The Kabbalistic Mirror Of Genesis: Commentary On Genesis 1-3

by David Chaim Smith

"The Kabbalistic Mirror of Genesis" is the first book of its kind. It rigorously re-examines the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis from a radical non-theistic position, completely removing the concept of a creator God. Despite this 'heretical' position, the book utilizes a traditionally precise kabbalistic vocabulary and structure. The author takes a position totally devoid of conventional religious 'truth', and probes the ultimate mysteries using epistemological and ontological questioning from a base of gnostic realization. This book was previously only available to a small group of Smith's students and close colleagues, but it became apparent that due to its timely and significant content, it was time to make it available to a wider audience.

Genres: Occult

176 pages, Paperback

First published December 21, 2010

About the author

David Chaim Smith was born in 1964 in Queens, New York. His early career was as a visual artist throughout the 1980s. In 1990 he began an immersion into the root sources of Alchemy and the Hermetic and Hebrew traditions of the Kabbalah. In 1996 he abandoned visual art for a total dedication to spiritual practice, from which came a unique blend of practical mysticism and creative innovation. This blend coalesced while working with an obscure thirteenth-century text called The Fountain of Wisdom, which he mapped out diagrammatically in notebooks during his ten-year hiatus from visual art. The resulting symbol vocabulary served as the basis for his 2006 return to art, generating the content for several books. He currently lives in the suburbs of New York City with his wife, Rachel.

Reviews

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was fairly impressed with this work. It's not often that you come across a genuinely new book on Kabbalistic Exegesis and David Chaim Smith has certainly produced that.

I will need to give it at least another read or two as mine was a borrowed copy, but I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is looking for a book exemplifying the work of a master Kabbalist. I am looking forward to reading and getting more into the kabbalistic/artistic tradition that Smith is producing and from what I've seen so far, think it will make an amazing compliment to the insights he's drawn in this work.

[Gary · Rating 4 out of 5]

DCS expounds a set of symbols for the mind to begin to comprehend the incomprehensible mystery of the Divine, utilizing a Kabbalistic interpretation of the Genesis creation myth. Not really beginner-friendly...

[Rodrigo · Rating 5 out of 5]

To read this book is to enter into a fascinating mystic insight into the first three chapters of the book of Genesis, here you'll find a lucid explanation of the kabbalistic symbology behind the verses, just as the ancient kabbalists did, it's a must