TCR 19 - "I Am"; TCR 22 - God Is Near Every Person

TCR 19 [1-2]

It is well known that Jehovah signifies "I Am" and "Being";
and that God was so called from the most ancient times
appears from the Book of Creation, or Genesis,
where in the first chapter He is called God,
but in the second and following chapters, Jehovah God.
Afterwards, when the descendants
of Abraham through Jacob
forgot the name of God during their sojourn in Egypt,
it was recalled to their remembrance as it is written:

Moses said to God, what is Your name?
God said: I Am who I Am.
Thus you will say to the children of Israel,
I Am has sent me to you, and you shall say,
JEHOVAH God of your fathers has sent me to you:
this is My name for ever,
and this is My memorial unto all generations.
(Exodus 3: 13, 14, 15)

Since the only God is the I Am,
and Being (Esse) or Jehovah,
there is nothing in the created universe
which does not derive its being (esse) from Him.
How this is will be seen below.
The same is also meant by these words:

I am the First and the Last,
the Beginning and the End,
the Alpha and the Omega.
(Isaiah 44:6: Revelation 1:8, 11; 22:13)

by which is meant that He is the Self and only One
from first things to last,
and that all things are from Him.

God is called the Alpha and the Omega,
the Beginning and the End
because Alpha is the first
and Omega the last letter in the Greek alphabet,
and therefore they signify all things in the complex.
This is because every letter of the alphabet
in the spiritual world has a signification of its own;
and every vowel, because it is a symbol of sound,
signifies something of affection or love.

TCR 22 [1-2]

. . . as a person has been created
that he might also be spiritual,
since he will live after death
among spiritual beings in their world,
God has provided the Word,
in which He has revealed not only Himself
but also the existence of heaven and hell,
in one of which every person will live to eternity,
depending upon the life he has lived
in accordance with his faith.
He has also revealed in the Word
that He is the I Am or Being,
the Self and only One which is in itself,
and thus the Beginning, the Source of all things.

From this revelation
the natural person can raise himself above nature,
and thus above himself,
and see such things as are of God,
but yet as from a distance,
although God is near every person,
for He is in him with His Essence.
Because this is so,
He is near those who love Him;
and they love Him
who live according to His commandments
and believe on Him;
and these, as it were, see Him.
For faith is nothing but a spiritual perception that He is,
and a life according to His commandments
an actual acknowledgment
that salvation and eternal life are from Him.