At July 6th 2007 I have
received an e-mail from a person under the pseudonym of Larry Cohen asking me
to review, to analyze and pass the word about his work:
« Dear Mr. D’Affonseca
I got your
address from the Ancient Hebrew Research Center's guestbook. If you have
a little spare time, could you take a look at the link at the bottom of this
email, which displays a full copy of my new book - without charge. Here
is a brief synopsis with a couple excerpts:
Saint Jerome
(342-419 AD), author of the 'Vulgate', a translation of the Bible from Hebrew
& Greek into Latin, said: "The most difficult and obscure of the holy
books contain as many secrets as they do words, concealing many things even
under each word."
Maimonides
(1135-1204 AD), a Rabbi and philosopher and one of the most influencial figures
in the recorded history of Jewish thought, speaking of the book of Genesis
said: "We ought not to take literally that which is written in the story
of creation, nor entertain the same ideas of it as are common with the vulgar.
If it were otherwise, our ancient sages would not have taken so many
pains to conceal the sense, and to keep before the eyes of the uninstructed the
veil of allegory which conceals the truth it contains."
Those in
antiquity whom we today label 'Kabbalists' or 'Jewish mystics', considered
themselves simply to be Rabbis, and these Rabbis did not perceive their
scripture in a literal way. For example, Rabbi Azriel of Gerona (1160 –
1238 AD): "Just as in the body of a man there are limbs and joints, just
as some organs of the body are more, others less, vital, so it seems to be with
the Torah. To the ones who do not understand their hidden meaning,
certain sections and verses of the Torah seem fit to be thrown into the fire;
but to the one who has gained insight into their true meaning they seem
essential components of the Torah. Consequently, to omit so much as one
letter or point from the Torah is like removing some part of a perfect edifice.
Thence it also follows that in respect of its divine character no
essential distinction can be drawn between the section of Genesis 36, setting
forth the generations of Esau [a seemingly superfluous passage], and the Ten
Commandments, for it is all one whole and one edifice."
The product
of over a decade of research, The Infinite And The Alephbet posits that each
letter in the common Semitic alphabet (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic & others)
represents something fundamental, such as motion, resistance, or life.
Semitic
scripture (Old Testament, New testament, Qur'an & others) is thus imbued
with a layer of meaning below the surface - a sort of 'science' of the
fundamental nature of things, intertwined with the surface narrative - the
stories that we are familiar with. For example, in my theory, the letter NOON
represents living entities where they are generally bound.
Here is a
list of the names of many distinct external living body
parts of the human body:
OYIN-YUHD-NOON:
Eye
ALEF-ZAIN-NOON:
Ear
LAMED-SHEEN-NOON:
Tongue
SHEEN-NOON:
Tooth
ZAIN-QOAF-NOON:
Beard (chin)
GIMEL-RAISH-NOON:
Throat, neck
HKET-TSADY-NOON:
Bosom, arms, lap
BAIT-TET-NOON:
Belly, womb
QOAF-TET-NOON:
Little finger
BAIT-HAY-NOON:
Thumb, big toe
What are the
odds that so many end with the same letter?
Now let's
consider kings David and Solomon.
The name
'David' is spelled DALET-VAWV-DALET. Other words with the same or similar
arrangement of letters mean: 'love', 'beloved', 'amiable' etc…
The name of
one of David's sons, Solomon, who goes on to become king after David, is
spelled SHEEN-LAMED-MEM-HAY. Other words with the SHEEN-LAMED-MEM
combination mean: 'peace', 'rest', 'safety' etc…
You may be
familiar with the Hebrew greeting 'Shalom', the Aramaic greeting 'Shlomo', and
the Arabic greeting 'Salam' which all mean 'peace'; and the terms 'Muslim' and 'Islam' which are also based on
the same combination of letters.
And so,
'Love' gives birth to 'Peace', and after Peace dies, the
kingdom just so happens to become divided.
David's first
appearance in 1-Samuel 16:12 : And he
sent, and brought him (David) in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a
beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. 16:21 : And David
came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his
armour bearer.
The outset of
Solomon's reign described in 1-Kings 4:24 : For he had dominion over all
the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the
kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.
And then, once the kingdom is divided after Solomon dies, Rehoboam rules the
tribe of Judah in Jerusalem, and Jeroboam rules the rest of the tribes.
Rehoboam has a son named Abijam and Jeroboam has a son named Abijah.
