the world the ancient prophecy was being chanted in Hebrew. They chanted the raising up of David’s tabernacle, the rebuilding of its cities, the ending of its exile, the planting of its soil, and its survival against all odds by the hand of God. And so the ancient exile came to an end and the nation was reborn as the appointed prophecy foretelling the end of the exile and the nation’s rebirth was recited throughout the earth.”
“There would be one more mystery to be revealed before the mysteries of the third door would be finished and the mysteries of the fourth door could be opened. It was a mystery unlike the others, something of an ancient code, a cipher embedded into the Jubilean ordinance itself.”
“And how was it revealed?”
“Through the keys of the wandering man.”
Chapter 32
THE JUBILEAN CODE
THE ORACLE WAS sitting in the same chamber in which I found him the first time I entered the cave. ‘This,’ he said as I sat down beside him, ‘will be the last time we meet in this place. And this will be the last revelation of the third door, the third stream of the mysteries.’
“I had come to find the meaning of the man with the four keys. I brought a paper on which I had written the shape of each key as best I remembered it. I had shown it to him when I first shared the vision, but I thought it wise to remind him.”
“So what was the meaning,” I asked, “of the four jeweled keys?”
“When Israel came back into the world,” he said, “the nation’s gates were opened wide for the return of the Jewish people in numbers never before witnessed. From every corner of the globe they returned to the ancestral land. 1948 was the year of Israel’s return and the return of her children. When was it,” he asked, “that the nation was first given the command to return?”
“In the Book of Deuteronomy?” I replied.
“That was the first prophecy of the return, but when was the command to return first given?”
“In the Jubilee?” I replied. “In the Jubilee they were commanded to return.”
“Yes. It first appears in the law of Jubilees. It’s there where the command ‘you shall return’ was first given in the plural to the many, to the entire nation. That’s the first thing to understand. The second is that in Hebrew, numbers are represented by letters. For example, the first letter, aleph, denotes the number 1. The second letter, beit, denotes the number 2. Other Hebrew letters stand for tens, hundreds, and thousands. And the third is that Hebrew years are different from the Western years. For example, on the Western calendar the year 1900, up until the autumn of that year, was the Hebrew year 5660.
“So if you were going by the Hebrew calendar, how would you write out the year 1900?”
“As 5660.”
“Yes, except in Hebrew, letters are used to represent numbers.”
“So then I would use letters that add up to 5660.”
“That’s right,” he said, “except it’s simpler than that. In Hebrew dating, the millennium is taken for granted. So the letter representing the millennium is either absent or written separately from the other letters. So you only need to use the Hebrew letters that add up to 660, and by that the year 1900 would be identified.”
“If every Hebrew letter represents a number,” I said, “then every Hebrew word has a numerical value.”
“Technically, yes. And there are those who seek numerical meaning for every word. But this is something else. This is simply the standard way of writing out or identifying a year in Hebrew.
“Now we can open up the mystery. In the Jubilean ordinance in Leviticus 25 it is written: ‘You shall return, each one to his own family.’ 1 Three verses later it is written, ‘You shall return, each one to his possession, his ancestral land.’ 2 The words you shall return are the translation of just one Hebrew word: tashuvu.”
“Tashuvu.”
“Tashuvu is the Jubilean command contained in one word. Hidden in that one Hebrew word is a secret that spans the ages, a mystery of four Hebrew letters.”
“Four Hebrew letters,” I said. “They were the four keys, the four symbols in my vision. The four keys were the letters of tashuvu.”
“Yes,” said the Oracle. “It was all there in your vision at the end when the man was told that by these keys you shall return. He was referring to the Jubilean command. You shall return is tashuvu, and the