Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

the angel is said to be ‘mated’ with its imagery.
Furthermore, as all space and time are merely
relations among the images, the angel is itself
non-spacio-temporal or ‘eternal’; thus Jn 5:19
[extrapolated]: A Son ‘can do nothing of his own
accord, but only what he sees the Father doing’;
also Lk 20:34-36!
IV. (Mt 18:10, Th 5 15 17 52 59 76 91, Ph 65
107) Therefore there is a Universal
Consciousness corresponding to the meta-totality
of all imagery; this superego is by definition God
(Gen 1:26, ‘in our imagination’).¹ Each person or
angel is thus like a mirror in the mind of God,
individually reflecting in his five senses the
plethora of the divine imagination. (This
importantly does not entail that everyone be
explicitly cognizant of that relation, which
presumably requires instruction by the Logos.)
There is here a lovely word-play on ΕΙΚΩΝ: our
sensory images are themselves holy icons.
(¹Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: ‘All the aspects of
things are thoughts of God’; Anton Chekhov, The
Sea Gull: ‘The common soul of the world is the I.’)
V. Thus, regarding the primordial query of
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