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8/12/2019 FREEMAN - Hackers of the Cosmic Code

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There was a time when

that code was the

property of a recondite

inner circle. By now,

were interfacing with

huge chunks of core

data.

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By Tzvi Freeman

We need to learn from the hackers. Especially the criminal onesand plenty of the most nefarious,

criminal acts today are hacks.

We need to learn from everyone. Like the Mishnah says, Wanna know whos really wise? The guy who

can learn something from anybody!

The Baal Shem Tov took that all the way. He taught that the darkest corners of the human soul must be

mined for the sparks of the divine that are buried there. True to form, Zusia of Anipoli listed seven vital

lessons he learned from a thief.

So, it makes sense that I should want to learn from the hackers. Because I need to become one. We all

do. Because our destiny, and the destiny of all humanity, depends upon it.

What do we need to hack? We need to hack the cosmic code. Its held securely behind a firewall in a

multilayer encryption scheme that has defied the collaborative brainpower of all human beings that have

ever lived. But were going to crack it. Soon.

Look at the progress weve made. Not just scientific progressthanks to cosmic hackers such as

Newton, Maxwell, Einstein and others who exposed an underlying unity behind the cosmos. But even

more crucial, the code behind human consciousness and its interface with the unified consciousness

that drives the entire cosmos. We need a commented, open-source version of the code that gets that

consciousness continually re-emerging into existence, with an API to tap into it. We need it public.

There was a time when that code was the property of a recondite inner circle, who cloaked their wisdom

in riddles and layered metaphor. Look, they had a concern: They tuned into that stuff with the wisdom of

their hyper-receptive souls. But the guy off the street might believe he had grasped that which was not

yet within the grasp of the meat-based human psyche. Which happened sometimes, with disastrous

results. So it had to stay within an exclusive elite.

Yet, as the cosmos entered its sixth phase, the hacking

accelerated. By now, were interfacing with huge chunks of core

data. Knowledge that would blow the minds of the early

Kabbalists. Its in our hands.

Almost. Because it wont be truly in our hands until it is all

flattened out. And thats where todays hackers come in.

Ive got to explain what I just said. But to do that, I need to let you

in on the history of the cosmic hackers. At least the basics.

Hackers of the Cosmic Code
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The people cannot deal

with the raw code,

lamented Shem. Theydemand visible icons

and tangible widgets

with which they can

interact.

Cracking the Sumerian Code

Abraham was the first hacker. He saw through the cosmic faade, the consistent parameters, standard

features, ubiquity of pattern, and it hit him: Theres gotta be an algorithm beneath this, and behind the

algorithm theres gotta be a Programmer/Administrator who wrote that algorithm and stands behind it.

Abrahams first target was the ancient Sumerian priestly IT cult. Their elite set of abbreviations and

techno-lingo, impervious encryption schemes and multiple layers of user restrictions were a virtual

stranglehold on the flow of data. Abraham quickly exposed their shamonly to discover that the data

they held was itself corrupt. The truths they were hiding had been long forgotten even by those who

were hiding it. Abraham knew he had to find the original code and crack it.

Finally, he discovered the exiled high priest, Shem, the son of

Noah. Shem gave him a peek at some of that core code for

which he had been searching. I can imagine Abrahams reaction,

the reaction of a true hacker. You knew all this all along, he

exclaimed, all that I had to figure out on my ownand so much

more! And you held it for yourself!

The people cannot deal with the raw code, lamented Shem.

They are mesmerized by the program, incapable of seeing beyond the very surface of the graphic user

interface. They demand visible icons and tangible widgets with which they can interact. They seek to

reside within a world of consistent metaphor, and allow themselves to believe that the metaphor itself isthe base realityas though the multiple voices that respond to their requests are those of sentient

beings acting on their own volition, and messages actually make swishsounds because they are moving

so fast. We know more, we see the singularity that lies beneath it all, the program and the Programmer

within, and how the Programmer and His program are one. They feel they cannot handle this, and the

admins are fearful lest they tamper with the code, drain the resources of customer support, and bring

down the System.

