha principle, the golden germ, the luminous seed, the spark of the infinite hidden in the finite.

So the whole verse describes the soul’s deepest truth:
- At the center of your being is a divine seed.
- That seed is eternally united with its Source.
- And the essence of that seed is the Divine.

Everything that unfolds in Genesis, grass, herb, fruit, lights, living soul — is simply the outward growth of what John 1:1 says is already present in the beginning. 

See Also

BIBLE VERSES

JOHN 3:16

JOHN 8:58

JOHN 10:10

JOHN 16:5
JOHN 16:6
JOHN 16:7

JOHN 17:17