Page 68 - GALIET HEAVEN´S SCROLL IV

and as effect of His Divine Word — neither as participation in the Perfect Idea nor as an emanation from Stoicism’s λόγος, as Church Fathers posited — it is subtly merged to the Stoic λόγος, whose rational principle emblemizes the beauties of creation as mimesis of the Idea of Beauty, seen in the beauties of order and symmetry, measure and proportion, ascribed, in late Hellenism, to the Hebrew creation. As a result, some Church Fathers, felt it necessary to distinguish between creatio ex-nihilo and creation from God’s emanation: the first generated the World, the second, the Word.65
Yet, the Grecian Idea, manifested in Stoicism’s λόγος as God’s emanation of the Word, separates God’s creation out of the Word from its original creation ex-nihilo impetus. These are indiscernible when conjugated in the Word’s Being. Both, the Word Divine and the λόγος in Wisdom Divine are spontaneous, instantaneous manifestations of God’s will and being in Judaism. The Word Divine and its wisdom as λόγος are one. The wisdom- λόγος as one is being carried in the Spirit-Word. The Word is thus, spontaneously both, wise and rational, transcendent and immanent. By discerning or dividing creation from emanation, Stoicism limited God’s spontaneous, omnific, and omnipresent Word.
65 Wolfson, Harry Austryn. Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion. Ch. 12. The Meaning of Ex Nihilo in the Church Fathers, Arabic and Hebrew Philosophy, and St. Thomas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. 207- 221.
—68—