Logos-Plato and Saint John

'Ho logos' ---this profoundly Greek expression! One can see the cognates of logic, psychology and all of the other --ologies! Has been translated as 'way' even 'Tao', but primarily means word, speech, reason. 'Logos' links two concepts---actual truth and a mental, verbal or written assertion of the truth. Two realms cohere in the logos, or true word. So much for philosophy, until we find in the Gospel of St. John: "...In the beginning was the Word (logos).

To see that it is and to say that "it is"---in this act the human person coheres in truth.

What is prayer if not an internal assent to the ways that things actually are? An acquiescence to inevitability. Standing together with your word, standing together in your word, I recall these expressions.

Interesting to note that The Word is alpha and omega... "In the beginning (genesis) was the Word," writes the Beloved Disciple.