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In the Old Testament’s Creation Myth, Yahweh’s transcendental Spoken Word is immanently present, indwelling in all things; in Philo, God’s λόγος is transcendentally present, yet it acts as the intermediary between God and the cosmos; and in the late Stoics, God’s Λόγος mediates, as if it were emanated or carried by an allegorized Hermes, between a transcendental God and His creation, when Hermes, the divine messenger of Olympians, is assimilated as “λόγος.” To have the eternal Spirit-Word mediated, is to limit its spontaneous capaciousness; it is to say the omnific Word is carried from heaven to earth, and not being carried within God’s Being. For how can that which is unbounded and almighty, the Divine Word, that which is filled with Sacred Being in itself, God’s Spirit Word, be carried or be mediated at all by the limited and profane, by a lesser Grecian deity, a lesser Hermes of the new allegorized Stoic spirit, whose duplicity and cunning ways dwell far-off from the wondrous obedience of God’s mighty angels and archangels?
This Grecianized mediation, limiting God’s spontaneous Word, diminishing its indivisible power, its being-presence, may only be understood in relation to Grecian and Gentile thought. Grecian philosophers, ever fearful of the infinite, opted for the finite in all things, for reason was unable to comprehend the magnitude of the infinite. The Grecian mind, says Spencer, was unable to grasp infinity and its terrifying endless regression to nothingness.66 In Yahweh’s omnific Word, however, the infinite
66 Enciclopedia Filosofica. Infinito. Istituto per la Collaborazione Culturale, 1947. 1398-1407.
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