[b][15] A. Haffer suggests that it is יהוה אחד ברוך שם כבוד מלכותו לעולם ועד.
[2] By the start of the Rishonic period, the term "Shem haMephorash" could also be used for the 42-letter name and this interpretation was retrojected into the Mishnah,[19] although even Hayy did not claim to know its pronunciation.
[22][23] A similar amulet is included in the back of Sefer Raziel HaMalakh,[2][24] containing אנקתם פסתם פספסים דיונסים,[25] which the commentary describes as "the 22-letter name."
[2] Nathan Hannover was responsible for introducing it into popular Priestly Blessing liturgy, and also composed poems on the model of Ana b'Koach using the 22-letter name as his acrostic.
[34] Kabbalist legends state that the 72-fold name was used by Moses to cross the Red Sea, and that it could grant later holy men the power to cast out demons, heal the sick, prevent natural disasters, and even kill enemies.
[29] According to G. Lloyd Jones, To overcome the problems posed by the doctrine of God's transcendence, the early Jewish mystics developed an emanation theory in which the alphabet played an important part.
[...] This invocatory technique may be traced through the works of Joseph Gikatilla to the famous thirteenth-century Kabbalist Abraham Abulafia.
[36] It was attested in 1260 by Roger Bacon,[37] who complained about the linguistic corruption that had occurred in translating Liber Semamphoras into Latin from Hebrew.
[40] Reuchlin refers to and lists the 72 Angels of the Shem Hamephorash in his 1517 book De Arte Cabalistica.
They are substantially based on the tetragrammaton, and through this connection they illumine and enhance man's spiritual return to God.
[46] Skinner and Rankine explain that de Vigenère and Rudd adopted these triliteral words with '-el' or '-yah' (both Hebrew for "god") added to them as the names of the 72 angels that are able to bind the 72 evil spirits also described in The Lesser Key of Solomon (c. mid-17th century).
[e] Blaise de Vigenère's manuscripts were also used by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918) in his works for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
The 19th, 20th, and 21st verses of the XIV Chapter of the Book of Exodus each consist of 72 letters...[47] Shem HaMephorash figures in the legend of the golem, an animated anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore that was created entirely from inanimate matter (usually clay).