The First Word – Intro Videos
The Lost Word as presented from the religious/god standpoint is only one way of approaching the significance of this Word. Its other roots lie older and more distant than religion. In fact, it goes WAAAAY back. To the Very First Word. Here are some clips talking about GOO from the perspective of it being the First Word. For linguists and philosophers and other thoughtful bods – the rules that apply to most words and languages do NOT apply to this Word since it is NOT a linguistic sound, it does not belong to ‘language’ as a complex system of terms. This requires careful thought – all words and languages AROSE from THIS Word making it very, very unique.
Parts 1 and 2 of some of a conversation on it are here:
The WORD OR name of GOD (YH-VH) is represented by the Greek Tectractys. The Tectractys is a symbolic arrangement of 10 points, on 4 levels incorporated into astrological symbolism from Pythagorean and Gnostic schools that includes alphabetical and numerical attributes from Hebrew, Greek and Latin sources. Each level denotes an elemental attribute, from fire, air, water and earth. The total of the numbers is assigned to the Hebrew letters IHVH or YHVH, the abbreviation of the Holy Name of God (Jove, Yahweh or Jehovah). Therefore 10+15+21+26 = 72, the magical number that defines the Sun’s retrograde path due to equinoctial precession through the zodiac at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years. The 360 degrees of the circle when divided by 5 =72°, the internal angle of the pentagon. The average human pulse rate is also 72 beats per minute. In effect this mystical number unites the macrocosm with the microcosm and permeates the philosophical ideals of Hermeticism, Alchemy & Ceremonial Magic. Herein is also contained the idea of the alpha and the omega, the first and the last, in purely numerical terms but which has some echoes in the Greek and Latin alphabets as well as in Tarot symbolism.
The first and the last letter of the word ALPHA (5 letters), which is the first letter of many alphabets was the same as the last, that is the first will be last, however, the last letter of the Greek alphabet was at one time sampi, now an obsolete symbol and much later replaced by *OMEGA (Ω), a more recent character that replaced the old Phoenician “lazy eight”, the symbol of infinity or natural return in the calendrical cycle. There were no Greek letters allocated to 6, 90 and 900, they used special symbols that equated to the following:
a) episemon, vau/bau/digamma = 6;
b) koppa = 90
c) Sanpi = 900
The words (ALPHA, LIBRA & OMEGA) have 5 letters and each ending in A, the first letter of the alphabet, when alpha and omega are added together they come to 108 (a number of some significance ie: 9×12), the 36 decans of astrological lore. From a Pythagorean point of view letters and numbers were in effect interchangeable for magical or mystical interpretation. When tabulated in a particular way they could then become ciphers or keys in a secret code – this being very useful if you wished to communicate an idea, message or word while keeping your enemies in the dark.
The four “worlds”, defined in Tarot Symbolism and linked indirectly to the 4-fold nature of the Greek numbered tetractys (Tetragrammaton), are Yod, Heh, Vau & Heh final. Each world is not a static element or fixed idea, although intuitively and logically linked to many other things, they are rather like platforms and stages, or evolving functions and processes. In many traditional decks the background colours of the cards are often symbolic keys to the association of any card to one of these “symbolic worlds”. In other decks they simply allude to the four mundane elements, although often veiled or confused with their esoteric shades. The following is a exploration of each dimension or plane of consciousness from a variety of perspectives.
YOD = The assertive/active principle, egoic spirit, essence, ruach, prana, pneuma, Purusha (undifferentiated consciousness), the hieroglyphic letter signifying a hand, that which holds and forms matter. The Father, the Old King, the rod of Moses, The Old Testament, the spermatozoa, the Sun, the I am and AUM, beginning and end. The Divine World (“I am”). Element – Fire, Numbers 1
HEH = The receptive/passive principle, the womb of the Great Mother, the Queen, the Moon, Vesica Piscis, the hieroglyphic letter signifying a window, an aperture, the senses through which the active principle permeates into the lower worlds. The New Testament, Prakriti (undifferentiated matter), the unfertilised embryo, the Non-ego, without beginning or end. The Ideal World (“I am not”). Element – Water, Numbers 2, 3.
VAU = The creative/mediating principle, The Earth, the Son, the Prince Regent, the hieroglyphic letter signifying a nail, or hook from which things may be held together or suspended. The Book of Psalms, Matter and Spirit in the process of differentiation, a pendulum or fulcrum. Neutrality, reconciliation, the Child, the fertilised embryo, the ripened seed in germination or incubation. The Chemical World (“I am Body”). Element – Air, Numbers 4, 5, 6.
HEH (final) = The material/pragmatic principle, the Divine Child, the Princess in waiting, the Book of Proverbs. Through the action and reaction of the previous forces the materialising/realistic principle, Organic Life, manifestation, synthesis, fusion, completion, realisation of the previous 3 principles as another embodiment, three-in-one. The foetus developing in the womb, the sapling. The Organic World (“I am Body, Spirit & Soul”) Element – Earth, Numbers 7, 8, 9 & 10.
Hi there Leon and thank you for the thoughtful and detailled comment. As somewhat of an esoteric student myself in times gone by, I enjoy such analyses of words of power which have impacted humans in manifold ways.
However, The Word you refer to is simply another Name for an archetype in a language called Hebrew and cannot, by this very fact, be The Word – the Word from The Beginning ie The First Word, which is innate and common to all humans. The Word YHVH makes no sense to anyone unless explained, and is by no means innate. This very requirement for explanation and translation eliminates it for the linguistic/philosophical search for The Lost Word and The First Word, both of which in my opinion are the Same Word.
The grasping of The Word is most difficult for the most educated and those who have explored such matters, while those who have not explored thus find it much easier to see the obviousness of GOO as both the first word, the lost word, and the correct referrant for All that we find ourselves in, and All that we find in ourselves.
Further, students from many countries see this also, without translating the core sound, which is perhaps the best indicator and the very essence of One Word for all humans, our sole link to the questionably mythical pre-Babel times of one language.