Jewish Mysticism and The Temple of Solomon.
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@Patthana Gati said
The Beth then entered and said: o Lord of the world, may it please Thee to put me first in the creation of the world, since I represent the benedictions (Berakhoth) offered to Thee on high and below. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to her: Assuredly, with thee I will create the world, and thou shalt form the hegnning in the creation of the world. The letter Aleph remained in her place without presenting herself. Said the Holy One, blessed be His name: Aleph, Aleph, wherefore comest thou not before Me like the rest of the letters? She answered: Because I saw all the other letters leaving Thy presence without any success. What, then, could I achieve there? And further, since Thou hast already bestowed on the letter Beth this great gift, it is not meet for the Supreme King to take away the gift which He has made to His servant and give it to another. The Lord said to her: Aleph, Aleph, although I will begin the creation of the world with the beth, thou wilt remain the first of the letters. My unity shall not be expressed except through thee, on thee shall be based all calculations and operations of the world, and unity shall not be expressed save by the letter Aleph. Then the Holy One, blessed be His name, made higher-world letters of a large pattern and lower-world letters of a small pattern. It is therefore that we have here two words beginning with beth (Bereshith bara) and then two words beginning with aleph (Elohim eth). They represent the higher-world letters and the lower-world letters, which two operate, above and below, together and as one.' - The Zohar.
And thus the Aleph remained silent, containing the secret of baited breath, allowing Beth to always believe she was "the beginning." lol
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Very cool. (but it is 2 words
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Often. The original texts usually have no spacemarks.
For example, you could drastically alter the meaning of the first verses of Genesis in hundreds of ways just by how you place the spacemarks, and the standard version is just one way.
But writing two words without a space doesn't make them 1 word, unless the combined word is pronounced, treated, and understood as a single word with a different meaning than the two words.
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I have long forgotten from where I know that, but there was this I think egyptian initiation series which had the following steps:
First, the initiates learned about all the gods and goddesses.
Then they were told that all gods were one god, and all goddesses one goddess.
Later they were told that these two were one.
And during the last initiation they were told that not the gods had created man, but that man had created the gods (Frater Potater is going to love that one).
There are also tibetan initiations from ancient versions of Bön shamanism that teach exactly the same as the last sentence, in a very practical way, in buddhism this is termed Vajrayana Deity Yoga.
Perhaps the two words "Barahdd" ~ "He created Hadad" meant "We created God"?
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Ah, I see.what you're saying. Yes, that would be interesting to find. Though, I wouldn't hold out to much hope, since those compound words you found are compound nouns, while your phrase is a verb and noun.
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Bara does mean create yes though in the context of "in the beginning' its meaning 'separation' A proper use after that context would be Yatsar.
The idea being put across that the creator was a primitive state.. unaffected by anything so to speak, after that idea of separation is where 'form' and complexity arise.
