Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

518 CONTRIBUTIONS AND ANSWERS TO QUI•:STIONS. (May
first letter of the great name, expresses the right hand of power, in
the attitude of pointing the way toward the second letter, which ill its
form, first, represents a garden gate, or door, and aleo the exclamation
of delight, Hey I Ho! See! which carries the idea that \hat
right hand points out, and enables the individual to see, the entl'ance
to the garden of Eden, the garden of God, where, according to history.
or, if you prefer, allegory, Adam in Eden walked and talked_ with
God, as a man with his friend. In other words, this right hand gives
man power, and poiuts out the way by which he returns to God and
becomes one with him.
The third letter, Vau, 11ignifies a hook, or a nail. The prophet tlm11
explains it: "He shall be fastened as a nail in a sure plact>." The
angel, in' that wonderful Revelation to J,)hn the btlloved disciple,
gives a f~rther explanation of this letter. Whilst speaking of th011e
who enter through the gate into the city, he said, .. They go no more
out ; " that i11, they are •• fastened as with a nail in a sure place." The
fourth letter is a 1·epetition of the second. and is used to indicate
where they are secured; namely. in the ga•·den of God. We might
My, merely sugge11ting the thought. that whib Aclam and Eve failed
to keep the law, and for di11obeclience were driven from the garden.
those who enter in through and hy t.hat name will never again sin
agatnst God, or be driven from his pre11e1we.
Again, when this name, so far 11.11 hiNtory i!"Oes. wa.~ fir11t written,
namely, whE-n God entered iuto covenaut relations with his peoplf'
Israel, he so connected it as to cause it to mean. " I, who will be what
I will to be," or He who has power to do whatever he wiBhes to do,
"will be your Strength. your Power." Thus is God'11 power gil"en
to man ; and we ask, Ia any higher ultimate poBBible to the imagihation
of man than to reach a condition in whi