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Or the Tetragrammaton - the four letters. However, if you look closely, the name is consisting of three characters (charagma). To understand these, we need to look at the Tetramorph - The Ox, The Lion, the Eagle, the Angel
The Ox is Beholding the Beginning - the heaven and the earth (two horns)
The Lion is Beholding the Ending - the Reign of Christ
The Angel is Beholding the Face of God
The Eagle is Beholding the face of man
The Tetramorph can move in all of these directions - between the beginning and the ending, between God and man.
We know that the Name is above all names, so it is above the Tetramorph, but how is it superior?
The Charagma that is repeated in the Tetragrammaton means Behold. The other two mean Hand and Nail. The meaning doesn't change if we say Behold Hand Nail, but what has happened is that the Two have become One. This allows YHWH to not be constrained to time like the Cherubim, who, even if they are allowed to move freely along this axel, are still required to move along it.
When it comes to the other direction it is clear from the meaning of Hand and Nail, that just as He is Above the Cherubim, he is also Below man.
The Ox is Beholding the Beginning - the heaven and the earth (two horns)
The Lion is Beholding the Ending - the Reign of Christ
The Angel is Beholding the Face of God
The Eagle is Beholding the face of man
The Tetramorph can move in all of these directions - between the beginning and the ending, between God and man.
We know that the Name is above all names, so it is above the Tetramorph, but how is it superior?
The Charagma that is repeated in the Tetragrammaton means Behold. The other two mean Hand and Nail. The meaning doesn't change if we say Behold Hand Nail, but what has happened is that the Two have become One. This allows YHWH to not be constrained to time like the Cherubim, who, even if they are allowed to move freely along this axel, are still required to move along it.
When it comes to the other direction it is clear from the meaning of Hand and Nail, that just as He is Above the Cherubim, he is also Below man.