The Becoming God

Saturday, May 13, 2017

The Holy Trinity and the Becoming One of Exodus 3:14

I hope you have as much fun as I do thinking about Exodus 3:14, the most important verse in the Bible. I have translated the three word "name" (nature) of God in it a dozen different ways over time, yet always the same. The nature in verse 14 is so deep and complex that Vic Alexander DOES NOT translate it:
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14. And God said to Moses, "Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh,"* and He said, "this is what you will say to the Children of Israel, 'Ahiyeh has sent me over to you.'"

3:14 Lit. Aramaic: (1) "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes." (2) "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light." (3) "Hiyeh": "His Coming." (4) "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word. They mean more than "the Coming." They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come." (5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." (6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames."
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Victor gives us instead explanations of the words used, for how could any translation do them justice? I do not know Hebrew or Aramaic grammar or syntax, but I can pick apart some of the elements and construct some of the meaning. I find every little bit inspiring! Stirring. Moving. Illuminating! And a bit frightening. Frightening because of the high expectancy. These three words are the Gospel of the Bible, of all scripture. The rest is commentary.

The three words, Ahiyeh, Ashur, and hiyeh, express ONE FACT. All exist for this one fact, which is that It--whatever It is--is becoming. And It--whatever It is--is a lot of people; or if you would, a lot of Gods. Whoa, whoa, whoa; put down those sticks and torches. These are the Trinity: Ahiyeh is (probably) first person singular, Ashur is the Aramaic name of the second person, and hiyeh is third person singular--the One God. Chill.

It is more interesting how these three all go together. The back-story is that Moses contemplated thoughts of his king priest's "jutting over" (Jethro), and in deep meditation (the mountain of God at Khooriv) the message of YHWH, "the Lord," appeared to him as Ashur, the chief God of the Assyrians, the Creator. The Jews come from Abraham, an Assyrian. It appears to be Ashur who calls to Moses from the sun disc in Moses' vision.

The pictograph of Ashur is a warrior king standing in the disc of the sun with symbols of his power and/or authority with wings of flames of glory surrounding him. It looks like a bird with guy in a circle for its body. If you know ancient religions, it is Bel--Nimrod--in the sun, the symbol of his father Cush. Yeah, it makes me wonder, too. I write them off as symbolic values of something Moses was familiar with, illustrations representative of deeper and greater spiritual truths and relationships.

Anyway, Ahiyeh, I believe, means "I come in my coming in the absolute sense." It is His nature, the Ever-Present's nature, to do this. He has a never ceasing intent to come, or if you would, to BECOME. To BE. Ashur, the warrior king Life-giving Living Branch, means "the Beginning Spark--the Light above the Flames--that kindles the Fire: the Uncreated Creator Who Creates Everything from No-Thing" He is in the sun because all life comes from the sun. No sun; no life. Substitute the Ineffable for the sun and Ashur for its power of life: the Ineffable's IMAGINATION.

"The rise of Assyria brings into prominence the national god Ashur, who had been the city god of Assure, the ancient capital. When first met with, he is found to be a complex and mystical deity, and the problem of his origin is consequently rendered exceedingly difficult. . . . (O)thers prefer the renderings "Holy", "the Beneficent One", or "the Merciful One"; while not a few regard Ashur as simply a dialectic form of the name of Anshar, the god who, in the Assyrian version, or copy, of the Babylonian Creation myth, is chief of the "host of heaven", and the father of Anu, Ea, and Enlil." Huh.

The last factor is hiyeh, "his coming (or becoming)." His who? "I, Ashur, the Ineffable's Imagination, am his becoming." It could be the Ineffable's coming, or it could be Jethro's. Or it could be that Jethro IS the Ineffable's (be)coming. It was to Jethro that Moses was hauling up sheep to the altar. Is this prayer? Success in prayer? Perhaps it is to teach us the content of the universe, that consciousness is the only reality. Said Neville Goddard, "When it works, you have found HIM, Eil Shaddai, the Almighty, the Imagination of the Infinite and Eternal Ineffable Most High--your own wonderful, human imagination" (emphasis and exaggeration mine).

So in Ahiyeh we have the Ineffable's ever intending to (be)come; Its agency Ashur, the Imagination; and hiyeh, Its Manifestation, Jethro. The Trinity is only in the ancient Aramaic. Interesting.

What I hope most is that you will come to understand that 'Egypt' is theb darkness in your own mind and 'Israel' are your thoughts. The exodus is for your head to get free of what enslaves it. Your reading the story is Moses and the truth in it is God speaking to you. There are millions and millions and millions of testimonies throughout the ages that the story is true. We are called to be free in the Ineffable's becoming. If you find that too confining, you just don't have much imagination.

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