JEHOVAH The name of God, ineffable and mysterious, which God declared to Moses, from the burning bush on Mount Horeb. Its ancient pronunciation was Yah veh; its meaning is HE Is, the same as I AM, the person only being changed. In reply to the request of Moses that God would reveal to him his name, "God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I m. 14. Thus it denotes the self existence, independence, immutability, and infinite fullness *,, Stieglitz, in his work ' On Ancient German Architecture,' gives an illustration of two celebrated pillars, as they are now standing in the cathedral of Wurzburg, one of the oldest cities of Germany, and formerly capital of Franconia. He dates them from the time of the construction of the old cathedral, in 1042, by the Fraternity of Steinmetzen, the peculiar form and orna mentation of the capitals and bases being characteristic of the architecture of that period. They were originally situated, like the brazen columns of Solomon's Temple, on either side of the porch—Jachin on the right, and Boaz on the left; but at the present time they are placed in an inverse position, within the body of the cathedral, not far from the main entrance, on either side of a Gothic door-way, leading to a small vaulted chamber. He says, that 'they were
intended to bear a symbolic reference to the Fraternity, which reference is revealed to the initiated in their peculiar proportions, in the ingenious construction and combina tion of the shafts and capitals, as well as by the names sculptured on the abacus.' Bernewitz, disagreeing with Stieglitz in his explanation of the symbolism of these pil lars, says, that 'the artist intended by them to represent God and man.' Boaz is tripar tite, and yet constitutes but one whole ( Trinity); the central portion of the shaft ranters within itself ( God 'without beginning or end).
Jachin consists of only two actual parts, Body and Soul, which are united by a mysterious entwined bond or tie. The interior of these pillars is invisible. The inner man is likewise invisible—unfathomable. The lower portion of the shaft rises from the earth, and again returns thither; (so shall the dust return to the earth as it was;) while the upper portion returns again within itself, and is bound with an endless band (the spirit, being also without beginning or end, waits hopefully for its union with the everlasting spirits above; it embraces eternity, and is by it embracer/)."—