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Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
R. Swinburne Clymer · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordThe Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew divine name, represented through IHVH in this discussion.
- In Ancient Mystic Oriental MasonryThe long Lost Word passage relates a Hebrew tetrad to sacred speech and substitutes.
- In this editionThe copy text prints Tetragrammation in the main discussion.
- A place to readM.45: … “and at once ideal and practical. In the Tetragrammation, or four-lettered name of Deity, the Greek” …
Meaning
The Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew divine name, represented through IHVH in this discussion. The word means a name or expression of four letters.
Use in the book
The long Lost Word passage relates a Hebrew tetrad to sacred speech and substitutes. It compares the fourfold form with threefold and other arrangements. The Name is then made to carry both a philosophical idea of being and a claim about its effective utterance.
Places to read
- Mystic Masonry · Block 45… “and at once ideal and practical. In the Tetragrammation, or four-lettered name of Deity, the Greek followers of Pythagoras found a glyphic by which they both expressed and concealed their philosophy,” …
- Mystic Masonry · Block 51… “who should alter, by a single letter or 'Yod,' the outer text, had therefore a deeper meaning. The priests of many nations of antiquity were initiates in the Mysteries, and as” …
In this edition
The copy text prints Tetragrammation in the main discussion. The entry uses the standard explanatory headword openly and preserves the source form in its excerpts and concordance.
Reading the argument
The symbolic reading should be separated from a demonstrated linguistic history. Comparing numbers of sounds or letters can suggest a pattern without proving that several traditions derived their expressions from one source.
Tetragrammation
“Tetragrammation” — 1 occurrence in 1 text block: M.45.
IHVH
“IHVH” — 2 occurrences in 1 text block: M.45.
Yod
“Yod” — 4 occurrences in 3 text blocks: M.45, 51; N.184.
tetrad
“tetrad” — 2 occurrences in 1 text block: M.45.