‘And she called the name of the LORD that spoke
unto her, Thou art ‘the living source of seeing’
[El Roi]; for she said: ‘Have I even here
seen Him that Seeth me?’
Hagar — handmaid of Sarai, Abram’s wife, Genesis XVI:
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The
‘Names’ of God’
If we imagine (or refer to) the ultimate sum (and beyond that, the source) of all that was,
is or will be, and model this figure as a (trans)sentient entity,
we are concerning ourselves with God. To talk about this being, we
must impose various sorts of imaginal membranes that allow us to make
terms (tokens, really) whose purposes arise in service to
the activities of distinction, communication and memory. We often
set aside the understanding that we are trying to distinguish the
Transdistinguished One — and this activity hath many hidden
perils.
The unityBeing is a unique class from which all possible
classes or beings inherit their features of distinction,
forms, characters, ‘reflectivity’ &c — the transultimate
source of eponomy. In order to craft or sustain a somewhat accurate
definition of the referent we must defy the common nominative characters
of language itself, such that the name is ‘not frozen, static
or bounded’. For these and other reasons, most cultures and
persons don’t lay claim to knowing the proper name
of the unityBeing, instead, we use the token ‘God’ as
a general name which serves more as a way to refer to or
‘call upon’ this entity, or else an exclamation (in most
cases) rather than a proper name.
There is a nounal trope in English which whereby we refer to a thing
by its activity, for example the word ‘light’ or ‘bandage’.
The object-name ‘aspirin’ is a distinct example of a related
momentum in linguistics, where we can only refer to a type of object
by what used to be the name of a specific corporate culture who manufactured
this analgesic. We use a bandage to bandage a wound, a light ‘makes
light’. In a similar fashion, many if not most of the Hebrew
sources of Judeo-Christian scripture, a ‘name’ of God
is not really a name at all, but is almost always a report of the
human noticing of specific qualities of knowledge, action, and character
of the unityBeing. In Islamic tradition the ‘99
names of God’ are similar, being qualities of character
accorded to active principles in the unityBeing such as ‘The
Provider’.As far as I can tell, the ‘most highlighted’
quality of the Hebrew is a form of celestially hyperbolic magnification
or ‘glory’, which I believe is a way of talking about
‘the scales within scales’ of exponential ‘be-coming’
which are made clear to anyone who contacts the unityBeing directly.
Allah is essentially the same word as Eloah. Al and El are the same
root. I would go out on a limb and claim that other common words we
are aware of are rooted in ‘names of god’ — such
as Hello, Aloha, Hi, Hey, How(dy), Ho Ho Ho, Who, Why, Ele-va-tion,
Alive — the list is bounded only by our willingness to allow
and explore the fact that all languages are unified before
they are distinct, and have a singular living source completely unlike
those we commonly consider.
What this means is that ‘languages are not their own sources’.
They are instead unique reflections of a singular and transunified
source — something akin to an ‘Edenic Tongue’. To
know this is to be closer to direct experiential access to these sources,
and the Hebrew language was functionally engineered for this purpose,
and not by human minds alone.
The terms we use and are familiar with all have Hebrew sources, and
we must imagine that with few exceptions these names have precursors
in other older tongues, as well — for some of these stories
probably predate the development of the written languages which are
the conduit connecting us to the names we now explore. For these and
other reasons I believe it is crucial for us to acquire a basic understanding
of where we got our terms and what the original forms of
these elements were actually trying to convey and conserve.
It is in our misunderstandings of these ‘names, terms and meanings’
that many of our most cataclysmic human activities arise — whether
or not ‘God exists’.
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Contact and Naming
Eldritch Symmetries
Theopoetic Hyperlanguage
Exo-genesis
The 7 Ions
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