It is similar to the works of Stan Tenen, although I have found it much easier to apply. I’ve been studying it for about six years now, at first just to see where it would take me, and it just kept getting deeper and deeper so I kept going. I agree with Eco and yourself regarding most Kabbalists/Qabbalists.
The value in Suares’ interpretation, in my view, is that it provides a concise key to approaching the Torah and other biblical scriptures in a new way. The premise is that the Torah was written as a continuous string of pictograms. Word separation and punctuation were added after the fact. These are some of my own thoughts on the matter:
Personally, I believe the Torah to be a far older revelation grafted onto a local culture, and eventually defining that culture. I believe the revelation was literally branded onto the culture because there were already prevalent psychopathic elements trying to stamp it out. In other words, the culture was purposefully defined by the code as opposed to the truth underlying it.
Thus, it was assured that the psychopathic elements of the culture themselves would protect the camouflaged revelation until humanity was in a position to decode it once again. I believe the Hebrews as the “chosen” people were a socially engineered people, chosen in fact to be guardians of a far older tradition masked within a lie.
Those who transmitted the revelation to this culture coded it in such a way as to be pathocratically conductive in the hope that pathocrats themselves would preserve it. The code pattern is a bit like a form of cryptography where words are bunched together and the letters separated to form meanings completely different from the original array.
Given the multidimensional and non-linear nature of the meanings of the letters, the original oral tradition could probably be modified enough to be reconverted to a somewhat coherent coded text. This would explain why the literal Hebrew bible is a piss-poor literary work, full of foolish folk tales, yet appealing to pathocrats.
I believe this cryptographic tradition continued as more elements were added to the written tradition, and these may have all been revised at the time of Ezra (during the Babylonian captivity), which was probably a first attempt to organize these coded works into a singular opus or set of books.
The tradition could easily have continued to the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and was more than likely known within at least some Essene esoteric circles. It is interesting that there were apocryphal books that allegedly held truths that common people could not understand and would certainly misunderstand, and the originals of these works have all been lost.
The only work from the apocryphal tradition that was not lost was the Sepher Yetzirah, whose oldest copy dates from the 3rd century ACE (if I am not mistaken), but which may have been derived from a far older and now lost original, which may itself have evolved over time from an oral tradition.
I have attempted to transliterate the Hebrew letter meanings in epigrammatic terms and substitute directly into biblical text, and was quite amazed at the results.
Apparently, the modern form of the letters (the Ezra script) was developed during the 5th or 6th century BCE in Babylon. The original script was more angular, combining the meanings of pictograms into a phonetically based array of symbols, very similar to Phoenician.
The Sepher Yetzirah (Book of Formation) seems to be a decoding key of the Hebrew letters, and geometrically orients them in three-dimensions, interconnecting them in a complex manner. It also hints at decoding the letters in pairs (which it calls the 231 gates of wisdom). The two-dimensional traditional tree of life, on the other hand, was a product of the Kabbalistic/Qabbalistic tradition of the middle ages, which was undeniably corrupt and wanting in terms of the roots of the tradition.
I believe the understanding of the multidimensional nature of the symbols challenges the mind to function in a new way, in a transcendent manner if you will. The information from the psyche.com site has helped me get into the groove, as it were, but I have since condensed the letter interpretations so as to substitute directly into Hebrew words.
I also find that the Cube of Space is better depicted as a sphere, the 3D matrix where the letters orient with respect to each other. Exploring the meanings of certain words is revealing, and the deep interdimensional roots of the symbols often is revealed by anecdotal and synchronistic associations, as you noted.
An very simple example of the extent of meaning of Hebrew words is the word Teth (written TTh), which means serpent. It is also the word for the ninth letter T. The pre-Ezra glyph is a cross within a circle. The Tau or Th, is represented by a cross or seal, and also means sanctuary and covenant. Thus, the combined glyph, representing “serpent” is a serpent on a cross, or a serpent coiled around a sanctuary or covenant.
In Greek mythology Tethys was a Titan, and also the ocean encircling the Earth. In three dimensions it is akin to the serpent surrounding the cosmic egg. Similarly, the primal symbol for the Earth is a cross within a circle. It is also similar to the serpent surrounding the world tree in Norse mythology. Given that the tree of life was depicted as a sphere (or at least a 3D axial orientation), it is not farfetched to say that the tree intertwined with the serpent is the Earth, or what the earth fundamentally represents.
If we continue the associations, a three dimensional volume can be described as a tree if it has a fractal (branching) nature. The form of a tree's branches may outline a sphere, and the branches themselves do have a fractal structure. The serpent/ocean can also be seen as a wave-generating medium, and in particular a biogenic one.
Indeed, when you add the corresponding numbers of T and Th, you come up with 13, the number for the letter Mem (40), which means “the waters”, and according to Suares, the medium of response. This also condenses to 4, the number of Daleth (D), which is the feminine delta/vulva and signifies reverberation or resistance/response according to Suares.
Thus, the serpent is a wave-generating medium entwined around a fractal structure, which includes it. One is tempted to come up with a wave/particle association here, and identify the serpent as a quantized wave.
In any case, I have found such explorations revealing to say the least. In addition, www.psyche.com has an extensive links section worth checking out.
