Logoi and Energies

The emergence of manifest reality from a merely potential state stands at the center both of fundamental physics and of traditional ontology. In the modern scientific picture, this process is described in terms of quantum fields, vacuum fluctuations, and decoherence, whereas traditional Hermetism speaks of the Medium, of logoi and eidē. Yet despite the difference in vocabularies, serious analysis reveals the essential unity of these descriptions: the arising of the manifest world is seen as the result of laying structuring information over an infinite energetic potential.

At the foundation of the cosmos, in both modes of description, stands an unmanifest, unified, and in itself qualityless Medium. From the physical point of view, it corresponds to the notion of a quantum field in the vacuum state. It is a “boiling ocean” of potential states, bearing colossal energy density yet having zero informational output. Within the Medium all probabilities  exist in superposition — all equally possible, yet none of them actualized. This is a realm of pure potential, devoid of differentiation, of time and of space in their objectified sense. For any stable world to arise from this homogeneous Medium, there must be an external or immanent influence that introduces division and structure into the system. That influence is information, which in its highest aspect appears as the hierarchy of Logoi.

We have already seen that the logoi are structuring principles, laws, or “algorithms” that select, from the infinite spectrum of possibilities of the Medium, a specific trajectory of development. In informational terms, a logos is a way or a form of constraining a system. If the Medium is absolute freedom, bordering on chaos, then the logos is the measure that narrows this freedom down to a definite state.

The superimposition of a system of logoi onto the Medium follows the principle of resonance: from the background noise of potential oscillations, a single specific frequency is singled out. In quantum mechanics this corresponds to the appearance, in a particle, of definite quantum numbers — mass, charge, and spin. These parameters are precisely the information that prescribes to a field how exactly it must vibrate in a given local region. The primary act of creating an object is thus always an act of informational determination.

The further transition from abstract law to concrete form is realized through the totality of eidē. We have noted that while the logos is a general law or “word,” the eidos is a discrete “blueprint” or matrix of an object. This understanding corresponds well to the phenomenon of quantization in physics. The quantum nature of reality means that the world is not continuous; it consists of definite, indivisible portions — quanta of energy. Ontologically, this means that information is laid upon the Medium not chaotically but as integral semantic units – eidē. The eidos of an object is thus its informational limit, beyond which the object loses its identity. One cannot transmit “half” a quantum of light, just as one cannot realize “half” an eidos; a form is either actualized in its entirety or remains within the realm of probabilities. Quantization is therefore the mechanism that guarantees the stability and distinctness of objects in the manifest world.

Yet information (logos) and form (eidos) by themselves would remain static without the participation of energy. In any system, energy acts as the dynamic mediator that “animates” informational structures. In physical terms, the excitation energy of a field turns a virtual possibility into a real particle. In the Hermetic worldview, energy (Shekhinah, shakti) is understood as the power that “implants” logoi into the Medium, compelling it to assume the form of eidē. It is crucial to see that energy does not precede structure, but manifests simultaneously with it. Objectification is a process in which the logos directs the flow of energy so that form crystallizes from the amorphous substrate of the Medium. This process is hierarchical: more complex logoi govern vast energetic masses, generating intricate macroscopic systems, while simpler logoi operate on the level of elementary particles.

We have already observed that in the physical sense “energy” (in the singular) is understood as a scalar measure of the interaction of matter, its capacity to do work or to change the state of a system. It is a thermodynamic quantity, the “currency” of physical processes, conserved according to the symmetries of time. Traditional Hermetism and Eastern metaphysics, however, also employ the term “energies” (Greek ἐνέργεια or Sanskrit dharmas) to denote “elemental qualities” or primary units of “objectness.” In this context, energies are not a measure of work but primordial modes of difference through which the formless potency of the Medium acquires the possibility of articulation. If the Medium is an infinite field of probabilities, then energies are the discrete “points” or qualities from which perceiving consciousness assembles the picture of the world. From the standpoint of fundamental physics, such “energies” are more accurately related not to energy balance but to the notion of “action.” In classical and quantum mechanics, action is a physical quantity with the dimension “energy multiplied by time” (J·s). It is the quantization of action via Planck’s constant (h) that establishes the “discrete threshold” below which no physical event can be registered. “Energies” are therefore elementary quanta of action, the smallest informational transactions from which the fabric of being is woven. Each such “energy” bears a specific quality of a logos which, once imposed upon the Medium, constrains it, turning pure potency into a definite element of the object-world.

