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creation and its relationship as the ruler of souls, the Ultimate
Reality would have only one name:
OM
, which is written in
Sanskrit and pronounced more like
AUM
, and represents the utterly
comprehensive syllable, embracing within it the scope of the
complete phonetic alphabet containing the potential to create,
sustain, and bring about dissolution. When it is uttered correctly,
the mouth proceeds from being fully open through all stages toward
being tightly closed, lips pursed, the final
mmm
almost inhaled,
vibrating low back in the throat - the opposite of the initial exhaled
aaa
sound.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. All things were made by him; and
without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was
life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in
darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
-
The Gospel According to Saint John
(1.1-5.)
Saint John's acscount of the Creation begins at an earlier moment
than the Genesis account, and its similarity to Vedic writings is
startling. The gospel is the most mystical of the four included in the
standard New Testament, although others excluded by the early
Vatican councils, like that of Saint Thomas, also contain
philosophically deeper material. The author seems to be familiar
with more abstruse concepts of spiritual science, even if his
translators are not. The original version of St. John uses the Greek
term
logos
, which Latin translators rendered as
verbum
- hence 'Word.'
But
logos
is a mystical term quite common in the writings of Plotinus
and the Neoplatonists, where it is used to designate something closer
to the Vedic
OM
. The word is usually left untranslated by those
English writers who deal with Greek mysticism - to indicate the
impossibility of rendering it accurately.
Occasionally,
logos
is also applied to Jesus, thus becoming part of
the Trinity, associating this concept even more closely with the three
Vedic Realities. A common Indian legend has Jesus studying in India
before returning to the Holy Land and starting his ministry. The Wise
Men from the East are also often popularly identified as Indian
rishis
, the term implying both seer and king, and Jesus is said to have
