The Voice of the Logos

Edwin John Dingle

• Publisher: Barakaldo Books
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781839746208
• Topic: Théologie et religion
• Subtopic: Bouddhisme

This Volume Presents An Outer Conception Of The Science Of Mentalphysics.
Many people, however, ask "What is the Logos?"
I must explain, then, that in all philosophy and theology, ancient and modern, the word "Logos" has always been used. Its full meaning, however, is obscure. It is a Greek word, whose dictionary definition is "the word or form which expresses a thought; also the thought." Webster defines the word as "the rational principle in the Universe." In theology, the "Logos" is THE WORD—"that is, the actively expressed creative and revelatory thought and Will of God, at once distinguished from and identified with Him." As the rational principle in the Universe, the "Logos" expresses the truth of an immanent reason in the world and inseparable from it. Like a law of Nature, objective in the world, the "Logos" gives order and regularity to the movement of things and rationalizes All That Is. It is basic, fundamental, immovable, immortal. It is the controlling and developing principle of the Universe. It is the perpetual teacher within Man—deathless, imperishable. It is the Deity of all religions, the Supreme Soul or Essence of the Universe; the Trimurti or Hindu Trinity; the Buddha, the Blessed One, of Buddhism; the Lord of Wisdom, the King of Light, the Guardian of Mankind of Zoroastrianism.
It is God's Voice, the Creative Word of Christianity, the Word made flesh. It is universal, undifferentiated.
The beginning of the First Chapter of St. John would, therefore, read thus:
"In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.
The wise man knows that he is bathed in wisdom by this great Soul Entity of the Universe—the Logos; and that, like the Logos, he is himself eternal—eternal now, in eternity now.

(B) “YOUR ONLY PATH to DIVINITY”—THE EIGHT HOLY STEPS

1. RIGHT UNDERSTANDING....“Man’s 1st Cycle of Expression”

2. RIGHT RESOLUTION......“Man’s 2nd Cycle of Expression”

3. RIGHT SPEECH.........“Man’s 3rd Cycle of Expression”

4. RIGHT CONDUCT........“Man’s 4th Cycle of Expression”

5. RIGHT EFFORT........“Man’s 5th Cycle of Expression”

6. RIGHT LIVING........“Man’s 6th Cycle of Expression”

7. RIGHT MEDITATION.......“Man’s 7th Cycle of Expression”

8. RIGHT RAPTURE........“Man’s 8th Cycle of Expression”

“YOUR ONLY PATH to DIVINITY” Series—No. 1

Man’s First Cycle of Expression—Right Understanding

“Yea, thou hast learned much, but thou hast much to learn. Thou hast learned much of what God is and does; now thou art to learn what is thy duty as Man to the unending Cosmos, and how thou may’st fulfil thy destiny and enter into thine own Divinity in the ordered LAW of the Author of Life. So today thou dost contemplate the Eight Holy Steps in this most noble path of Wisdom, each successive step being an outgrowth or those that have gone before. The first is Right Understanding—followed by Right Resolution—Speech—Conduct—Effort—Living—Meditation—Rapture (which is Man’s conception of Heaven, the Elysian Fields, Nirvana, or any final state of being, according to the phraseology of the philosophy he studies). Remember I address thee as a philosopher, not as an economist alone—I bring to thee eternal Spiritual Law, not the mere fleeting law of time and materials, for when once the spiritual Law is established all in time and the material world must inevitably conform. The purpose of the succeeding ‘steps’ in ‘Your Only Pathway to Divinity’ series is the true and inevitable Way that Man must take to reach his divine estate. The ancient scientists, in all philosophies and at all times on the earth, have declared that Man is God in human form, and that there is a Noble Pathway which Man must follow to attain to the divine in him. The unenlightened person who merely looks upon Life as some unreasoned accident is not able rightly to comprehend God’s Eternal Way. For hundreds of years, the ancients have proclaimed that there is a clearly defined method, whereby the sincere disciple of Universal Truth—(the Way of the Universal God)—may safely and successfully reach the highest knowledge of the Universe for which he is evolutionarily developed. This Eternal Law embodies, in Man’s individual life, precisely the same Law and precisely the same method of evolvement as the whole Universe embodies in the Seven Kingdoms into which thou hast already been instructed in the ‘STRUCTURE OF THE COSMOS’ series. In the Seven Kingdoms, thou dost see God’s Way or mode of expression in the Universe, the seven great cycles to which Man must finally surrender himself. In the Noble Pathway, thou dost find corresponding holy steps which form Man’s ascending cycles of expression into God, or the perception of God’s full expression through Man, whichever way we look at it. Thus the correspondence in LAW between God’s final and eternal expression and Man’s expression.”

