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Shingai Rukwata Ndoro Chiseling the Debris —
“In the beginning, the Male-Female Agency created the two states, the invisible and higher cause (heaven/sky) and its visible physical manifestation (earth).”
WE have so far discovered that “God” is a common Germanic (Teutonic) mythical ancestor (“gott/gawd/gaud”), a Germanic “union, even sexual union (to mate)” (“ghodh/ghadh”), or a Syrian/Canaanite deity of fortune and luck (“gad”) (Isaiah 65:11); and is associated with the Greek Zeus (Strong’s Concordance #G2203) and Roman Jupiter, the sky-deity or the sun-deity.
It has also come to our attention that Hebrews did not have a concept of and a term of a deity. Instead they adopted the head of the Canaanite pantheon, El, (“the mighty or strong bull”) and then pluralised it as “Elohim.”
“He erected there an altar and called it El is the Elohim of Israel.” In Hebrew this reads as, “El-Elohei-Yisrael.” (Genesis 33:20)
The pluralistic nature of Elohimis confirmed in Genesis 1:26 thus, “Let us make (humanity).” This is a conversation between two or more parties on what they should do together.
The first of the Ten Commandments says, “I am YHVH your Elohim … you shall have no other elohim in my presence.” (Exodus 20:2-3)
According to “Secret Teachings of All Ages,” “nature (plant and animal, human kingdoms) attains productivity by means of polarity … Understanding is always found at the point of equilibrium and that truth is often crucified between the two ‘thieves’ of apparent contradiction.”
“It is as if here, in this unique physical environment, one comes closer than anywhere else in the world to an experience of the universal forces of life and death, playing out their mutually antagonistic yet complementary roles.
“They vie with each other, they contend with each other, but there is also a kind of harmony in this perpetual tension and conflict of each within the other. Neither can drive the other one out, and so they exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium” (J Naylor, “The Temple of the Cosmos”)
So Genesis 1:1 can be re-read as, “In the beginning, the Male-Female Agency created the two states, the invisible and higher cause (heaven/sky) and its visible physical manifestation (earth).”
The mammals, for which humanity is part of, are the physical actualisation of the higher sexual realm between a man and woman.
“Elohim” is a word found primarily in the books of Genesis, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Psalms and Job. It means “the divinities” and those divinities are male (El) and female (Eloah).
Genesis 1:1 can now be re-read specifically in human terms: “In the beginning, the Male-Female Agency (Father-Mother) created the heavens (sky, masculine state) and the earth (matter, feminine state).”
The heavens and earth are not some geographical places but mental dispositions and the physiological state of human nature. There is no “heaven” out there.
Genesis 1:1 says “In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth”. This can be restated as, “In the beginning, the Male-Female Agency (the Creative Agency) created the elements of nature: Earth, Water, Air and Fire.”
The four elements are the primordial components of nature and humanity. From a Hebraic viewpoint, the impersonal Life Force is the Tetragrammaton, YHVH, itself an abbreviation for “Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey,” a configuration that is representative of the four basic elements of nature: Fire (Yod – Passion, Masculine Principle), Air (Hey – Breath of Life, Feminine Principle), Water (Vav – Waters of Life, Masculine Principle) and Earth (Hey – Matter, Feminine Principle).
The pairing combination of “Yod” and “Hey”, and “Vav” and “Hey” are also considered psychological (faculties of Will and Discernment) and biological (Generative and Fertility Powers) polarities.
Therefore, YHVH (“Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey”) is the harmonious conjunction of opposites of Masculine/Expressive and Feminine/Receptive polarities respectively.
A person is born of the natural body (Earth), deriving existence from the medium of creation which is “Waters of Life” (Water, parental reproductive fluids of seminal plasma and follicular fluid), gets ensouled (Air) at 40 days after conception, and makes a journey towards full humanhood with all the life of Energy (Fire).
The progressive stages of life are that it moves from Fire (“Will and Thought,” parental passion in the Head), Air (“Breath of Life,” in the Chest), Water (“Waters of Life,” in the generative waters of both parents) in the Earth (Matter, the physical bodies of parents).
When a child is born, the four elements are the building blocks of life: body heat (Fire), breathing capacity (Air), body liquids (Water) and a physical body (Earth). As one grows old, the body gradually has less of these elements.
In conclusion, both Elohim and YHVH (YaHoVaH) are both human constructed terms in reference to the impersonal and natural creative agency of human nature and not a supernatural being in the cosmos.
Resources
Dion Fortune, “The Mystical Qabalah” (2000)
Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, “The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs” (2008)
SL MacGregor Mathers and Knorr Von Rosenroth, “Introduction to the Kabbalah Unveiled” (2010)
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