Logos

Blavatsky

Original sense

Logos is the manifested reason of the cosmos, in a triple aspect (unmanifest, manifested, and the Logos in matter). It is not a personal God who answers petitions. Solar logoi, planetary logoi, and the Logos of a universe are scaled applications of the same idea: consciousness using Fohat to shape Akasha.

The Logos is the synthesis of the Host of the highest creative forces… the Demiourgos, not the Unknowable.

She used Logos to smuggle a non-theistic, emanationist cosmogony into a Christian-speaking world. Alice Bailey later populated the idea with a detailed solar bureaucracy that New Age sometimes calls ‘Source’ or ‘the Solar Logos.’

New Age

Later sense

Usually dissolved into ‘Source,’ ‘God-consciousness,’ or a vaguely Christian ‘Word.’ When kept, ‘Solar Logos’ is a lofty being who overlights Earth, closer to Bailey than to Blavatsky’s more impersonal principle.

Typical use. Channelled cosmology; ‘in the beginning was the Logos’ quoted without the rest of her system.