If you read what was put at Post #4, you
ll pick up the basics of it! Its true, but it`s being discounted/ignored for some reason…
Does it look too alien…or what?
In Saint John
s Gospel, the word "Word" is "Logos" in Greek; and it means a thought or an idea: ie God the Fathers “idea” of Himself: ie His Selfknowledge!
In his first epistle, Saint John says: “God is Love.” (1 John 4:8) ie the Holy Spirit is Love.
Each of the three Persons possesses the fullness of the Godhead.
It`s not a mathematical problem of trying to say that 1=3, and 3=1, because God is Spirit: utterly simple, indivisible Essence or Nature
Which is something to be grasped, the meaning is that to grip (something) firmly with or as if with the hands but in this case, we are to grasp the meaning (or the understanding)- the wisdom of God, as our soul and spirit will take in what is becoming visible, Hebrews 11, “1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. . 39These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. 40God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
When the angel Gabriel came to Mary, he had greeted her with the announcement, “28 , “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
It is within the next verse that we “also” can connect with her feelings, “29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.” again, this greeting that the angel pronounced to Mary was something beyond her understanding of what was being said - as to be understood (to take in) and received (within her soul)– but God Spirit, like with Moses or Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was with Mary (Genesis 26, ““I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you” and again, 29 “You are now the blessed of the LORD.”) In the song of Mary, the Spirit of God is within her (overshadowing her – or in other words, hoovers over the waters) and the soul is magnified (meaning “increasing the size or apparent size of something” or To “magnify” means to “make great,” and then to “extol,” - also meaning that the soul has been lifted up, so the soul and spirit are lifted together…). The thought is in Luke 1:46, the soul receives God’s word and spirit takes action – by rejoicing, and within the same gesture, we receive and rejoice in the Lord when He is present in us, and we become alive in Christ.
Remember what the Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 5:13 “But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, 14for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said:
“Wake up, O*sleeper, rise from the dead,and Christ will shine on you.”
Then in Luke 1, when Mary went to visit Elizabeth, the same occurrence happened when Elizabeth “heard” Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb – and then Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 In a loud voice she exclaimed…” and at the birth of Jesus, the angel praised God (Gloria in excelsis Deo)– same as the Hosanna:
From the Louw-Nida Lexicon: hosanna (an Aramaic expression meaning “help, I pray” or “save, I pray,” but which had become a strictly liturgical formula of praise) a shout of praise or adoration - “hosanna; blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord” Mark 11.9; “hosanna in the highest” Mark 11.10; “hosanna to the Son of David” Matt 21:9. Mt 21.9 may also be rendered as “praise to you, Son of David” or “we praise you who are the Son of David” or “…a descendant of David.”
