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According to the Collation of Theosophical
Glossaries, Yah (an abbreviation of Yaho) is a Hebrew mystery name derived from
Iao and is connected to a phallic symbol:
TG Yaho (Heb.).
Furst shows this to be the same as the Greek Iao. Yaho is an old Semitic and
very mystic name of the supreme deity, while Yah (q.v.) is a later
abbreviation which, from containing an abstract ideal, became finally
applied to, and connected with, a phallic symbol -- the lingham of
creation. Both Yah and Yaho were Hebrew "mystery names" derived from Iao,
but the Chaldeans had a Yaho before the Jews adopted it, and with them, as
explained by some Gnostics and Neo-Platonists, it was the highest
conceivable deity enthroned above the seven heavens and
representing Spiritual Light (Atman, the universal), whose ray was
Nous, standing both for the intelligent Demiurge of the Universe of
Matter and the Divine Manas in man, both being Spirit. The true key
of this, communicated to the Initiates only, was that the name of IAO was "triliteral
and its nature secret", as explained by the Hierophants. The Phoenicians too
had a supreme deity whose name was triliteral, and its meanings secret, this
was also Iao; and Y-ha-ho was a sacred word in the Egyptian
mysteries, which signified "the one eternal and concealed deity" in nature
and in man; i.e., the "universal Divine Ideation", and the human
Manas, or the higher Ego. (1)
Note: (1)
(Quote source:
Collation of Theosophical
Glossaries) http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/ctg/y-yl.htm (url cited for
documentation only) return to
George Ricker Berry
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