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Vol. 1 – Graphic
Essays 58 pages of full-color reproductions of Meru teaching posters,
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Vol. 3 – Essays and
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& The Scholarly Approach; Interviews and Articles; Prof. Jay
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From the
Preface by Stan Tenen:
The Alphabet in
Genesis is more an extended journal of essays, graphics, references,
and insights than an organized book. There is no story, yet the story
of this research is written between the lines on every page. You will
get a sense of the development of these ideas by noting the first
publication date on each essay. This is the first bound edition of Meru
essays that we have made available. . .
After ten years of
work with no results (from 1968 to 1978), and almost twenty years of
work breaking new ground while looking for past precedent to confirm my
findings, finally, in 2006 Jewish scholars that I’ve been working with
have found discussions in traditional literature that match, confirm,
and extend my findings. We now know that people in the 12th century
knew that the [Hebrew] letters came from hand-gestures, based on the
same model that it took me thirty years to recover, working only from
first principles and the letter-text of the Hebrew Bible. . . [This] is
an essential part of the Western traditions that has been lost over the
centuries. It is now our responsibility to present these findings for
the benefit of as wide a range of scientists, students, scholars,
peoples, and traditions as possible. . .
What’s important is
that people have the opportunity to see for themselves that these ideas
are real, they’re simple, they’re understandable, they’re not limited
to one group or another, and they are accessible by people of all
talents who learn to act with integrity, care for others, and humbly
and patiently wait for the good they’ve sown to bear fruit. (Integrity,
caring, and humility/patience are the three phases of the manifesting
principle, which I write about in The Three Abrahamic Covenants and the
Car-Passing Trick, included in Volume II of this series.) . . .
The good news is
that what we’ve found tells us that life is not a zero-sum game, and
that in fact it is possible for you to win, for me to win, and for
everyone else to win – all at the same time, without compromise and
without rivalry. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are not rivals. They
are separate essential organs in the Abrahamic body politic, which is
part of the planetary body politic. . . The physics of quantum
mechanics teaches us that the mechanistic view that there is not enough
to go around and that competition is best, isn’t the most realistic. In
fact, our lives are entangled, and the best choice for living our life
is to live by the golden rule. I will be writing about this
increasingly in the future. The golden rule is central to what our
scholars call a “theory of mind”, and in the teachings of all of the
great faiths. . .
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Read Stan Tenen's complete Preface here
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