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Becoming Aware of the Logos: The Way of St. John the Evangelist

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Preface to a review: Achtung!
For an Alexandrian Didaskalos, who only through the grace of the Lord, could pursue his ministry; this book was fresh air to my thought and confirmation to the penetrating and discerning power of the word of God; "living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart." Hebrews 4:12. This may be said since I call on the scholars and peritos to amend and supplement.

Notes on Chapters' notes:
Even if G. Kuhlewind moves gracefully between the milestones of his spiritual science teaching on the Word, the light, life, and the spirit he could not but reveal his thought in method and goal in "The Church." His notes include Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, Allgemiene Ikongraphie, R. Steiner's erchomenos, Radiance and seeing through a mirror (1Cor 13:12) explain the phenomena of the modern mystic.

The book milieu:
Georg Kuhlewind, author of Stages of Consciousness, Meditations on the boundaries of the soul, is a student of John the beloved disciple through his long occupation with his Gospel. He admits that in spite of his insights that he shared in this book, that no interpretation is final, a wise cautionary statement.
The book background was dominated by Rilke, whose quotations were displayed on the top of book's first nine chapters.
Rainer Maria Rilke, writer and poet, is considered one of the greatest lyric poets of modern Germany. Rilke's "object poem" describes with utmost clarity physical objects, the "silence of their concentrated reality."

Closing Appetizer:
The mystical philosopher concludes with variations on john the Baptist, whom John the beloved followed before meeting Jesus:
"He, who is the spirit of the Logos in me, whom I perceive must increase. I, my ego being, must decrease. I must prepare the ways and make straight the paths for Him who comes after me, whose messenger as an ego-being I am the messenger of the light of the world,"