So when I started looking at Newton's work, was when I started to examine gematria, because this is what he himself was so fascinated with, and took it upon himself as chosen personally by God, to reveal to mankind
It was described as an " Assyro-Babylonian-Greek cipher adopted by the Jews around the time of Babylonian captivity "
Right away I saw that I was already heading into an area where most modern mathematicians fear to tread
Languages
In all my reading of debunking of Biblecodes by
real mathematicians, I never encountered a single one who knew anything about Assyrian, or any other similar language ( Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, et al ), or for that matter, Hebrew or Greek
I began to wonder how these professional debunker mathematicians could consider themselves beat were they to run up against something that was only allowed to be revealed by God's right hand man, were that to end up being the case
Most mathematicians I know will immediately scoff at the mention of Bible codes, however, as soon as you start talking about cuneiform, they realize how little they actually have looked into the topic
( Something that's always amusing to encounter, imo, because I love seeing somebody who has a formal education realize the extent of their education stops right at their education )
This is humorously known as " Mount Stupid ", a time where they have deluded themselves into an illusory intellectual superiority known as the " Dunning-Kruger effect " ( we've all been there ), essentially declaring victory early, only to be later humbled
Probably feels like sitting in a lake of fire
So I began to examine gematria, and what I discovered was it seemed that it was anybody's game
Once again, no rules, anything works....sloppy methodology at best
Just go ahead and make up any bases,....use any languages.....any book
And Lo and behold, when you take that approach...
Once again you find that you can do the same thing and find the same phrases in ANY book, in ANY language with ANY numbers
Therefore = garbage
Right ?
One would assume so, rubbish should be easy to debunk, right ?
Well, it turns out this is not so simple
Gematria is old....the concept of ciphers are also old
In fact, let's just clarify that gematria is nothing but a run of the mill substitution cipher, and ciphers have been used for ages
there's nothing bunk about that
Codes are indeed legit and we use them all the time
But back to gematria
The first known use of it dates to Sargon II, in 8th century BC, who had the wall of Khorsabad built exactly 16,283 cubits long, because that was the numerical value of his name
Sadly, the site of Khorsabad was partially destroyed by ISIS
However, my point is that it has a history older than most people suspect, and it is when I started looking into the topic I realized that all is not as one would assume
So I started thinking about how ancient rabbis thought of it, and ran across this interesting quote from the second century rabbi Eleazar Chisma:
" The calculation of the
equinoxes and
gematria are the desserts of wisdom "
This association between metrology ( units and measurement ) and astronomy
and a mathematical cipher started to really pique my interest, because this was not the modern picture of gematria I had gotten from just asking around and getting random opinions
This was suddenly a very complex subject that involved astronomy, mathematics, languages and measurement into one system
...and from my studies into Mesopotamian texts like procedural texts ( magic rituals ) and astronomy texts ( omen texts dealing with eclipses and such ), I began to note that the Bible does indeed have a rather heavy bent towards astronomy
..and eclipses, and the holidays and so and on so-forth, and that certain temples were built with what were known as " sacred " units
...which were not in possession of anybody except the priesthood / ruling party, which when you go back far enough into Mesopotamian history, the king was also the High Priest AND the astronomer ( The Garden of the Stars in Sumerian literature , for example )
And it is the existence of the " sacred " and likely hidden units that adds yet another level of complexity into the topic
It's quite common I have somebody " prove " to me, using something like a Wikipedia quote, that " such and such unit - whether it's a nautical mile or a second or a foot, did not exist in Mesopotamia, yet they do not know anything about Mesopotamian systems of metrology aside from what they just Googled
As I have shown ( in some other threads ), units like cubits were indeed to build both temples on earth and at the same time used to measure things like eclipses
They were used above
They were used below
And, most importantly, the old Mesopotamian system of gematria had a hard and fast set of bases
It was not a collection of " add whatever you want to whatever and multiply it " babbling, much like the product of modern proponents of gematria, it was robust, and complex, and involved some very difficult topics
I mean, I had encountered 0 mathematicians who actually have books on the mathematical astronomy of the Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Babylonians, et al, or their different writing systems and so on
Some of those books cost more than 500$ each
Gematria, as it was turning out, was a very robust subject that had been covered up by years of listening to people who loudly proclaimed they had it all figured out
