The Word, Power
The word power comes from the Latin possum (posse; potens, potentis), I am able, or I have power; to be able; mighty; powerful, or to have power or potency.
Common synonyms: ability, might, force, energy, strength, effectiveness, efficacy, vigor and validity. These apply as well as one word may substitute for another.
The word power embodies the o vowel which is a symbol of spiritual capacity and of continuity. Thus it must be classified as being an attribute or element of infinite Might, while the word ability may apply to human strength; may apply to human, moral, metaphysical or physical energy.
The Greek ergon means power, or work, or force. It is the root of the word energy. Energy means in work; in or at work; in operation, or being in force. Literally, power in one; erg, work or energy within one; the urging, actuating, motivating or driving forces in one, or in a thing. Thus the word energy must be classified as pertaining to non-spiritual concepts; as pertaining to exhaustible strength.
The Greek and the Latin ago means drive or driving agent; actor; conductor; driver; doer, leader; leading agent or cogent force. This ago (agere, actus) is the driving agent; the actuating force. The wheels of an automobile are driven or turned, or forced by means of its engine or motor. The energy, the erg, or the ability is not in the wheels. The wheels are passive to this driving agent or this engine. So it is with every manifestation of energy, and with every human motivation--it has its human impulse or impelling motive or its driving agent.
The power that holds the Earth in her orbit is made up of laws, principles, or mandatory elements, factors or agents of energy of some kind, and are commonly called laws of gravity. The Earth is passive to these mandatory elements, gravitations and laws of whatever sort. Thus there must be an actor or an active or actuating elements, and there must be a passive elements upon which to act, and there must be a principle or principal source of power to motivate the actor or to actuate or impart motion. There must be an origin (a source of power--of whatever sort), and there must be a first actor and a second (complementary) actor to be passive or to be acted upon.
In the realm of spiritual thinking wisdom is the first actor. He is the virile power of perception and of speech; the power of presentation, oration or address, while verity (the fertile power of conception, gestations, verification or conclusive demonstration) is the complementary actor; the one acted upon.
This fertile intelligence (fertile mental matrix) may be illustrated by Queen Isabella's prompt and hearty conception of Christopher Columbus' theory. He had introduced his wise and virile perception to the world. He had proclaimed it and had pleaded and prayed for moral, spiritual and financial support with which to prove his perception to be true. He was a navigator.
Queen Isabella was an intelligent woman with a woman's intuition. She knew nothing of either geology or navigation, perhaps. She only recognized a factual perception; a preconceived truth; an unborn idea--that is, unborn before the face of humanity. She knew that he knew. She did not know what he knew. She knew that he understood what he advocated.
Queen Isabella's power of conception equaled his power of perception. Spontaneously she took his potential issue and carried it out to its fruition. She mothered this germ of undeveloped and of unverified fact, throughout all the processes of its development. She sustained both it and its perceiver's hope. She caused it to appear or to become evident to all thinkers. This story illustrates power that is both active and passive. The passive power is not inactive. It is the quickening agent. It is the power of cohesion, comprehension, coordination and construction or complete realization. It is half of the whole unit of thinking power, or half of all wholly rational power, or half (the female half) of the full ratio of intelligence or spiritual potency.
The following table will classify the word power, and it will classify also spiritual intelligence, and will compare it with human intellect:
Realm I
DIVINITY: The omnipotent and almighty Logos-Intelligence; The divine Motive, or motivating Spirit--Love.
Realm II
SPIRITUALITY: the powers empowered by and derived from Realm I; the intelligence, wisdom and enlightenment produced by and sustained by Realm I; the power of expression or speech; the powers of ideation, reflection and logical conclusion; the powers of understanding, and the power that confirms or demonstrates wisdom's potentialities.
Realm III
MORALITY: the moral energy and efficacy that holds human reason and conscience in action or in force among human kind.
In this moral realm there is an ethical ability emoted by faith, confidence, expectancy, hope and moral zeal or vigor and prompted by spiritual influence; the moral qualities or virtues which partake of RealmII; the powers inherent in honesty, veracity, compassion, patience, moral stamina and instinct which take preponderance over human intellect.Realm IV
PHYSICALITY: the realm of human nature, human knowledge, human intellect and human impulse; physical strength or vigor.
Realm V
IMMORALITY: adverseness; unmorality; spiritual ignorance; moral depravity; unrestrained human nature doing whatever is physically and humanly possible; human and inhuman will and will-power and its ill will animated by animosity, pride, envy, sensuality, dishonesty and mortal vengeance. It has no rational potency. It is the inability to think correctly, accurately, rightly or conscientiously.
This realm has no potential capacity; no actuality or substantial reality. It is the negative or antonym of every moral quality; the vice of every virtue. It is the personal prestige, or the delusion of personal importance that inflates itself, only to burst or to disintegrate. It is destructive in every element. It is the zero pretending to be a unity. It is not a numeral character with the power of a numeral. It is not a number with a ratio of power.
Neither physical strength nor immoral force (energy or impulse or compulsion) may take the name of power. Power is so urged and so named by Soul; so identified by its soul nature. Immoral impulses (such as deceit or dishonesty) are without legitimate name; are without honor, honesty, veracity or truth, and they are therefore without power, integrity, virtue, entity or logical identity. They are ignominious human impulses in their soulless actions.
Power is that which is possible to wisdom and his co-workers; that which is possible to complete understanding of The Logos; that which is possible to infinite reality, verity, truth or ability to realize an infinite concept.
Human strength, energy and validity are finite. They are limited to and localized in physicality which is exhaustible. They are urged by soulless agencies.
Power is the composition of essential realities, or the real essentials. Power is the potency of intelligence--all that is possible to intelligence; all power to realize intelligently. Power is soul and its precepts in action.
Power is one of the holy properties belonging to the wholly (holy) logical thinker. It makes perception and conception infinitely logical, literate and legitimate or quick. It energizes, vitalizes and validates or verifies all true concepts and vivifies wise perceptions.
Power, as an element of intelligence, is in highest ratio of intelligence; highest rational power and highest degree of reasoning power. Reason, wisdom and intelligence, truth, honesty, integrity and such constitute power because each one is a power or it is allied with the other elements of power. Wisdom is wise dominion or is in power. Truth is full of truth, truthful or powerful because true. Honesty is in honor or in power, in his own name. Intelligence is a consolidation of all these powers, and other elements of dominant nature--being the rule--which nature or natural elements stand with wisdom and stand like wisdom, predominant, because they present highest elements or ruling principles; because they stand under The Logos as understanding, wholly substantiated.
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