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God’s Word-Being fills all things with His everlasting salvation presence. God’s Word-Being is the very Shekinah ever indwelling in all created things. It is seen and heard by Adam in the Garden of Eden, by the patriarchs Abraham, Jacob and Isaac. It is seen and felt in the pillar of cloud and fire, in Mount Sinai of Moses, and in the Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle and the Jerusalem Temple, and in the mystic Holy of Holies of Christ of the rent veil.3
It is true that God’s wise dynamic Word brings forth the beauties of order into the world — a cosmos, and a most beautiful one; yet, conceivably, as the omnipotent maker He is, He can, too, bring forth anti-matter, black holes, and all perplexing, and inconceivable things. God’s actions and wrath, as a result, can conclude to be as volatile as those of the deities of the unpredictable and passionate Grecian pantheon.
To do away with these logical anxieties, Philo’s synthesizes the Word with Stoicism’s λόγος. The Form of the Good shall exist within God’s Mind, not outside of it. In this way, God shall remain greater than Plato’s Demiurge, for all Perfect Ideas shall dwell within Him before creation. Because the Form of the Good does not antecede God, but co-exists with Him in His mind, God shall remain the first and foremost maker of all munificent things. Thus, when God’s inner vision moves His will
3 Danielou, Jean. The Presence of God. Trans. Walter Roberts. London: A.R. Mowbray, 1958.
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