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JOHN 1, 1-5

According to:


King James translation Hugh J. Schonfield Avatar Adi Da Samraj
In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God,
 
 

and the Word was God.

2. The same was in the beginning
with God.
3. All things were made by him;
and without him 
was not anything made 
that was made.

4. In him was life;
and the life was the light of men.

5. And the light 
shineth in darkness;
and the darkness
comprehended it not. 

 In the beginning was the Word.
 

And the Word was with God.
 
 
 

So the Word was divine.

It was in the beginning with God.
 

By it everything had being.

And without it nothing had being.

What had being by it was Life. 
And Life was the Light of men.
 
 

And the light shines in the darkness.
 

And the darkness 
could not suppress it.

(Antiphonal hymn of early Christians,
the alternate lines (italics)
chanted as a response.
From The Original New Testament.)		 At the origin of everything is the Creative Spirit,
the Intelligent Life-Principle,
the All-Pervading Matrix of the total world.
And the Living Spirit-Breath of God
is always united with very God,
the Radiant Transcendental Consciousness,
the true Heart of the world 
and the truth of all beings.
Indeed, the Spirit is God,
for God is the Creative Life-Principal,
the Eternally Free Transcendental Reality
in Whom all beings and things
arise and float and change and pass out of sight.
All things and beings come to exist
throught the Agency of the Eternal Life-Principle,
and not otherwise.
And whatever or whoever exists 
because of the Spirit is indeed Alive - -
because everything and everyone is Sustained 
through surrender into that Living-Spirit.
The Life Breath that sustains Man
is also the Light that can show him the Way
through the darkness and blindness of the world.
That Light is now and always has been
shining in the world and even
in the body and mind of Man,
and no darkness has ever quenched it. 

(From The Fire Gospel) 
©1982 The Johannine Daist Communion

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