St John who wrote Revelations on the island of Patmos after being banished from Ephesus. The final resting place is in Ephesus where he returned many years later and is buried in the ruins of St John’s monastery where he lived to over 100 years old.
John 1:1-5
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:1-5)
This is one of those sticky conditions derived from thousands of years ago and perpetuated since by those mindlessly parroting what someone else said or opined and never taking the time to understand just exactly what is being meant originally. If we take a truly objective stance in deciphering this quote we must first define our terms. Failure to define terms results in nonsense and a perpetuation of the original nonsense. Over the years I’ve gathered definitions I thought would aide and assist us in make sense from seeming nonsense. We encounter ego problems when we question firmly held assumptions/beliefs/definitions. Only the courageous can confront their own beliefs ridding the unsound from their mind. Read and understand these definitions - in context - then a rereading of the quoted text takes on a much truer and richer meaning - enough to change one’s life.
Keely
LIFE = Sympathetic Mind Force. "There is a celestial mind force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed." [Keely]
Russell
GOD = Universal (undifferentiated/latent) Mind. "God is Light. God is Universal Mind. Mind is Light. Mind Knows." [Russell, The Secret of Light, page 12]
HE = Christ Consciousness.
THINGS = Materiality.
LIGHT = Substance of Mind in activity. "Light is the living substance of mind in action." [Russell, The Universal One]
Blavatsky
DARKNESS = “DARKNESS is the one true actuality, the basis and the root of light, without which the latter could never manifest itself, nor even exist. Light is matter, and DARKNESS pure Spirit.” [H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine 1:70]
[Harmonies of Tones and Colours, On Colours as Developed by the same Laws as Musical Harmonies1, page 18]
Cayce
WORD = Mind/Consciousness. "Then MIND, as He, was the WORD - and dwelt among men; and we beheld HIM as the face of the Father." [Cayce (1567-2)]
See Also
Christ Consciousness
Mind
Mind of God
Scalar
Scalar Potential