What does Logos mean?

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Irenaeus says that John was specifically written to counter gnosticism. It uses a lot of gnostic words, but not because it's gnostic, but because it purposely refutes gnosticism.

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The gnostics divided up light, wisdom, word, christ, etc. into several beings called aeons. John ties all those words together into Yeshua, saying he is the Word, the Light, the Life, the Way, etc.

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Interesting. So John was saying that there was only one being, Jesus, not all those other beings, Aeons? So the term logos isn't really referring to words.

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"Peshat is what I say and derash is what you say." --Nehama Leibowitz

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Well, this at least I hope we can all agree on. When Y'shua is referred to as the Logos of God, it was not referring to him as words.

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Given the general goal of Gnostic Christianity, wouldn't the actual meaning of logos for our language be closer to meaning reason since we already agreed it didn't mean words or the scripture?I haven't really read much on the gnostics or ever heard of the aeons, so I find this a very interesting avenue.

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"Peshat is what I say and derash is what you say." --Nehama Leibowitz