The Cipher of Genesis: The Original Code of the Qabala as Applied to the Scriptures [Paperback]

Carlo Suares (Author)

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Weiser Books (February 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877287406
• ISBN-13: 978-0877287407
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,276,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Science of the Structure of Energy, April 9, 2000

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This review is from: The Cipher of Genesis: The Original Code of the Qabala as Applied to the Scriptures (Paperback)

If you can stand having your basic assumptions turned literally upside-down (some cannot) and don't mind having profound and revolutionary ideas handed to you on a silver platter, this is the book for you.

Suares' work stands almost totally apart from any other exegesis of Qabala in the last 500 years. It is focused on Yetziratic Qabala (in contrast to the Zoharic traditions dealt with in most modern literature) and is presented in terms appropriate for our times -- as the science of the structure of energy.

Be aware -- this is not a speculative work. The Cipher of Genesis offers two levels of truth, each equally amazing and challenging, each with potentially great significance if accepted into the psyche of the reader.

The first -- that the original, most Holy, book of the West, the Hebrew Bible, was written in code -- and we're not talking Rabbi's names here -- is revolutionary enough.

The second -- and this is what turns the work away from speculation and into a science project -- is the publishing of the key to the code for independent deciphering and verification.

Suares says, in the Cipher, that there is a buried, or rather formative language hidden in the Hebrew letters of the Bible. They are right there before our eyes as code we didn't know was code, with meanings that are shadows or inversions of the encoded meaning. The Keys have been given. See for yourself. [e-mail]

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The poetry of the Hebrew language: Images and numbers, March 22, 1999

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Charles B. Glennon (Makawao, HI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cipher of Genesis: The Original Code of the Qabala as Applied to the Scriptures (Paperback)

Suares first caught my attention in his analysis of the Sefir Yetsira, which I purchased in 1976, but could not -- or did not-- access until this past year, Sept. 1998. Suares uses the symbolism of numbers in the Hebrew alphabet to build metaphorical meaning into simple letters, words, and stories. To participate in the unfolding of the opening of the Book of Genesis, for example, is to taste of the essential nature of his enterprise. I have spent many many hours in a state of imaginative ecstasy and fascination as the symbolism of Cain (Qaheen) and the story of the Garden of Eden expand in my mind. The experience of this book and the Sefir Yetsira transcends for me the reading of the most profound poetry: e.g. Whitman's Out of the Cradle, Eliot's Four Quartets, Wallace Stevens' Auroras of Autumn and William Butler Yeats Lapis Lazuli. As a result of Suares' works,I have marked up my Strong's Hebrew dictionary and made a catalogue of my own key words and have been investigating the Hebrew letter connections with the Tarot started by The Golden Dawn. Moreover, I have begun to come to terms with the holocaust as part of the unfoldment of the mystery of life. Even Camus' Plague makes actual religious sense -- not as God's punishment, but as the discovery of the role of resistance in our spiritual growth. (I trivialize by trying to explain.) I only wish that I could have access to a person as conversant with this wing of Qabbalistic study as Suares was.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant, luminous book, February 13, 1999

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This review is from: The Cipher of Genesis: The Original Code of the Qabala as Applied to the Scriptures (Paperback)

One cannot "read" this book, as one reads a novel or a newspaper. This book is really a kind of poem. It was meant to be approached meditatively, where each sentence is allowed to germinate and then explode within the soul. It is a rare and brilliant gem, an altogether novel and luminously mature approach to the presentation of kabbalah and religion.