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Binding: Hard cover with dust jacket
Book Condition: Fairly good condition. Some wear and rips on the edges of the dust jacket. As per photos.
Edition: Shambhala Publications 1972
The title, The Song of Songs, is as much a riddle as its biblical title is an illusion and is emphatically not of Solomon. If this is only a poem of voluptuous love, why is it canonic?
For the first time since Aqivah proclaimed it in the first century of our era as more holy than all the sacred scriptures, Carlo Suarès has revealed its exalted secret by decoding the original cipher.
The Song of Songs is true on four different, interpenetrating levels. The reader is taken from realism to the symbolism of the Qabala and finally to a subtle and higher sphere, a wordless contemplation, that the brain alone cannot grasp.
Were it a lesser work, The Song of Songs would not have survived and it would not continue to be misunderstood. The text is something quite extraordinary, one might say sublime, because it is a marvellous expression of the only real peace: the immeasurable, universal movement in which the Beginning and the End are One.
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