Logos may be understood as the paternal principle where there is no consciousness without discrimination of the opposites. The Logos eternally struggles to extricate itself from the primal warmth and primal darkness of the maternal womb, i.e., from unconsciousness, hence:
Divine curiosity yearns to be born and does not shrink from conflict, suffering, or sin. Unconsciousness is the primal sin, evil itself, for the Logos
CW9.1 ¶ 178Therefore its [the Logos] first creative act of liberation is matricide, and the spirit that dared all heights and all depths must, as Synesius says, suffer the divine punishment, enchainment on the rocks of the Caucasus. Nothing can exist without its opposite; the two were one in the beginning and will be one again in the end
CW9.1 ¶ 178Consciousness can only exist through continual recognition of the unconscious, just as everything that lives must pass through many deaths
CW9.1 ¶ 178