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Chapter 9: With Art Celestial
The claim that the Talmudic sages were great kabbalists is a historical error. Most sages make no mention of the kabbalistic tradition at all. Shimon bar Yochai, who lived in a cave and composed 1700 pages of kabbalistic texts, is … Continue reading
Chapter 8: Laughing To Scorn Thy Laws And Terrors
Love is the law, but it is poorly enforced. — Reverend Raymond Stevens, “Singers In The Hands Of An Angry God” March 20, 2001 Agloe The holy city of traditional kabbalah is Tzfat in Israel, where Rabbi Isaac Luria taught … Continue reading
Chapter 7: The Perishing Vegetable Memory
Sleep like nothing is watching. Gaze at the stars like it will never hurt. — Steven Kaas Early morning, May 11, 2017 San Jose My watch read 5 AM. Bill Dodd lived an hour’s walk away, close to the weird … Continue reading
Chapter 6: Till We Have Built Jerusalem
God, grant me the serenity to accept that I will never have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. — Steven Kaas Early morning, May 11, 2017 San Jose The computer whirred and chattered: the speaker producing Names … Continue reading
Interlude ג: Cantors and Singers
Those who speak the Names of God aloud are called cantors and singers. Like everything, these terms have both overt and kabbalistic meanings. The overt meaning of “cantor” is “someone who chants”. The kabbalistic meaning is “someone who works with … Continue reading
Chapter 5: Never Seek To Tell Thy Love
My beloved is like a bit of information that flows in the system. — kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com I. I remember the first time I met Ana Thurmond. I’d just been kicked out of Stanford. My mother was a wreck. I had to … Continue reading
Chapter 4: Tools Were Made And Born Were Hands
And ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into effective devices for computing in any direction. — kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com May 10, 2017 San Jose Even before Erica finished formally adjourning the meeting, I wove my way through the … Continue reading
Chapter 3: On A Cloud I Saw A Child
September 29, 1990 Gulf of Mexico Ever since the sky cracked there has been a hurricane off the coast of Louisiana that never moves or decays. In its eye stands the Archangel Uriel. He is five hundred feet tall, and … Continue reading
Interlude ב: The Code of the World
For the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to. — kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com “The Code Of The World”, by Aaron Smith-Teller Published in the March 2017 issue of the Stevensite Standard The Talmud says that God created … Continue reading
Chapter 2: Arise To Spiritual Strife
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is in the public domain. — kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com May 10, 2017 San Jose Right down the road from Berryessa Station there’s a big house with a hidden basement. The people who live there – … Continue reading