This book brings to light, with the help of Irish and Welsh bardic lore, what hitherto was hidden by layers of secrecy and the vicissitudes of persecution: the original grand scope of the Kabbalah, to include its remarkable presaging of much that we have only recently discovered, in chemistry, biochemistry, particle physics, plasma cosmology. For instance, it explains how particle physics confirms the four philosophical elements; how a sage from antiquity could have deduced the structure of the periodic table (for the first twenty-one atom-types anyway); and how electricity, not gravity, gives rise to the stars. Whoever originally devised this model of reality knew, for instance, that calcium in the blood is controlled from the throat (parathyroids); that potassium chloride marshals fluids inside the cell, sodium chloride those outside the cell; and that oxygen is the only atom-type without which there is no up. This work brings to the surface the long-submerged meanings of individual Hebrew letters and traces their wake through many other alphabets, starting with the one embedded in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Moreover one will discover herein the obvious origin of the Tarot of Marseilles and how it maps out the whole scheme from a Christian Gnostic perspective, its trumps even picturing (by atomic number) how we moderns would see the individual chemical elements (up through atomic number 21). This is a unique and unprecedented treatment of Kabbalah and should set the standard for understanding the subject for the foreseeable future. Gary Kent Spain is a self-educated scholar who considers most of what is taught in universities to be utter bunk (which may not yet have been true fifty to seventy years ago). Not having had to buy into professors' pet views and the errors of the standard model has generated in him a much truer view of reality and of human beings than could have survived a higher education. He is also a dedicated fiddler-poet who quit computer programming because it interfered with his Muse.