(This my Beloved, I most readily admit, is as simple as the sunshine, and yet it is all covered over. As I look around the world, I wonder why it is (that, of course, is foolish) that so many people do not see what their own inner Spiritual Eye looks at. There is but one Breath, one air that we all breathe. There is but one philosophy...there are many cults. As I say, this may all seem simple, and it is.)

The Voice speaks again:

“Man is made ‘in the Image’ of God, and subject, of course, to the LAW that God has made.

“This may all seem simple—and it is! Thou art able to see how God ‘starts’, so to speak, and ‘ends’, so to speak. Thou dost know, I am sure, that Right Understanding is the parent of the expression of Universal Love, the ultimate of all. Right Understanding is obviously the basis of all Knowledge. There is true Knowledge and there is false knowledge. Right Understanding is the basis of all Knowledge...true Knowledge, of course. But when thou dost begin to seek God’s Eternal Truth—God’s Eternal Truth...not what Man merely thinks about it, but God’s Eternal Truth—thou dost find that ‘God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things that are not, to bring to naught things that are; that no flesh should glory in his presence.’ In other words, things are not always what they seem to be, and they are that way that men may be taught to humble themselves before the Living God. God’s Way is not Man’s way! Would to God that God’s Way were Man’s way today! In the beautiful symbology found in thine Old Testament when (Exodus 3-5) God called to Moses—who had cried out, ‘Lord, here am I!’—we find the warning. And God said, ‘Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground’. The word ‘shoes’ is the measure of Man’s understanding, Man’s worldly knowledge. Man’s knowledge, generally, is of the earth, and thy shoes are on thy feet, so thou art commanded to take the shoes from off thy feet, because the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Thou hast to rise from the earth to Heaven. Thou hast to give up, so to speak, thy worldly knowledge when thou dost approach God’s Right Understanding. Thou must give thy mind over to God and seek, in right understanding, for Heavenly Wisdom. Get wisdom, get understanding—forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee—love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is Life’s cardinal virtue. Therefore, ‘get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding.’

“Remember these words: ‘Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honor when thou dost embrace her! Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go—keep her, for she is thy Life.’ In all sacred books, ancient and modern, thou art exhorted to the getting of understanding, leading thee to Knowledge—which is thine only power. Thou canst see clearly that, without understanding, thou art at the mercy of unconscious forces and never the ruler of thine own world. Happy the man that getteth understanding! Now, what does Right Understanding do?

“Right Understanding links thee to Hope, and Hope is like the wing of an angel, bearing thee ever on and up.

“Right Understanding links thee to Faith, which is thy mind at its best and bravest, causing thee to perform miracles.

“Right Understanding assures thee gratitude of heart, and compels thee to seek the companionship of the great—and in all nature nothing can compare with a great man.

“Right Understanding causes thee to sing the Eternal Song—’oh, that men would praise the Lord for His Goodness and for His Wonderful Works to the children of men.’

“Right Understanding brings thee thine only power, which is knowledge; it crucifies the hypocrite; when thou dost know that thou knowest, and make earnest endeavor to live what thou dost know, that is Right Understanding.

“To understand GOD’S LAW is philosophy; to love it is religion; to practice it is Science.

“And when thou hast Right Understanding, thou shalt go on up the Pathway to the final Heights. Adieu, O Candidate! Hold fast to true Understanding, and keep thine ear free and thy tongue controlled lest Right Understanding escape thee.”

*****

Silence again fell upon us. Our hearts sang in the peace that passeth knowledge.

