Resurrection of the Word : Introduction & Contents

The Resurrection of the Word by Carlo Suarés In this work Carlo Suarés presents the keys of inspiration to his major books on Qabala. The Ciphcr of Gcncsis and The Song of Songs. Thc Resurrection of thc Word is composed of several books, each the proclamation of a biblical figure, a central allegory; each the imprint of our human predicament, its trappings and transformation. If the "scribe" of this book declares himself now as Jacob, now as Cain, Jonas and Judas, it is no fiction, because these personages live in him. Mahoyael, Isha, the Serpent, Adam: these characters are the archetypes who constitute our inner and outer worlds. Here we find the reinstatement of time, concept and myth as sacred, with the simultaneous destruction of them as things to believe in. The biblical figures which have been banished into the past are brought forth into overwhelming actuality and revealed as living significance. They are projected back into creative consciousness and recover their psychic continuity, revivifying our Judeo-Christian roots. Israel forms the central focus, an identity that can never occur literally, because it is the nexus of birth and death and forever escapes definition, be it racial, political or religious. It is the name assumed by Jacob at the beginning of the beginningless combat, sealing his transcendent unity to God and Creation. The truth of these images, once recognised, will crush the conceptions that enslave our lives through mental projection as selves and societies, and the way will be opened for the birth the true human being. THE RESURRECTION OF THE WORD by Carlo Suares Translated from the French by Vincent and Micheline Stuart SHAMBHALA BERKELEY & LONDON 1975

Contents

Foreword                               Page 9 THE SCRIBE: Book One             11       Jacob                           11       Jonas                           12       Cain                            14       Judas                           17 MAHOYAEL: Book Two       21 THE SCRIBE: Book Two      27       Genesis I                           41       Genesis II                          44 MAHOYAEL: Book One       46 THE SONG OF THE WORD       58 THE BOOK OF ADAM       63 THE BOOK OF THE SERPENT       68 THE BOOK OF EVE       73 THE BOOK OF CAIN       78 THE LOOK OF NOAHH       90 THE BOOK OF HHAM       93 THE BOOK OF MALEDICTIONS      95 THE SCRIBE: Book Three       102 THE SONG OF CIRCUMCISION      104 MAHOYAEL: Book Three       109 THE BOOK OF JACOB                           126      The Chorus of Women                         140      Judah, the four or temporal power       142      Ben-Yamin, the twelfth, son of       the right hand, the accomplisher         143 MAHOYAEL: Book Four             150 Postscript             151 Israel, O Jerusalem What has it done to you? What are they doing, what will they do to you Those who lament for The ruined Temple, who destroy you If they do not die And become born in Israel Universal? O Jerusalem!

Carlo Suares, Resurrection of the Word, Shambhala, 1974