N-CH – ‘rest/repose of Nature/elementary existence’

The root from which this important name comes, is composed of the sign of produced being נ, image of reflected existence, and the sign of the effort of Nature ח, which gives birth to virtual equilibrium, to existence. This root offers the idea of that perfect repose, which, for a things long agitated in opposed directions, results in that state of equilibrium where it dwells immobile.

Nearly all the tongues of the Orient understood this mysterious expression, The Hebrew and the Chaldaic draw from it two verbs. By the first נהוה, one understands, to lead to the end, to guide towards the place of repose; by the second, נוא, to repose, to rest tranguil, to bein a state of peace, of calm, of perfect bliss. It is from the latter, that the name of the cosmogonic personage who saw the end of the world and its renewal, is derived. It is the emblem of the repose of elementary existence, the sleep of Nature. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 167-168)

If one considers this root as formed of the united sign of produced existence and elementary existence, it implies a movement which leads toward an end: if one considers it as formed of the same sign of produced existece united by contraction to the root , image of all equilibratory force, it furnishes the idea of that perfect repose which results for a thing long time agitated contrarily, and the point of equilibrium which it attains where it dwells immobile. Thence: In the first case, and in a restricted sense, a guide: in the second case, and in a general sense, the repose of existence. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 399)