What's It All About?
growth in intimacy
The infinite Logos exemplifies the eternal logoi as immanently universal.
Finite shadows, vestiges, images & likenesses can signify the logoi as instantiably universal.
Images of the Logos tropically co-self-determine which logoi to instantiate beyond those already determined essentially for & originally as them.
Imagoes Dei, then, will exemplify both the logoi of their essential or original nature as well as those they have instantiated tropically & synergistically as their secondary nature. It is the habitual signification of uninstantiated logoi that instantiates them thereby growing into exemplification, progressively growing in likeness to Christ.
Christ’s logoi remain eternally ever on the move, in infinite potency to and eternally & epectatically reducible by formal acts of co-self-determination with & by us, tropically & synergistically. They reveal a thin passibility in terms of aesthetic scope or in terms of how Christ will manifest but suggest no change in terms of aesthetic intensity or what Christ will manifest vis a vis His intrinsic perfections.
Regarding these dynamics, then, while we want to say that there is nothing theogonic vis a vis the Son’s nondeterminate primary nature in play (and what He manifests) in His creation as Incarnation, at the same time, there is undeniably something Christogonic in how the Spirit & Son are at play vis a vis the Son’s self-determined secondary nature (and how He manifests).
The Son exemplifies both His primary divine & secondary human natures essentially. Still, our abstractions regarding what the Christ does, Who the Christ is and how the Christ acts will remain eternally indeterminate and infinitely semiotic because, concretely, an authentically dynamical Christogony won’t yield to our essentialistic - nominalistic categories. That’s because the Christ refers to an interpersonal unitive doing of mutually constituted I - Thous, an identity precisely grounded in the differences of a loving & eternal generation of opposites.
So, there are logoi which we tropically & synergistically instantiate, co-self-determinately, i.e. reduced by formal acts with and by us, and logoi essentially determined for us, i.e. reduced by existential acts divinely determined as us.
The latter refer to our being as mutually constituted persons in relation per our original nature & beatitude (ordered to the beatific vision). The former refer to our becoming ever more intimate per our secondary natures & beatitudes in relation to self, others & cosmos and all other manifestations of the Logos.
That's what it's all about, Alfie.
End Notes:
Realizing our human authenticity is a journey without end. That journey is our destination. That quest is our grail.
As doers (unique agent nouns) of energeia (manifestations), we each exemplify our originally immanent & any subsequently instantiated universals/logoi. Our tropoi may be (roughly) conceived, like a bundle of idiomata, as our particular & unique bundle of logoi.
The macro/micro/cosmic logoi of Px eternally remain in infinite potency to & reducible by existential, volitional (efficient) & formal acts of each person.
Because logoi refer to realities generated by Christ's will to eternally & variously manifest the divine nature, cosmotheandrically, our tropoi can grow eternally (as do the logoi of the Logos). So, our unique bundles of logoi will never exhaust those generated by the Logos.
This is to recognize that we will, eternally, only ever be able to exemplify part of Christ's human nature (just as we will only ever signify the divine nature). That's to say, because the Christ is ever on the move, there will always be novel logoi for us to initially signify before eventually exemplifying.
By exemplify, we mean - to manifest logoi that are either originally immanent or secondarily instantiated.
By signify, we mean - to manifest logoi that are yet uninstantiated (not habitual) vis a vis our secondary natures.
Hence, we will only ever signify the divine nature and only ever exemplify, even, that part of human - macrocosmic nature that's been instantiated by us. There will always be emergent novel, hence yet uninstantiated, logoi.
Through individual formative - transformative acts, though, we can signify all of human - macrocosmic nature. And, as they become habitual, i.e. instantiated, eventually exemplify its novel logoi.