The Assyrian God of Israel ("Name" means NATURE, the NATURE of the Thing "Named")

I am not interested in the historical veracity of the stories, but the story goes that after Shem defeated Nimrod and the Ashurai built Assyria (Genesis 10:11-12), Terah and his kids headed that righteous way from Ur of the Chaldees and settled in Haran, a city named after Abram's brother after they had settled there for some time. Abram was told by God to keep on going to Canaan. "Sorry 'bout the famine in the ignorance of the flesh. Keep on going to Egypt." Moses became a master of the Egyptian religions, and a refugee to Midian. There God told him, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" (Exodus 3:14 Alexander, transliterated from the ancient Aramaic).

This, of course, is the passage in which God tells Moses His "name." It only means "I AM THAT I AM," as it is commonly translated, in a roundabout way. Alexander's notes on the words give fuller meaning:

*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."

Where is "I AM THAT I AM"? I thought Ashur was the name of the Assyrian Creator God, the Son of God standing in the sun disc with tools, authority, and wisdom, with bird-shaped wings of glory surrounding Him. Worse, I thought Ashur was His "name." Ashur is His NATURE. "The Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire": imagination! Imagination is "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." Also, "Ashur" signifies: this creative power "Above-the-Flames," i.e., the Consciousness of the Ineffable.

The God of Israel is Ashur, our imagination. Ashur is His nature, not His "name". Imagination is the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire of creation, God's imagination. We believe we are, and we are. We come in our coming by imagining, Ahiyeh Ashur, what we imagine, hiyeh. This is "I am that 'I am,'" our consciousness relative to what we believe we are.