John 17:6

"I have manifested thy name [authority; character] unto the men which thou has given me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word." -KJV

"I manifest thy name [authority; character] to men whom thou givest me out of the world. Thine they were, and to Me Thou givest them, and Thy word they have kept." - CLV

"I have made your name [authority; character] known to mankind, the ones you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me and they honored your manifestation." - Peshitta

Literary Translations

"manifest" = phaneroo = render apparent

"name" = onoma = authority; character

"world" = kosmos = arrangement, decoration

"word" = logos = something said; something thought; topic; reasoning; motive; computation

A question that came to mind when reading John 17:16 is that in order to keep the word of God, as it is written the thought, topic, reasoning, motive and/or computation of God, one would have to be aware of this "word" or logos. And not only in the corporeal existence (as in reading a sentence on a page and understanding the meaning of the words) but in the spiritual existence (where something is not known or learned, but revealed) where understanding of spiritual reasoning keeps its foundation.

Quote by Teilhard de Chardin

Someday after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity

We shall harness for God the energies of Love,

and then for a second time in the history of the World,

humanity will have discovered Fire.

This leads me to believe that in "harnessing Love" we will develop means of ascending to Love through mastering the same elements again, but in the spiritual realm.

Wind - the spirit is moved by outside forces in directions outside of its own control

Waves - the spirit ascends and descends levels over distances

Tides - the spirit is regularly distributed to and retracted from various distances

Gravity - the spirit receives a weight upon it from an unseen source that tethers it to another substance.

If one were to "Master" these activities in the spirit he or she would seem to then stand still. Stillness thought by many great Sages to be the highest level of existence, is one in which there is no time or space, but only completion or oneness.

My thoughts on Still...

The Hebrew word shabbos or shabbat means rest or cessation, and is considered by many to be a state of mind (or spirit) and not necessarily a physical status. It's achievement is thought to be a gift from God.

cessation: a temporary or complete stopping; discontinuance

1 Kings 19:12 calls God's voice a "still small voice".

Numbers 9:8 Moses says "stand still and I will hear", speaking to the Israelites.

1 Samuel 9:27 Samuel says to Saul, "stand thou still awhile that I may show thee the Word of God."

...the search continues...

Time to read Samuel.