Logos

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Logos (λόγος) is a Greek word that means "word," "speech," "reason." It became a technical term in philosophy beginning with Heraclitus (ca. 535–475 BC), who used the term for a principle of order and knowledge.[1]

H. P. Blavatsky talks about three Logoi: "the unmanifested 'Father,' the semi-manifested 'Mother' and the Universe, which is the third Logos of our philosophy or Brahmâ."[2] These three Logoi can be seen as "the personified symbols of the three spiritual stages of Evolution."[3] Yet all the three Logoi are one.[4]


First Logos

Second Logos

Third Logos

Notes

  1. Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (2nd ed): Heraclitus, 1999.
  2. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. X (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, ???), 332.
  3. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. X (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, ???), 334
  4. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. XI (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, ???), 487.