Rehoboam =
RAISH-HKET-BAIT-OYIN-MEM
Jeroboam =
YUHD-RAISH-BAIT-OYIN-MEM
Abijam =
ALEF-BAIT-YUHD-MEM
Abijah =
ALEF-BAIT-YUHD-HAY
This book has
nothing to do with the Da Vinci Code, where the
characters of the bible are treated as actual historical figures.
And this book
has nothing to do with the 'Bible codes', which treats the Bible as one big
crossword puzzle.
Instead, the
core idea of this book is that there are two narratives brilliantly interwoven
in Semitic scripture (Old Testament, New Testament, Qur'an & others).
There is a narrative of finite things, and there is a narrative of things
found throughout the infinite.
The narrative
of the finite includes mythology, allegory, parables, riddles, prohibitions,
commandments etc. - concerning finite things, with words that refer to finite
things with which we are familiar such as mountains, kings, battles, cities, chariots, houses, people, etc.
This is the
story of Semitic scripture that we are familiar with.
The narrative
of the infinite is embedded within this narrative of the finite, in the letters
of the same words.
Abraham bar
Hiyya (1065 – 1136 AD): "Every letter and every word in every section of
the Torah have a deep root in wisdom and contain a mystery from among the
mysteries of understanding, the depths of which we cannot penetrate…"
One last
example: The letter ALEF represents the space between entities separate from
each other. It is the open, the void, etc…
The letter
YUHD represents the structure between entities bound to one another or somehow
maintaining static direct contact between one another. It is the fabric,
the glue, the matter, etc…
The letter
TET is the coming together, combining, joining, binding, bonding, placing
together, etc…
The letter
TSADY is the breaking free, the splitting, separating, parting, expulsion,
releasing, etc…
Now, here is
a list of words with the two-letter combination ALEF-TET:
ALEF-TET-MEM:
To close, shut, stop. Narrowness.
ALEF-TET-YUHD-MEM: Closed,
dense, forced. Thickness. Being full.
ALEF-TET-RAISH:
To shut in.
ALEF-TET-YUHD-PHAY:
Folded material / object.
ALEF-TET-DALET:
Bramble, thorns, thorn bush. (that which grabs onto you as you
encounter it).
ALEF-TET-VAWV-NOON:
Linen. (yarn, thread: that which you use to bind)
LAMED-ALEF-TET:
To cover. Softly.
ALEF-TET:
Gently, softly. Secret.
Out of the 8
unique words in the old testament which have the ALEF-TET combination in it, 7
are listed in this table. What are the odds that 7/8 give the impression
of things 'joining', 'covering', 'shutting in', etc…?
To
demonstrate that this is no coincidence, let us now reverse our attention to
the antithesis of ALEF-TET, with the combination TSADY-ALEF:
YUHD-TSADY-ALEF:
To go out, go forth, go from, come out, come from, proceed out, proceed from,
depart. Go away, escape, get out. Bring, carry, fetch. Grow,
issue forth, beget.
TSADY-ALEF-HAY:
Filth, excrement.
TSADY-ALEF-TSADY-ALEF:
Offspring. Things that come from the earth.
MEM-TSADY-ALEF:
Water spring, flower bud. Goings forth, the bringing out of.
To find, bring out to, get, deliver, present unto. To befall to,
come out unto, come upon, to meet, to receive.
BAIT-TSADY-ALEF:
Fissure, rending open.
PHAY-TSADY-ALEF:
Piece, portion, lot. (as broken up)
NOON-TSADY-ALEF:
To flee.
RAISH-TSADY-ALEF:
To run.
TAWV-TSADY-ALEF:
That which goes out of a border.
Out of the 9
words in the old testament which have the TSADY-ALEF combination in it, 7 are
listed in this table. What are the odds that 7/9 give the impression of
'separating', 'splitting', 'moving away', etc...?
The book is
available in its entirety, without charge, on the web: http://www.TheInfiniteAndTheAlephbet.com
Right after
the section entitled 'Baalam's donkey', you will find a link for the required
fonts for the page – which are also entirely free (available for MAC or PC).
The
introduction is straightforward, and is only about a half-hour of reading.
If you like what you see, could you do me a huge favor: pass the word on.
Thank you
kindly
Larry Cohen »
Well, this
kind of e-mails for many people are not common ones; anyway, for me and across
my life I have received several and, before Internet exists like even before
BBS’s system, I have received at my P.O. Box manuscripts, dactylographed
documents and even printed ones… (?) People that have pay to print four or five
samples send me two so I could analyze them, make correction proposals and
comment. I never have destroyed any document because or I did not care about,
or I had no time and I always have read them, in a first straight reading, as
reading a novel to see if the document was and is inner my speciality or my
knowledge, i.e: if I have the skills to make an evaluation of it.
