LW POSTS #157
The following paragraphs were written by Simon, and the entire article can be seen here http://emperoroficecream.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=27039
"To begin with it's necessary to understand that the word 'Jesus' is not a personal name. It's a title, in the same way that the word 'Christ' is not a family name but a title meaning 'anointed one'. In order to understand the title 'Jesus' one must understand something of Hebrew, and the role of the Name of God in Hebrew Mysticism.
The fundamental and absolute Name of God, which is the Being of God and the Power of God, uttered within the universe at the moment of its creation and so accessible to (if not intelligible to) you and I, is formed from four letters. These letters are Yud, Heh (superior), Vahv, and Heh (inferior) The word so formed, Yud Heh Vahv Heh (or YHVH), is referred to as the Tetragrammaton (four letter word).
No believing Jew will in any way attempt to make use of this word but instead refers to the God of Israel as Adonai, or 'My Lord'.
In Hebrew as it originally developed there were no vowels, nor signs to indicate vowels. As Hebrew took on written form, signs for vowels were added as lines and points written above, within, and around each letter. In order to ensure that no one foolishly attempted to pronounce this ineffable Name, the vowel signs for the word 'Adonai' were placed around the four holy letters. Attempting to pronounce the Tetragrammoton produces either 'Yahveh', 'Yahweh', 'Yehovah', or 'Jehovah'. All these words result from ignorance of Hebrew and are, essentially, meaningless.
The fundamental meanings of the word YHVH derive from the meaning of its component letters - it is in essence an acronym (or, more correctly, a notarikon). The Yud represents archetypal masculinity while the Heh (superior) represents archetypal femininity. Vahv represents physical masculinity while the Heh (inferior) represents physical femininity. The four letters in combination signify that the Divine is the union of all opposites, physical and spiritual, as well as that point of unity from which all plurality, spiritual and physical, takes its source.
What proceeds from the Tetragrammaton is the Pentagrammaton (five letter word).
The Hebrew letter Shin, which is written to appear as three small flames bursting out of a fuel source, represents the Holy Spirit, the Ruach Elohim. It is known also as 'Chi', 'Ki', 'Prana', 'Kundalini', 'Mana', 'Manitou', and by many other names. The Pentagrammaton is produced by placing the letter Shin at the center of the Tetragrammaton, Yud Heh Shin Vahv Heh (YHSVH), creating a symbol which represents the union of divine masculinity and femininity with physical masculinity and femininity through the incorporation of the Holy Spirit.
Anyone who would be saviour to himself or others must be able to unite the Divine with the physical, overcome all opposites within himself, and at the same time maintain that tension in unity which is the source of all poetry and prophecy. It is this act of overcoming and submission which is designated by the term 'Jesus'. If you pronounce the Pentagrammaton in Hebrew it becomes 'Yeh-ha-shu-ah' which is usually translated as 'Joshua'. In the Greek of the New Testament it became 'Yay-su', which in English became 'Jesus'.
As I said at the beginning the name 'Jesus' is not a name. It is a title - the title of one who in himself experiences this process of overcoming and submission. Any one may become a Jesus and, in order to be saved, a man must become a Jesus, to himself and to others."
Thank you for sharing this work of EOIC, LW. I never knew of the Pentagrammaton or of the archtypical and physical feminity and masculinity references before this and so those are something I’d like to research further.
To this, I might add what we know from Exodus 3:14. The most exact and comprehensive name of God and therefore the “proper name” is “I AM WHO AM”. Translated from Hebrew words which are phonetically ,
ehyey asher ehyeh. It is the term by which Christ designated Himself, when He told the Jews of His existence before Abraham was born, who had died 20 centuries previous to that occasion.
A footnote on the Douay Rhiems has “I AM WHO AM”, as I am being itself, eternal, self-existent, independent, infinite, without beginning, end or change, and the source of all other beings.”
danielost Reply #159
you mean all of those rabbis that i have been listening to has it wrong. they say that the name of god is the Torah said as one word. and since no man can say it that way no man can say the name of god.
The name of God held most sacred among the Israelites during their priest and Temple days which LW has already mentioned is designated as JHVH, the tetragramon by Josephus, the famous first century historian. According to him, it was uttered but once a year and then by the High Priest on the Day of Atonement aka Yom Kipper day, when he offered a male lamb for sacrifice, as an atonement for the sins of Israel. Individuals were forbidden to utter the sacred JHVH.
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