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neither creates out of a Perfect Idea within or without His mind, nor is His Living Word mediated between Him and His Creation by a rewritten Hermes-λόγος, the new messenger on Stoicism’s horizon. For God’s capacious Word, indwelling in all things is beyond mediation and emanation. It is pure breath: it is that which expands, and that which is expanded, as if His Word were wise Atman-Brahman’s.4 It opts to be its own nature, and to sing its authentic, original, effortless, spontaneous wise creation, despite the irrational forays and logical trespasses it causes in our limited understanding of His divine aims, as Saint Agustin argues.5 For what is at stake is God’s presence as an experience, and as an ongoing revelation, in the manifold trials of His Chosen Nation expressed in the Old Scriptures, and superseded by God’s redemption of sin in Christ’s death and resurrection, and by Christ as the incarnated Word in the New Scriptures. Yahweh creates as
4 The sanskrit etymology of Brahman is Br. “to expand.” It signifies “that which expands and that which is expanded.” It suggests that Brahman is the agent of expansion, facilitating expansion of the expanded, which is the object. “That which expands” is a series of mantras, hymns and prayers, no different in kind to those of Israel, including Israel’s kerygma or proclamation of its salvation by God’s mighty hand in its Exodus from Egypt. These songs affect our perception of reality, and sustain the world. “That which is expanded” is the original source of the cosmos, that which makes the world prosper and continue, as if Atman- Brahman were Yahweh or God. God as reality expands as creation unfolds and it becomes a manifest reality expanding. Prayer and ritual are symbiotic, they are meant to ensure the prosperity and continuity of the world. From lecture notes by Dr. Ashok Aklujkar in Philosophy 378 Philosophical Wisdom of Early India. See also Connolly, Peter. The Vitalistic Antecedents of the Atman-Brahman Concept. Chichester Institute of Higher Education. Indian Insights: Buddhism, Brahmanism and Bhakti, 2007.
5 What may appear as an irrational or a corruptible way of God, says St. Agustin, is due to our limited understanding of God’s wise Word and perfect ways in moving all things to fulfil His Plan Divine. San Agustín. Confesiones. Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, 2001. 127.
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