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THE HOLY TRINITY.
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conceptions of St. John and the psychological constituents of Imagination :
Vedanta.
Greek philosophy.
St. John.
Psychology.
1 God
1 God
1 Brahman) 2 Ishvara
or Brahma,
or Vach
Godhead.
2 The
Logos.
Godhead.
2
Godhead.
Imagina
tion.
The Word.
1 Consciousness, including will, i
and 2 Ideas, or, col
lectively, knowledge.
.
St. John's Word is, thus, the same thing as the Ishvara of Vedanta, the Logos of Greek Philosophers, and the ‘Idea' of Psychology. The Hindu Scriptures declare that Prajapati, the Creator, was all this (the mass of illusion, that is, ideas), and St. John says that the Word was with God and was God. As to the coexistence of Brahman and Vâch, the Hindu Scriptures teach the same thing as is expressed in the book of Proverbs (VIII. 22-30), from which we need only quote the following:
"When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth;
“Then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was his daily delight, rejoicing always before him."
The Hindu Scriptures teach :“Prajapati, the creator, was all this. He had speech (Vách) as his own, as a second, or, in the language of the Bible, as one brought up with him."—(The Vedanta Philosophy, p. 147). . Thus, according to Hinduism and Christianity both the Father and the Son are co-eval, and cannot be said to come into being at different points of time.
The same is the result of the metaphysical or psychological analysis, when pushed to the final limit; for
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