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...have found is common to Moses and Muhammad, to Buddha and Jesus. It is known to every mystic tradition. In mine, it is the Tetragrammaton, the Name so holy that those who know it dare not say it. It is what the Cabala calls Ayin, Nothingness, No-Thingness. It is Spirit, Being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMBUSHED BY SPIRITUALITY | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...Jesus is written as KS, an abbreviation of the Greek word Kyrios, or Lord. Thiede contends that this shorthand is proof that early Christians considered Jesus a nomen sacrum (sacred name), much the way devout Jews emphasized the holiness of God's name by shortening it to the tetragrammaton YHWH. Thus the perception of Jesus as divine was not a later development of Christian faith but a firm belief of the early church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYEWITNESSES TO JESUS? | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...Both Tetragrammaton Records, which will distribute the LP in the United States, and the Coop, expect lawsuits and court battles over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop May Stock Lennon-Ono LP | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

Driver and his team are ruthlessly pruning archaisms from their translation: saith and doth are out; thee and thou are not used, except when God is addressed. Lord (in capital letters) will be used in place of Jehovah-a philologically meaningless attempt to render the sacred Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH. The translators are also trying to weed out what Driver calls "nonsense" caused by faulty reading of the manuscripts. In Psalm 2, for example, "Tremble before him and kiss his feet in homage" will replace a serious misinterpretation in the King James Version: "Rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, lest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out with the Old | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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