I transvalue the view of creation of Basilides, the Gnostic, and Hierocles of Alexander, which became dominant in Christianity. It is not that the Logos should not have as a counterpart an equally eternal matter, it is that matter should not have an equally eternal Logos. Why should the definition, the mathematics, the Principle, take precedence over the highest evolved matter, the Object God?
The Eastern view is a bit closer to my view with the idea that the world has been produced many times in cycles, but I do not see the world absorbed back into Brahman. Brahman is not “playing” when He creates the world. The world emerges from the Primal Material and the activating Spirit-Will, which are never separate.
The Eastern view is a bit closer to my view with the idea that the world has been produced many times in cycles, but I do not see the world absorbed back into Brahman. Brahman is not “playing” when He creates the world. The world emerges from the Primal Material and the activating Spirit-Will, which are never separate.
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