Mankind has been seeking an explanation as to why and how things are. Physicists and cosmologists have developed mathematical formula that explain their more recent conclusions. Keep in mind that their conclusions and observations as well as mathematical formula are products of the human mind and limited by its capacity and ability to “conclude.” They may assume that they are certain about things but the fact is that they are not “there” yet. Their search is aided not only by mathematical formulas of their own invention but also the canonization of what they term “universal laws” that mysteriously exist without any explanation. Their approach certainly has some small amount of validity but they may also want to consider ancient concepts and apply them to our present situation. Consider the “logoi.” In ancient philosophies the logoi are sometimes referred to as patterns for everything that exists, but they can only be known indirectly or reflectively. In some ways this concept is similar to the idea of “information” as put forth by the proponents of string theory. Some cosmologists insist that everything that we can observe in our universe today is the result of exploding stars. Interesting since the first words that God theoretically speaks in the Bible is, “Let their be light,” a cosmic Big bang if there ever was one. The question we must ask is what was contained in that “light” and can we accept an irrational concept of the universe “creating” itself?
Sometimes explanations such as logoi are rejected because they have religious or mythic overtones and maybe this rejection is in haste. In the Holy Bible we hear things like: “Let us make man in our own image.” Humans in the Bible were made in the image of God but according to the same Bible are not God. Image is the key word here. That leads us to wonder how that is possible or what it means. In the Book of Exodus, Moses wanted to “see” God but he could not. Instead he was allowed only to view his shadow or image or reflection, or perhaps the logoi of God meaning here meaning God's patterns for creation..
Let us assume the reality of logoi as patterns of existence and/or information. Both Hawing and Susskind believe that the “information” of the universe cannot be lost even in a black hole scenario. In order to understand how the logi may apply here we have to grasp another principle that is used much in scholastic philosophy and theology and that is consubstantiality. Consubstantiality means simply that things are of the same substance. All human beings, for example, share consubstantiality in their human nature. Those who propose string theory could add a further distinction in claiming that while all that exists shares the same substance, that sharing is due solely to the information reflected by the logoi, with whom we are not consubstantial but simply participants. This indicates that there is a further principle or element which we might call”Being” that subsists as the fundamental cause of the logoi.
Humans and all that exist have a natural vibration of existence with each other and every other thing precisely because they share only in the effects of the logoi. Creation remains distinct from the logoi yet humans and the elements are consubstantial with each other. Some cosmologists claim that the entire earth also has a vibration in response to all existence (reflective because of the logoi) and if measured corresponds to e flat on the music scale. As Spock would say: fascinating! At best, the universe as we know it may be
an imperfect reflection of the perfect.
