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The Manna Machine
In 1978 an engineer and technical translator named George Sassoon translated a section of the Zohar called “The Ancient of Days” and published two books, edited by Rodney Dale, titled “The Manna-Machine” and “The Kabbalah Decoded”.
The first book is a technical description of “The Ancient of Days” and the second book is an explanation of the translation from Hebrew to English. The Zohar was a monumental collection of over two thousand years of oral Jewish history written by Moses ben Shem Tov, of Leon at the end of the thirteenth century.
Written in “The Kabbalah Decoded” is an afterword that asks the question: “Then why is the material so obscurely phrased? Why are facts given in such a roundabout fashion? The answer; the secret meaning was enveloped in a cocoon of mysticism; “when the whole has been assimilated, and not before, the inner meaning becomes clear.”
George, as an engineer, made the connection that the Zohar was written as an instruction manual that utilized analogy, jokes and puns as an aid to memory as well as a means to hide information, and he resolves the contradiction by claiming the reason for it's obscurity was to prevent the 'power of knowledge' from coming into the wrong hands, meaning immoral hands who would use the information to obtain power over others rather than to benefit all mankind.
In the thirteenth century when the Qabbalah was finally written down by Moses ben Shem Tov, much of the Jewish 'knowledge' it contained had been long 'borrowed' from the Egyptians and his reasons for writing it down were presumably both to preserve it and to generate income since manuscripts had become in high demand in the medieval search for knowledge.
--Qoqokoko (talk) 07:20, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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