ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORY: ALIEN INTERVENTION #8

ON THE ORIGIN OF
THE KABBALAH - PART II

Divine revelation leads to new beliefs

"Into thirty-two mysterious paths of wisdom did (he/it) engrave Yah, Lord of the Legions, God of Israel, God of Life, King of Ages, Almighty God, Creator of Good, Dwelling in the Heights, Dwelling in Eternity, Holy Be His Name, and create (his/its) world with three books: written, numerical, and verbal."

In On the Origin of the Kabbalah - Part I, it was explained that the first sentence of the Sefer Yetzirah (repeated above) led the early mystics to postulate the existence of a primordial substance that preceded the God of Israel. They called that substance Ein Sof. It was also explained that the "paths of wisdom" referred to text that was engraved into a fragment of Ein Sof and that the mystics were in possession of that text.

All this still leaves the mystics without an engraver. Since Ein Sof preceded the material universe, the mystics concluded that the engraver had to have been a spiritual being, i.e. an angel. They called that angel Metatron, and designated him the heavenly scribe. Mystic writings inform us that Metatron is a Latin name. It does indeed seem strange that Jews would give an angel a Latin name except, of course, if that angel just happened to write in Latin.

To the Jewish mentality, past and present, there is perhaps nothing more abhorrent than the notion of divine revelation coming to them in Latin. After all, Latin was the language of Rome, and the Romans conquered and occupied Israel, the Romans destroyed the Temple, the Romans drove the Jews out of the Holy Land. But the God of Israel was also a vindictive God, and at times He punished His people severely for disobedience. At the time of the appearance of the Paths of Wisdom, the Jews had largely abandoned the God-given Hebrew in favor of Aramaic. In such circumstances one cannot rule out sending them revelation written in Latin.

Metatron engraved a total of one hundred paths, each comprised of four lines of text, and each line displayed six Latin words. The Sefer Yetzirah, however, signals that only thirty-two of the engravings contain the ten Names of God. How were those thirty-two going to be identified? The mystics had Hebrew text on one side and Latin text on the other and in no way does the Latin display any Hebrew. There seemed to be no way to identify the thirty-two Paths of Wisdom.

It took the early mystics in Babylonia a couple of centuries to find the solution. Their idea was to reduce the Hebrew Names of God and the Latin text to numbers, and then to compare the two on the basis of numerical equivalency. But the numerical systems then in existence were hopelessly unsuited for such a task. They needed something better. Following instructions found in the Sefer Yetzirah, the mystics developed a ten-digit numerical system that would do the trick. They did not have a lot of pride and let the Arabs take credit for their invention. But they were happy enough. The Arabic numerals gave them the tool they needed to find the thirty-two Paths of Wisdom.

Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet represents a number (unlike Latin where only a few letters are used to represent numbers) and the mystics now replaced each letter with its Arabic numeral equivalent. The great advantage of Arabic numerals is that larger numbers are comprised of individual components representing smaller numbers, and the individual components can be added up, and then the sum of that can be added up, and again and again, until all is reduced to a single digit within the original series of ten digits. By this technique, a type of gematria, text of any length can be reduced to a single digit. And so the mystics reduced the ten Names of God to a sequence of ten digits.

The next step was to do the same with the Paths, each of which was divided into ten parts. First, of course, the Latin letters had to be converted to Hebrew letters (for example, they replaced the Latin "a" with the Hebrew Aleph, the Latin "b" with the Hebrew Beth, and so forth) to once again apply the gematria technique. And so each of the one hundred Paths was reduced to a sequence of ten digits. It was now only a matter of comparing numerical sequences to find the Paths of Wisdom.

Recent investigations overturn the initial happy-ending conclusion that the Babylonian mystics successfully identified the thirty-two Paths of Wisdom. Their word-and-number games led to finding the ten Names of God in forty-two of the engravings, not in just thirty-two of them. This left them with an unsolvable quandary about how to further narrow it down to thirty-two. Symbolic of their frustration, the mystics created a new Name for God, a Name composed of forty-two letters.

None of this stopped the mystics (now relocated in the European country of Provence) from using the full forty-two Paths to develop a wide range of radical new theories on the nature of deity\and creation, but regarding the Paths of Wisdom the history of the Kabbalah became a history of confusion and chaos, of divergent identifications, divergent ordinations, and divergent interpretations. The mystics had a saying that it was very difficult to find the Paths of Wisdom. That was putting it mildly. The mystics never succeeded in identifying the Paths of Wisdom with any confidence. Their thousand-year quest for the Paths of Wisdom failed.

One must understand that the mystics were never the creators of the Paths of Wisdom. Ownership of the Paths belonged exclusively to the author of the Sefer Yetzirah and original engraver of the Paths. Many centuries later, with the changing times of the Renaissance threatening the extinction of their secrets, and still unable to identify the thirty-two Paths of Wisdom, the last of the Provencal mystics devised a plan to ensure the long-term survival of all forty-two candidates. In other words, it is still possible to find the Paths of Wisdom.

"The central theme of my Kabbale website is that a Latin version of forty-two of the Nostradamus prophecies was known to the Kabbalists of Provence during the Middle Ages. Those forty-two prophecies include all the well-known British ones: the Execution of Charles I by Parliament, the Great Fire of London , the Glorious Revolution of England, and the Great Empire For Three Centuries. Here's the point: If Nostradamus did not write those prophecies, then their authorship becomes an unknown, and there can be no guarantee that the original source of those prophecies was a human being."

--Morten St. George

The alien's prophecies are wholly silent on the theme of personal intervention with Judaism and/or Islam. On my Nostradamus et la Kabbale website, I demonstrate that Nostradamus used the Sefer Yetzirah for the purpose of numbering the prophecies of the Andean sky god. In the SETI-1 article on this website, I demonstrate that the prophecies employ the Nostradamus numbers for dating purposes. The laws of cause and effect dominate in this universe. The only realistic possibility for the sky god, working in the sixth or seventh century, to achieve the desired result in the sixteenth century is if he himself had written the Sefer Yetzirah. And if this ancient astronaut authored the Sefer Yetzirah, it follows that he also authored the Quran (Koran) as implied in the first sentence of the Sefer Yetzirah.

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