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itself,” either existing within His mind (a Philonism) or without His mind (a Platonism), emanating all things into being, as in Philo’s ways.
Beneath the Stoic-λόγος paradigm, it is much more conceivable for the thing-in-itself to exist within Yahweh’s mind than outside of it. If it exists outside of it, then Yahweh ceases to be the sovereign and omnipotent Creator, for the thing-in-itself, as argued by many medieval theologians, would pre-exist Him. He would cease to be a Supreme Deity, being demoted to a Demiurge either Platonic or Gnostic in spirit. If He were to be a Demiurge, it would be better that He be the Platonic non-jealous Demiurge, than the jealous, Gnostic one that some Gnostic sects profess Yahweh to be. But neither entices the intellect as much as Philo’s synthesis does.
Philo’s lovely synthesis modifies Plato’s Demiurge slightly. Plato’s rational Demiurge beholds the Ideal Form outside of His mind, and Philo’s God, within His mind. Yahweh’s Word, however, is infinitely vaster than the Ideal Form: it is infinitely manifest everywhere in the immanent world, not as degrees of becoming, but as Word-Being indwelling not only in all things seen
Blake. The Ancient of Days.
and unseen, but also in every event past, present, and yet to come.
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