The Kabbalistic Murder Code: Mystery & International Conspiracies (Historical Crime Thriller Book 1) by Nathan Erez

people like myself, these, too, are far too complicated. For us, there are computer languages that are of an even higher level. Let us assume, for example, that I have a program on my computer that stores all my telephone numbers. I enter the data into the computer, and my program translates this into a lower-level, more complex language, and then this is translated into an even more complex language, until eventually the translation is into machine assembly language. After a series of such transformations, we end up with a language that translates everything into electrical signals of pure machine language.
                  “A simple act of entering telephone data is ultimately translated into thousands of actions, which act on many thousands of transistors. When I try to retrieve data from my telephone database, the computer works in the other direction, with thousands of actions taking place before the data is delivered to me.
                  “Practically speaking, there never has been, and there never will be, a way for us to carry out the most elementary action on a computer without our affecting all these different ‘worlds’ and ‘layers’ which separate our world from the world of the computer.
                  “For the average user, all of this is totally irrelevant. The average user has no idea what happens every time he uses the computer. He knows that he performs a certain action and receives a certain result. For the average user, who may at best have a vague idea of how computers work, the different layers involved in operating the computer simply do not exist.”
                  Elijah remained silent, for he was beginning to understand the basic ideas behind the Kabbalah. Afterwards, to ensure that he had digested the information correctly, he asked, "Does that mean that we can compare the world in our Kabbalistic interpretation to the world of the computer? We have a central Creator, whose influence is felt via many worlds, and through them He reaches our world. These layers of worlds descend from on high, downward through many intermediaries until they reach our world and influence it. Is that what you meant?”
                  “Would you like to sign up for my course?” Prof. Ashuri asked, laughing.
                  “You have many students.”
                  “Many,” sighed Ashuri, “and from various faculties. A considerable number of them are not even registered at the university. They come to register, and I ignore the fact that they are not on the roster. This year, I closed registration after seventy-five students had signed up, but in reality over a hundred attended each lecture. For purely selfish reasons, because of my age, I suppose, I refused to accept any more. I have found lately that Kabbalah has shown signs of a resurgence of interest. As a result, many charlatans earn a fine living from it.”
                  Elijah remembered that he was really on his way to the library. He parted from Prof. Ashuri in his normal awkward, hesitant and apologetic manner, thanking her profusely no less than three times; he would even have bowed down to her if that was what would have enabled him to expedite his exit. However, Prof. Ashuri had one more important observation to make.
                  “I hope that your interest in the Kabbalah will not infect you with that dreaded disease...” she smiled.
                  “What disease do you mean?”
                  “Kabbalistic literature is generally divided into three major streams. The first and most important one is the cosmological, mission-oriented one. Here we find a direct line between ourselves and the Master of the Universes, by way of His influence on all the intermediate worlds. Note the term, ‘Master of the Universes’ in the plural. In this view, there are mutual influences, going from the upper