In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
The word beginning is actually arché (pronounced arhee). This word arche is translated as the beginning, and normally we look at that ‘beginning’ as a historical event. Actually the way to understand this esoterically, is to see the beginning as another way of saying “origin”.
The esoteric understanding of this is to look at it as a constant event happening within our self. So, what is normally understood as “in the beginning” we can say is “at the origin,” or “in the origin.”
Where does anything begin? It begins at the origin, so another way to understand arché is to say the origin. So, instead of arché being interpreted as a historical past, it is seen as the point, the origin, the place, and that origin again esoterically, we are looking for something inside of ourselves, because we, as a soul is connected to our spirit, and our spirit is connected to Christ.
Therefore, in the beginning, or at the origin, was the Word. Word is Λόγος, Logos in Greek, sometimes it is also translated as Verb. A verb is an activity. Many times, logos in Greek is used to talk about logic and reasoning, but in this sense this is not what we are pointing towards. This Logos mentioned here is very much beyond anything we normally see as intellect or reasoning. The intellect or reasoning is an activity of our mind. We must search deeper than the mind, beyond the mind.
What we are really pointing to here with this Logos is the very primordial activity, the primary cause, that emerges from the radical origin.
Therefore, from an esoteric understanding, in the beginning was the Word, is better stated within the origin is the primordial activity.
Continuing with this understanding, we can say, “within the Origin is the Primordial Activity, and the Primordial Activity is with God, and the Primordial Activity is God.”
An excerpt from glorian.org