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THE LOGOS AS HARMONY

The nature of the "Logos" was also represented by the natural principle of musical harmony. Mathematically, harmony depends upon the nature of "Logos" or ratio. Both pagans and Christians alike expressed the nature of the "Logos" in these terms, for it is through the power of harmony that all the parts of creation are reconciled into a greater whole. Harmony on earth, the realm of Change, is to be manifested when the principles of Heaven, the realm of Being, are lived out by humanity.

Let us think for a moment. God demand sole worship. When we worship another, even with good intentions (Jesus) but unknowingly we are doing wrong and we are not aware of it, we bring disharmony and not harmony. We bring disorder and not order; ironically just the reverse of the will of the "Logos." When humanity suffers it manifest disharmony and disorder. When we feed the poor we bring harmony and order to bear upon disorder and disharmony. When we clothe the naked we bring order and harmony to disharmony and disorder. When we move a landmark of our neighbor we bring disharmony and disorder and not harmony. In so doing one often ends up killed and this furthers the disorder and disharmony. All the Commandments of God, both positive and negative, are the Absolute expressions of the will of the Divine Creator. We call Him God. The Laws and Commandments of the Divine Realm not only express the will of God but are manifestations of the greatest Love and Order that emanates from the Divine Realm of Being [THINK]! Love does not dishonor one's parents, love does not kill, loves does not commit adultery, love does not steal, love does not bear false witness against another, love does not covet the propety or another, etc. Moses got it right; but again he should have since Egypt was the first monotheistic nation and religion known to man. One only has to look at the Egyptian 42 Negative Confessions to understand where Moses gets the Ten Commandments. When humanity takes upon themselves to adhere to and observe such Laws and Commandments then the Order of Heaven and the Harmony that is Heaven exerts it's influence upon this latter realm of Change. In this way the Mind of God is [Logos] is applied by mankind to the realm of matter where humanity finds its home. Then and only then does this passage find its fulfillment:

Matt 6:10 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. (KJV)

That says it all. From this we can also surmise that the early Christian ideal of the church or assembly (ekklêsia), the mystical body of Christ, was itself seen by some as a social manifestation of the celestial harmony, whereby all individuals might be unified and uplifted into a greater whole (Clement of Alexander, Exhortation to the Greeks 9, Witt translation, "Plotinus and Posidonius," 201).