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WORD, DIVINE – UNUTTERED AND UTTERED
A symbol of the Higher Self potential, and of the
Divine Life actual in the cycle.
"In Eckhart's system, the Godhead is the unnatured Nature,' i.e. the
unoriginated Reality, the Ground of all revelation; God is the
'natured Nature,' i.e. the Divine expressed in Personal Form. The
Godhead is the Worldless One; God is the uttered Word." - R. M.
Jones, Mystical Religion, p. 227.
"I-am is the Hidden One of the mouth; it is the silence of his mouth
whose uttered word is mystery, even the mouth of the Ruler of the
Eon which grasps the eternity of Being in Peace." - Book of the
Dead, Ch. CX., Blackden.
The Divine Self is the Unspoken Word, the inherent power of the
Logos, which is to be heard only within souls who have transcended
the planes of form. The "Uttered Word" is the emanation of the
Divine Life which is manifested through the period of the manvantara.
The "Word of the Ruler of the cycle" is the power within the soul
which makes for righteousness, interpreted in the natural, moral,
and intellectual orders of the lower life, and which is realised
when we perceive that all things work together for good; since such
a perception is an intuition or direct sense of the eternal Love of
God.
"The Word of God will come down and suffer and be crucified, and he
will wet the crown of Adam's head with his blood," said a voice from
Adam's body. - Book of the Conflicts of Adam.
This utterance indicates the previsive power of the spiritualised
lower mind, which is enabled to foresee the vision of the Eternal as
it will manifest ultimately in the soul. The "wetting of Adam's
head" with the "blood of the Lamb" is a symbol of the sacrificial
part which the lower self must also take in order to benefit through
the sacrifice of the Logos at the "foundation of the world" or lower
nature.
"The eternal Word, when fully spoken, will be a song of many
harmonies, a mosaic of many stones, a picture of many forms and
hues. But we shall all be wanted therein. If you do not rise to the
full measure of your spiritual capacities, I shall be the poorer,
and shall have to wait for my complete felicity until you do. If I
am a defaulter, you will suffer loss; and all the race waits for us
both and cannot fully find itself till we have arrived at what we
are, which is what God means us to be. Nor in the nature of things
can we possibly know what we really are till we get there." - R. J.
Campbell, Serm., God's Life in Man.
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