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The Apocalypse of Hidden Amuraka

Connor D. Sullivan builds this book on a claim as old as the Kabbalists and as blunt as a calculator: the scriptures were written in numbers, and anyone who learns the counting can read what the paragraphs hide. He begins with the Hebrew letters themselves, showing how the divine name works as a numerical formula and how words that share a value share, in this way of reading, a hidden kinship. From there the book moves into Gnostic territory: the Demiurge, the Pleroma, and the sects who taught that the maker of this world was not its highest author. Basilides, Yaldabaoth and the angel-architects of the later systems all appear, alongside the Genesis narratives they reinterpreted, Abraham and Isaac among them. The final stretch turns contemporary. Sullivan reads the entertainment industry as a modern temple of idols and argues that the images a culture celebrates show exactly what it worships. Readers may not follow him that far, and the book does not mind; the argument is stated plainly enough to be examined rather than merely believed. This is a work of popular esoteric scholarship in the tradition of gematria studies and the Gnostic revival, written for readers who want the sources named and the arithmetic shown. It assumes no Hebrew and no background in early Christianity; every system is introduced from the ground up. What it asks for is patience with unfamiliar alphabets, and an interest in the old complaint that the many are governed by signs they were never taught to read.

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