But Abraham was neither convinced nor dissuaded. He persisted in smashing those icons, defying those

priests of esoteric information, and declaring to the world, There is a Programmer behind the System!

There is a oneness that unifies all this code, an exquisite elegance of purpose and meaning! The

Programmer is the Administrator! He is the User, He is the Code and He is the Author of the Codeand

He is accessible! The code is within our grasp! It belongs to each one of us. Come, let us hack

together!

Deep Hacking

Abraham succeeded, for a time. But when his descendants went down to Egypt land, they were

swallowed into the most entrenched IT fortress on earth.


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Moses greatest

achievement was the

biggest hack in history.

Egypt was all about power protocols. Pyramids. Centralized data. Hyper-encryption. Lockdown.

Pharaoh and his staff made the cult of Ur look like chocolate cake. He and his technobureaucrats held

the private key to the secret knowledge locked behind a sealed lead wall, encrypted and encoded in

glyphs that only the initiated could hope to decipher. Their subordinates knew only what they needed to

know. The masses at the base of the pyramid wallowed in illiterate ignorancejust as Pharaoh wanted

them to be. Because Pharaoh knew that knowledge is power. And the last thing he wanted was power to

the people.

Moses had an advantage: He had grown up in Pharaohs palace. Who knows, perhaps there he was

privy to keys to their secret knowledge. At the same time, from his father, Amram, he received the pure

knowledge of a single Programmer/Admin passed down from Abraham.1

Then came the day that Moses received instructions from the Cosmic Programmer Himself. But Pharaoh

denied that the Programmer continued to act as Administrator and User. At times, He even claimed thathe had written the code himself, and so it was in his hands to manipulate as he pleased.

Thats why, in Egypt, it wasnt enough to announce there is a Programmer. Moses had to demonstrate

user events and system interrupts. Major, invasive events and interrupts that only a high-level

Administrator who had access to the core parameters of the System could perform. In other words,

events straight from the Programmer Himself. And sure enough, these events wreaked havoc

throughout the entire System, bringing it to the brink of total collapse.

But that was only an introduction. Moses greatest achievement was the biggest hack in history.

Distributed Processing

Moses had already pierced the heavenly firewall and glimpsed

into the cosmic microcode. But, for him, that didnt feel right. It

meant he had knowledge that others could not access. To

Moses, knowledge was freedom, and freedom was his lifes

mission. If people were to be free, knowledge had to be liberated.

Moses had the Cosmic Programmer on his side. At Sinai, the initial plan was that G d would interface

with Moses, and the user-client base (a.k.a. the people) would audit the event. But these were the

children of Abraham and students of Moses. They demanded, We want to see our Programmer and

hear from Him directly!2

That was just what Moses wanted to hear. Moses didnt want to be just another of those prophets who

peeks behind the firewall and then tells everyone else what he just saw. Everyone had to share hisexperience. Everyone had to interface directly with the Programmer/Admin, as he had. Without that, he

had not achieved his goal.
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Yes, knowledge is

power, and so the more

distributed the dataand

the data processingthe

more stable the power

base.

The response from the Programmer Himself was immediate and positive. Until that point, the

Programmer had never directly entered into the System. Just to get a small parameter adjustment, the

sentient beings had to transcend their world. Now, that protocol was to be broken. Everything, the

entirety of the cosmic code, would be exposed to all the people, as the Programmer Himself entered

within the world that He sustained.

It was a mind-blowing achievement. And, for that very reason, of limited success. Moses had greatly

overestimated the capacity of the human psyche with which he was dealing. After two massive surges of

raw databeginning with the base code that set the parameters for all thingsthe peoples brains were

fried. Whether he liked it or not, Moses ended up as the middleman.

