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Gematria for Dummies

 
 
electric monk
14:51 / 07.06.03
So I picked up "777 and Other Qabalistic Writings" by A. Crowley a while ago and have been butting my head up against it ever since. Oh, 777 suits my meager purposes just dandy. It's "Gematria" and "Sephir Sephiroth" that give me the screaming 'ab dabs. I'll read them one day and they'll make an odd kind of sense. The next day they seem like utter nonsense. Now I've seen people give examples of this type of work on the board (notably Fetch's "Esoteric Formula of the Heart, if that was in fact Gematria. See how lost I am?) so I know there's gotta be an expert or two in the crowd. Think you could help?

I'm heading to the mall today to get a Hebrew-English dictionary and I'm sure I'll be sitting down with "Gematria" tonight. But I think I still need some more concrete direction here, so...anything you feel could be helpful in learning this discipline would be most welcome (Books, links, etc.).

One more thing: Should Gematria be learned separate from Qabala, in addition to Qabala, or does it matter?

Thanks folks!
 
 
Nietzsch E. Coyote
01:49 / 08.06.03
Gematria seems to work best if you have a fairly good grasp of the sepheroth and an encyclopedic knowledge of mythology. I would not describe a dictionary and 777 as for dummies under any condition.
 
 
electric monk
17:04 / 08.06.03
Well, good to know. Perhaps it's not a matter of tips and tricks, as it is good old fashioned book learning. I think my inexperience is showing. **blush**
 
 
The Fetch
20:06 / 08.06.03
The idea of Gematria is predicated on the idea that words contain "esoteric", or further meanings through a "revealing" of numbers contained within the words. There are numerous systems in play, the most learned being the very basic concepts contained in the Rabbinical Systems, which I personally regard as incomplete and misleading when transpositions are effected back into English.

The English, or Isisian, System at its basic form, can be interpreted as a study of the Binary trasmuted into sound upon a series of logical matrices. There are numerous Key Numbers, of which the Master Number is 11011, wherein the Key to 1 is 6, and the sum of 1+6 = 7. Hence 777 is simly a cipher pattern for 666, or the "beast", as Crowley liked to proclaim himself to be.

This Binary Pattern will be represented as either a "circumference", which is coded as Pi, or a Diameter, which will have a time/space constant base. 1's can be represented as 0's, and 0's can be represented as 1's. Intuition is fused with logic to arrive at given "esoteric" insights. Pi is represented as the Diameter (ADM) and the Circumference is represented by 666 (EVE).

This inverse logic is brought about by a Geometric phenomena relative to terrestial existence. We are operating in a basic 4 dimensional continuum wherein 3 dimensional space if further represented by 2 dimensional symbols viewed from a single point of reference. The result of this is an illusionary reality where the Sun appears to move in a circle around the Earth, the Sky is flat, and the stars as painted on a black plate that is spinning in the sky.

It is the Geometric concept that is being fused within the Gematriatic studies at the highest of orders independent of publicly released materials.

Within the study of Gematria is the idea that words of similiar values have an "esoteric significance". For example, if the Beast is 666, and Crowley is 666, and the Computer is 666, and EVE is 666, then the resolution as to how this is so is a representation of the various numerical patterns upon which this reality is being formed and predicated. However, even this is still a basic component of Gematria, for within Gematria, each Letter holds within itself a 2 dimensional representation of a 3 dimensional object/concept of a 4 dimensional reality..still viewed from the point, or the "eyes" of the viewer.

Hence, the idea of GEOMETRY and GEMATRIA, hold within it a further insight, for the Consonants (Constants) are GMT for each of these words. A student of Gematria would need to form a rational and logical explanation as to why this is so, and use Mythology, the Sciences, or other classifications of learning.

I can expand on this more at a future point in time.

The Fetch
 
 
electric monk
11:57 / 09.06.03
And I'd welcome the expansion, Fetch. The words seem to resonate in some half-buried part of me. Meaning steams up from the soil, but is nigh impossible for me to grasp. (Sorry, just got done reading "Snakes and Ladders and I feel a bit verbose.) I enjoyed it for the sparks it kicked up in me, but deeper understanding will have to come at a later date. It seems I'll have to climb the Tree before I count the Apples.

Thanks to you both, Coyote and Fetch, for keeping me from getting the Gematrial cart before the Sephirotic horse, as it were.
 
 
LVX23
18:19 / 09.06.03
No disrespect to Fetch or any of the other Isisian's...

But just to clarify, note that Gematria typically refers to the Hebrew language and the numerics inherent in the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. The Isisian codes are an extension of Hebraic Gematria designed to find the numeric code beneath the Latin alphabet.

