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The Name and Tethers

Spirituality and Religion

The Name and Tethers

A Study of the Divine Name, Jewish Mysticism, The Solomonic Tradition, and the Threads that Wove Their Way Through History Into the Modern Age By Ainslie Albright

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The Name and Tethers

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The Name and the Tethers is a theological and historical study tracing the mystery of the divine Name, from the Tetragrammaton and the hidden pronunciation of YHWH to Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah, the 72 Names, Solomon’s wisdom and fall, and the spiritual systems that carried these ideas into the modern world. The book follows one central thread: the Name of God, how it was revealed, guarded, silenced, sought, invoked, and potentially misused across history. It explores the sacred weight of divine language, the mystical traditions surrounding Hebrew letters and creation, the Solomonic tradition of angels and demons, and the way these ideas became tethered to later movements including Hermeticism, Gnosticism, the Templars, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and modern esoteric systems. At its heart, the work is about discernment. It asks whether hidden knowledge draws humanity closer to humble dependence on God, or if it becomes a counterfeit path toward control, and self-exaltation.

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Audiobook details

Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)

GenreSpirituality and Religion

Length2 hrs 30 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMay 25, 2026

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction

15The Testament of Solomon

2What the Name Is

16Why This Matters for Discernment

3When the Name Was Spoken

17Ancient Near East

4When the Name Fell Silent

18Exile, Hellenism, and Alexandria

5The Shem HaMephorash

19Gnosticism and the Magical Papyri

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6The Discovery in Exodus 14

20Islamic Transmission

7Merkabah

21The Knights Templar

8Sefer Yetzirah

22The Hermetic Renaissance

9The Bahir and the Tree of Life

23Rosicrucianism

10The Zohar

24Freemasonry

11Isaac Luria and the Repair of the World

25The American Founding

12The 72 Names

26The 19th and 20th Centuries

13Solomon’s Rise

27What the Evidence Establishes

14Solomon’s Fall

28The Discernment

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