Hierarchy of the Logoi

Let us recall that the Myth we describe regards manifested existence as a process of self-knowledge of Absolute Reality, through differentiation within it an infinite number of potentials and their actualization in the binary — knowable potentials and the knowing mind. At the same time we have argued that any binary is, in fact, a ternary, since, besides the “positive” and the “negative”, a “neutral” element is present. Hence the world-process is described as the result of the interpenetration of three components: the striving to know (Monads), the striving to be known (energies) and the very act of knowing (the Logoi).

From the standpoint of the manifested, ‘realizing’ mind, both Monads and energies exist in potential reality, and the differentiation of discrete energies from the single homogeneous world-substrate under the influence of the Monads’ knowing activity proceeds according to the general logic of the unfolding of mind — forming the hierarchy of the Logoi.

In other words, the Logoi are scenarios of realization, or, as one might say, the principle of form of a given object or process. By “form” we mean the manifested individuality itself, the ensemble of distinguishing traits of that object or process. The Logos is the highest expression of that principle, while its concrete manifestations — ideas (“eidos”) and models (“Me“) — generate the full diversity of manifestations.

The hierarchy of the Logoi permeates all layers of the cosmos, constituting the “guiding vectors” of its development. How precisely the development of an object or the course of a process corresponds to its Logos determines the efficiency of that development. Yet one mustn’t assume that the Logos is “fate” or “predestination” that renders development unfree. The Logos is precisely a “logic”, the inner core of development, leading a being or a process toward its full and perfect realization by the shortest route. A being, an object or a process may follow its Logos to varying degrees, and there is no coercion in following it. It is merely a matter of developmental efficiency. The Logos is the force that shows how far a being or process is from its “ideal state” and thereby paves the way to that state.

From the Universal Logos down to the differential Logoi of elementary events, the world is suffused with “meaning”, a “dream” of future perfection. The world “dreams” of becoming God, and that dream is its Logos. The mystic aspires to deification, and that aspiration is a Logos.

The force that calls an individual being to development — manifesting to it as the “Higher Self”, HGA, or the personal Idam, the force indicating the Orlög of the individual Way — is that being’s Logos. The force that makes a human human, that determines the human form and manifests as the “Universal Man”, Adam, is the Human Logos. The force that unifies a planet, bringing life into a single symphony, is the Logos of that planet. The force that underlies the creative activity of the gods, directing their creative and generative actions into the single current of the world-process, is the Logos of the gods, the God-creator in the monotheistic sense. The force that makes a stone a stone, a grain of sand a grain of sand, a mountain a mountain, and even sustains the fleeting existence of a wave on the ocean’s surface — these are the Logoi of those forms of existence.

Smaller Logoi combine into larger ones and so on, up to the ideal Logos of the Universe. The hierarchy of the Logoi runs parallel to the hierarchy of Vortices; however, if the collectivities of vortices are individualized “from the bottom up” — that is, any egregoric vortex is born of the individual vortices that compose it — then the hierarchy of the Logoi unfolds “from the top down”, each Logos of a lower order resulting from the differentiation of a Logos of a higher degree of synthesis.

The Logoi are the “ideal result” of each specific act of the Absolute’s self-knowledge, the “model” of the full penetration of the Monad’s mind into the potential field of its qualities and energies, the complete actualization of that field of potentials. Since time exists only from the viewpoint of manifested existence, on the level of Spirit there is no time, and, from the Great Spirit’s own standpoint, it is simultaneously potential and actual, unmanifest and manifest, one and differentiated; thus the Logoi are at once the Way and the result of the world’s process of knowing.

Understanding and finding the “ideal state” — the Logos of a system — enables a system to realize its potentials as rapidly and efficiently as possible, and thus reduces its tension and dissatisfaction.