So, as Nietzsch E suggested, it's probably best to learn about the Hebraic Tree of Life first, which will inevitably lead you to the Hebrew alphabet and it's Gematria. I suggest Sefer Yetzirah by Aryan Kaplan as a good starting point.

Also, get a copy of Crowley's Thoth tarot and his Book of Thoth and let thy Work commence.
 
 
Who's your Tzaddi?
19:57 / 09.06.03
♥♥♥I love you guys♥♥♥

No,really.

Gemetria works with any language system - something I have been painfully trying to point out. True, Hebrew has power, but as we approach the new age, that power dwindles. The Sefer Yetzirah (missed you LVX23) is an excellent base to work from - failing that, an amazing read. 777 is the best "whodunnit" I have ever read and was a great inspiration to pursue gemetria - but - my point is, it doesn't end with Hebrew. The runes, chinese, latin, greek - the system is there.

"Every number is infinite!"

We enter the age of MAT/MATH. The fourth age, just as the fourth book of the Bible is "Numbers"

I reccomend (and trust Tzaddi on this one) The Key To It All:(Volume 1)The Eastern Mysteries and (Volume 2) The Western Mysteries for the most comprehensive language analysis in a magical paradigm. May be tough to find but it's sooooooooooooo worth it. You may never buy another text again. As well, once you've advanced a bit,Nightside of Eden by Kenneth Grant.

Best of luck - and keep your head staright and mind open.
 
 
The Fetch
17:50 / 10.06.03
Part of the problem, as I see it, and as one who has studied the phenomena of numerological concepts for quite some time now (about 20 years) is what I call a purposeful misdirection inherent in the Western mind that defers its spiritual existence to Rabbinical Concepts.

Why do we need as a Western Culture to adapt our learning of esoteric to Hebrew interpretations? Who is to say that the Rabbis did not simply borrow a more ancient concept, reconfigure it, and apply it to their own system of spiritual organisations? Greed and profit should not be underestimated here, and if you can control the essence of "what is" to the detriment of the whole, then a disproportionate amount of profit flows to the existing paradigm.

Tzaddi is correct as far as I can tell. The Koran is written on a code that built around the Prime of 19. The Hebrew language is built around the 10. English is built around Pi. There is no "1-1" transposition set, and this series of transpositions is akin to the "Flaming Cherub" that "guards the Garden of Eden".

Indeed, a numerical analysis of the "Flaming Cherub" is akin to the Hebrew System "blocking" of "hiding" the previous system, which was built around Pi (Ma'at), and a wholistic view of numbers.

Example:

The Isisian System is predicated on setting the "order of things" into a series of "correlational diameters" relative to astronomic observations set against a Code, which I have defined as the Isisian Codes.

123456789-1234567
ABCDEFGHI-JKLMNOP

The period of the Earths Solstice to Solstice reading is 26 Weeks.
GOD = 7+15+4 = 26 Weeks

The Period of 1 Platonic Cycle is 25,920 Years as given by Plato. This number was equally noted in Ancient Indian (India). The Diameter (correlationally) in Time, is 12,960 Years. Using an Ordinal Code (or the letter placement), 12960 = LIF? There is no ZERO NUMBER, but there is a ZERO SOUND, and that ZERO SOUND is the Letter E. E is the 5th Letter and the Sum of 1:5 is 15, and 15 is the O Letter. The Masonic (Isisian)inspired Bill of Rights encoded some of the Isisian Mysteries. The 5th Amendment is the Right to Remain Silent, meaning that the Letter E has a right to remain silent: it can take the O Letter or Number Value through a simple summation of 1:5.

E = O = e

Hence the Word LIFE has an esoteric equivalent of the Correlational Diameter in Time of the Great Year, or the Platonic Cycle in that 12,960 = LIF(E).

In the Hebrew System, the English transpostion for GOD is given as YHVH. In Hebrew this is given as a Code that means "Yud He Vau He", and is given as a value of 10+5+6+5 = 26. However, the Letters in English have a wholly different meaning, and to say YHVH means 26 = GOD is irrelevant as a transposition set on a 1:1 meaning, for YHVH cannot really equal 26. Prove it if you believe so, for I see equally that it is a question.

WHY ACH VE ACH?

H = 8 and V = 5

Since we already know that 5 is "0", and the Sum of 1:8 = 36, then the question of WHY H V H is equal to the phrase WHY A J K wherein A is 1 and J is 10 and K is 11, forming the code of 11011, or the Master Number wherein the Sum of 1:11 is 66, which turns the phrase into AJK = 11011 = 66066.

By Squaring the 6's (6*6)* (6*6), the product if 1296, meaning that the final transposition is that the 0 is also a 10. A binary format to form the number 12,960 = LIF(E).

