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Dunlap, in his Introduction to Sod, the Mysteries of Adoni (xi), explains the word “Sod” as arcanum, religious mystery, on the authority of Schindler’s Penteglott, 1201. “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him,” says Psalm, xxv. 14. This is a mistranslation of the Christians, for it ought to read: “Sod Ihoh (the Mysteries of Ihoh) are for those who fear him.” “Al [El] is terrible in the great Sod of the Kedeshim (the Priests, the Holy, the Initiated).”—Psalm, lxxxix. 7 (ibid.). The Kedeshim were very far from holy. See the Section on “The Holy of Holies,” in Part II of this Volume.