So I went to http://www.TheInfiniteAndTheAlephbet.com and I made a copy/paste of the document into a Word
document but downloading the fonts and executing them did not give results and
because the pictographic symbols did not appear at my Word text, I decided to
send an e-mail to Larry Cohen who answered sending me the fonts files by e-mail
and advising me that the fonts do not work at Windows Vista. My system is all
Windows XP and when manually I cut and
paste the fonts to the respective folder at the Control Panel I could observe
that the fonts were already there but after this hand operation all the eleven
fonts begun working perfectly. I have format the document of Larry and divided
it in some kind of versicles for analyse eventual contradictions and other
aspects.
I am focusing
this because the same, about the fonts, can happen to anyone of You that are
interested in study the Larry Cohen’s document. Happens only that Mr. Larry
Cohen speaking to me about the anonymity that he pretends to keep have told me
that soon he will put an end to the e-mail that normally I use to contact him…
well, even I don’t know if is him or her.
So and for
this do not be loosed the FozIber team has decided to give the fonts by e-mail
to any person interested in study this document and if the fonts does not work,
we promise that after send you the eleven fonts we will not keep your e-mail
address at our agenda.
I also have sent the document for
analyze to a great friend of mine, a teacher from UK that belongs to a
Kabbalistic esoteric school named The Magic Of IHVH-ADNI
Working Group with the web page http://www.tmo-wg.net/index-en.html
that belongs to Rawn Clark having also this English friend of mine the web http://www.ihvh.co.uk/index.htm
and I am focusing this for the people who are interested in this studies of
western Kabbalah so and to finish, I will give you also a link of Jewish
Kabbalah http://www.kabbalaonline.org, like
the Ancient Hebrew Research Center's
where you can prepare yourself to master the Hebrew language and much more http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/index.html.
Here you also can get fonts about all Aramaic dialects.
There is not
much to say about it only that deserves a deep study, even the author has the
same intention and that has been one of the main reasons for him or her to keep
the anonymity and his or her explanation is « Religion is such a delicate matter, with so many variables. It is
at once a deep personal internal affair, while also being impossible to
separate from external affairs of governance, commerce, culture etc...
Until
the basics of the book are understood, I feel no need to make myself available
to add or comment upon the book. Although it is not an easy read at first
(with a unique vocabulary that can, at first glance, be misinterpreted), the
ideas are straight forward, and can be clearly comprehended once that
vocabulary is deciphered, with a marginal amount of effort.
By
remaining anonymous, it allows the reader to imagine all sorts of potential
types the author could be: old, young, male, female, Jew, non-Jew etc... which
has the effect of seeing one's own self of being capable of such work
regardless of your own characteristics. Also, this has the effect of
perceiving the work in context with various possible motives for writing that
one can imagine, which might allow them to derive fresh interpretations of the
text.
By
remaining anonymous, without having somebody around to ask to elaborate
further, or explain more, it encourages the reader to carry on his/her own
research on the matter, allowing them to develop their unique talents and offer
their unique insights, on their own two feet.
By
remaining anonymous, I can relax knowing that zealots who may misunderstand the
book on their first read-through (or understand it all too well), will not have
the chance to threaten me or others I know. »
So I will not comment also the document
leaving to each one of you a unique message: go to http://www.TheInfiniteAndTheAlephbet.com all of you that are interested in this subject and
you will see there enough material for a thesis, at least. Study deeply the
document and also you don’t need me to give you explanations because if anyone
of you feel a lack of material for your understanding you can go to http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/index.html
and realize there the basis needed for to understand the Larry Cohen’s
document.
The FozIber is publishing, since the
second middle 0f 2006, an exposition about Hebrew and Hebrew Culture but not
with the speed we have planed because we are full of work and the day has only
twenty four hours – like we use to say we have fall down at the wrong planet
hahahaha – so, at http://foziberhybryth.no.sapo.pt
you can see the first part, the fundamentals, with
explanatory videos. Of course that the help that this link can give you for Larry
Cohen’s document it is just a few.
I hope you will enjoy The Infinite And
The Alephbeth as I am enjoying.
A
Member of the FozIber Team
July 13th, 2007
Background made from this XVth century image.