Men have no comprehension of the Logos(words), as I've described it, just as much after they hear about it as they did before they heard about it. Even though all things occur according to the Logos, men seem to have no experience whatsoever, even when they experience the words and deeds which I use to explain physis, of how the Logos applies to each thing, and what it is. The rest of mankind are just as unconscious of what they do while awake as they are of what they do while they sleep.
Listening to the Logos(words) rather than to me, it is wise to agree that all things are in reality one thing and one thing only.
Things which are put together are both whole and not whole, brought together and taken apart, in harmony and out of harmony; one thing arises from all things, and all things arise from one thing.(Words are one and the many)
As a single, unified thing there exists in us(Words) both life(John 6:63 "the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life".) and death(Without the spirit, they<words> are dead), waking and sleeping, youth and old age, because the former things(words) having changed are now the latter, and when those latter things change(1Cor 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We<words> shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,)(1Cor 15:52
| In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.) |
, they become the former.
The unapparent connection(1 Cor 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them...)(has yet to come) is more powerful than the apparent one.
(Is the side of God's words that man chooses to see.)
It is wise to listen, not to me, but to my Word, and to confess that all things are one. (The great works of words)
Though this word is true always(Job 33:3 : and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.), yet people are as unable to understand it when they hear it for the first time as before they have heard it at all. For, though all things come to pass in accordance with this Word, people seem as if they had no experience of them, when they make trial of words and deeds such as I establish, dividing each thing according to its kind and showing how it truly is. But other people know not what they are doing(Luke 23:34 ...for they know not what they do.) when awake, even as they forget what they do in sleep.
Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to people if they have souls that understand not their language. (Reading the Bible as it is written, without the spirit; words become dead objects only)(1 Cor 2:9 as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard)
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it (The hidden knowledge of God) for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
(Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:)(Things that are made, are God's words)
Those who seek for gold dig up much earth and find a little.
Nature loves to hide.
The learning of many things teaches not understanding...
(Rom 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.)
Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things.(words)
This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or humans has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever will be an ever-living Fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out.
Fire(truth) in its advance will judge and convict all things.
It is the opposite which is good for us.
The hidden attunement is better than the open.
The straight and the crooked path of the fuller's comb is one and the same.
(Eccl 7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?)
To God all things are fair and good and right, but people hold some things wrong and some right.
In the circumference of a circle the beginning and end are common.
The way of humans has no wisdom, but that of God has.
(Rom 3:4 let God be true, but every man a liar; )(Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge...)
The wisest person is an ape compared to God, just as the most beautiful ape is ugly compared to humans.
The mysteries practiced among people are unholy mysteries.(Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge...)
And they pray to these images, as if one were to talk with a person's house, knowing not what gods or heroes are.
