ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues that God's middot are sublated in the Name YHWH; the manifest potencies, which have been conceived variously as angelic princes, lesser divine names, and the kabbalistic sefirot, are all ultimately suspended in the grander metaphysical entity of the Name, also known as Metatron. It also establishes that, while ancient biblical traditions regarding the Name-Angel fed and contributed to certain hypostatic and binitarian trends in Late Antiquity, eventually culminating in Christianity, such a blunt ontological reading was rejected by the rabbinate, along with the associated tradition of the Name's role in creation. The Jewish mystical theology has been examining the nature of essence; the philosophical speculation on the nature of God, the rejection of attributes in search of simplicity and unity, and the attempt to discover how then humans can interact or relate to God.