“YOUR ONLY PATH to DIVINITY” Series—No. 2

Man’s Second Cycle of Expression—Right Resolution

“Resolve, O Candidate, and thou shalt know! Not difficult is it for you to see that Right Understanding is the first cycle of Man’s expression in his own life, and that what follows understanding should be resolution. Whether thine understanding be ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ (less right), thou inevitably must resolve to cause that understanding to be materialized—just naturally and inevitably thou must enter upon RESOLUTION, its ‘rightness’ obviously being to the degree of thy right understanding. All that thou art is the result of what thou hast thought. Every phase of thine activity, from thine ‘understanding’ to the manifestation of the thing that thou dost create in thine understanding, can only parallel thine own thought—by which, of course, thou dost create.

“The word ‘resolution’ means analysis—fixed determination—decision; and to ‘resolve’ means that thou dost reduce any mental concept to constituent parts. He who resolves is firm and decisive, resolute. He can only be as resolute in right resolution as his knowledge, as his understanding. Resolution, when founded on knowledge, is the path of immortality. Those who are earnest and resolved in right understanding do not die, but those who are thoughtless and irresolute are as if already dead. If thou be wise, Right Resolution makes thee steady, meditative, possessed always of strong powers. Guarding thy thoughts, thou art always happy, thou dost speak and act with a pure thought, and joy follows thee as a shadow that never leaves thee. The first duty of the candidate of wisdom, he who wishes through resolution to manifest his understanding, should be to learn from such a man. If even a fool be associated with a wise man all his life, he will perceive the Truth as little as midnight perceives the noonday, for even a fool is resolute, but always resolute in foolishness. On the other hand, if thou art advanced in resolution, delight in right resolution and rejoice in the knowledge of the elect. While the fool follows after vanity, the wise man’s best jewel is Right Resolution; he knows that resolution leads him always into higher action, for he is rooted in Right Understanding as the motivating principle. Resolve, and thou art free!

“Thou dost see that resolution is the devotion of all thy faculties. Resolution is the brother of sincerity, and sincerity is the foundation of the world: sincerity, as that great Chinese philosopher Mencius said, is the way of Heaven, and to know how to be sincere and resolute is the first law for men to follow. A resolute man always commands the respect of his fellowman, for a resolute man always finds the means, or, if he cannot find them, he creates them. It is also clear to thee that, no matter in what direction thou dost view Man’s activities, resolution is the guarantee of satisfaction of both thy heart and mind. For thou art always confident and happy when thou hast put thy best resolutions into effect. Thy resolution makes thee vigorous and enthusiastic—a wavering, molly-coddling, ‘going-to-do-it,’ ‘manana’ kind of person is never chosen as a leader, whereas a firm, resolute man’s enthusiasm is always contagious, and he is often carried along by the enthusiasm of the people he inspires.

“Resolution, indeed, stands second in all thine attributes for rightly doing God’s will. That is what thou hast to discover! He who would do something worthy must apply himself with such a concentrated resolution that he magnetizes natural forces all around him and within him—then, with Right Resolution in Right Understanding, he always excels, often surprises himself. Therefore, dost thou wish to be well in body and mind?...strong, vigorous, victorious?...Dost thou wish to be so sound in thy thinking that thine actions are naturally blessed with full success?...Dost thou wish to be a commander in all phases of Life Expression?...Dost thou wish to influence thy fellowmen to the Noble Pathway? Then, resolve in no half-hearted manner—resolve thoroughly, sacrificingly, with all thy heart, knowing thy resolution is the outgrowth of Right Understanding, and all those things will be added unto thee!

“Again, O Candidate, Right Resolution breeds patience...and that is a great virtue. Right Resolution breeds patience within thee, gives endurance to thee, banishes...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• FOREWORD
• How To Read This Book
• (A)-“STRUCTURE of THE COSMOS”-THE SEVEN GREAT CYCLES
• (B) “YOUR ONLY PATH to DIVINITY”-THE EIGHT HOLY STEPS
• (C)-“THE ETERNAL CREATIVE WORD”-THE SEVEN MAGIC WORDS
• (D)-“CONQUEST of NEGATION”
• (E)-“MAN’S WHOLE DUTY to HIMSELF”
• (F)-“YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEM”
• (G)-“YOUR WAY of ATTAINMENT”
• (H)-“MAN’S WHOLE DUTY to MANKIND”
• (I)-THE GRAND RECAPITULATION
• An Invitation to the Reader
• Note on Edwin J. Dingle, F.R.G.S.