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Date: March 26, 2023 01:01PM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos“Stoic philosophy began with Zeno of Citium c. 300 BC, in which the logos was the active reason pervading and animating the Universe. It was conceived as material and is usually identified with God or Nature. The Stoics also referred to the seminal logos ("logos spermatikos"), or the law of generation in the Universe, which was the principle of the active reason working in inanimate matter. Humans, too, each possess a portion of the divine logos.
The Stoics took all activity to imply a logos or spiritual principle. As the operative principle of the world, the logos was anima mundi to them, a concept which later influenced Philo of Alexandria, although he derived the contents of the term from Plato. In his Introduction to the 1964 edition of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, the Anglican priest Maxwell Staniforth wrote that "Logos ... had long been one of the leading terms of Stoicism, chosen originally for the purpose of explaining how deity came into relation with the universe".
Britannica gives this:
Logos, (Greek: “word,” “reason,” or “plan”)plural logoi, in Greek philosophy and theology, the divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it form and meaning.
https://www.facebook.com/416604375033927/posts/pfbid02MqkVTiD2zv1qrqqcSQNLbLZPdR9AioTA36AUg3gK92vWWtCHfTGbksb3FYMHsGgMl/?mibextid=cr9u03“Was the Greek concept of "logos"(λόγος) in the Judeo-Christian bible mistranslated into English as "word" when it's meaning is actually closer to the Chinese conception of "tao" (道) the principles and ways of Nature?
"The Christian scriptures, when translated into Chinese, use the word "Tao" to express the concept of "Word," or "Logos" in the Greek. Is this the answer? Is the Logos of St. John the Apostle and the Christians, the same as the "Tao" of the Lao Tzu and the Taoists?
It is said, that the Chinese are to the East, what the Greek are to the West. The analogy works very well for our purposes here, as it is two concepts, the Tao of the Chinese and the Logos of the Greeks (most specifically the Christian Greeks), with which we wish to compare and contrast.
Hieromonk Damascene believes so and illustrates in his book "Christ the Eternal Tao" just exactly how this relationship came to be. His premise is, that among the ancient philosophers, mystics and sages, none come closer to understanding the nature of things, than Lao Tzu.
Of all Ancient philosophers, Lao Tzu came the closest to assimilating the essence of reality and describing the Tao or Logos. His Tao Te Ching represents the epitome of what a human being can know through intuition, through the apprehension of the universal Principle and Pattern manifested in the created order."
Text Source: The Logos and the Tao
http://www.oodegr.com/english/anatolikes/logos_n_tao.htmRelated: "In the beginning was the λόγος ..."
http://www.bible-researcher.com/logos.html”