Today is January 2nd 2014, Thursday, the second day of the new year. There is thick smog outside the window, and the city, streets, flow of people, and traffic are looming in the smog, and everything is so illusory. I brewed a pot of Maoyan berry tea, tasted it; it was bitter, then sweet. The […]
In the beginning Wisdom (Sophia) proceeded from God and created matter, energy and time (Proverbs 3:19-20, 8:22-31). Matter had rudimentary structure and time existed as sequence, but neither was purposeful. It was only when God spoke His Word that the order of the days of creation commenced. The Alpha of that Word was Light. Light was the prime creation. This “Light” was not the light we see: rather, it was the Light by which we see light (Psalm 36:9). The light we see came into being when the light-emitting bodies were formed on the fourth day (Genesis 1:14). Rather, the first Light was (and is) spiritual consciousness, the Gnosis which ordered Sophia’s creation and which is conscious both of itself and of its Creator.
Phillip Medhurst 