ABRAHAM
UR reveals a grand list of shining names. It was in itself the greatest and most likely the original word for
fire. The Egyptians, wishing to name it
the fire, added the divine article,
the, which in their language was the hieroglyph for the letter P. This addition made it
p-ur, pur, the Greek word for fire to this day. From this comes
pure, purge, purgatory, as also
pyre, pyrotechnic and
empyrean, the Greek U changing to Y in English, as in hundreds of words.
Ur (a variant of
aur, or) was the name of that state of the primordial spiritual "fire" from which the first divine ray, Ab-
ra-ham, proceeded as first father of spiritual Israel (not the historical Hebrews). In the same category it was the name of the universal Egyptian symbol of creative fire, the
uraeus, "a serpent of fire," which was sevenfold as typifying the seven archangels that created the universe. It is therefore another representation of the dragon or beast with seven heads. Is it strange that our modern discovery of the creative fire of the universe in the atom has brought into prominence as the most fiery of the elements those two whose names incorporate both the title of the Sun-god and the Uraeus, RAdium and URanium? The German language has some hundreds of words prefixing UR, as
Ursprung, Urquelle, Ursache, all meaning original source-spring of being.
All life came out of UR, the primordial fount of cosmic fire. A verse in the Chaldean Oracles says that "all things are the product of one primordial fire, every way resplendent." How resplendent it is our modern nuclear physics is now revealing! The Hebrew word for father being ab, Ab-ra-m is "Father Ra," as clearly as Hebrew can say it. Ram would be this creative fire immersed in water, matter.
The list so far traced becomes more than doubled through the prefixing onto these root-forms the Hebrew article,
the, which is just the letter H. The addition of the H has the force of divinizing the word, as has been seen. So from HAL there is
hallow, hale, hallel (Hebrew
to praise),
halleluiah, hail and more. From HEL can be traced
heal, health, heil (German
hail),
hell (German,
bright, clear), and most significantly, the Greek
helios, the sun! The spiral, or
helix, was a figure tracing the spiraling course of the sun, or its planets around it. The feminine names
Helen, Helena (with the H intensified into S becoming the name of the moon,
Selene), are assumed to derive from it also. The Greeks adopted unto themselves the divine name
Hellenes, signifying "bright and shining ones," dubbing the rest of humanity "barbarians." (They did this
in the same fashion and with the same motive as the Jews adopted for themselves the divine name
Israelites, dubbing the rest of mankind "Gentiles.")
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