Logos comes from the Greek, its meaning roughly translated is "word" or "thought." The logos is a difficult concept to define; it refers to a "stream" of divine thought. In Gnostic terminology, it refersz to the manifestation of deity in the manifest world. The concept of logos is closely related to the hermetic principle of vibration, the cosmic 'sound' by which the universe is created and sustained, and through which one can communicate with the divine. The logos is often described as an ever-present divine manifestation that is both concealed and manifest, depending on one's ability to "hear."

Christian Gnostics, echoing similar beliefs by followers of Hermes Trismegistos, taught that Christ was the earthly embodiment of the Logos, sent from the Pleroma to redeem the lost Sophia. The Logos is referred to in the New Testament, in the opening paragraph of the Book of John:

"In the beginning was the logos [usually translated 'word' and interpreted by Christians as the words of scripture], and the logos was with God, and the logos was God."

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