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# Re: G-d, I don't understand

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] G-d, I don't understand
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:55:36 -0800
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    Dear Mark & Dan,

    Mark asked:
    >> I really do have to ask: What's the deal with the missing letters in
    G-d. <<

    I write it this way because I don't particularly like the word "God".
    It's to inclusive, not specific enough and its usage carries with it all
    sorts of dogmatic, religious overtones. So by writing "G-d", instead of
    "God", the word is taken a bit out of its religious context. Sill, I
    don't use the term "G-d" very often.

    Dan wrote:
    >> This principle then extends to the spoken word too,which is why Jews
    will tend to use the word HaShem ("the Name") rather than use the word
    "G-d".
    This is further extended to the Tetragrammation in which the word
    "Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh", which, I guess is considered to be the holiest of the
    commonly-known names of G-d (Rawn - could you confirm on this one?)
    would always be pronounced as "Adonai", which I guess, although a holy
    Name of G-d, is seen as a lower version of the Name. <<

    Ha Shem *is* the IHVH. It is a specific reference to the "Unspeakable
    Name". One reason why IHVH cannot be spoken is because it carries no
    vowel points which make the consonants utterable ("jehovah" and "yahweh"
    being fanciful intellectual inventions of no intrinsic value). But
    mainly, it's considered unspeakable because to do so would be to usurp
    the power of IHVH. The mystical point being that one must *become* the
    IHVH, not "speak" it in the mundane sense. So called "Masters of the
    Name" are those who are able to utter The Name kabbalistically because
    they are *at one with* IHVH -- they *become* The Name.

    Adonai ("lord") is a *manifestation of* the IHVH and can be spoken
    because to do so does not usurp power that doesn't belong in the hands
    of the mundane person..

    >> Rawn - following from this discussion, I have a quick question for
    you (or, indeed anyone who can help me out). In Hebrew texts, I have
    seen pretty much all the commonly-known names of G-d. However, there is
    one Name, which is also pronounced "Adonai" but it is written as
    Yod-Yod. I have not come across anything in my reading that provides a
    correspondence for this name and was wondering whether you could shed a
    little light. <<

    My understanding is that this is a reference to the combination of IHVH
    and ADNI (Adonai). This results in IAHDVNHI which is contracted to the
    first and last Yods. Since it is an expansion of the IHVH, representing
    the IHVH *and* its manifestation ADNI, it would be said as "Adonai" out
    of deep respect. This refers to a specific state of consciousness in
    which the all the stations of the IHVH are simultaneously present within
    the Heh-final and made manifest through an individual consciousness
    within a single temporal present moment. Which, by the way, is the
    intention of The Magic of IHVH-ADNI. :)

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    21 Nov 2003
    rawnclark@...
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