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Logos here is often translated as word, but can mean variously reason, meaning, or even logic. For a contemporary Hellenistic Jewish perspective, look at Philo of Alexandria. For him the Logos is universal reason, the logic of the world, the laws of causality and physics etc., both that which understands them in man, and that which generates them in the world.

Logos gives meaning to the world:

Colossians 1:15-20

>[Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Jesus himself speaks to this role:
>Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

However, when we talk of salvation, Christians unfortunately shift away from Christ role as Logos. This leads to a misunderstanding of Christian freedom as a freedom from Jewish law, and a freedom from punishment, rather than as a higher freedom of the will.

Note that Logos, meaning, is absolutely essential for defining sin. We do not call acts with unforseeable negative outcomes "sin." Sin is all about the meaning an act has, and our will to or against an action.

Romans 7

>For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold as a slave under sin. For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

>Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me.So I discover this law:When I want to do what is good,evil is present with me.For in my inner selfI delight in God’s law,but I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
>Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.

Any good recommendations for essential books on Hermetic Qabalah, Christian Cabala and/or sacred geometry?