According to John: Act 1, Scene 1 (The Logos that can be Named…)

Joel Michael Herbert
7 min readApr 20, 2024
Photo by Jake Oates on Unsplash

At the Dawn of All Things was the Divine Wisdom. Wisdom existed alongside the One; indeed, Wisdom was the One. She — variously called by different traditions the Logos, Sofia, Tao, Great Spirit — was at the Dawn of All Things with the One. All came into existence through Her, and nothing in existence became itself distinct from Her. In Her is Life itself — the Divine “I Am” of…

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Joel Michael Herbert

Husband. Father. Artist. Storyteller. Armchair Theologian. Advocate, activist and politician. Gryffindor. [neuro]Divergent.