Q-Y-N – ‘strong desire that draws all to itself; compressive and centralizing power’

The root of the name Kain, is קן, which is composed of the eminently compressive and trenchant sign ק, and that of produced being ן. It develops the idea of strongest compression and of most centralized existence. In the proper name under consideration, it is presented animated by the sign of manifested power: thus קין, can can signify the strong, the powerful, the rigid, the vehement, and also the central, that which serves as basis, rule, measure; that which agglomerates, appropriates, seizes, comprehends, assimilates with itself. It is in this last sense that Moses appears to have represented it in the verb which follows. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 122-123)

For this is the progression of the signs: ה, universal life; ח, elementary existence, the effort of nature; כ, assimilated life holding the natural forms; ק, material existence giving the means of forms. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 98)

The main root of Kain is קן, to which is added the sign of power. The root has the idea of a covetous, desiring force that seeks to draw all to itself, to compress (render material).

It contains the central force, profound basis, rule and measure of things; also the faculty which seizes, usurps, agglomerates, appropriates and assimilates with itself. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 442)

It makes sense that the first conception of the intellect is the power to materialize all thoughts into a thought-form that can be grasped and communicated, the basis for self-consciousness. This centralizing power is derived from and in the image of God Himself.