Daily Meditation: Sunday, May 10, 1998

In the Hebrew Bible, God is most often represented by the …

05/10/1998

In the Hebrew Bible, God is most often represented by the tetragram Iod, Heh, Vav, Heh: hwhi. The Cabbalists offer a symbolic interpretation: Iod i represents the father, Heh h the mother, Vav w the son, and the second Heh h the daughter. The masculine principle represented by the Yod and the Vav, and the feminine principle represented by the two Heh, are therefore equal in presence, which means that in God these two principles are equal in value. You will say they cannot be equal because one of them must precede the other. Yes, they can be, because value is one thing and position is another. Position is a concept of the material order, and value is a concept of the spiritual order. On the material plane, even if people are equal in value, they cannot all be given first place, because there is only one first position. When you send a letter to a couple, you must mention the man and the woman one after another in the address: ‘Mr. and Mrs. X', or Mrs. and Mr. X'. If men and women challenge each other over the matter of position, it is because they do not understand how to formulate the problem correctly. The question of position is secondary; it is value that we must consider and respect. And in God, the masculine and feminine are of equal value