Ten Interpretations of John 1-1

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Take your pick! Or better still, self realise your own insight. Interpretation of the agnostic: Original thought is energy created by that One thinker Manifests through all that is, as the Word of the Creator It is a concept which we cannot yet fully understand Perhaps we are in a subset of the Set beyond which God stands Interpretation of the evangelist: When none was, HE was Of all that is and was, HE is the cause HE passed on his Word to Jesus, his son HE, the one true GOD and Jesus became one Interpretation of the theosophist: The matter manifest and the energy concealed were once unified The magical breath, the wave, the impulse, made them become untied So what appears to be duality Is in reality a singularity The source sent this wave forth, pervading time and space HE, the source, the creator, is in all and yet apart, in an unfathomable place Interpretation of the atheist: The Bible talks of a beginning while the Gita says that there is no beginning and no end All doctrines appear to be works of fiction to make our will bend Why does John 1.1 say 'word' instead of using a more lucid expression? Unless the word 'word' symbolises something nearest to it in description If that be so, the spoken Word is a sound to the human ear and a wave in scientific terminology So if in the beginning was a wave and the creator of the wave was God, we are in the realm of theology More baffling being the concept that the wave maker and the wave are one It's like a jigsaw puzzle with parts incomplete, with which I am done! Interpretation of the analyst: Word is preceded by thought and thought by a thinker, looking inwards The word is then of the thinker propelling his thought as action, outwards If the word becomes the thinker then the world is nothing but thought An inexplicable creation into which we have been brought! Interpretation of the scientist: The beginning of time means the Big Bang! Eons after which life formed and birds sang The Word may then be likened to an outpouring of infinite energy Bringing to form all we know in an expanding synergy Interpretation of an artist: The Word is the divine breath creating a multitude of living bubbles The breath is and was with God, who for us has undertaken all these troubles Bringing life and light into the void, the empty space God is indistinguishable from the Word showering upon all his benign grace! Interpretation of a theorist: Prior to the beginning, there was only space like a giant empty womb The beginning saw God infuse energy and life into what otherwise was an empty tomb Just like the life growing within the womb knows nothing of what lies outside its boundary Who God is will forever remain a mystery, our quandary Interpretation of an occultist: The Word, it's being with God and becoming God represents the divine trinity Akin to the Hindu concept of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh, whose powers extend to infinity Interpretation of a meditationalist: Respecting the preacher, the interpreter, graced by divine wisdom they imbibed Grateful for the symbolism from their hearts aptly described Observing their endearing embrace sought to be shared Endeavouring to our dispel ignorance by insights emphatically declared Knowing that although the word is not the thing Yet delving in its essence may give us wings Going in, within, in the stillness, actually being to become The Universe and our consciousness are entwined as one Dissolved in the current, yet blissfully distinct Free of fetters, our ego extinct The now moment is our reality, all other speculations possibly egoism Be they theism, atheism, panentheism or any other ism Does reality manifesting reality make the manifested an illusion? Is not fragmented thought, thought being matter, akin to delusion? Why not rest limited thought which eludes the here & now Wisdom is being in & within this moment, resting inquiry of what, where, when & how