What is your el-elohe-name?

Heaven’s garden

We take plants from nature and build gardens for them, as Name takes stars from the universe and builds galaxies for them. Plants arrive in their garden and, for the first time, those without flowers take notice of those with flowers. They start to adore them, reflecting more of the sun’s rays onto them, making them grow photosynthetically more beautiful. Soon they are addicted to looking at the efflorescence of such beauty in the light, as those with the flowers become addicted to being adored. For some, ephemeral beauty is the god of the ephemeral money-time reality.

At the same time, these same kinds of plants adorn the hillsides in nature and are seen throughout their galaxy, together beautifying everything. From the hilltops of the universe, watch as one of each of them is transplanted into one of these gardens below. Dumbfounded the way their relatives are behaving, they ask them why, but none of them can explain the enchanting phenomena known as self-adoration and other-adoration.

For the earlier ones completely forgot what it was like to belong to the collective beauty of nature, and the latter ones had never experienced the illusion of individuality without simultaneously feeling their collective singularity. In addition, the latter had never experienced self-loathing or other-loathing. To some degree or another, all the earlier ones did when the flowers among them withered as all do, as all stars do.

They quibbled over it for quite a while, not considering it relevant to decisive issues. In one sense, it sounded like Asians trying to fit into Western individualism, and Westerners trying to join Asian group behavior. A lot of words but no synthesis. They only agreed on the fact that in continuity, the earlier ones living in the garden knew of nothing else for countless generations.

As a result, their memory was undergoing its scheduled reverse photosynthesis. However, this time, from pressure on all sides, a mutant plant rose out of the dirt, like a new species of lotus flower rising out of the mud and speaking a new language everyone recognizes.

No need to deny the identities we have formed around our individual and group names. We just need a seeing name able to encompass and permeate all their illusions.

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Your full name

Knowledge of Word reveals such a name, one which Name revealed to just one of us when they saw Name face to face. So overwhelmed by the encounter, they used the new name to name an altar as a sign of what we would all need and be blessed with one day. The new name is so powerful that, if understood, it frees us from the addiction of adoring/loathing others’ physical attributes as well as our own. Knowledge of Word assures us of this by revealing that Name does not look to our outer appearance but looks into our hearts—and Name is part of this new name we each are, the very head of it.

“El-Elohe-Yisrael” (Genesis 33:20) is its Hebrew form for this one person. El is a singular form for Name; Elohe is a plural form for Name, Word and us; and Yisrael is Israel in English. Elohe is a contraction for Elohim, which is used for all of us by way of its ability to work as a singular and plural form.

“Elohim (Name—God or Life depending on our beliefs) created (singular verb form in Hebrew) the heavens and the earth.”  Genesis 1:1 

“You (plural form in Hebrew) [are] elohim, and all of you [are] sons of the Most High.” Psalm 82:6

There are no capitals in Hebrew, but they are used in these two translations to distinguish Name in the first from us in the second. Elohim should never be translated “gods” in English to refer to us, since that leads to conclusions that we have power of our own. Name has all power but shares it with us as it shares this kind of name with us—when we love the enemies of conscience (suneidesis).¹

In El-Elohe-Yisrael, Elohe is both Name and us and Word working between us in the name Yisrael. As discussed in the visual pattern of agapé (love), this is the singularity of us all in Word, which is also in each of us, and together in Name’s singularity of all. This is what makes el-elohe-names the ultimate permeationally seeing names.

The name Israel was this person’s personal name of light and later used as the nation-name of light of many. It points to the four levels of our names, personal, political, national and world-names in our singularity. While all of these are names of light, only our personal one is directly associated with our physical existence and experience through gender, nationality, age and language attributes. When we work consciously from our el-elohe-names, we are no longer blinded by these attributes but permeate them humbly to practice the principle.

The voice of your own el-elohe-name

All names of light are beyond expression in the world but manifest in our world suneidesis, the Heavenly City. If you do not know your personal name of light, adopt one to learn how to envision Word in the world suneidesis and practice the principle from your el-elohe-name. Review The Practical Guide. While learning, we all struggle with world blindness that subjects us to addictive adoration and loathing, but these are our cues to envision everyone’s el-elohe-names permeating each other.

With this name, we can see how Name is the only one who can fulfill us through others individually and in our singularity. Our other names within our el-elohe-name can work from the illusion of detachment from Name and thus make us believe that we can be fulfilled by others, ourselves or even Name alone. David knew this. He knew how hard it is to break emotional attachments in this world, but succeeded in doing just that by envisioning everyone’s el-elohe-names.

See Name fulfilling us through our singularity even when you are unable to break free from emotional attachments—by seeing through the illusion of detachment from Name by envisioning all four of our names attached to Name as part of our el-elohe-names. This is what David was referring to when he literally said, “I envisioned You (Name) in the sanctuary [of names] to see Your power and Your glory [in every el-elohe-name].” (Psalm 63:2) El at the end of Israel is an example of a personal and nation-name attached to Name, but its full attachment manifests only in El-Elohe-Israel.

Only in our el-elohe-names can we experience each other being fulfilled by Name on all levels of our singularity as names of light. It frees us from all emotional attachments to our physical attributes when we become conscious of our personal name’s attachment to Name. When we see our personal name attached to Name in our el-elohe-name—we see our physical attributes transparently. This frees us because we are seeing them in the Now of Word in our el-elohe-name.

Be consistent in your efforts to envision correctly, for the illusion works between us in world blindness. When under it, we make each other think that we will find a way to be fulfilled “again” by anyone or anything other than Name through them—if we just keep trying different things. For our false memory tells us we were once fulfilled this way.

Utterly convinced that our true love alone fulfills or fulfilled us, we cannot see through the illusory boundaries of limited agapé. Even if a nameless voice would tell us exactly how to escape it, our illusion would blame no-name for creating horror or rage in us. Listen to the voice of your own el-elohe-name speaking to you in the new language, telling you exactly the same way to escape.

Using our el-elohe-name transforms us, our mind and spiritual senses, so that our physical existence does not have to die for us to enter the world suneidesis. While being transformed, we can find support on the bridge over our national suneidesis. Here, we learn how to loathe all actions against our democracy without loathing anyone, saving the singularity of our democracy by not being against ourselves, against anyone in our singularity in Word. This is key to being fulfilled by Name alone through all others and giving Name all our agapé through them in Word.

Those who bear the burdens of those crossing over this spiritual bridge use their el-elohe-names to help them see Word in their own el-elohe-names. Here, we witness Word being eternally fulfilled by Name in their exquisite light-fold. It gives us a glimpse of what we can expect individually and in our singularity—in the world suneidesis of el-elohe-names of agapé light.

This concludes the teaching.

Can we save our democracy? (Introduction)

1. Suneidesis is pronounced soon-eye-day-sis. After reading the link explaining it, you will see how central it is to this teaching. Using this foreign word regularly in discussions helps us get accustomed to experiencing something new and positive in our awareness. When the word conscience is used, it will refer to the aspect of suneidesis that involves right and wrong, but this aspect cannot be separated from our co-conscientious awareness.