Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B284307.3897@luckymojo.com> From: catherine yronwode Organization: Lucky Mojo Curio Co. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.magick.tyagi Subject: Re: Gematria, Language, and Kabbalah (was Numerology question) References: <20010613194315.11334.00005094@ng-mp1.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 40 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 04:44:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.137.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 992493888 209.204.137.82 (Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:44:48 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:44:48 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:248977 alt.magick.tyagi:27252 David Cantu wrote: > > our alphabet is arbitrary, a b c d .... > The Hebrew alphabet is an alpha-story as well as an alphabet and > number system. These things integrate together into a robust system > of mathematically based mysticism. There is information hidden in > these structures and meta-structures which can be mined if you are not > too sure you already know it is not there. If lucky, the alphabet > will "speak" to you and reveal itself, as it did to early Kabbalist > who had no books to go to. The question of whether this alphabet was > "received" is not a trivial question, though one that attracts a > debunking mentality. Are you familiar with the works of Stan Tenen of the Meru Foundatiion? He is a Jewish mathematician who has published many texts and produced several videos on his theory that the Hebrew alphabet contains intrinsic and ordered meaning. His proofs of geometric and topological coding in the Torah are pretty impressive. He is not pitching gematria, rather he is pointing to an embedded set of physical, topological, and geometric keys to understanding the Hebrew alphabet and thus the Torah. You can get a glimpse of what he offers by going to http://www.meru.org Scroll down past the longish intro to the table of contants and read any of his essays. Tenen, like most Jews, began his work with Bereshith (the first word in Genesis), which is where the code is laid out, obviously, and he is working very far above those silly little gematria-tables-of-coincidences that many Crowleyist and Hermetic folks in alt.magick think constitute the entire Kabbalah. cat (just another yid) yronwode The Esoteric Archive --------- http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric.html No personal e-mail, please; just catch me in usenet; i read it daily. Lucky Mojo Curio Co. http://www.luckymojo.com/luckymojocatalogue.html Send e-mail with your street address to catalogue@luckymojo.com and receive our free 32 page catalogue of hoodoo supplies and amulets