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From Dr. Alvin Boyd Kuhn's "Let There be Light.... on Genesis" comes the
following explanation of Elohim:
...The word in the original Hebrew texts of verse one is "Elohim". Any scholar
knows that "-im" is a plural ending on Hebrew. Yet the committee translated it
in the singular - "God". However, the fact that they knew the word was plural is
attested by their translation of its possessive pronoun form in verse 26 in the plural,
where "God" said, Let US make man in OUR own image, in OUR likeness.
But grammar brings out another fact that is more startling still. Not only is the word
plural, not singular; it proves, in the analysis, to be feminine, not masculine! The
creative Lord, then, was feminine and plural. It is none other than the Elohim, of whom
there were seven in every ancient religion, and they are collectively a feminine
potentiality. They are the physical Mother energies of nature, not the spiritual Father
energies. They represent, shall we say, the material womb of life, not the enforming mind.
The establishment of seven creative powers as feminine does not stop with grammar; it is
significant beyond all measure for the entire interpretation of the myth. The whole
meaning turns on this point. A number of items in the story become for the first time
clearly intelligible in its light. Without its help certain aspects of the account stand
violently at sixes and sevens with each other.
Who are the Elohim? They are the physical energies of nature, inherent in matter, and are
employed by spiritual Gods to build universes. The are called in all books the Seven
Primary Powers, the Seven Elementary Forces, the Seven Gods of Nature. Often they are
known as just The "Seven". A whole variety of names has been given them among
the nations. The Seven Gods (gods); Elohim; Demiurgoi; Logoi; Rishis; Prajapati; Kabiri;
Archangels; Spirits of the Presence; Angels before the Throne; Cosmocratores; Titans;
Uranidae; Kronidae; Companions of Horus; Companions of Arthur; Rulers; Archons; Pitris;
Amshaspends; Auyxiliaries of Kronos; Sons of Sydik; Sons of Ptah; Sons of Ra; Lumazi;
Children of Inertness; Rebels; Devils; Cyclops; Serpents; Sons of the Mother; and many
more. To each the number seven is generally prefixed. They are the seven energies
animating physical Nature, servants of higher intelligences.
Not only do they have these varied names as a group, but they have been individually named
in most religions. In Babylonian they are Bel, Ea, Rimmoon, Nebo, Marduk, Nerra and Ninib.
In the Persian they are Azazel, Amazarak, Barkayel, Akabeel, Tamiel and Azaradel. In
pre-Christian andGnostic hierology they are correlated at times with the stellar bodies of
our solar system, as regents of the stars, and as such their names are given Michael (the
Sun), Gabriel (Moon), Samael (Mars), Anael (Venus), Raphael (Mercury), Zachariel
(Jupiter), and Orifiel (Saturn). In the Jewish Kabala we find their authentic names given
in a form which relates them directly to genesis usage. Here they are designated as:
Ildabaoth. Jehovah, Sabaoth, Adonai, Eloeus, Oreus and Astanphaios, with variations in the
spelling.
And scholarship has adduced another relevant fact in this connection. Just as the
"Lord God of Sabaoth" would stand for the "Lord God of the Seven"
(Sabaoth means "seven"); and as Adonai was also used to designate the whole
Seven; and El was used for the Seven Elohim; so Jehovah came to stand as a collective term
for the entire Seven Powers. The whole Seven were summed up under the name of one of their
number, and that predominately Jehovah.
In the second chapter of Genesis Jehovah-Elohim forms man out of the dust of the ground
and woman from the bone of man, Jehovah is that one God who sums up in himself the seven
previous powers, precisely as they were totaled in Atum-Ra, Sevekh-Ra, Agni, or
Ahura-Mazda. Jehovah is the synthesis of the Seven Elohim.
And the extension of the four-lettered JHVH into its seven-lettered form, JEHOVAH,
indicates the latter as being the full and final physical manifestation of the creative
forces in matter.
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