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Adonai and Elohim

Adonai; Elohim; Alhim; Jehovah; Jehova

Adonai and Elohim are divine designations used in the account of reading and substituting sacred names.

From the book

Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry

R. Swinburne Clymer · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Orientation

At a Glance

  • The wordAdonai and Elohim are divine designations used in the account of reading and substituting sacred names.
  • In Ancient Mystic Oriental MasonryThe source explains a substitution for the Hebrew tetrad, then links the procedure to a substitute in Masonry.
  • In this editionAlhim, Elohim, Jehova, and Jehovah are preserved as different printed forms.
  • A place to readM.45: … “came to the tetral IHVH, substituted the word Adonai (Lord), and if the word was written” …

Meaning

Adonai and Elohim are divine designations used in the account of reading and substituting sacred names. Jehovah is the form commonly employed by the book for the divine name in its narratives.

Use in the book

The source explains a substitution for the Hebrew tetrad, then links the procedure to a substitute in Masonry. Other passages use Jehovah within theological criticism, proposed ancient priesthoods, and the story of recovered foundation stones.

Places to read

  1. Mystic Masonry · Block 45… “came to the tetral IHVH, substituted the word Adonai (Lord), and if the word was written the points of Alhim, he called it Elohim. This custom is* preserved in Masonry by” …
  2. Mystic Masonry · Block 51… “but 'terrible as an army with banners. ' Jehovah was jealous, revengeful, vindictive towards the evil-doer, tolerated no rival in the broad expanse of Cosmos. In no religion of antiquity is” …
  3. Foundations of Mystic Masonry · Block 138… “more intense when they found the name of Jehovah engraved in the elliptical spaces of the last of these stones — this which was also a type of the Mysteries of” …

In this edition

Alhim, Elohim, Jehova, and Jehovah are preserved as different printed forms. The lexicon does not silently repair them into a uniform transliteration.

Reading the argument

The text moves between a reading practice, an account of a religion, and ritual analogy. The distinction helps readers understand the comparison without accepting the polemical generalizations about an entire people made in the surrounding quotation.

Adonai

“Adonai” — 2 occurrences in 2 text blocks: M.45, 52.

Elohim

“Elohim” — 2 occurrences in 2 text blocks: I.10; M.45.

Alhim

“Alhim” — 1 occurrence in 1 text block: M.45.

Jehovah

“Jehovah” — 3 occurrences in 3 text blocks: M.51–52; F.138.

Jehova

“Jehova” — 1 occurrence in 1 text block: F.82.