A Note on Genesis (1909)
Selected Essays of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya - (Volume 2 of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya: Biography and Collected Writings) - Elizabeth J. Harris
Allan Bennett [+]
Allan Bennett (1872-1923) was one of the first British men to gain higher ordination as a Buddhist monk and one of the seminal figures in the development of Buddhism in the UK.
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This is an essay written in the late 1890s on the first line of the Book of Genesis in the Bible. It was first published by Aleister Crowley in 1909, within his magical journal, The Equinox. The essay claims to expound the deeper meanings of the first seven words of Genesis, written in Hebrew, using various methods of Kabbalistic analysis.