Quotes:Yod: Difference between revisions

'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Yod}}'''. The tenth letter of the alphabet, the first in the four fold symbol of the compound name Jah‐hovah (Jehovah) or ''Jah‐Eve'', the hermaphrodite force and existence in nature. Without the later vowels, the word Jehovah is written IHVH (the letter Yod standing for all the three English letters '''y, i''', or '''j,''' as the case may require), and is male‐female. The letter Yod is the symbol of the ''lingham'', or male organ, in its natural triple form, as the ''Kabalah'' shows. The second letter '''He''', has for its symbol the ''yoni'', the womb or “ window‐opening” as the'' Kabalah'' has it ; the symbol of the third letter, the '''Vau''', is a crook or a nail (the bishop’s crook having its origin in this), another male letter, and the fourth is the same as the second — the whole meaning to be or to ''exist'' under one of these forms or both. Thus the word or name is pre‐ eminently ''phallic'', it is that of the fighting god of the Jews, “ Lord of Hosts” ; of the “aggressive Yod” or Zodh, Cain (by permutation), who slew his ''female brother'', Abel, and spilt his (her) blood. This name, selected out of many by the early Christian writers, was an unfortunate one for their religion on account of its associations and original significance ; it is a ''number at best'', an organ in reality. This letter ''Yod ''has passed into ''God'' and ''Gott''.

{{Quote source HPB TG|Yod}}