The Big bang*

א the silent alef

The alef is the first letter of the alefbet and it is aften silent when words containing it are pronounced. Why isn't it the first letter of the Bible? The Jews have a children's story that personifies the letters of the alefbet saying that in the excitement of creation (the letters helping, of course) the alef was the most humble. It is not just a cutsie story about the letters, but is an introduction into the occult Kabbalah where the letters are replaced with demi-gods.

The meaning of the א is that God created the heavens and the earth. We can derive from its silence, both in pronunciation and in it's absence as the first letter of the Bible, that God created the heavens and the earth in silence, meaning that there was no one there to observe him do it.

This is the first time that a riddle was proposed along the lines of "if something happens somewhere and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?". In this case the answer is "No". Not only was there no one there to observe, but there was nothing for sound to bounce off of, or propagate through.

The real mystery of this is that in the single letter alef, it includes the creation of everything that was, is and will be, in heaven and in earth. Not only was there no one who could observe the first instance of creation, but there is nothing in creation that can step outside of it and observe the whole of it in the silence representative of God's experience alone.

ב the first revelation to man

The first letter of the first word of the first sentence of the first book of the Bible is the 'bet'. Is it by accident that it's meaning is 'a revelation to man'?

בראשית

As God begins his revelation to man, he explains the meaning of the silent alef. The hieroglyphic meaning of the first word is as follows:

ב - a prefix meaning 'in'.

ר - God revealed himself.

א - to that which he created in silence

ש - that he spoke and has two responses (heavens and the earth)

י - what he conceived before the creation.

ת - was finished.

That is the same topic as the alef, but just a bit wordier. How do you teach someone to talk? You show them something, then you say the same thing over in different ways until they get it. You then build on what they have learned, in order to teach them more.

In The Director's Bible - 009 bereshith is examined to see more doctrine that is contained in the word, and how John unpacked it. Here the focus is on following the development of the revelation as it unpacks from the silent alef.

בראשית has the same meaning, stated differently as ב with a bit of a different view.

Ge 1:1

בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ Ge 1.1

Ge 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.