So YHVH in the Isisian System is LIFE itself wherin all of what will happen "on Earth" will be contained within the Great Year, the Cirle of LIFE, wherein LIFE is represented as the Correlational Diameter. If you have the Diameter, you know the Circle (sorta)

Hence the assumption that YHVH = 26 HIDES or masks the Esoteric formula for the Great Year and gives the annual ritual of the Solstices as being more important than LIFE itself. The formula thus is out of balance as defined by the Hebrews relative to the Isisian System and appears to be a deliberate fabrication designed from Pagan formulas of a time before.

The Fetch
 
 
LVX23
05:32 / 11.06.03
Fetch or Tzaddi,

Would you be able to:
1) concisely explain how the English alphabet is based on PI?
2) provide some evidence for this assertion?

Not trying to be snarky, I just really haven't "gotten" the English Kabalah yet. I've read through all of your discourses and they've been a bit too dense for me to get a basic grasp amidst all the concordances and speculative numerology.

Thanks,

c23
 
 
Quantum
09:51 / 11.06.03
speculative numerology.
I too am sceptical of English gematria, the association of numbers with letters seems arbitrary to me. In Hebrew the numbers are inherent in the letters, in English I think the sequence of the alphabet has changed over time (IIRC). So how can it reveal immutable truths? I understand your belief that gematria works for any language, but if that's true what about computer codes, purely spoken languages, arabic, chinese, etc. etc? I am hoping to be convinced...
 
 
Who's your Tzaddi?
21:26 / 23.06.03
My apologies - I just stumbled across your requests. I will, best as I can, very soon.

Ill be hooked up in 2 more days full time online. Patience.

( PS: I am begging Mr.Fetch to give us an all out Isisian Numerics lesson - I have a feeling it's flying over alot a heads...what do you say Fetch? )
 
 
Timewave Zero
03:43 / 27.06.03
[( p­(9/4p).Loge30) - F]­(2p/3) = 20p

The Creation Equation
 
 
The Fetch
22:38 / 28.06.03
This is the Fetch's son, mini-Fetch. I'm 11 years old and I learned from my Dad that pi= 3.14159265358979323846264338327950....... and that most of what he says flies over my head.
***************************End of note******************************

Now that we got that out of the way, I am back for a quick insight into the way in which English is a cipher for 'The Word', which is Pi, or that which is "unknowable and unspeakable".

Note the above sequence of Pi. Within the first 32 digits of Pi is a sequence that is a "mirror set", predicated, or surrounded by the second 26, as follows:

3.141....79.32.38.462643.38.32.79...

The "mirror set" is the 79 mirrored by the 79, the 32 mirrored by the 32, and the 38 mirrored by the 38. Although these are 3 pair, they are equated to 6 Letters, wherein these Letters are either "left right" in symmetry, or the Letters AHIMOTUVWXY. This forms what is known as 'The Circle of Mirrors', which is designed as follows:

A..HIM...O
T..UVWX..Y

In this set, the 6 Letters of TUVWXY have a pure "left right" symmetrical design, wherein these letters are placed against the second 6 Digit Set in "the word" or Pi, as follows:

462643..38.32.79
--------TU.VW.XY

These Letters will mirrored against a 6 digit (letter set) series that is "non-symmetrical", wherein the non-symmetrical letters are defined as BCDEFGJKLNPQRSZ. This then highlights the 6 digit/letter sequence of BCDEFG, which is set into a seperate matrix against the "word". The set of JKL is a clue to another example of how the English Alphabet is a cipher for Pi, for when we start our series at the Letter J in a never ending circle, we see that the non-Symmetrical Letters are set into a Pattern of

JKL..N..PQRS...Z...BCDEFG..or a pattern of letters set into a
-3-. 1....4....1......6

This, again, is Pi, or the Ineffable and Unknowable Word..and since I need to go play some challenging "Worms World Party", highly recommended by 'mini Fetch', and shall return soon with more high level esoterics on the Isisian Codes.

The Fetch
 
 
LVX23
02:12 / 29.06.03
Sorry mate, You lost me at:

Although these are 3 pair, they are equated to 6 Letters, wherein these Letters are either "left right" in symmetry, or the Letters AHIMOTUVWXY.
 
 
The Fetch
17:57 / 30.06.03
From the Matrix Reloaded...

"My name is Serif. I will lead you to the key maker."

later...

"How long do we have to get into the building to shut down the power grid? A couple of hours?

Keymaker: Exactly 314 seconds.

