Anokeesed

Pronunciation: ah-noh-KEE-sed

Who He Is

Anokeesed is God the Father. “Anokeesed is what the Great Holy One calls Himself. And we call Him Father, and mankind calls Him God” (Melchizedek 4:11). In the Three in One, “Kahee is the Holy Spirit, Anokeesed is the Father, and Motsah the Lamb is the Son” (Enoch, Seth 5:58).

His Name Is His Character

His name joins two words: Anokee, “I am” (Strong’s #595), and chesed, “lovingkindness” (Strong’s #2617). Together: “I am lovingkindness.” It is what God calls Himself, and it “clearly describes His character and purpose” (Handbook pp. 134–135). “And more importantly we can know from his name his true character and the only relationship He has with man as our Loving Father” (Handbook p. 136).

When Moses asked at the burning bush what name to give, the Lord said, “Tell him that The Great I Am Loving Kindness has sent you, for they know me by that name” (I Achee 4:35). The Law itself was given so that Israel “could be His emissaries of lovingkindness to all the peoples of the world” (Moses, The Law of Jeshurun, p. 195), and the Book of Remembrance was written “to bring a knowledge of the true character of Anokeesed to His people Israel” (Moses 10:94).

Gentle and Without Harm

The righteous saw God “to be exactly the same as one would think of a little child, and they considered Him to be wholly innocent and absent of any rancor, and they knew that He had no ill will even for the very wicked. And they saw Anokeesed to be holy and pure of heart and utterly without the capacity to bring harm” (Enoch, Bedal 14:18–19). When Ezekiel understood “the true character of Anokeesed in His loving kindness,” he heard Motsah exclaim, “The Lord Anokeesed has no pleasure at all that the wicked should die, and He does not desire any form of vengeance, but I grieve at their passing.” The vision of Israel is to view the Creator “to be tenderhearted like a little child who needs from time to time to be comforted” (Moses 14:105).

So the Spirit taught “that to state or act upon the idea that Anokeesed is cruel or vengeful or wrathful and that He kills and destroys is in fact using His name in vain” (Grandmothers 3:37).

A Father Who Weeps

When Cavah and Yaatsekawd told Him their doubts and fears for baby Kenneh, “Anokeesed wept together with them” (Enoch, Seth 7:24). When the Council of Elda asked what would become of His children who sin, “Anokeesed wept and He said… Oh my poor soul, What shall I do to save those who sin and go astray from knowing me” (Melchizedek 2:46). In the days of Enoch, as violence filled the earth, He gathered heaven in council and said, “Oh woe is me, What shall we do to safeguard the handiwork of my lovingkindness in the earth… and quiet tears were seen to flow because of the sorrow of Anokeesed” (Enoch, Bedal 8:30–31).

When the wicked learned to use His creation to curse, a wind came to Ma’een that “was not fierce in its blowing, but it seemed to weep and mourn,” and the council of Asoof wept “at the prospect of their gentle Father Anokeesed mourning” (Melchizedek 6:28–29). He came Himself as a Man of flesh “because Anokeesed lamented for us because of sin, and unless we could be rescued by His forgiveness to find salvation He would be bereft of all His children” (Grandmothers 4:60). With the exiles carried into Babylon, “He felt every pain and fear of every soul of them. Anokeesed never quit being their God” (Moses 13:127).

A Tender Heart

“It is true that the tender heart of Anokeesed can be hurt, for I myself have done so,” said Shubah, and her repentance was heavy upon her (Enoch, Bedal 8:125). The Council of the Eerkodeshiy “ever and always attend with diligence to the needs of my gentle Father Anokeesed, and they love Him with a tenderness that can only be found in Elda” (Melchizedek 2:10). Even with His own counselors, “Anokeesed said softly to them, Then you shall be my counselors and we shall confer together here” (Melchizedek 2:21). For the slaves born in Egypt whom no one cared for, “Anokeesed was their caregiver… and He viewed them as holy and deserving of a Father’s tender care” (Moses 14:100).

