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GOD
explain what the idea of God represents in mystic script.
The Persian word for God is khuda, which is a descriptive appellation, and means the self-existent. This, no doubt, bears reference to Spirit or Life that is its own source and eternal. The word Jehovah (more correctly, Jahweh) also literally means the Living Reality (see the Lost Language of Symbolism, vol. i. p. 302). This is in complete harmony with the nature of Life, which, as we have seen, is fully divine, Jehovah himself said : "That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thon
mayest cleave unto him : for he is thy life, and the length of thy days...” (Dent. xxx. 20).
Jesus, too, says:
" I am the resurrection and the life " (Joho, xi. 25).
St. Paul also refers to Christ " who is life" in his Epistle to the Colossians (chap. iii. 4).
The most significant name of God is “ I am." This is common to Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Christianity,
योऽसावसौ पुरुषः सोऽहमस्मि ॥ -says the Isavasya-Upanishad (mantra 16), which means
“ That yonder person who dwells in Agu (Life) is known by
the name of Aham 'I' (i. e., the supreme) and Asmi 'I 'am' (i. e., the only standard of existence).---SBH. (Isavasya-Upanishad).
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