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- Here is a file I found on the Monochrome Bulletin Board
- ( telnet 138.40.11.1 login mono, password mono )
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- Qabbalistic Word Manipulation
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- Gematria
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- One problem that faces occultists is the verification of information
- that has been communicated by 'spirits' or similar sources. Naturally I
- will have questioned the spirit as to its personal details, eg its name
- and rank. How do I know whether its answers are correct ? Should I assume
- it is telling the truth when it says it is Gabriel ? How can I be sure it
- is not, in fact, the evil Glasyalabolas ?
-
- Gematria is one method that can help in these matters. Gematria is a
- part of the Jewish occult system known as Qabbalah ("tradition") and is
- widely used by modern occultists - jewish or otherwise (e.g. it is
- central to many rites of freemasonry).
-
- Probably the best way to explain the word gematria is to say that it
- means "Hebrew numerology".
-
- The Jews don't have special characters to represent digits or numbers.
- In Hebrew every alphabetic letter has a number associated with it :
-
- Letter Value Sound
-
- Aleph 1 A
- Beth 2 B,V
- Gimel 3 G,J
- Daleth 4 D
- Heh 5 E,H
- Vau 6 U,V
- Zayin 7 Z
- Cheth 8 Ch (as in loch)
- Teth 9 T
- Yodh 10 I,J,Y
- Kaph 20 or 500 (final) K
- Lamed 30 L
- Mem 40 or 600 (final) M
- Nun 50 or 700 (final) N
- Samekh 60 S
- Ayin 70 O
- Peh 80 or 800 (final) P,F
- Tzaddi 90 or 900 (final) Tz
- Qoph 100 Q
- Resh 200 R
- Shin 300 S,Sh
- Tau 400 T,Th
-
- ( final = value of letter when it occurs at the end of a word )
-
- Gematria simply consists of adding up the values of the letters in a
- word. Words with the same totals are connected in some way.
-
- eg The Hebrew word for 'corpse' has the same number as the word for 'to
- extinguish'. Therfore there is some sort of link between the ideas
- 'corpse' and 'to extinguish'. In practice the connections between the
- words will not be as obvious as this.
-
- Getting back to the subject of verification of spirit communications
- let's imagine that I heard all sorts of wonderful things from a spirit
- who said his name was 'Abs'.
-
- Using gematria I would create a word with the sound 'abs'. Possible
- words would therfore be
-
- Aleph + Beth + Samekh = 1 + 2 + 60 = 63
- Aleph + Beth + Shin = 1 + 2 + 300 = 303
-
- Looking up words with the value 63, I immediately find the Hebrew for
- 'Dung'. Similarly for 303 I find 'Putrefaction'. My conclusion from this
- is that the demon 'Abs' should not be trusted and his words should be
- taken with a bucket of salt.
-
- Please note that there are no vowels in Hebrew, letters such as aleph
- and ayin do not correspond exactly to a and o. Vowels are written by
- placing marks underneath the letters. Thus we may leave out all vowel
- sounds from out gematria if we so wish.
-
- e.g. If I receive a communication from someone called 'Saddam Hussein'
- saying that he is the antichrist, then I would have to believe what he
- says because :
-
- 'Saddam' = Samekh + Aleph + Daleth + Aleph + Mem
- = 60 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 600 = 666
-
- ( I could spell this with a double daleth, the sound would be the same)
-
- also
-
- 'Hussein' = Heh + Vau + Shin + Shin + Heh + Nun
- = 5 + 6 + 300 + 300 + 5 + 50 = 666
-
- ( No need to add a Yod to make an 'i' sound for the reasons mentioned
- above. Also Nun is not given its final value, a common qabbalistic
- cheat ! )
-
- There are lots of other qabbalistic methods that allow us to gain
- insight into the hidden meanings of words. (Eg a method called Thashraq
- consists of writing a word backwards, therefore 'doli' (basket) becomes
- 'yalad' (to create). I will look at just two other methods, namely
- Temurah and Aiq Bekar.
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- Temurah
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- Temurah has several meanings : permutation, wages and compensation.
- Qabbalists are mainly interested in the first of these (unfortunately).
-
- Temurah is a method whereby we replace letters in a word, or phrase,
- with other letters according to a precise rule. Actually there are many
- methods of temurah, though once you know one method, you know them all.
-
- Firstly split the Hebrew alphabet in two, and place one half under the
- other, thus :
-
- K I T Ch Z V H D G B A
- L M N S O P Tz Q R Sh Th
-
- This particular method is called Athbash, its name comes from the four
- letters on the far right of the table ( A, Th, B, Sh ). Using athbash we
- would replace a 'T' with an 'N', an 'M' with an 'I', a 'G' with an 'R'
- etc.
-
- The other variations of temurah and constructed by sliding the bottom
- row of letters along. Sliding one place to the right will give us Ashbar,
- sliding again with give Arbaq.
-
- Temurah was used by medieval qabbalists to construct god-names for
- their rituals. It also crops up in the bible. Consider verse 26 of
- Jeremiah XXV which reveals the rather obscure name 'Sheshakh'.
- Submitting the letters ShShK to the method of Athbash gives us BBL, or
- Babel ! Thus the passage becomes crystal clear to the crafy qabbalist.
-
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- Aiq Bekar
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-
- Aiq Bekar, or the 'qabbalah of the nine chambers', divides the alphabet
- into 9 groups according to letter value :
-
- Sh L G R K B Q Y A
- 300 30 3 200 20 2 100 10 1
-
- M S V K N H Th M D
- 600 60 6 500 50 5 400 40 4
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- Tz Tz T P P Ch N O Z
- 900 90 9 800 80 8 700 70 7
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-
- One of the more prominent uses of aiq bekar is for reducing the values
- of certain letters in a name, to enable us to construct the sigil
- (signature) of a spirit or angel.
-
- As an example of the use of aiq bekar, let us construct the sigil of
- Zazel, the spirit of Saturn :
-
- Firstly we take the magic square (kamea) of Saturn
-
- 4 9 2
- 3 5 7
- 8 1 6
-
- The idea is to convert each letter in the name Zazel (in Hebrew this is
- spelt ZAZL) into a number, then mark each number in the kamea. Finally we
- construct the sigil by drawing lines between these numbers.
-
- Z A Z L = 7 1 7 30
-
- The first three letters of the name will fit in the kamea. Lamed won't
- - there is no number 30 ! By aiq bekar we can reduce this to 3, enabling
- us to fit the sigil within the magic square.
-
- 4 9 2
- * 5 *
- 8 * 6
-
- Joining these 3 (4) numbers gives us the sigil :
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