Mystery-Names

* 1Mystery-Names Names of cosmic and global potencies, which have both a secret meaning and an occult power depending on the sounds or letters used the meaning is often disguised by transformation into their languages The name Jaho, with its variants such as Jehovah or Jah, is a mystery-name which in the Greek Gnostics appears of Iao (the English j being originally a variation of the long i) Many Sanskrit words are of this nature Subba Row, in his article on the zodiac, uses a literal and syllabic key in interpreting the names of the signs Some words yield their meaning by gematria, the numerical value of the letters