#creative principle

[nord-thoughts]

Hexagram 1 - The Creative, Heaven, The Dynamic, Yang, Kundalini

[wayti-blog]

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards. - Rupert Sheldrake

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[bustakay]

...it is an old story, an old mystery played out in our day, and in dim London streets instead of amidst the vineyards and olive gardens. We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the great god Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneath which men long ago veiled their knowledge of the most awful, most secret forces which lie at the heart of all things; forces before which the souls of men must wither and die, as their bodies blacken under the electric current. Such forces cannot be named, cannot be spoken, cannot be imagined except under a veil and a symbol, a symbol to the most of us appearing a quaint, poetic fancy, to some foolish tale. But that may dwell in the secret place of life, manifested under human flesh; that which is without form taking to itself a form. How can it be? How is it that the very sunlight does not turn to blackness before this thing, the hard earth melt and boil beneath such a burden?

Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan, p. 65.

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The Works of Philo Judaeus of Alexandria

The Works of Philo Judaeus of Alexandria A contemporary of Jesus, Paul and Josephus.Philo 20 B.C. – 50 A.D. is also known as Philo of Alexandria (gr. Φίλων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς), Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia and Philo the Jew, was a Hellenistic Jewish Biblical philosopher born in Alexandria.Philo used allegory to fuse and harmonize Greek philosophy and Judaism. His method followed the practices of both Jewish exegesis and Stoic philosophy. His work was not widely accepted. "The sophists of literalness," as he calls them, "opened their eyes superciliously" when he explained to them the marvels of his exegesis. Philo's works were enthusiastically received by the Early Christians, some of whom saw in him a cryptic Christian. His concept of the Logos as God's creative principle apparently influenced early Christology. To him Logos was God's "blueprint for the world", a governing plan.The few biographical details concerning Philo are found in his own works, especially in Legatio ad Gaium ("embassy to Gaius"), and in Josephus. The only event in his life that can be determined chronologically is his participation in the embassy which the Alexandrian Jews sent to the emperor Caligula at Rome as the result of civil strife between the Alexandrian Jewish and Hellenized communities. This occurred in the year 40 AD.