Reimagining the Godhead: Ephesians 1:3-14

One of the most important mystical revelations of the Apostle Paul is in a letter that is believed to be written by someone other than Paul. For me that does not matter as I believe this portion of the letter is mystical revelation about the nature of our relationship to the creative source. If not written by Paul, it was likely by a student of Paul's using his name for clout. He no doubt heard this from Paul or received additional revelation based on Paul's teaching. I would suggest reading and meditating on a greater portion of this passage. My recommendation is to read Ephesians 1:3-14 to get the complete picture. It also contains important revelation about the nature of the Logos, the Father, Son, and Spirit and causes me to reimagine the Godhead.. Further it imparts the importance of Jesus the mediator. 

John chapter one verse one says the following "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God." It does not say in the beginning was Jesus of Nazareth. It does however say that the Word became flesh and dwelt among humanity which is a direct reference to Jesus of Nazareth. So then, the Logos, the Word is stated as being in the beginning with God and that the Word was God. For me it seems clear that the Word/Logos was/is God's consciousness. It is therefore integral with God and all that God is the word is. It is in essence the expression of God and it is the creative source of the entire universe. Jesus was/is indwelt by this expression of God. However, as Jesus was fully indwelt by the Logos, the Logos was still being God and operating on a larger stage in a much bigger role than Jesus. I think it is safe to assume that God is energy and consciousness, or in other words, energy and thought. It is the conscious thought that makes the energy work in specific ways. It is energy and thought, inseparable that is the creative source of all that is. In the western world this source is identified as the Logos but in the east it is identified as the Tao.

Eph 1:3-5  "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,  (4)  just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.  (5)  He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,"

Whenever Paul uses the term Christ he is referring Jesus of Nazareth the one in which the Word became incarnate who was Judaism's Messiah. Jesus revealed three aspects of the Logos/Tao. The three aspects were the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The Father is the protector/provider, The Son is the mediator and elder brother/spiritual prototype, and the Spirit is the indweller communicator. All of the three are different aspects of the Godhead, Logos/Tao and all three are eternal. I will refer to the Godhead as simply the source from here on out. By source, I mean Logos/Tao. 

Because I view myself as Christ following Taoist, I want to focus on these aspects mentioned above with a heavy emphasis on the mediator and the spirit. I am interested in Taoism because of how closely it relates to the quantum world and have been interested since being introduced to the book, "The Tao of Physics." But first we must briefly look at the Father. The Father is protector/provider aspect of the source. This is the aspect that represents love. It is the love of a Papa. I believe that love is the purpose of our existence. We came here to learn about love and to learn to be loving.

However I want to spend some time talking about the mediator or the Logos incarnate. Here is an interesting fact. John 1:10  "He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him." The Logos was in the world before the Logos was incarnate. However, no one recognized the fact. All of the commentaries I consulted agree that it is referring to a time before John1:14 and by the context at the time of creation. The question becomes how was the Logos in the world? I believe the logical answer is in our consciousness. If we were created in the image of God, what would that suggest? The answer... conscious energy. This leads to the role of the Incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth. It was spoken of in the above passage from Ephesians. He came to bless us with every spiritual blessing that is in the heavenly places or the quantum level. You can readily see that it was a primal plan. It was a plan set into motion before the creation. Yes, the phrase, before the foundation of the world means before creation. In the Greek, the word translated world is the word kosmos where we get our word cosmos, and refers to the universe. So, prior to creation, it was decided within the Logos that Jesus would be the first born of many, that the Father would be a loving Papa and the Spirit would be the vehicle by which the Logos would dwell among humanity.

What was Jesus mediator of and for? He was mediator of the ultimate covenant. He came to the first century Jewish people during the time they were promised a messiah and a new covenant. It turns out that the source had a much bigger plan. It may be a new covenant to the Jews, but it was the ultimate covenant to humanity. However, Jesus also became a mediator between humanity and the source. He was able to explain the various aspects of the source as Father, Son, and Spirit. He also explained that not only was the source incarnate in him but it was also incarnate in all of humanity if they would but recognize it. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit were in us and we were in them. Still, the Father, Son and Spirit were aspects of something larger and more universal. They were all aspects of the Logos/Tao/Quantum Field... THE SOURCE!

The ultimate covenant was an offer that could not be refused if truly understood and believed. No one would have to teach his fellow human to know the source. All would know the source from the least to the greatest. All would be accepted in the beloved prototype, the first born son, and all would have complete access to the source via the spirit. All could rest in the truth that the source was a loving father that was so intimately loving that the best descriptive term would be papa. All could understand that they were not being judged and that they were simply loved. 

There was a purpose to this however. It was to birth in each and every human the sense of freedom to be able to love in view of such a reality. It is really good news. There is no bad news in it. That is why we are here. It is to participate in the divine nature, to enjoy papa and work in community in the spiritual realm because when we do that we are operating with the source at the quantum level. All of this is facilitated by the mediator. The mediator is the catalyst to venture farther into the spiritual reality of heavenly places at the level of the quantum field.