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# Multiplicative gematria

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Multiplicative gematria
- From: "Daniel Alter" <daniel_b_alter@...>
- Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 17:03:03 -0000
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    Dear all -

    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).

    I have been recently meditating on the 216-letter name of G-d. This
    is not to say that I know it - rather, that I was trying to
    understand the numerical/gematriac relevance of this particular
    number. Given that this name is meant to be the most holy and
    powerful name of G-d, 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).

    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!!

    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?

    Dan

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