Elohim

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Mystic Comment by Jolan ☯ on June 8, 2011 at 8:16am

For me Elohim are those that are at the root of this multi-versal tree of life, on whom's image the humanoid shape was based. This universe is a creation of their spirit as many other universes. Out of them sprouted forth the angelic planet keepers and messengers, and the dragons who are keep of portals and portal energy, and also earth keepers ( planets ). Some of the Elohim are called elohim of form, or elohim of innocence. So it seems to me that they preceded the Seraphim and Cherubim angels. Anyone any info regarding that? Namaste

Comment by Wizard Gerygo on March 25, 2010 at 3:49pm

Elohim (אֱלהִים) is a Hebrew word which expresses concepts of divinity or deity, notably used as a name of God in Judaism. It is apparently related to the Northwest Semitic word ʾēl (אֱל) "god". Within Hebrew, it is morphologically a plural, in use both as a true plural with the meaning "angels, gods, rulers" and as a "plural intensive" with singular meaning, referring to a god or goddess, and especially to the single God of Israel. The associated singular Eloah (אלוה) occurs only in poetry and in late Biblical Hebrew, in imitation of Aramaic usage.

In the Torah, the word sometimes acts as a singular noun in Hebrew grammar, and is then generally understood to denote the single God of Israel, while in other cases, it acts as an ordinary plural and refers to the polytheistic notion of multiple gods (see Sons of God).

The notion of divinity underwent radical changes throughout the period of early Israelite identity. The ambiguity of the term Elohim is the result of such changes, cast in terms of "vertical translatability" by Smith (2008), i.e. the re-interpretation of the gods of the earliest recalled period as the national god of the monolatrism as it emerged in the 7th to 6th century BC in the Kingdom of Judah and during the Babylonian captivity, and further in terms of monotheism by the emergence of Rabbinical Judaism in the 2nd century AD