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# Re: Multiplicative gematria

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- To: "BardonPraxis" <BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Multiplicative gematria
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:30:59 -0700
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    Dear Daniel,

    >> Whilst this post is not 100% directly related to the study of
    Bardon's works, it is Kabbalistically related, so I apologise in
    advance (and Rawn, please feel free to let me know if this post is
    better directed elsewhere). <<

    Thanks for asking. :) I've approved your message because this does
    relate fairly directly to KTQ since Bardon included a consideration of
    the Shem HaMephorash in that book (and somewhat indirectly in PME).

    >> I have been recently meditating on the 216-letter name of G-d. <<

    This is more properly titled the "72-Fold Name" since it's composed of
    72 three-Letter names. 3x72=216

    >> Given that this name is meant to be the most holy and powerful name
    of G-d, <<

    All of the Names of G-d are "holy" so it's really not a matter of any
    one being more so than another.

    >> it seemed strange that the number of letters do not
    numerologically/gematrially reduce to unity (i.e. 2+1+6 equals nine and
    not one). <<

    Gematrically speaking, *13* is the number of Unity, not 1.

    9 is the number of "Foundation", the precursor to 10, "Kingdom" or the
    structured completion. I suggest that you investigate the three verses
    of Exodus from which the 72-Fold Name is derived.

    >> Further meditiation led to a breakthrough: 216 is 6 cubed, or, to put
    it another way, 216 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 3. This was a remarkably
    enlightening breakthrough as these numbers reflect the 6 days of
    creation:
    - on the first day G-d created light and darkness (2)
    - on day two, the heavens and the earth (2)
    - on day three, the waters and the land (2)
    - on day four, the sun, moon and stars (3)
    - on day five, the things that fly, swim and creep (3)
    - on day six, G-d created man...
    It took me a while to work out how man is represented in a triplet. I
    should have looked at IIH straight away - Man is the embodiment of
    the mental, astral and physical!! <<

    It is very, very, very important when pursuing this sort philosophical
    mathematics, to be absolutely certain of your facts before running with
    them. For example, there are countless errors in Crowley's "777", in
    both Hebrew spelling and gematria, yet I have read very deeply and well
    thought papers expostulating gematria that have based their insights
    upon those errors. The thinking was very deep and so on, but their
    conclusions were not valid, gematrically speaking.

    I say this because, while your thinking is very good, your summation of
    Genesis One is faulty. For example, during the fifth "day", Elohim
    created all the creatures "wherewith the waters swarmed" and all the
    "fowl that fly above the earth". During the sixth "day", Elohim created
    the "beast of the earth, cattle and every thing that creepeth upon the
    earth" and Elohim created "man", male and female.

    If you carefully examine the creation story of Genesis One, you will
    find a different set of numbers than you listed and upon which you've
    based your conclusions.

    >> What is surprising here (for me anyway) is that I have seen gematria
    used on an additive basis (e.g. the 613 commandments in the Torah reduce
    to 6+1+3=10!) but never on a multiplicative basis. This therefore (in a
    long-winded fashion) leads me to ask the group whether anyone has come
    across multiplicative gematria before? <<

    Gematria can take the forms of addition, subtraction, multiplication and
    division. In terms of its human use as a code, it can be as complex as
    the human intellect is able to devise. Biblical gematria however is
    primarily additive and multiplicative in nature.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    08 Aug 2003
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
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