Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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The Platonist philosophers who started on their philosophic rambles with the assumption of a first beginning of things, in obedience to the command of a god, conceived the creative thoughts of the Supreme Being as logoi, which, when conceived as a single psychosis, or thought, became the Logos; and early Christians, like St. John, recognizing the inseparable nature of language and thought, conceived the Greek Logos as the Word (Max Müller in 'The Vedanta Philosophy,' pages 141 and 142). The idea of the Word is that God created the world by the Logos, that is, by a word, or by many words, the logoi, i.e., the ideas of Plato. In India Speech (uttered thought, hence word) was recognized, long before the conception of the Word by St. John, as the first manifestation of the Creator. In the Maitrayana Upanishad (VI. 22), quoted by Max Muller in 'The Vedanta Philosophy,' at page 154, two Brahmans are pointed out as the object of meditation, one of whom is called the 'Word' and the other the 'Non-word.' The Upanishad further lays down that the Word alone can reveal the Non-Word.
THE HOLY TRINITY.
When the term son came to be applied to the person. alized aspect of the creative logoi, the Word also began to be recognised as a member of the Holy Trinity. We have it on the authority of Prof. Max Muller :
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"There is, according to the Alexandrian philosopher, the Divine Essence which is revealed by the Word, and the Word which alone reveals it. In its unrevealed state it is unknown, and was by some Christian philosophers called the Father; in its revealed state it was the Divine Logos or the Son."-The Vedanta Philosophy, p. 154.
Thus, the unrevealed state of the Divine Essence is called the Father, the revealed one, the Son, be