#matthew 5

01/30/2026

Haveatitudes.

To Fulfil the Law of Divine Order

When Christ declares in Matthew 5:17, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish but to fulfil”, He invokes one of the most profound mysteries of Christian gnosis. The verb πληρῶσαι (plērōsai) means to fill, to make whole, to bring to completion. It does not imply mere compliance but consummation. The Law (νόμος, nomos) is much more than an external, moral code, it is the inner structure of the cosmos, the rhythm of Divine proportion sustaining existence. The words of Christ signal the restoration of that cosmic harmony, the healing of the rift between heaven and earth.

Law signifies the living pattern of Divine proportion that orders creation. It is the Λόγος (Logos), the Word through which all things were made, as written in John 1:3: “All things were made through Him.” The Law is the harmony of being before the dissonance of the Fall. When the will turned inward, light fragmented into multiplicity; the One became divided among the many. What had been Law became laws; what had been rhythm became repetition, circularity.

The Law fulfilled is the harmony between macrocosm and microcosm. For instance, astrology, rightly understood, is a Sacred grammar of that correspondence. Each planet expresses an aspect of the Logos, each orbit a syllable of the Divine Word. When the soul awakens, it begins to tune itself to this cosmic music. Mars ceases to be rage and becomes courageous strength; Venus ceases to be desire and becomes luminous love; Saturn ceases to be bondage and becomes serene wisdom.

More at The Mirror of Sienna.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.