Cosmos Body of God

COSMOS THE BODY OF GOD: ISA PURUSHA TATVA
M.M.NINAN
God is incomprehensible in His essence. But God, who is love, allows us to know Him through His
divine energies, those actions whereby He reveals Himself to us in creation, providence, and
redemption. It is through the divine energies, therefore, that we achieve union with God. Logos
become human (ie hypostatically uniting Himself with human nature) so as to intimately unite
Himself with the entire created cosmos and put his own body in its proper healthy status. Far from
being seen only as a remedy to a sinful world, (which it is), is now the inflow of the blood to heal and
to reinstate the body.
But the incarnation, the cross and the resurrection goes much further than the humans and the earth.
"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was
subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the
creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children
of God."
"We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the
creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for
adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen
is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?"
The ressurection of the dead is the purpose of incarnation whereby all creation was reconciled with
God. Creation - the body of God will one day function in health without loosing its freedom.
“He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek. And when He has
done with all of them, then He will summon us. ‘You too come forth,’ He will say, ‘Come forth ye
drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!’ And we shall all come forth,
without shame and shall stand before Him. And He will say unto us, ‘Ye are swine, made in the Image
of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!’ And the wise ones and those of understanding will
say, ‘Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these?’ And He will say, “This is why I receive them, oh ye
wise—that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.’ And He will hold out His hands to
us and we shall fall down before Him…and shall weep…and shall understand all things…Lord, thy
Kingdom come!” Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment.
Jesus gave two figures to describe this relationship.
The first is the example of the Vine and the Branches.
This idea of deification differs considerably from the Gnostic, Hindu and New Age concept of Man
realizing as God. The cosmos being the creation of God and hence an extension of God, Man does not
partake of the unity in essence with the Triune God. There is a clear difference between God who is
transcendant and beyond creation and God who is immanent in creation. God is immanent in his
creation to which he has given freedom of will as his children. We are the branches and is distinct
from the root. But as branches we can produce the fruit expected of the branches – which is possible
only if the life giving spirit flows into the branches and transform it.
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