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SPERMATIC WORDSSymbolic of the monads of life and form which descend into matter to give it properties of change and growth. "In the system of the Porch, Logos plays a very important part. It means in the first place Reason or Intelligence, and is the highest attribute of God. In the second place it means Power, and in this sense is the active cause of creation. For this purpose the Universal Reason emitted a vast number of individual forces, Spermatic Words, or Seed-like Forces, which as soon as they were shot into matter began to germinate and assume shapes." — C. BIGG, Origins of Christianity, p. 332. The highest intelligence and power are evidenced in the changing phenomena of the universe. The properties of atoms, and the specific growths in the inorganic and organic worlds, are due to the intelligence brought into matter by the highly differentiated monads of life and form. "As soon as God beholds Himself in that Eternal Now, He beholds within Himself the forms or Ideas of the entire universe-all that has essential reality in the universe. In fact, for Eckhart, the Son, the Word, stands for the total unity of the Divine Thought, the forthcoming of God into expression, the utterance of Himself, so that he often calls God's thinking the archetypal forms, or Ideas, 'the begetting of the Son.' These archetypal forms, the expressions of God's thought, are the matured Nature,' and these forms, projected into space and time, are our world of nature-the 'world of creatures.' God is like a perfect architect who thinks his structure and it is done. There are no stages in it, no before and after. God thinks and Creation is. The world which is thus uttered into being has two faces, one turned out toward differentiation and multiplicity, and the other turned in toward God and unity-in very fact all reality is in God, and if God drew back His own into Himself, all the creatures would become nothing at all.' The real world is the world of archetypes-divine Ideas-and that world is not created, it always is. God,' he says, creates the world and all things in an ever-present Now." — R. M. JONES, Mystical Religion, p. 228. |
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