Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
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Logos
What does Logos look like? Logos is like the shadow of a thing, but Logos can leave a thing where a shadow can't. Also, Logos can attach itself to a thing and give that thing a sense of presence that no shadow can do. Logos has no detectable weight, being made of freely associated light. Yet, Logos is an object, something self'aware and deliberate.
Logos thinks about what an object is. An object is an embodiment of something that has some kind of relationship with other things, whether the thing has measurable physical weight or not. With regard to Logos things, we speak specifically here of words, which are objects and have weight only insofar as they have a relationship with other words. Not too few, nor too many. Logos knows that sometimes, often times, its luminous objects can outweigh the physical kinds.
Logos is already tired and goes to a nice park to rest. Pondering reality is fatiguing. Even a little bit is arduous, and needs a place where all the symbols of the luminous world have no meaning, no relation with anything at all. Logos knows that to understand any thing within the existential realm, at least one foot must be out of it. This place where the foot goes, is called the null space. Within the null space realm, each word and each letter of each word may be shown, but each is without any assignment to anything else. An infinite procession of letters and their combinations can be included in this null space reality, but each utterly without meaning. Nothing doesn't seem like much, but without it, Logos knows that there would be no vantage that could give view to itself.
Logos loves light and appreciates the service it provides. Logos also appreciates that light provides the same service of illumination for the physical eye as it provides for the mind's eye. Logos thinks about its own light, and becomes aware of the great reality everywhere. It is there, but like a great vast darkness, and Logos, its eye being the mind's eye, is like a beam of light in the midst of this night. Logos thinks and then the light beam is switched on, upon the ground nearby. Logos knows that if the beam is pointed to something too far away, by it no more can be seen than what is seen by the physical eye.
Logos loves to journey, and many of the things that Logos sees are useful..as far as the nature of reality can be comprehended, or 'good and bad' can fit, or causation..fathomed. All what Logos sees, Logos knows how to get there and back. But most importantly, Logos knows there is always more than what can be seen because so much of all must be sacrificed just to see a bit of all..limitations imposed to see even one thing. This is why Logos feels so comfortable while journeying. There is always something to learn about what it doesn't know, what it thinks it knows, and about what it knows about knowing. Through all of this, Logos negotiates through the physical realm, and of course, prompt by the least bit of fatigue, Logos enjoys the peace of null space. With such peace at hand, there is no reluctance to journey.
Wherever Logos journeys, Logos can only journey on the path of logic. For Logos to see, the links of the path must be one, two, three. This is how Logos knows science, for example. And science can only be seen by Logos. Logos avoids being elevated in any way, or superficial, or fuzzy about anything else in the vast darkness..those things on the perimeter of the light beam and beyond. Logos focuses only on its center. Logos is comfortable with this because Logos is only a part of the mind, not all of it. Logos knows this.