“God is a four-letter word”
“Love is just a four letter word” - Bob Dylan
“The visible world, with its teeming creatures, is none other than the word transpired,” - Jacob Bohme
All things arise out of combinations or rearrangements of these four letters.
The name may be derived from a verb that means 'to be', 'to exist', 'to cause to become', or 'to come to pass’
the four letters of the Tetragrammaton and the Four Worlds:
the י is associated with Atziluth,
the first ה with Beri'ah,
the ו with Yetzirah,
and final ה with Assiah.
The Hebrew Bible explains it by the formula אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה ('ehye 'ăšer 'ehye pronounced [ʔehˈje ʔaˈʃer ʔehˈje] transl. I Am that I Am), the name of God revealed to Moses in Exodus 3:14.[6] This would frame Y-H-W-H as a derivation from the Hebrew triconsonantal root היה (h-y-h), "to be, become, come to pass", with a third person masculine י (y-) prefix, equivalent to English "he",[7][8] in place of the first person א ('-), thereby affording translations as "he who causes to exist",[9][10] "he who is"
The Fourfold Name of Deity
yod he vav he יהוה
- Yod: י
- He: ה
- Vav: ו
- He: ה
"He (ה) is called the Divine Soul, Neschama (המשנ). It is connected with Yod (י) and descends in many rays; yet, it remains one, meaning that Yod-He is indivisible. This is the meaning of the verse: "And God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him." — Midrash Ruth