Andrews - The sacred power in your name: using your name for personal empowerment and healing

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The Sacred Power of Your Name: Using Your Name for Personal Empowerment and Healing 1990, 2017 by Ted Andrews.

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Contents

The Magick of Words

PART ONE

Whats in a Name?

The Divine Essence in Your Name

The Mystical Vowels

The Sacred Sounds of the Vowels

The Magickal Rhythm and Music of Names

Part Two

Sacred Seeds

: Index to Name Variations

: Phonetic Guide to Pronunciation of the Vowels

: The Chakra System

Tables

Vowels and Astrological Elements

Elemental Combinations

Vowel Correspondences

Tone Correspondences

Rhythmic Correspondences

Illustrations

INTRODUCTION

The Magick of Words

Our voice is our most creative instrument. With our words we can make others feel as if they are standing within Gods shadow, or we can make them shrink as if they were some hideous being from Hell. It is no wonder that primitive societies considered language so mystical and magickal.

All the ancient mystery schools taught their students about the power of the word. They taught that when a thought is expressed in words, it forms the matrix of what will manifest within our physical lives. This is the reason they all stressed reticence in speech at all times.

Our myths and fables are filled with individuals seeking those special magickal words that will solve their life problems and bring them wealth and prosperity. Even today, people are fascinated with the possibility of discovering a magickal word or phrase. Stage magicians use magickal words in their acts of prestidigitation, and abracadabra and hocus pocus are familiar to every child and adult alike. What few people realize is that there abides within every man, woman, and child a deep-seated, ancient memory of the reality of the power of the word. Unfortunately, what has been lost is the understanding and the techniques for activating those levels of our consciousness that allow us to discover and use magickal words and sounds. We have permitted our rational minds to block access to those ancient techniques.

Every ancient society had its own hierarchy of gods and goddesses. All of these beings were specific manifestations of the one divine force that operates throughout the universe. By calling upon the various names of these gods and goddesses, societies could draw upon specific energies associated with that divine force. This allowed people to obtain energies from the divine Source that were more direct instead of general.

In the Hebrew Qabala, there were ten specific names for how the one God manifested and worked through the physical and spiritual universe. Hebrews used these names rather than the one name for Godwhat they called the Tetragrammaton. This one name was not used in their prayers because it was believed it could activate powerful energies that humans would not be able to handle. Tradition also said that if ever spoken correctly, it had the power to destroy the universe and create a new one entirely. Thus the Hebrews substituted specific names for it, such as Adonai and Jehovah. And of course, one of the commandments is Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, meaning in essence, dont use it without realizing the full significance of its power to work in your life.

Great respect and reverence was always given by initiates and mystics to the names of gods and goddesses outside their own belief systems. They recognizedas we must learn to do againthat all gods are part of the same God. These divine names have sounds and thought forms that trigger a release of energy into our lives. This energy may play a role in our lives in ways that are very subtle but also very real. A modern comic once hinted at this concept in explaining the population explosion. He commented that everything would be fine as long as we learned to keep quiet when having sexual relations. He explained that while in the throes of ecstasy, we utter such phrases as oh, God! oh, baby! Exclaiming oh, God! is like ringing His doorbell, getting His attention; by following this with the words, oh, baby, God must assume that is what you are praying for, and being ever-giving and all-loving, He sets the process in motion. Although treated humorously, this example touches upon a very ancient principle.

In ancient and modern forms of both high and low magick, the essential power of sound and words is a common element. Many of the ancient languages had a very sonorous effect when spoken, and had sounds of tremendous transmutative potential. (This will be explored in , The Mystical Vowels.) The words and sounds of these languages in many cases were designed for communication with the consciousness of the Angelic Kingdoms, and to keep the soul in communication with the Divine while in the physical body. It is why many people who begin to work with various forms of magick focus on the ancient languages, whether Latin, Hebrew, Greek, or Enochian. (Unfortunately, not everything is known about the ancient languages and their mystical associations, and unless caution and discrimination is practiced, the individual may invoke energies that cannot be controlled.) It is also why the Catholic Church lost much of its power when it changed from the Latin to the English. It lost the ancient thoughtforms and sonorous effects of the language, which even if not understood, still created alterations in consciousness during the service.