by\u00a0\u0218tefan Bolea<\/p>\n
Open Exodus <\/em>III.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush\u00a0was\u00a0not consumed.\u201d\u00a0\/ apparuitque ei Dominus in flamma ignis de medio rubi et videbat quod rubus arderet et non conbureretur (III:2). It is not enough to say that Moses has an archetypal experience; rightly said, the prophet meets with the Archetype \/ the Self in Flesh and Fire. And is it the Angel of the Lord or the Lord Himself? \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b8\u05d4 \/ YHWH was revealed to Moses.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here\u00a0am\u00a0I.\u201d\u00a0(III.4) Do you think it convenient to be called in the midst of the burning bush? Leaving that aside, note that the Higher is still called the LORD \/ Dominus \/ \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b8\u05d4 \/ YHWH.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest\u00a0is\u00a0holy ground.\u201d\u00a0 (III.5) It\u2019s getting hotter.<\/p>\n \u201cMoreover he said, I\u00a0am\u00a0the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. \/ […] EGO SUM DEUS [\u2026] \/ \u05d0\u05b8\u05e0\u05b9\u05db\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b5\u05d9.\u201d (III.6) With all due respect, the translation is wrong. I propose the translation-interpretation We Are Elohim(s).<\/em> \u201eThere is no true, only interpretations\u201d, someone once said. There is, but not truth as veritas,<\/em> but as \u1f00\u03bb\u03ae\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God \/ Deum \/ \u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd.\u201d\u00a0(III.6) Moses is a bit shy, and the Elohims<\/em> have limited options. Note that we may be dealing with more than one God in One. YHWH and ELOHIMS \u2026 Skip a few verses (7-10) in which God the Lord changes his name back to YHWH \/ \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b8\u05d4, proof enough that we must patient with Moses and the ones who dictated him this fragment.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Moses said unto God, Who\u00a0am\u00a0I\u2026\u201d\u00a0dixit Moses ad Deum quis ego sum \/ \u05d5\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b9\u05d0\u05de\u05b6\u05e8 \u05de\u05b9\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05d4, \u05d0\u05b6\u05dc-\u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd (III.11). Comparing III.6 with III.11, we hint a third name of God, which is still Deus<\/em> in Latin.<\/p>\n III.6: Deus<\/em>: \u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b5\u05d9<\/p>\n III.11 Still Deus<\/em>, but… \u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd.<\/p>\n I\u2019m no Hebrew specialist, but, from a philological POV (and even a figural one), there are two of Elohims<\/em>. So far God (if He is One, if He is He) has three faces. YHWH, Elohim I, Elohim II. It is more important what Moses asks God, not his (their) name, because both coincide.<\/p>\n Quis ego sum? \/ <\/em>\u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d0\u05b5\u05dc\u05b5\u05da\u05b0. The translations are again wrong. Moses really asks what really distinguishes him as a person, as a potential liberator of his people. Who am I against the Pharaoh? Who am I against the God of this world, who does not coincide with Moses\u2019 and Abraham\u2019s God? Moses has reason to be scared. We all do. Not only that we meet with God the Lord (who is Three, and the counting has just begun\u2026), who speaks to us from a burning bush, but we must deal with the Egyptian \u201cAntichrist\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this\u00a0shall be\u00a0a token unto thee\u201d (III.12). Observe the symmetry: God speak to Moses and Moses speak to God. Who speaks to God nowadays, besides saints and fools? We have two mechanical shortcuts (pills and cross), while Nobody believes (in Nothing).<\/p>\n To make a long story short, God the Lord has other names. I won\u2019t name them all: the book is open. I even haven\u2019t examined in detail III.4, where Dominus<\/em> is named five words apart in Hebrew YHWH <\/em>and Elohim<\/em>. The most important name of God is not an epithet, as some think, but perhaps the supreme name: \u201cI AM THAT I AM\u201d \/ ego sum qui sum<\/em> \/ \u05d0\u05b6\u05d4\u05b0\u05d9\u05b6\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8 \u05d0\u05b6\u05d4\u05b0\u05d9\u05b6\u05d4 (III.14). It is poorly translated again. I propose a different translation: (I Am) Being and Identity, or, in other words, (I Am) Superbeing. If I wanted to sound like Heidegger, I would name the new (super)ontological difference. If his is the one between Sein<\/em> and Seiendes<\/em>, mine is one between Superbeing <\/em>and Dasein<\/em>. If you are into Jung, God the Lord says: (I and Thou Are) Schatten + Selbst<\/em>. Nietzsche? Sein<\/em> + Werden<\/em>. \u201cGod is dead\u201c is wrongly translated in Latin as deus mortus est<\/em>. The right way: dominus mortus est<\/em>. Schopenhauer \/ Eminescu: Brahman-Atman, and so on\u2026<\/p>\n Language makes reality.<\/p>\n Being is captured through music. Music goes beyond aesthetic. The Numen<\/em> refuses to be looked at.<\/p>\n But it can be heard as a daimon.<\/p>\n You can stare at the sun but not at the midnight sun.<\/p>\n #<\/p>\n NOTE: Apologies for the virtual Hebrew errors, I\u2019m just learning the alphabet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by\u00a0\u0218tefan Bolea Open Exodus III. \u201cAnd the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush\u00a0was\u00a0not consumed.\u201d\u00a0\/ apparuitque ei Dominus in flamma ignis de medio rubi et videbat quod rubus arderet et […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1595,27],"tags":[1596,1123,1117,39],"class_list":["post-14409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-74","category-filosofie","tag-egophobia-74","tag-english","tag-filosofie","tag-stefan-bolea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-3Kp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14412,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409\/revisions\/14412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}