Ineffable Name
With tlio Jews, tlie substitute for the ">7i.!/.vt( rji nanir" of their tribal deity Eh-i/ch, "I am", or Jehovah. The third eoMunaudnuut prohibiting the ii.sinji: of the latter name "in vain", the Hebrews substituted for it that of Adundi or "tiie Lord". But the Protestant Christ…
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With tlio Jews, tlie substitute for the ">7i.!/.vt( rji nanir" of their tribal deity Eh-i/ch, "I am", or Jehovah. The third eoMunaudnuut prohibiting the ii.sinji: of the latter name "in vain", the Hebrews substituted for it that of Adundi or "tiie Lord". But the Protestant Christians who, translating indifft-rently Jehovah and Elohim — which is also a substitute per so, besides being an inft riar deity name — by the words "Lord" and "God", have become in this instance more Catholic than the Pope, and include in tlie prohil)ition l)oth the names. At the present moment, however, neither Jews nor Christians seem to remember, or so much as suspect, the occult reason why the qualification of Jehovah or YHVH had become reprehensible ; most of the Wefrtern Kabbalists also seem to be unaware of the fact. The truth is, that the name they bring forward as "ineffable", is not in the least so. It is the "unpronounceable", or rather tlie name not to be pronounced, if any thing; and this for symbolical reasons. To begin with, the "Ineffable Name" of the true Occultist, is no name at all, least of all is it that of
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