Sunday, September 22, 2013

Nugget #105 – False gods: Attainment


The attribute associated to that name is what we are after.  It is what we are looking to emulate.  G-d is G-d so it is imperative for us to make ourselves like G-d.  We are to attain the name/attribute. 

Kabbalist have a saying, “what we do not attain we do not know by name.”  We cannot name something we have not attained.  Meaning we cannot name what we cannot understand.  In order to understand we must be able to implement or apply.  So the name of something requires us to apprehend an intimacy with that something.  Saying names like Jehovah, Yahovah,  Yah, HaShem, Adonai, or any other name does not guaranteed the speaking has an attainment associated to that name.  Yet many of us think a person is somehow “holy” because of uttering such names.  Or worse yet think they are more “holy” simply because they speak that name.

Our society is quick to throughout names of things it really has no knowledge of simply to create an illusion of knowledge.  In the spiritual we cannot do that.

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