The Bible, more specifically the Old Testament, was written in a language now called Hebrew. This language is so different from ours that it is very hard, if not impossible, to translate. It is comparable to musical notation and math, where the symbols used in these "languages" project their own reality. In music, the symbols project frequencies, durations and other things. In math, the symbols project abstract concepts, such as numbers, matrices, probabilities, geometrical figures, operations between these concepts, etc. To see the problem, ask yourself: How would you translate Beethoven's Fifth into English? How would you translate the proof of The Last Theorem of Fermat into English?
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The Hebrew language is a projective language as well. It projects existence and life. The wish for a translation of the Hebrew Bible caused a major rift between the text and those who want to know its content.
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A good introduction can be found here: http://www.duversity.org/PDF/THE%20CIPHER%20OF%20GENESIS.pdf. In this article, the late author Carlo Suarès (1892-1976) explains it succinctly,
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This other view of looking at the language of the Bible as a projective language has huge consequences for the interpretation of the Bible. Instead of a religious text (spiritual), a political text (governmental), an ethnic text (cultural), it turns out that it is a text which may induce in us a "revelation" of a scientific nature (experiential). This revelation is the "unseen" in the world of sensations, the center of consciousness within us, what it is, what it does, and why. This text, then, rather than to consider it mere stories, tells a tale which is most important, it's the tale of internalization of the life force of the universe, which is contained in everything and contains everything.
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The discovery that the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet have meaning in and of themselves, projecting them in the reader's awareness, may help to come full circle within oneself, realizing one's connection within and without, and one's cosmic role in the events of one's surrounding.
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As I venture on this course to divulge this knowledge, I'm discovering the infinite. Faith is a metaphor for the leap one has to take to describe the infinite with finite means; a daring endeavor in a foreign land with no roads. The things we recognize around us become the bars behind which we have locked up our creativity. Therefore, we have the opportunity to break out of our prison by becoming amazed and fascinated with existence and life.
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Here's a closing thought:
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"Whatever you say above the water, it can not disclose but the top of the iceberg. Whatever you say under water, can not be heard by those above. In full view of the iceberg under water, its top has become obscured to you." - BC
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The Hebrew language is a projective language as well. It projects existence and life. The wish for a translation of the Hebrew Bible caused a major rift between the text and those who want to know its content.
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A good introduction can be found here: http://www.duversity.org/PDF/THE%20CIPHER%20OF%20GENESIS.pdf. In this article, the late author Carlo Suarès (1892-1976) explains it succinctly,
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This other view of looking at the language of the Bible as a projective language has huge consequences for the interpretation of the Bible. Instead of a religious text (spiritual), a political text (governmental), an ethnic text (cultural), it turns out that it is a text which may induce in us a "revelation" of a scientific nature (experiential). This revelation is the "unseen" in the world of sensations, the center of consciousness within us, what it is, what it does, and why. This text, then, rather than to consider it mere stories, tells a tale which is most important, it's the tale of internalization of the life force of the universe, which is contained in everything and contains everything.
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The discovery that the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet have meaning in and of themselves, projecting them in the reader's awareness, may help to come full circle within oneself, realizing one's connection within and without, and one's cosmic role in the events of one's surrounding.
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As I venture on this course to divulge this knowledge, I'm discovering the infinite. Faith is a metaphor for the leap one has to take to describe the infinite with finite means; a daring endeavor in a foreign land with no roads. The things we recognize around us become the bars behind which we have locked up our creativity. Therefore, we have the opportunity to break out of our prison by becoming amazed and fascinated with existence and life.
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Here's a closing thought:
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"Whatever you say above the water, it can not disclose but the top of the iceberg. Whatever you say under water, can not be heard by those above. In full view of the iceberg under water, its top has become obscured to you." - BC