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YHWH the Eternal
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posted by: Osmund R
02/13/2003, 23:07:25



YHWH - The Reality without end.

"EHIYEH ASHER EHIYEH
I AM THAT I AM"
is the answer our Elohim gave to Moshe when Moshe asked Him who he should tell Israel had sent him to bring the nation out of Mitzraim.

YHWH is beyond our understanding.
YHWH is the only there is.

It is in Him we live and move and have our being.

The heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him.

Shemah Israel.
YHWH Eloheinu,
YHWH Echad.

Hear Israel!
YHWH our El
YHWH is One.

There is no other.
None before.
None else now.
None else in the future.

You and I,
every tree or bush
every animal or spirit,
whatever is deemed alive or inanimate:
All is in and of YHWH.
YHWH is all the reality that ever WAS, IS or IS TO BE.

YHWH is above all religion.
Above all science.
Above and yet below
Outside and yet inside all.

Like the drop of water joins the ocean
to lose its identity in the sea,
so you and I and all
shall return to and into YHWH.

Yes, more than that:

Our seeming individuality is our illusion.
YHWH is the well whence we came.
YHWH is the life in which we live.
YHWH is the reality to which we return.

Yes, more than that:
We are in YHWH
We never can depart from YHWH.
There is nought but YHWH.
Never was, neither is, nor ever will be.

YHWH describes all there is:

Y, or IOD, for azilut, the highest of existence, in the Neshamah or Spirit of YAH.

H or HE, for beriah, the realm of the creative Spirit, Ha Ruach.

W or Wav, for yetzirah, the realm of our psyche or nefesh, our soul.

H or He, for the manifest material world.

In all this we have our life and existence, though we may not be aware of the deeper, or higher, aspects of our being. We are made in YHWH`s image. We parttake through His Spirit in that for which we have no vocabulary or mental concepts.

YHWH may not be known through analysis but by surrendering and being absorbed into Him.

The commandment of not making an image and worship it, concerns more than material images of rock, wood or metal. Also our mental or emotional images must be avoided in order that we may open up to the fullness of YAH, in Ain Sof, the unending, limitless, total reality.

In view of this the religious discussions and speculations on doctrines of trinity or plurality etc show themselves to be childish human limitations, little better than the idols we accuse the pagans of constructing.

Yet, we are, because of our limitations, entiteled to having our own, personal working model. Only we must not despise or disregard our neighbour`s model. We are all limited in scope. Thus we serve as best we can.

Churches and religions have dogma and credos.
To be honest we need to limit our credo to the uttermost simplicity. In this is the greatest potential for growth and increased understanding, all within our own personal frame.

All those who wrote the Scriptures had one credo in common:

HALLELU-YAH!

They all praised YHWH and gave their life to YHWH.

One can not do better than to be honest.
One can not rest ones faith on ones neighbour`s faith or accept the word of the bishop or priest before ones own contact with YHWH.

No man knows better than you how you shall blend into YHWH, to realise your identity with Him, from origin to end, from before all beginning and into all future.

Be aware of those who seem to know about YHWH!
Be aware of me too.
You must know YHWH personally.
That is all that counts.


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