The True Man
Jehovah יהוה – Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei. The Lord of Yesod, whose opposite pole is Chavajoth.
The four-lettered name of divinity (also called the Tetragrammaton). This name has innumerable interpretations. The name “Jehovah” has many applications, not the least of which is as a name of our own inner Being.
This image shows a yogi who was a student of Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava. This yogi’s name is Jnanakumara, which means “king of Gnosis.” Jnanakumara is shown in a pose that reflects his mythology; he is depicted hiding himself in a cave for many years sustaining himself with one thing, which is water that he took from the rock. He is gathering the water with the top part of a human skull. This is not literal, it is symbolic, but what does it mean? It means that Jnanakumara, this Master of Gnosis, was transmuting his sexual waters up into his head; he was taking the waters from the rock. What is the rock? It is the foundation stone, Yesod on the Tree of Life; it is “the foundation of the temple, the stone that the builders disallowed, the stone that the builders rejected.” Fuel for Spiritual Experience
Roman goddess equivalent to the Greek goddess Hebe.
(Sanskrit कलि or काली, “the black one, night, goddess of time”) In the sacred Vedas, this name refers to one of the seven tongues of Agni, the god of fire. The meaning has since changed to refer to the goddess Kali, the consort of Shiva.
The name Kali is derived from ka, the first consonant of Sanskrit, and which can mean “time, pleasure, light, sound, sun, air, soul, wealth, water, head, fire, body,” and much more. Further, kā means “seek, desire, yearn, love.” The second syllable lī means “to melt, liquefy, dissolve.” Thus, in Tantra, the goddess Kali represents the power that can dissolve desire. Desire is the glue that binds us to suffering. Conversely, in negative forms of Tantra, Kali is worshipped as a fulfiller of desire, that which binds us to lust.
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