making of the universe: the sacrifice of the logos

2/20/18

“The sacrifice of the LOGOS lay in His voluntarily circumscribing His infinite life in order that He might manifest.

Symbolically, in the infinite ocean of light, with center everywhere and with circumference nowhere, there arises a full-orbed sphere of living light, a LOGOS, and the surface of that sphere is His will to limit Himself that He may become manifest, His veil in which He encloses Himself that within it a universe may take form.

That for which the sacrifice is made is not yet in existence; its future being lies in the “thought” of the LOGOS alone; to Him it owes its conception and will owe its manifold life.

Diversity could not arise in the “partless Brahman” except for this voluntary sacrifice of Deity taking on Himself form in order to emanate myriad forms, each dowered with a spark of His life and therefore with the power of evolving into His image.

“The primal sacrifice that causes the birth of beings is named action (karma)”, it is said (Bhagavad Gita);

and this coming forth into activity from the bliss of the perfect repose of self-existence has ever been recognized as the sacrifice of the Logos.

That sacrifice continues throughout the term of the universe, for the life of the LOGOS is the sole support of every separated “life”, and He limits His life in each of the myriad forms to which He gives birth, bearing all the restraints and limitations implied in each form.

From any one of these He could burst forth at any moment, the infinite Lord, filling the universe with His glory; but only by sublime patience and slow and gradual expansion can each form be led upward until it becomes a self-dependent center of boundless power like Himself.

*Therefore does He cabin Himself in forms, and bear all imperfections till perfection is attained, and His creature is like unto Himself and one with Him, but with its own thread of memory.*

 

Annie Besant