Logocentrism

[David Morris]

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John 1:1ff
In the beginning was the Word [LOGOS], and the Word [LOGOS] was with God, 
and the Word [LOGOS] was God.  The same was in the beginning with 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.
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I understand your take on the Fall, and I quite agree.  Logos 
(consciousness) in the hands of man is the Fall.  I think our difference has 
to do with the the LOGOS as a means of _Return_.  Logocentrism begs the 
question: Whose Logos?

The goal of "Transcendence" in GR is linked with the Grail, which means a 
supernatural Dumbo-feather.  A Key to that damned lock.  The name of G-D.  
THAT IS THE _WORD_.  Just don't forget the question above.

David Morris

>From: Richard Fiero
>
>I get quite a different sense of the Biblical "Word."
>Recall that Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge and
>also began to name things in words. Recall that Adam and Eve were cast
>out of the Garden and prevented from returning by a shining sword,
>possibly the sword of divisive ratiocination and the endless naming of
>things. Christ was also the Word and Christ was sacrificed along with
>the universe of opposites in the good and the bad thieves thereby
>bringing about the possibility of redemption from the
>infantile/regressive paranoia which causes man alienation from the
>Garden of oneness through his desire to name and number things (being
>like a God himself). I much prefer to see Slothrop as a hero of
>transformation and his going away as Christlike. As Bodine sums up, ".
>. .  you poor fucker."
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