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'Where is Abraham buried?' you ask. Well, in the Kabbalah, God has a terrible time getting Abraham to agree to die. In the Zohar, where Abraham is initiate and David calls God by the name 'Midnight,' the splendour is woven in the energies of the Hebrew alphabet, a creation in language that is never still. Now, looking at the three religions of Abraham - Hebrew, Christian, and Muslim - I would say that Abraham, though very much changed since 1700 BCE, is not dead. There's only so much that a post-Catholic, polytheist exodic can say just now.

for Samuel Truitt

August 1996

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