Cipher Of Genesis: Using The Qabalistic Code To Interpret The First Book of the Bible and the Teachings of Jesus

This is a strange book to me. It opens my mind up to questions I had not considered and leaves those questions largely open.I understand that this book deals with such kinds of questions, ones which we may never be able to answer. We certainly cannot answer them with the everyday mind and everyday language because these questions are to large to be captured by mere words and concepts. After all, words are a means to convey a concept, and a concept is a mental model or simplification of reality, and a level removed from reality. You may think your HD TV is just great, but an image of a person, no matter how lifelike it appears, is not the same as the living, breathing, flesh and blood reality of one in your presence. Neither is an image of a meal a meal itself.This book is based on Qabbalistic interpretation of Hebrew words as the meaning derives from the letters and the number the letters mean. This is an unusual way to regard words because the word's meaning is not derived phonetically but by numerology.There are many surprises in the book, and intriguing ones to me. According to this book, the usual way these stories are understood is wrong, or incomplete, or misleading.I was especially interested in Adam and Eve and Cain and Able. It seems that this book will upset everything you might have understood about these stories. The book even touches on Jesus and Judas and their true relationship a bit at the end. The interpretation of Judas is not new to me, but it might be an eye-opener to you. As to the serpent and the Garden of Eden, I never saw it coming.I am impressed that this book gives women such a powerful role in cosmology. I always have thought of Judaism as patriarchal to the nth degree. It is nice to see a view of the power and mystery of the sacred feminine from a Qabbalistic point of view.I find some of the ideas in the book very useful in my everyday meditations and my everyday world view. I appreciate the idea that some of us are like Adam, of the Earth and Heaven, but interested mostly in continuity and comfort. I affectionately call this type the "lizard on the rock". You know, a lizard finds a nice rock in the warm sun and wants to stay like that forever. I also see Bilbo Baggins like this: enjoying his three breakfasts and the comforts of his home.In contrast is the need to grow spiritually, and for that one needs disruption and discontinuity. That is what Eve represents, and what Bilbo's mother's side of the family, the Tooks, represent. When Bilbo is comfortable at home, that is his Baggins' side. When he accepts the adventure and leaves home, that is his Tookish side. It is interesting that Gandalf the Wizard play the instigator role, but it is Bilbo who must either accept or reject the opportunity to grow. Bilbo accepts. Had he not, Tolkien would have had no book.I wish that the book had some explanations for some of its concepts. I would like to understand more about 'resistance" and "resistance to life", more than I just intuited and made up for myself. Along the same lines, I would like to hear more about the container, or the husk, around the "germ" of life.This is a good book, and unsettling book, and in that sense it can represent a more forward for those who read it and profit by what it says.

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Novices and initiates will enter unprepared for Carlo's world view and fail to see the multiple dimensions as one. The astute reader will be able to use this as a tool to change a vine into a tree. You will get out of it what you put into it. This book is much like Aesop's elephant among the blind men. Carlo changed my life for the better and for eternity.

I gave this book 3 stars cause,1) its a tad difficult to readdue to the authors train of thought…..He begins in one arena and then goes on and on and on (with what I find to besomewhat boring) just to end with what he could've said up front.Some may like that, but I like to get to the point.Purchased this because I read Glynda-Lee Hoffmann and the way in which sheportrayed this work, I was fascinated…..I am NOT saying the book is not good……..

Really interesting book. Makes one think.

Brilliant

Had this book when it first came out. Needed a replacement to review some research project. If you are into Mysticism especially Jewish Mysticism this book and in fact any of Carlo Suares books are extremely informative. what you get out of them depends on your intention. I would not recommend them for beginners but if you already have an inkling of understanding of Jewish mysticism or Quabalah/kabbalah then by all means get the book.

The book came seal new, just as expected. Great condition and quick delivery.The book itself is very deep. Not your ordinary secular interpretations on religious monotheism.Here in this book, it goes down deep to the building blocks of language with numbers as well, religious beliefs, and of life itself. Consider it the subatomic analysis of the metaphysics of Christianity.