Translation of Exodus 3:14a from the Ancient Aramaic "Ahiyeh Ashur Hiyeh" : "Imagination Is MY Becoming"

I have previously expressed the opinion that Jethro, which means "His Excellence," might be either the good things in life or the "kingdom"/naturally beneficent power of God which brings abundant provision for your life (if you are living conducively to it). It occurred to me today that 'Jethro' might simply mean life; that Moses was just musing about life. 'Life,' i.e., God's Excellence.

Life is quite exceptional. Moses was expert in the religions of Egypt, which were all about life and death. Moses had taken life, had spared life, had run for his life. Life is the mysterious force which makes dissolved minerals alive and conscious. Perhaps life perplexed Moses enough to make him, while in meditation, contemplate what life itself was all about.

Entering into Moses' imagination came the image of Ashur, the Son of God working in the Father sun disc disseminating waves of glory all about. Ashur, the Creator God of the Assyrians, the people from whom the Hebrews had come. If Moses wanted to learn about Jethro, where life, the excellence of God, comes from and how, Ashur was a good guy to talk to.

Moses approached the vision of Ashur. Without intermediaries, it was just him and God in his consciousness, mano y mano on holy ground. Here was the Big Cheese, the Chief Kahuna who made life, who created and caused it. Moses asked after a fashion, "What are You? And how does that life, there, become this life, here?"

God replied (according to Victor Alexander's translation of Exodus from the ancient Aramaic, which if you do not have, you aren't really reading the Bible, anyway), "Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh." Even Alexander does not venture to translate this idea. He simply explains the thrust of the words. I have been working on them for years, for here was the beginning of the Bible -- the revelation of God to Moses. These three words are what the rest of the Bible is about. Alexander explains:

*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."

I have tried to express the above in English more than a dozen different ways over the years. The words and their meaning are very similar to the Hebrew "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh," "I am THAT 'I am.'" If one can understand that Ashur, "the beginning spark that kindles the fire" is imagination; that Ahiyeh is God himself becoming what becomes; and that hiyeh, "his (the subject being discussed) becoming," was Jethro, "his excellence," then this translation becomes quite possible:

"Life is my imagination." Or, "Imagination is My becoming." Or, "I become by imagination." Life . . . is imagined. It is nothing more than consciousness, the imagination of the Ineffable -- Its intelligence in action.

The Ineffable's intelligence is power to become what it believes it is: light, time-space, matter, manifestation. We sitting, standing, or lying here, are that. Our consciousness is that "I am." And what we believe we are becomes all around us as our world. This recurrence, the power which causes it, is the "kingdom” of God. The intelligence of the Ineffable -- our imagination, and his -- is the operant power. This is reason for faith, for believing we are.

Our "I am" -- am -- can change/become anything we believe ourselves to be . . . as long as we are following and practicing the loving nature of God.