The Portal of Light: Kabbalah, Emmanuel and the Church (Sephardic Jewish History in American Southwest Book 1)

In the late summer of 2011, a leather case containing two Cuaderno notebooks of Alabado psalms appeared. Surprisingly, the second notebook was a 7,000 word “mystery play” revealing an alternate version of the Emmanuel birth story. Author Anthony Garcia called the play Jornado de Exódo.

This mystery within a mystery led to a series of discoveries:

• The concealment of a hidden journey in a Play within a Play.
• How a cryptic Judaic historic document preserved the historical story of Daniel.
• Why and how Judaic families concealed their identities and preserved their faith.
• The spiritual relationship of New Mexico, Old Spain and mystical Judea.
• How mystical Kabbalistic camouflage techniques saved thousands of lives.
• What mystical Judaism provides for the future and the Messiah.
• The true meaning of faith.

The sacred writers of the old world, their use of theology, history, literature, philosophy, astrology and religion-spirituality are hidden in the historical remnant. Within their internal Ladino-Judaic circles was the fear of discovery, inquiry and silence to survive. To the outside world, their public faith was Christianity. Their interior world was not. Living in plain view, suppressing their ingrained culture, language and religion, they survived

In your hands is a secret riddle written on handmade journals passed down from generation to generation over centuries. A riddle that has been decoded revealing the deep roots in the secret society of the Penitentes and of separate Crypto-Judaic authors. At last, the cryptic riddle concealed within the Play uncovers the true identities of the authors.

Anthony Garcia is sleuth, clue master and translator. He was called upon to solve the cryptic riddle concealed within the play, Alabados—the original basis and impetus for the Portal of Light. Garcia listened to the Alabados through his family members as a child, intrigued by the lyrics and genre. The organic understanding of the Kabbalah and its mysterious concepts are innate to the historical linkage to his family roots and ties to the origin of the play.

Anthony Garcia is sleuth, clue master and translator. He was called upon to solve the cryptic riddle concealed within the play, Alabados—the original basis and impetus for the Portal of Light. Garcia listened to the Alabados through his family members as a child, intrigued by the lyrics and genre. The organic understanding of the Kabbalah and its mysterious concepts are innate to the historical linkage to his family roots and ties to the origin of the play.

Anthony Garcia is sleuth, clue master and translator. He was called upon to solve the cryptic riddle concealed within the play, Alabados—the original basis and impetus for the Portal of Light. Garcia listened to the Alabados through his family members as a child, intrigued by the lyrics and genre. The organic understanding of the Kabbalah and its mysterious concepts are innate to the historical linkage to his family roots and ties to the origin of the play.