Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00129)

Yes, Bart, you are right. I just could not remember the Baal Shem 
Tov's full appellation at the time, so I "winged" it.

Anyway, I have a very old "Spiritualist" book, by Moses Hull, "An 
Encyclopedia of Biblical Spiritualism," that claims that Yahweh was 
a "deceased Egyptian spirit-guide." HPB came along before that, but 
she would have had a heyday with that supposition. Actually, HPB was 
somewhat divided in her ideas over whether YHVH was solely a 
Kabbalistic term or had some other meaning, as inferred above, 
relating to the ancient Jews/Phoenicians. There are definite 
similarities between the Phoenician "Bull-God" EL, and Yahweh, and 
the "Bull-God" of Egypt, Amun-Ra-Min, who is shown ithyphallic and 
supposedly created everything by masturbation.
[[Oh, gods, NOT that subject again!!!]]

See: http://www.sexualecstasy.org/