"Yahweh had constituted Me the beginning of His way, before His works; at the commencement of that time; at the outset of the ages (or at the commencement of the ages) had I (already) been established; in advance of the antiquities of the earth; when there was no resounding deep (before Gen 1:1), I had
(already) been brought forth" - Prov 8:22-24 -
"Originally was the Word, and the Word was with God; and the Word was God.....All things through Him (the God-Word) came into existence and without Him came into existence not even one thing; that which has come into existence in Him was life, and the life was the light of men" - John 1:1-4 (Rotherham) -
The mass of humanity think they are autonomous beings in control of their own thought processes, hence, their life. They are sadly mistaken, for that is the lie presented to Eve in the garden. The truth is, that man's thinking ability and process had been determined by God from before the foundation of all that is. This predetermination came forth from God and was given the name WORD. It is the expression of God's thought and is the POWER by which everything was created and is sustained. It is the WISDOM or INTELLECT of God.
This Word/Wisdom/Intellect is manifested in humans in seven ways, as seven "schools of thought". These are the seven motivations that cause men to think as they do. The seven motivations are the initial form of thought. Each individual born in the earth will tend to think in accordance with one of the seven, HOWEVER, because the individual is in a state of darkness/blindness, the character/nature of the Word within him is "reversed"; ie, instead of his thought motivation/tendency being in accordance with the character/nature of Word-SELFLESSNESS,it is "reversed" and is expressed as SELFISHNESS. Behind every thought is motivation/intent/tendency which is of the seven, which comes forth from Word/Wisdom/Intellect, and is the "light which lightens everyman", and that light is his/her life.
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