In the Myth under consideration, reality is not an autonomous mechanism; it is born within perceiving consciousness as the result of “assembling” these elemental qualities. The birth of the object-world is inseparable from the process of fixation, “observation,” or “reckoning.” In the quantum domain, a particle indeed remains a wave of probability until it interacts with another system, at which point decoherence occurs. This can be described as the process in which the local information of an object becomes the property of the entire surrounding environment. When the logos of an object comes into resonance with the logoi of other objects, a stable network of relations arises. This network is what the observer experiences as “objective reality.” Objects confirm each other’s existence through an unceasing exchange of informational signals. The interaction of two objects is, in this sense, the contact between two informational hierarchies, in which electromagnetic repulsion (the physical aspect) and the Pauli exclusion principle (the informational aspect) together generate the stable sense of boundary and solidity.

The birth of reality thus appears as a hierarchically organized process. At the base lies the Medium — the realm of zero information and infinite potential. Upon it is laid the hierarchy of logoi — structuring laws that determine which particular energies (modes of difference) will be actualized. The imposition of logoi upon energies gives rise to eidē — stable informational forms, matrices of objects. Finally, the total interaction of these forms is described by physical energy as the measure of their mutual influence.

It must be emphasized that “energies” (“actions”) are not separate from consciousness. We have already seen that any object is the result of resonance between an external informational signal and the internal assembly mechanism of the perceiving subject. Consciousness plays the role of a “decoder” that performs the “rendering of reality,” that is, it interprets the chaotic noise of quantum fluctuations of the Interval/Medium, extracting from it discrete energies and binding them into stable images. Without the act of perception, the world remains a set of unlinked “strings” or potential logoi; only through the observer do these energies acquire the status of a given object-reality, a given timeline.

Thus, the passage from “energies” to “energy” is a passage from the world’s qualitative composition to its quantitative description. The cosmos can be read as an immensely complex informational text in which each letter is a discrete energy (quantum of action), each word is an eidos of an object, and physical energy is the syntax that ensures the linkage and motion of this text.

At the same time, if the Medium is absolute potential and the logoi are the modalities of its structuring, then the totality of all possible realizations of these logoi constitutes the architecture of the Multiverse. What a particular observer experiences as a single, dense “objective reality” is only one among countless branches of actualization, stabilized by a specific set of informational filters.

We have already stated that this domain of coherent superposition of all possible world-lines is traditionally named the Interval. It is a hyperspace in which reality appears as a multidimensional network of semantic nodes, each node being a point of choice between different “energies” (modes of existence).

The transition from the Interval to a specific manifest object-world is accomplished through a mechanism of semantic resonance, where the “choice” of a given branch of reality is conditioned by the correspondence between the inner structure of the perceiving consciousness and a particular architecture of logoi. The observer’s consciousness selects from the Interval those chains of events that accord with its own informational capacity and volitional impulse. The “objective world” is thus the result of induction, whereby consciousness “draws forth” from the Interval a definite set of energies, fixing them into a stable structure.

This description explains the stability of the macroscopic world: billions of individual observers, bound in informational interaction, generate a “consensus reality” — a common “block” of actualized energies that is extremely resistant to change by a solitary act of will. Nevertheless, whenever the informational definiteness of a system drops (for instance, at the quantum scale or in moments of crisis of meaning), reality again approaches the state of the Interval, opening access to alternative branches of logoi — to the emergence of new timelines.

Thus, the imposition of information upon the Medium is a continuous process of navigation within the Multiverse. Consciousness is ceaselessly “charting” its reality through the ocean of energies of the Interval. Any object-world is therefore a particular stabilized “projection” of one among infinite possibilities, held in place by attention and by the regularities of informational exchange. From this perspective, the laws of physics may be regarded as protocols that secure the coherence of the chosen branch.

It becomes clear, then, that in any bounded world a crucial role is played by fundamental laws and constants, which traditional texts describe as heimarmenē or the “Archontic order.” These are the limiting parameters of the universe’s informational system, such as the speed of light or Planck’s constant. On the physical level they define the “rules of grammar” according to which the logoi may combine. On the one hand, these constants prevent reality from collapsing back into the Medium, establishing a rigid architecture of interactions; on the other, they also confine the possibilities of the development of consciousness.

In the course of the universe’s evolution, the total quantum information, according to the principle of unitarity, is conserved, but its distribution changes. Entropy grows inexorably, which signifies the progressive “entangling” of information, its translation from an explicit, structured state into a hidden, microscopic one. Yet in local regions of the universe — where energy flows are most intense — islands of negentropy emerge: spheromats, complex organisms, intelligent bearers of consciousness, and collective structures. These are the sites where the logoi attain their highest degree of manifestation, giving rise to maximally elaborated eidē.

Thus, from both the physical and the Hermetic perspectives, the object-world is not a heap of “material things” but a dynamic stream of informational events. What is commonly called matter is only a mode of perceiving highly concentrated energy constrained by particular logoi. The cosmos is born from the Medium as an unending “reckoning” of reality, where every interaction is an act of confirmation of form. Physical reality is secondary to the informational code, and insight into the mechanisms by which information is laid upon the Medium opens a path to conscious engagement with the very foundations of being.