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Bowl of Saqi for January 26
THE BRAIN SPEAKS THROUGH WORDS;
THE HEART IN THE GLANCE OF THE EYES;
AND THE SOUL THROUGH A RADIANCE THAT
CHARGES THE ATMOSPHERE, MAGNETIZING ALL.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
In the explanation of the idea of "Logos" included
particularly in the Christian religion, it has been
forgotten that each word or doctrine has three discrete
interpretations according to the "degree of understanding"
and according to the "plane of application". Really these
two mean the same thing, for accordingly as the
understanding is expanded, so will the subtler plane be
contacted.
However, when man lost the power and ability to contact the
higher sphere, the mind began to consider the manifestations
of three Logoi, as if they were all separate, and spoke of
the triune God This trinity has no reality except in the
human mind; at the same time it is a very real thought and
arises from the natural tendency of the human mind to
analyze. And so it can be said at the same time that God is
Triune, yet in the absolute sense He can be and is nothing
but Unity above all explanations.
Mentally interpreted, Logos means word, or perhaps reason or
doctrine. The brain, as the delegate of mind, expresses
physically through words. But on the heart plane, Logos
means Light and Law (Latin "lex", "legis") and one can see
the resemblance between these words showing that they came
from one root. The actual root was this Divine Light as
expressed in the mental plane. As Jesus Christ said, "The
light of the body is in the eye," so that Divine Light from
the heart plane, passing through the mental plane is
divulged in the physical eye of man.
But while Logos means word or thought or reason or doctrine
mentally, and Light or Law spiritually, it is also true as
the Bible teaches, that first was the Logos, and the Logos
was with God and the Logos was God, the Logos was in the
very beginning with God. That is to say that Logos was and
is the very emanation from the Arsh-throne of God and is
this universal Power-Love ocean-stream of vibrations.
Emanation individualized is called "Ruh" by the Sufis, but
it is nevertheless one with this Universal Ocean of Love,
and when vivified cannot be confined to any part of the
human personality. So when the soul awakens, this energy
magnetizes the complete atmosphere of the person, and even
a much greater area around one.
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january26.htm
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