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From the blog of Bethsheba Ashe at The Times of Israel
Would you like to be able to read hidden messages in the Bible and other occult texts?Gematria is usually confused with numerology, but real Gematria is not about cherry-picking numbers and comparing them to one other.
Real Gematria (in the Bible) was a formal system of early mathematics. That means it had known rules and conventions, like our system of math does today. Gematria is a beautiful and ancient art that is a crucial key to biblical interpretation and occult symbolism. If you’ve ever wondered why Adam and Eve had to leave the garden of Eden? Or how Moses parted the red sea? Or whether the story of Elijah riding the fiery chariot to heaven was real? The answers are in the gematria. Behold: The Art and Practice of Gematria is the most advanced and thorough study of gematria ever published to date. It is at once a student handbook, a history, and an invaluable reference. Written by the creator of the Shematria Gematria Calculator, and referencing the latest professional scholarship, Behold includes everything you need to find and read hidden gematria messages for yourself. 300 pages • illustrated • full color Reviews: “… presents a clear case for the use of Gematria and looks at its use throughout the ages … demands attention … this book is a must-have … plenty of examples in the text to help the reader understand the process to unlocking the hidden meanings behind cabbalistic and occult texts … vital … really important for the 21st Century magicians.” – Nick Farrell, author of Mathers' Last Secret, and Magical Imagination: The Keys to Magic.
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Top Ten Examples of Gematria
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The real name of Keturah
You know some women in the Bible get a raw deal? I'm sure you do, but its even worse than you think. Some women don't even have their true names recorded! Scribes have converted them with the reversal cipher.
Take the second wife of Abraham, which the Bible says is Keturah קְטוּרָֽה. Turn her name around with the reversal cipher and you get: אלסבע Elsheba, like Elisheba (wife of Aaron), or Bathsheba (wife of Solomon). Her name means God-Oath, like Elisheba is God-is-my-Oath. Or it could be God-Seven. It means a lot of things, and its a proper name, unlike "Keturah".
Sometimes if you're having trouble with the gematria of a verse, and a woman's name is mentioned, check the calculation using the reversal cipher on the name first. Let me show you, with Genesis 25:1:
ויסף אברהם ויקח אשה ושמה קטורה
And again Abraham, and took a wife and her name [was] Keturah.
Take a tip from "and again" and use the name of Abraham twice. Now recall that אשה (wife/woman) has the preset value of 111, and to finish up use אלסבע "Elsheba":
אברהם אברהם קיא אלסבע = 770
Noun or Verb? Ancient perspectives.
The following calculations is from Psalm 23:4 which says:
גם כי אלך בגיא צלמות לא אירא רע כי אתה עמדי שבטך ומשענתך המה ינחמני׃
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not I will fear evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff they comfort me."
גם בגיא נ רע יהוה שבטך ומשענתך ינחמני = 800
The word for 'the shadow of death' is צַלְמָ֡וֶת which has the preset value of the letter Nun (50).
Where it says "You Are" it is a placeholder for a name and in this case THE name which we add.
The most interesting aspect of this sum is the inclusion of יְנַֽחֲמֻֽנִי meaning "they will comfort me" as a noun and not a verb which we need to explain. Its important to note that ancient ideas of nouns and verbs were different from modern ideas.
To our understanding, anything moving is a verb. In school they used to call them "action words", but to the ancients it mattered whether the movement was intentional and something decided, an 'act of will', and from something possessing a mind.
In the same way that a river irrigates or waters the land להשקות the river has no will to water it. It is just something mindless it does, so 'להשקות' is included by scribes as part of the noun class used for value in calculations[1]. Similarly, the word 'they will comfort me' is used as a noun because the comfort is brought by non-sentient objects. There is no will nor intent behind the action.
[1] The word להשקות actually has the preset value of the Samekh (60).
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