Images are powerful. Words are powerful, they are symbols, tokens to represent reality by proxy, an intermediary that reflects reality, or unreality in some cases. Words create an image reference in our consciousness. Symbolism is the use of images (or characters/words) to convey imagery, metaphor and analogous correspondences.
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The Ancient Greek logos pertains to "speech, oration, discourse, quote, story, study, ratio, word, calculation, reason". And also logic. Logos and logic have the same etymological root.
Logos is the power of thought, leading to words and speech, and ultimately actions (for yourself or others) to affect, influence, alter and change existence, not literally create it, but create into reality. Logos, the Word, "God", is all symbolism for the creative potential and influence of our consciousness and thought expressed externally through the mouth, speech and language that eventually leads to some form of action.
Thinking is the first important tool to evolve consciousness. Thought is the originating, causal, emanative, generative essence for consciousness that progresses to other expressions such as emotions and actions.
Quality thought is to be productive and purposeful in the discovery of quality meaning about our reality. Thought is like talking to ourselves. The Greek word for "I meditate" is phrazomai which means "I speak to myself". This is the original "meditation" in an active conscious form. It's contemplation and reflection. Reflecting images from the light of external reality, into the internal light projector of the mind's eye (the 6th sense of consciousness), to discern and evaluate ourselves in existence or discern and evaluate existence itself.
Logic is how we discover, create and verify the definitions and identities of reality. This is proportion, ratio, and measurement (Thoth/thought, the great magician and measurer). Logos has the same root as logic (from PIE root leg- "to collect") is connected to ratio through reason(from PIE root re(i)- "to reason, count"). You "count", add up and correspond the data as you "collect" it with logic, to connect it, and reason about it.
This links to lecture (lec/leg), a way we "study" (words ending in -ology are studies), which is based in logos/leg- as well, since we gather and collect when we read or hear a lecture. Read is related to reason. Reading (symbols, words, language) has the same root as reason, which uses logic, analogy, correspondence (ratio).
Is "logos" simply speech? No, it's speech with reason.
Why is the word logic rooted in logos? Logos is directly related with a specific form of speech, the speech of truth (maa-kheru, true of voice, meaningful speech) as expressed by the law of logic and our ability to reason.
Reason does not impress upon us falsity, but truth instead, the truth from non-contradictory thinking. Contradictory false premises or propositions would not be considered proper reasoning, hence, reason is about truth, as is logos about the thought and reasoning to use logic to express the truth through speech (true of voice), not falsity, lies, deceptions, manipulations, etc.
The reason we do things, is also the motive and cause for our actions and creating into the world. Motives are axioms for action; causes for agency and generation. "God" is referred to as the Logos, the generator of creation. We are a consciousness, and we are the symbolic "gods" of ancient symbolism that were externalized, personified, anthropomorphized, reified and deified aspects of ourselves, psychology, psyche, and consciousness. We are the "gods", the generators, manifestors and creators of our experience and of our actions into existence.
The question "Why", as in why we do things, is answered by logic, processing knowledge (scio, scire (science), PIE skei- "to cut, to split"), and gaining understanding of these motivational root causal factors. Motive, cause, understanding, reckoning, speech, word, calculation, collect and logic are all related in how we process and navigate reality.
To see reality, and to know reality, is to divide (scio, scire, science, knowledge). Without division, all is one, and you see nothing and know nothing. This is where a dualistic conceptual framework can help to bring clarity to our vision of reality. To see the bigger picture clearly, you need to look at the parts more closely, to associate two (dual) things and compare them and understand one in reference to the other.
The uni-verse (a symbol to represent everything "turned into one") is more understood through the diversity, multiplicity, and variability of existence. We see, perceive, conceive, know and understand the larger universals through adding up, counting and collecting the smaller particulars. This is what inductive and deductive logic/reasoning does.
Logos is the speech of truth (maa kheru), which is what Logos/"God" is supposed to represent as well, the truth of reality, and the moral truth of our actions and behavior. When we reason and use logic, we require the collection of at least two things to correspond to each other and perform some mental calculation, to arrive at a judgment, analysis, diagnosis, assessment, evaluation and discernment ("to separate, set apart, divide, distribute; distinguish, perceive," from PIE krei– "to sieve, discriminate, distinguish").
This is the power in thought through contemplation, reflection, active meditation, pondering, to uncover reality from pattern recognition, correspondence, non-contradiction, analogy, etc. It's breaking and cracking open, and dividing and separating reality and seeing what it is made of, rather than seeing it as one amalgamation.
Seeing "all" of everything simply as "one" is hyper-reductionist, and ultimately is also at the same time paradoxically seeing everything as "nothing", because you don't see anything else when you only see one thing. You get nowhere by claiming there is only one thing when clearly there is more than just one thing.
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Thought and logic is extremely important in life. Grammar and knowledge input from existence is consumed by consciousness in thought processing and logic to develop understanding. We feel reality, reality affects us as emotions that feedback with thoughts and motivate us towards having the courage, and will-power to have the wisdom of right-action output into existence again. This is the feedback generation in reality. We are the "gods", generators, manifestors and creators of our experiences, our thoughts, our emotions internally, and of our actions into the world.
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Previous posts in this series:
- Word 'Magic': The Art of Manipulation and Mind Control
- Abracadabra and the 'Magic' of Words
- The 'Magic' to Create Freedom or Slavery as 'Magicians' or 'Sorcerers'
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