Ancient Secrets of Creation

<i>Sepher Yetzira</i> is a second or third century Hebrew book that is considered to be the seminal work of Kabbalah because it is a mystical interpretation of <i>the Old Testament</i>'s creation story and Kabbalists delve beneath the surface of <i>the Bible</i> to understand the unspoken mysteries of how the world came to be.</P><I>Ancient Secrets of Creation</I> is a new translation and reinterpretation of <i>Sepher Yetzira</i> that provides the answers to questions about how God created the world especially how the expression And God said is used. Because of <i>Sepher Yetzira</i>'s succinctness and the passage of time its implicit meanings have been lost. However this work provides a fresh understanding of <i>Sepher Yetzira</i> by rediscovering and clearly explaining those mathematical scientific philosophical and theological foundations on which it rests. These include pertinent pre-Socratic Greek philosophies; the ideas of Plato Plotinus Iamblichus Neopythagoreanism and Neoplatonism; as well as <i>the works of Philo of Alexandria</i> <i>the Old Testament</i> and rabbinic understandings at the time that <i>Sepher Yetzira</i> was written. This translation and explication unlock the secrets hidden within the Hebrew-language text of <i>Sepher Yetzira</i> the book that started Kabbalah.