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About the phonetic sound of Elohim [[Rudolf Steiner]] says:
About the phonetic sound of Elohim [[Rudolf Steiner]] says:


{{GZ|If someone says, for example: E - just feel it: The sound makes me contract a little, it doesn't please me; E <nowiki>=</nowiki> I experience a mild tremor  of fear! Now, take L: that's like when something fades away, like when something flows, and EL, yes, that's something that flows away and makes you feel a mild tremor of fear at the same time. This is how El <nowiki>=</nowiki> God was called in Babylon. That's how everything was called according to that principle. Or take the Bible: If you say: O - that is a wonderment, a sudden wonderment, against which one does not rise. With  A - we have a sound that triggers a sensation which you like, a wonderment which you like; Hearing O - you want to recoil; H, Ch is the sound of breath. So that one can say: O = retreating astonishment; H = breath; I <nowiki>=</nowiki> one points at it, one is happy about it, it is quiet joy <nowiki>=</nowiki> I. And M, that is: one wants to go into exploring it oneself. You feel when you pronounce M: M - there the breath goes out, and you feel, you literally run after the breath; M is therefore: to go away. Now we put that together: El, we have already seen, is the spirit coming in the wind, El; O <nowiki>=</nowiki> that is the retreating amazement, H <nowiki>=</nowiki> the breath; so that is already the subtler spirit working in the breath; I is the quiet joy; M - that is the surrender. There you have it: Elohim, with which the Bible begins; there you have these sounds contained inside this one word. So when you ask: What are the Elohim? - The Elohim are beings of the wind, whom one could be a little afraid of, of whom one could recoil a little, but who imbue the breath of the man with joy  the joy of the people through the breath for the joy of man, who behold the yielding of man in joy: Elohim.|265|276f}}
{{GZ|If someone says, for example: E - just feel it: The sound makes me contract a little, it doesn't please me; E <nowiki>=</nowiki> I experience a mild tremor  of fear! Now, take L: that's like when something fades away, like when something flows, and EL, yes, that's something that flows away and makes you feel a mild tremor of fear at the same time. This is how El <nowiki>=</nowiki> God was called in Babylon. That's how everything was called according to that principle. Or take the Bible: If you say: O - that is a wonderment, a sudden wonderment, against which one does not rise. With  A - we have a sound that triggers a sensation which you like, a wonderment which you like; Hearing O - you want to recoil; H, Ch is the sound of breath. So that one can say: O <nowiki>=</nowiki> retreating astonishment; H <nowiki>=</nowiki> breath; I <nowiki>=</nowiki> one points at it, one is happy about it, it is quiet joy <nowiki>=</nowiki> I. And M, that is: one wants to go into exploring it oneself. You feel when you pronounce M: M - there the breath goes out, and you feel, you literally run after the breath; M is therefore: to go away. Now we put that together: El, we have already seen, is the spirit coming in the wind, El; O <nowiki>=</nowiki> that is the retreating amazement, H <nowiki>=</nowiki> the breath; so that is already the subtler spirit working in the breath; I is the quiet joy; M - that is the surrender. There you have it: Elohim, with which the Bible begins; there you have these sounds contained inside this one word. So when you ask: What are the Elohim? - The Elohim are beings of the wind, whom one could be a little afraid of, of whom one could recoil a little, but who imbue the breath of the man with joy  the joy of the people through the breath for the joy of man, who behold the yielding of man in joy: Elohim.|265|276f}}


The existence of the Elohim, i.e. a plurality of creator gods, forms a contradiction to the strict monotheism of Judaism and also Islam. Only the hierarchy doctrine of the angelic orders, which we find in Christianity, resolves this contradiction. Within the angelic hierarchies, the Elohim belong to the second hierarchy (assigned to the Christ Logos).
The existence of the Elohim, i.e. a plurality of creator gods, forms a contradiction to the strict monotheism of Judaism and also Islam. Only the hierarchy doctrine of the angelic orders, which we find in Christianity, resolves this contradiction. Within the angelic hierarchies, the Elohim belong to the second hierarchy (assigned to the Christ Logos).

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The seven Elohim (Hebrew אלהים) belong to the hierarchy of the Spirits of Form and are the creator gods of earth's evolution spoken of in Genesis. According to ancient Hebrew grammar, Elohim is the plural form to the singular Eloah, which, however, is only used extremely rarely in the Tanakh. It is derived from the general term El used in many Semitic languages for spiritual entities. This corresponds in Aramaic to Elah or Elaha (or differently vocalized also Alah or Alaha) and in Arabic to Allah.

About the phonetic sound of Elohim Rudolf Steiner says:

„If someone says, for example: E - just feel it: The sound makes me contract a little, it doesn't please me; E = I experience a mild tremor of fear! Now, take L: that's like when something fades away, like when something flows, and EL, yes, that's something that flows away and makes you feel a mild tremor of fear at the same time. This is how El = God was called in Babylon. That's how everything was called according to that principle. Or take the Bible: If you say: O - that is a wonderment, a sudden wonderment, against which one does not rise. With A - we have a sound that triggers a sensation which you like, a wonderment which you like; Hearing O - you want to recoil; H, Ch is the sound of breath. So that one can say: O = retreating astonishment; H = breath; I = one points at it, one is happy about it, it is quiet joy = I. And M, that is: one wants to go into exploring it oneself. You feel when you pronounce M: M - there the breath goes out, and you feel, you literally run after the breath; M is therefore: to go away. Now we put that together: El, we have already seen, is the spirit coming in the wind, El; O = that is the retreating amazement, H = the breath; so that is already the subtler spirit working in the breath; I is the quiet joy; M - that is the surrender. There you have it: Elohim, with which the Bible begins; there you have these sounds contained inside this one word. So when you ask: What are the Elohim? - The Elohim are beings of the wind, whom one could be a little afraid of, of whom one could recoil a little, but who imbue the breath of the man with joy the joy of the people through the breath for the joy of man, who behold the yielding of man in joy: Elohim.“ (Lit.:GA 265, p. 276f)

The existence of the Elohim, i.e. a plurality of creator gods, forms a contradiction to the strict monotheism of Judaism and also Islam. Only the hierarchy doctrine of the angelic orders, which we find in Christianity, resolves this contradiction. Within the angelic hierarchies, the Elohim belong to the second hierarchy (assigned to the Christ Logos).

„And Elohim said, Let US make man, an image in our likeness ...“ (Lit.: Gen 1:26 ELB - Revised Elberfelder Translation)

„ELOHIM is active as One. How puzzling it must be, then, when he suddenly and abruptly speaks to himself in the plural: <And ELOHIM said, Let us...>! (...) A High Council is assembled and Its members take the grave decision to work together. They decide : <Let us create man...!>“ (Lit.: Eberhard Klemp, p. 12)

„The sculptor stands directly by the side of the Elohim, when they knew how to transform the shapeless, repulsive clay into the most glorious form.“ (Lit.: J. W. Goethe: Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, 3rd book, 3rd chapter)

The love forces of six of the Elohim weave inside the physical sunlight, which is why Rudolf Steiner calls them light spirits too. The seventh, Yahweh, took the moon as his abode and from there sends exalted wisdom to the earth, thereby preparing for the reception of love. However, Yahweh also represents the consciousness of common unity of the seven Elohim, which they attained by creating man in their image in the course of the Six Day Creation. Through the sacrificial act of the Elohim, human beings received their 'I', (self). With the baptism of the Jordan, the common powers of the six solar Elohim entered through the (spirit of) Christ into the evolution of earth and humanity.

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