His Joy and Mirth

“Anokeesed has created all mankind to be happy, and He wants His house to be filled with the sounds of life coming from His many happy children” (Moses 2:50). “The gift of life from Anokeesed to mankind was a delight for Him when He gazed upon His children” (Grandmothers 2:48). The little Eerkodeshoi Masowsiel, the Menorah bush, is named for “the feeling of the rejoicing and mirth of Anokeesed,” and the seer wept aloud with joy, “for I had often despaired of Anokeesed ever being happy in light of all the sin and corruption of His creations” (Grandmothers 1:36). At sunrise on the fiftieth day of Shabuwa, “Anokeesed sang with them, and the mirth of Anokeesed is the ultimate treasure for those who love Him” (Melchizedek 12:138).

He Can Be Comforted

When the wind of His sorrow came, “all the people stood by their doorways all throughout the land and they spoke to Anokeesed to comfort Him” (Melchizedek 6:33). Enoch wrote “so that Anokeesed could have happiness and so He could rest in the joys of His people… And Enoch continually sought out ways to comfort Anokeesed” (Grandmothers 3:4). The Law names what comforts Him: “Anokeesed is comforted when His loved ones are obedient to join with the Eerkodeshiy in rich bonds of affection” (Law 25), and homes are to be made “a place where Anokeesed feels welcome and can find rest” (Law 35).

The Law Rests on His Character

Because of who He is, the first Law asks His people to feel as He feels: “The First and great Commandment is that you shall love Anokeesed to the extent and in such a way that you always seek to want to see as He sees and hear as He hears and feel as He feels.” And the second: “that you with fervent desire always want your neighbor to see and hear and feel with Anokeesed… And you require of yourself to interact with them in all these ways as Anokeesed does” (Moses, Laws 1–2).

His Own Words

“I am Anokeesed, and I am the Father to all the Watchers of Heaven, and I can become fully known to the righteous of mankind through them” (Melchizedek 2:89). “Do whatever it takes in your repentance and discipline to know Me and I will do whatever it takes to preserve and bless you… I am your God. I am Anokeesed. I am multiplied in your heart and all things” (I Achee, Appendix, The Covenant of the Community).

His Oneness with Motsah

Motsah became the Son of His right hand, He being the Prince of Righteousness (Melchizedek 2:140). And yet Motsah is also the Man that Anokeesed became: “Anokeesed declared that He would come Himself as a Man of flesh to rescue His children” (Grandmothers 4:60). The books hold both truths as one, without choosing between them.

God in the Flesh

The books teach that Anokeesed came Himself in the flesh as Messiah, the Son (see also Motsah). Rak taught the young Shem: “When Anokeesed saw His children falling away from their perfect selves because of agency, He knew they must have a way to be cleansed so they could return to be with Him as their perfect selves. And Anokeesed said Oh woe is me, I cannot stand to lose them, I will go myself to rescue my children… And the Man that He became was shown forth in the brightness of His fullness, and He was called the Son” (Melchizedek 9:26–27).

To join His children, “He allowed His fullness to become narrow so He could fully join with them in the likeness of them as human creatures out of His infinite love for them… and when He wept with them later over the slain Matteniah He wept as a Man, being an equal among men in His tears” (Melchizedek 9:28). “His first act of salvation was to leave His fullness” (9:29), “and the Creator became one with the created” (9:32). So “Anokeesed declared that He would come Himself as a Man of flesh to rescue His children,” and “our Redeemer is a Man of flesh like unto us in every way except that He did not sin” (Grandmothers 4:60). “The very Man that He became was conceived by a virgin to be born of woman” (Melchizedek 2:65).

In short: Anokeesed is the Father, and Messiah, whom the first parents named Motsah, is the Man that Anokeesed became. The books hold both as one.

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