In the Matrix Reloaded, the entire film was predicated on one Letter, the Letter T, as series of archetypical manifestations, with the primary hidden code of the Tau in particular, "The machines have bored down three levels from Orion to Zion." The Tau, or the Letter T, is a cipher for Pi, wherein you had exactly 314 (3.14) seconds within which to "shut down the power grid.

The Formula of "The machines have bored down 3 levels, from Orion to Zion" I released publicly last summer. The Tau (the Letter T), contains within it a hidden matrix upon which the Tau is superimposed, and that upon which it has been superimposed over is the 3 "religions" of Western man, or that of Orion as the "Egyptians", "Zion" as the Hebrews, and "INRI" as Christianity. You form this matrix as follows:

ORION
..INRI
..ZION

The TAU is comprised, therefore, of the Formula

ION
-R-
-O

...in either its natural state as the Letter T, or in its "serifed representation" or the Anchor, which is formed from the reversing of the T. You should be able to see the Anchor in the T, for when you reverse the T (upside down), the horizontal of the T (top part), becomes the base, and the "serif" acts as the "mold" of the "anchor".

Consequently, we can reverse the Tau formula of Orion, Inri, Zion as follows, and arrive at the exact same formula,

-O
-R
ION

With the Isisian Codes, we show that this is really "the keymaker's formula" of 314 "seconds", in that the Isisian Codes is

123456789-1234567
ABCDEFGHI-JKLMNOP
QRSTUVWXY

O = 6, R = 2, I = 9, O = 15, N = 14, which when reversed forms the series..(3).1415926, or Pi.

Hence, we say, that the Letters are themselves designed as a hyper-dimensional representation of Pi.

The whole system begins at the Letter T (which is the Tau and the Orion/Inri/Zion formula inclusive); when the Letter T is in its natural state, it is known as the Ankh, when it is reversed (serif representation), it is known as the Anchor.

The Codeset was very simple.

ANKH = "Eternal Life"
ANCHOR = "Eternal Life" if and only if you understood that the "baptism", or the "immersion in water", is a reverse of the idea of the Winter Solstice being the height of the Sun at Noon Zenith (T) as opposed to a "maximum immersion in the waters" as a process of the Anchor as the sun sank into the depths of the "waters" as represented by the atmosphere. Hence the "Little t" is itself the "cross of Christianity" and like wise in design 1/2 of the representation of an "anchor" wherein it is missing its "left hook", but maintains its right "hook", which, when placed against the Serif T, the serif T acts as the mold of the Lower Case "t".

That the "Winter Solstice", or the Letter T, is the 7 Letter of the Second half of the alphabet (NOPQRS_T_UVWXYZ), and that the Winter Solstice was equally traditionally celebrated on the 22 day of the month of December, provides yet another clue.

22/7 = 3.1428571 = A Traditional Rough Estimate of Pi.

This addresses some of the "concerns" about how English is a manifestation of Pi, and if people still feel this is a bit arbitrary, it cannot be helped save for further research into this esoteric system.

Pi, or 'The Word' as it is represented in the Initiated Orders religious concepts, is 3.14159265358979323846264338327950. From this number, along with a series of archetypes set against number and sound, would give rise to the religions of the human race. It was also the "The Inneffable and Unknowable" to even "the Gods" who once, if we accept the ancient records, surely must have dwelled here at some time in the ancient past.

How this "gap" between the "knowledge of the Gods" occured relative to the use of this knowledge to create a series of absurd (partial truths) religious concepts wholly predicated on this knowledge is for another time and task. The primary aim is to simply show how it was effected. Once understood, it can then be applied to esoteric or ceremonial magic. It is difficult to play music if you dont know your scales.

It then becomes necessary to show how and where the Letters are placed against the Inneffable and the Unknowable. As we explained, the Letters TUVWXY is a 6 Letter Set Design of "Mirror" or "Left Right Symmetrical Letters, and these Letters are opposed in balance against the 6 non-symmetrical letters of BCDEFG. These 12 Letters are akin to the 12 months of the year, but the year begins at T (the Ankh).

If you are familiar with Isisian Heiroglyphs, you probably already know that Isis is often depicted with two "antennae", or "horn like" appendages eminating from Her headdress. A close examination of these "horns" is that they appear as the Letter U from afar, and yet on close examination, is really a J with a J mirrored on itself. We have dealt with some of this in the "Esoteric Formula of the Heart" post.

The point for this piece is that the Letters TUVWXY are really 3 pair, or the sets of (TU)(VW) and (XY). The U is the headdress of Isis with the Solar Disk resting on the Shen Bun, or the Inner portion of the Base of the Letter U. The U is the descent, resting, and subsequent springing back up of the Sun towards the Summer solstice. Hence the Base of the U rests on top of the T, forming the Pair of (TU)...


more to come..
 
  
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