Nevertheless, he continued in what could only be called a reckless path of data for the people. It was

unprecedented. Nobody had imagined running a nation this way, and nobody would again for thousands

of years. In the Moses/Gd partnership view of things, everyone had to be literate. Everyone had to not

only access all available code, but teach it to others, as well.

Perhaps the most radical release of the Five Books of Moses series was the Book of Leviticusthe

ultimate in-your-face spurning of the priestly caste of Egypt. For the Children of Israel, things were going

to be way different. All the priestly rites, all their laws of ritual purity and impurity, the Temple offerings

everything was there in black and parchment for any five-year-old kid to see.

Moses didnt stop at distributing data alone. He personally sat

and taught the people to process that data, to extract knowledge

from the raw code and create new functions and applications

from them. Yes, knowledge is power, and so the more distributed

the dataand the data processingthe more stable the power

base.

Yet, with all this, the pyramid protocol was not entirely flattened. The interface between the people and

the Programmer had failed multiple times. Which meant that the ultimate source had not yet been

tapped. Moses knew that. He knew that if, and only if, he could connect the people directly with the inner

mind of the Programmer, only then could he truly transform their world. He knew that the Programmer

had to be found within the minds and hearts of each of His creations. The interface was there, but it had

to become transparent.

What was missing from Moses great hack? Information. Data is not information. To make data into

information, you need a grasp of the function that data serves. Why werent the reasons for the Torah

revealed? ask the sages of the Talmud.3Why? Because thats something that cant be revealed top-

down. That can only be discovered by hacking from the bottom up. The people had to discover it for

themselves.

Which is what the next 3300 years were all about.
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. . . in essence, we are all

hackers, and in that

hacking lies ourfulfillment and our

destiny.

Where We Are Now

As all cosmic hackers know, the System has six phases. Abraham appeared at the dawn of the third

phase, and Moses was active at its apex. We are currently in the last quarter of the sixth phase.

It was when this final phase began that the protocol began its flattening, moving towards what we could

call open-source. It was one-third of the way through the phase that the Holy Ari revealed the inner

secrets of the code. It was at the halfway point that the Baal Shem Tov began to distribute those inner

secrets to the masses. Within fifty years, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi had released a lucid interface

with the divine for the mainstream market. And at noon of the sixth phase, the distribution apparatus

became widely available for download, as the System was primed for its ultimate fulfillment.

The information is there. Whats left for us is to upgrade that

interface, to get it out there, and to convince the world that in

essence we are all hackers, and in that hacking lies our

fulfillment and our destiny.

Thats what I meant by flattened: When the everyday world of

every Joe, Jing, Akhbar and Mariyasha off the street becomes a

transparent interface with the Programmer/Administrator/User of the System, only then will we know that

weve got to the core of reality.

Time is running out. By the end of the sixth phase, the System is in for a total revamping. Before that

happens, we need to get the current System running the way it was meant to run. The liberation of all

humanity depends upon us.

So, weve all got to learn from the hackers. And here are seven things I learned:

1. The hacker does all he can to remain anonymous. Hes not after notoriety, hes after success.

2. The hacker gives it his all, without any expectation of compensation.

3. The hacker shares knowledge and collaborates with others, knowing that this way everyone gains.

4. The hacker sees vividly in the code all that can emerge from it.

5. Invertedly, the hacker sees deep beneath the artifacts that appear on the screen, into the raw

machine code from which they emerge.

6. The hacker works tirelessly, with little regard for his personal safety.

7. Tzvi Freeman is not as smart as Zusia of Anipoli. (He got seven; I got six.)

I want you to pay special attention to #4 and #5. Those are crucial. Before you go, lemme quickly

explain:

The hacker scrolls through a screen of 0s and 1s, but he doesnt see binary 0s and 1s. He sees the

instructions those binaries are feeding the CPU, and how those instructions build as functions,

commands, objectsa living program emerging out of nothingness.
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