IAWIA

“I am what I am.” — God, Exodus 3:14

 

In the Bible, one day as Moses was tending his flock, he encounters a “burning bush” whose flames were not devouring its branches.

The burning bush was the manifestation of God; everchanging and eternal.

When Moses asked God: “What is your name?”,  God said (depending on translation): “I am who I am” or “I will be what I will be”.

In the now, God is a “who” and in the time after (and presumably before) the now God is a “what”.

Encapsulating all times, we can paraphrase God: “I am what I am”.

In the now, God is a nameless “who”; for a specific name would mean God is one thing and implicitly not another. God is nameless because God is every thing.

As “what”, God is an unspecified transcendental potential of infinite manifestations.

But God is not a thing. As God also refers to himself as “I am”, God is being; not a being.

God is the essence of every thing which is one thing: a flow.

 

Acronyms: “I WHY” (IA-WIA, first vowel pronounced and second vowel silent) and “A-WAY” (first vowel silent and second vowel pronounced)

 

I WHY

Why do I exist?

As the etymology of the word “universe” is literally “all turned into one”, I am the universe. Hence, more broadly, why does the universe exist?

There are no reasons or explanations.

The universe is the uni-verse, one verse: It is what it is whatever it is.

 

A WAY

In the Bible, God is identified by a four letter word: YHWH (pronounced as “a way”).

Unlike spoken words, YHWH as no vowels. This is consistent with the prohibition to verbalize the name of God.

YHWH is the essence of creation, an unspoken word with no vowels.

Vowels are speech sounds produced without any significant constriction or blockage of airflow in the vocal tract. Vowels are typically voiced, meaning the vocal cords vibrate when producing them.

Man, with the vibrating breath of vowels, creates the universe out of God.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” — John 1:1, The Gospel of John.

The word is the consciousness that connects man to God.