The Spiritual Perameters of Biblical NamesFrom the Gospel of Truth For he revealed it as a knowledge with which all its emanations agree, namely, the knowledge of the living book that he revealed to the eternal beings at last as his letters, displaying to them that these are not merely vowels or consonants, so that one may read them and think of something void of meaning. On the contrary, they are letters that convey the truth. They are pronounced only when they are known. Each letter is a perfect truth like a perfect book, for they are letters written by the hand of the unity, since the father wrote them for the eternal beings, so that they by means of his letters might come to know the father. The Generation of Messiah: |
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Hagar’s
lament has blessed us all, enslaved or free; for the answer she received
implies that we, also, are seen—not just looked upon, but
seen!
To be seen is to be identified, acknowledged,
known. To be seen
is to be Named.
As milestones to Bethlehem, Matthew’s list of Names catalogs progress in
the generation of the Anointed One within a man who is now called Jesus,
the firstborn of many brothers. And because the Kingdom is within even
the least of that great teacher’s fellows, we understand that
every one of us is named; and, together, our Names comprise
spiritual Y’SharAL.
To read Matthew’s Names as the civil record of a natural lineage adds
little substance to an understanding of Messiah. If nothing but an
esteemed family tree, Mathew’s first chapter promotes solemn respect,
but its spiritual value is limited to questions of pedigree. Biblical Names magnify the scriptures in which they appear. More than history, therefore, the Matthew genealogy is a parable that speaks to the operation of Names within each of us as we struggle to overcome the inertia of Creation: they point to developmental stages in the generation of Messiah within the individual.
Like Hagar, we’ve all been outcasts at the foot of Sinai, abandoned to
the wilderness of Shur—we’ve all been frustrated by walls of closed
doors that have barred progress to Kadesh—to holiness; but we who have
taken up the cross are not to stumble along, blindly, on the path to
perfection. We are to approach the holy mountain within ourselves
boldly, knowing that—as we are, no matter our condition—we are seen upon
its slopes and that our solace is assured.
The “Kingdom of Heaven” is, literally, the “Kingdom of
Names.”
Note that Matthew 1:1 and 1:16 differ significantly. Messiah of the
first verse is a son of many generations. The connotation is “Lion.” The
latter verse names a single man called the messiah, suggesting a
lamb.
Jesus taught that it’s enough for the servant to be
as his
Lord. The two renderings of “Joshua” recall the saying, “If you had seen
me, you had seen the Father, also.” Yahushua
owcwhy—the
Projection of Yh
hy,
the Word, the fullness of the Father—was seen, grasped, and
understood in the physical presence of Joshua
ocwhy,
who is also called Ieosus, Jehu, and Jesus, the first fruit of the Sons
of Man. |
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