The Unknown God - Ain Soph
F. J. Mayers
Ain Soph - The Unknown God, was written in the first half of the twentieth century. I came across it while I was selling alternative books in the fifties. Although it is not easy reading the ideas in the book are transformative. I had never realised that the story of Genesis, of Adam and Eve, might be anything more than a simplistic creation myth. Mayers looks at the Hebrew language as a sign language, each letter having a meaning. So the name Adam, taken in this way, is not even a singular name. It is plural, and has nothing to do with an individual that God made, but rather a huge process underlying the emergence of human beings.
I offer the book here because I feel it needs to be read more widely. When I discovered the book it had been lying in a damp cellar for many years. I resurrected it and sold all the remaining copies. Here it is for the first time in electronic form.
Chapters
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Chapter 1 - Ain Soph - The Unknown God Chapter 2 - Elohim - Creator Chapter 3 - Creation Chapter 4 - Heaven & and Earth Chapter 5 - Chaos Chapter 6 - Light Chapter 7 - The Firmament Chapter 8 - The Turning Point Chapter 9 - Maoroth Chapter 10 - The Lights for Signs Chapter 11 - Living Souls Chapter 12 - Animal Life Chapter 13 - Adam Chapter 14 - Sustenance of Life Chapter 15 - The Sabbath Chapter 16 - Prelude to Formation Narrative Chapter 17 - The Formation of Adam Chapter 18 - The Garden of Eden Chapter 19 - The Garden of Eden II Chapter 20 - A Warning Chapter 21 - The Loneliness of Adam Chapter 22 - Search for the Helpmeet Chapter 23 - This Shall Be Called Aisha Chapter 24 - Na-Hash, The Serpent Chapter 25 - Temptation Chapter 26 - The Opening of the Eyes Chapter 27 - Trial and Sentence Chapter 28 - Eve and Clothing Chapter 29 - The Cherubim Chapter 30 - Keeping the Way of the Tree of Lives |
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