Qi - the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things.----Sounds a lot like the Logos, the divine animating principle of the universe which pervades all that exists.
Because of the ambiguity surrounding the meaning of the Chinese word qi, I have no intention of debating the issue, as one can take whichever of the multitude of varying interpretations they choose, in support their particular argument.
According to notes that were composed by individual students after the death of Confucius in 479 A.D, qi can mean breath, or xue-qi (Blood and breath) when combined with the Chinese word for Blood. As to the question whether qi exists as a force separate from matter, or whether Qi arises from matter, or matter arises from qi, I have my own opinion, which is reflected in world scriptures.
Genesis 2: 7,And the Lord God formed man from Matter and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living Soul. Breath=life=soul.
Soul .... nephesh, animal soul or animating life force: Soul, neshamah... Breath=soul; Isaiah 57: 16, KJV has, the souls which I have made, while other translations have, The very people to whom I gave life, life=soul.
Genesis 9: 3, Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you----but flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, ye shall not eat. Soul=breath=life=blood.
The Logos from which all things came into existence, by which all things that exist were made, and for whom all things exist, is the divine animating principle of the universe, or the life force which pervades all that exists within the universe, and to which eternal soul, all the information from the interaction of all that it has become, is gathered as the eternal evolving spirit or living mind that is God: and the Logos has been erroneously translated as Word, for although in the main, we express the information that we gather in the words that we speak, the Logos express his gathered information in the creation itself.
Also, the root to the word Brahman originally meant speech, and like the Logos, Brahman express the information gathered in each cycle of universal activity, not as speech, but in the creation of a new universal body in the image and likeness of, in fact the resurrection of the old universal body, in which the Light of Man had evolved as the supreme personality of Godhead to that living body.
The Logos, Brahman, Qi, etc, are but different names to the one impartial God who sends his blessing and destructions on all, making no distinction between the righteous and the wicked.
They are the same God, who is the essential divine reality of the universe; the eternal spirit from which all being originates and to which all must return, only to burst forth once more in its eternal process of growth or evolution.
The nights and days of Brahma are called Manvantara or the cycle of manifestation, The Great Day, which is a period of universal activity, that is preceded, and also followed by Pralaya, a dark period, which to our finite minds seems as an eternity. Manvantara, is a creative day as seen in the six days of creation in Genesis, Pralaya, is the evening that precedes the next creative day.
Universe after universe is like an interminable succession of wheels forever coming into view, forever rolling onwards, disappearing and reappearing; forever passing from being to non being, and again from non being to being. In short, the constant revolving of the wheel of life in one eternal cycle, according to fixed and immutable laws, is perhaps after all the sum and substance of the philosophy of Buddhism. And this eternal wheel has so to speak, six spokes representing six forms of existence. ---- Mon. Williams, Buddhism, pp. 229, 122.
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