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 ""), and sometimes as Elohim (translated "God"); as Jehovah, when God in His essential nature is spoken of, or as the Divine Good; and as Elohim, when He is spoken of in His Divine Proceeding, or Going-forth, or the Divine Truth, as the creative activity of the universe. This would make clear, what is now confused to many, that the writers of the Old Testament, when they sometimes used Jehovah and sometimes Elohim, were speaking—and from Divine dictation—in accordance with the phase of being or activity that was referred to. The so-called Higher Criticism would fall completely to the ground.

This would relate Jehovah to the "Father" of the New Testament, and Elohim to Jesus, thus to the Logos, or the Divine Truth, or to the "Son." Two Gods would not be referred to by the names Jehovah or Elohim, or Jehovah and Jesus, or Father and Son, but one only God in His two phases of Being and Coming-forth; in the nature of the case, of one Essence; in the nature of the case, Indivisible, and only divided by men in their thought of these two phases.

The world would in this way perceive that the