Genesis 2:7 (lafter part): A Study on the Correlation Between God’s Creation of Humanity and the Later-Stage Logos in Unification Thought. II.

 

 

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1. Quotations 

from the Old Testament and Unification Thought

 

 

•  Old Testament. Genesis 2:7
"The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
(Large Print Bible)

•  Unification Thought. Theory of the Original Image
In this way, the Word (Logos) that created all things was a living, dynamic conceptual entity.
It was a newly generated concept formed in the stage of manipulating ideas, endowed with life so that it acquired a dynamic character despite its previously static nature.
How then did a newly generated concept, originally static in nature, come to possess dynamism?
This was due to the two-stage process of inner give-and-take action—initial and later stages.
That is, in the interaction between spiritual consciousness (the unified body of emotion, intellect, and will—inner sungsang, author’s note) and inner form, there are two stages:

•  In the initial stage, a new concept (pre-conception) is formed through the manipulation of ideas.
• In the later stage, by the power of heart (love) as divine nature (author’s note), the functions of intellect, emotion, and will are infused, giving vitality and thus life, so that it appears as a completed conceptual form.
Thus, the completed conceptual form is the Logos, the object of God, possessing a unified rational sungsang—the rational sungsang of the Logos (Exposition of the Divine Principle, 1987, p.222).
This is the Logos as the Word that created the universe, the conceptual result of the inner, developmental four-position foundation.
(Unification Thought, pp.121–122)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. The Principle of Creation 

as Understood in the Quoted Text

 

 

In Genesis 2:7 it is written:
"The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and 

breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Thus, the order of human creation is recorded as:
God first formed man from the dust of the ground, and 

then breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so 

that man became a living being.

However, in Unification Thought, the order of human creation is explained differently. 

It begins with the two attributes of God’s Original Image:
•  Divine Spirit (Shinseong): The Absolute Divine Original Spirit of Embodiment
•  Divine Truth (Shinsang): The Absolute Divine Original Truth of Embodiment

From the attributes of Divine Truth (Shinsang):
•  A. Original Internal Nature
•  B. Original External Form

Within A. Original Internal Nature, the two attributes—

inner Nature (spiritual consciousness: the unified body of emotion, intellect, and will) and

inner Form (ideas, concepts, principles, laws, numbers, universals, particulars)—

through purposeful inner give-and-take action, generate a new concept: the Pre-Logos.

In the later stage, by the power of Divine Spirit ( heart, love, creativity ), 

the functions of intellect, emotion, and will are infused, giving vitality and thus life. 

This results in the Post-Logos, the completed conceptual form.
This is the Logos as the Word that created the universe, 

the conceptual result of the inner, developmental four-position foundation.

Furthermore, in the process of creating all things and humanity, 

 

B. Original External Form—with its two attributes, 

external Nature (shape, form, structure, potential for infinite variation) and 

external Form (matter, substance)—through purposeful external give-and-take action, 

generates Prime Force (Forming Energy as particles, and Acting Energy as waves).

When 

A. Post-Logos (internal Nature) and B. Prime Force (external Form) engage in purposeful give-and-take action, 

the created world of all things and the physical, chemical, organic body of humanity is brought into existence. 

 

This corresponds to the first part of Genesis 2:7:
"The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground."

Thus, Unification Thought provides a philosophical and logical structural explanation of this process.
Moreover, it explains that before the creation of humanity, the environment—the created world of all things—was first brought into being. 

The Pre-Logos, formed through inner give-and-take action, 

becomes the Post-Logos by receiving vitality through the power of Divine Spirit (heart, love, creativity). 

 

This vitalized Post-Logos, together with Prime Force from external give-and-take action, 

results in the creation of all things and the human physical body.

Therefore, the physical body of humanity and all created beings inherently possess Instinctive Nature (yuksim). 

For example, medical observation has noted that a fetus instinctively avoids surgical instruments during abortion procedures—not by the function of the spirit self, but by the Instinctive Nature of the physical body. 

Likewise, all things possess this Instinctive Nature.

Finally, the latter part of Genesis 2:7—"and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and 

man became a living soul"—

is explained in Unification Thought as follows:

Through the power of Divine Spirit (heart, love, creativity), 

spiritual consciousness (the unified function of intellect, emotion, and will) 

is infused into the Pre-Logos, giving it vitality and life, 

so that it becomes the Post-Logos, the completed conceptual form.

This infusion of spiritual consciousness into the Pre-Logos

can be defined as the Symbolic impartation of God’s spiritual element into all things and the human physical body.

Thus, all things and the human body originally possess Instinctive nature.

Yet humanity alone, unlike all things, 

received the breath of life directly into the nostrils—God’s spiritual element in a unique way in Image—

so that man became a living soul, possessing a spirit self.

Therefore, 

the testimony of Genesis 2:7, written about 3,600 years ago, and 

the philosophical, scientific, and logical explanation of Unification Thought today, 

together form a unified, multidimensional structure. 

 

In this reality, 

humanity exists as the culmination of both the Old Testament and the Completed Testament Word.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Conclusion

 

 

In order for the preliminary, 

static Logos to gain vitality and become the later-stage Post-Logos,

the spiritual consciousness (the integrated function of intellect, emotion, and will) infused into the preliminary Logos

by the power of Divine Spirit (heart, love, creativity) can be defined as follows:

It is the Symbolic impartation of God’s spiritual element into all things and the human physical body, 

derived from one of the two attributes of God’s Original Image—

Divine Spirit (the Absolute Divine Original Spirit of Embodiment: love, heart, creativity).

 

Therefore, all things and the human physical body originally possess Instinctive nature.
(Genesis 2:7, first part: fulfillment completed.)

Next, the realization of the latter part of Genesis 2:7—
"The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, 

and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

All things were created in the same manner as the human physical body 

(Genesis 2:7, first part: possessing the Symbolic element of God’s spiritual reality, i.e., Instinctive Nature).

 

Yet humanity alone, unlike all things, 

subsequently received the breath of life into the nostrils. 

God imparted the substantial element of His spiritual reality in Image uniquely to humankind, 

so that man became a living soul—possessing a Spirit self.

Thus, the testimony of Scripture is completed 

through the multidimensional philosophical logic of Unification Thought.

 

From approximately 3,600 years ago, the Old Testament Scripture and

today’s  Unification Thought, grounded in Completed Testament Word,  have come into complete unity.

In this unified, multidimensional reality, humanity exists today.

Human physical bodies and all created beings possess

the Symbolic element of God’s spiritual reality (Instinctive Nature).

 

But humanity alone has become a living being 

possessing the substantial element of God’s spiritual reality in Image (Spirit self).

Therefore, human beings are unique in that they hold both:
•  The Symbolic element of God’s spiritual reality (Instinctive Nature of the physical body: physical mind and body), and
•  The substantial element of God’s spiritual reality in Image (spirit self: spirit body and spirit mind).

Thus, humanity is a dual being, 

endowed with both Symbolic and substantial elements of God’s spiritual reality in Image.