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February 19, 2020 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

The Shematria Calculator
Completely free and no registration is required.
As well as being a highly functional calculator and database for Hebrew, Greek, English and Arabic, this site offers a book search function that will show you the gematria of words from the Tanakh & New Testament. The site is also loaded with a plethora of links to articles, blogs and other useful websites. Put a few hours aside to surf this one, then bookmark it and come back.

The Glory of Kings
This is a sister site to Shematria, and features a book search function that also calculates the gematria of Liber AL vel Legis on the fly. Future plans for this site involve integrating a wiki function for each verse.

Temple93
A Thelema subreddit group that welcomes the hermeneutic approach.

Bethsheba Ashe ~ Times of Israel Blog
My blog on gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. There’s about 26 articles at the moment.

Bethsheba Ashe ~ Academia.edu
Book previews and a couple of papers.

Bethsheba Ashe ~ YouTube
A collection of very short videos. lol.

My Books on Amazon
We’ve been learning from them for thousands of years. Why stop now? Most of mine are free for Kindle Unlimited members.

Galay Notes Demo
Write your own Galay notes, with a writing script that is both fully logographic and alphabetical. Put this one on the 10 impossible things to do before breakfast at Miliways.

My Photography
Lots of squirrels!

Have fun.
Bethsheba Ashe.
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The Genesis Wheel: and other hermeneutical essays.

August 7, 2019 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

A preview of The Genesis Wheel was ranked in the top 0.5% of papers by academia.edu. This book is an exploratory romp around the biblical world that introduces a new paradigm to debunk the documentary hypothesis.

Presenting evidence that the creation story of Genesis was founded upon an alphabetic framework, Bethsheba Ashe analyses the gematria of every word of every line of Genesis 1-2 (no cherry picking here!). She demonstrates ancient scribal conventions and the elegant mathematical notation of biblical authors.

Gematria sometimes has a bad reputation as something fringe or hokum, but this book is based on a tremendous amount of research and scholarship and is highly credible and useful, enabling readers to answer questions posed by the mythology of Genesis such as “what was the fruit of the Tree of Life?” or “how was light created before the sun?”

It’s got great ★★★★★ reviews and is highly recommended.

Bethsheba Ashe is an INTJ author, cryptographer, programmer and creator of the world’s first dual logographic and alphabetical writing script. She’s a bit of a geek and learned Python at age 47 so she could code the Shematria.com calculator. She is the author of six books and one screenplay, and is proud to be a weird woman.

“The Genesis Wheel is a book for anyone with even a slight interest in Gematria (ancient alphabets that are also used as number systems and whose encoding into texts are used both esoterically and to provide essential, most often secret or hidden, information) as well as sacred scripture in general, both the Old and New Testament.
The author of this work has clearly done an immense amount of groundwork and research into the particular number systems and specific coding applied by the early writers of the books of the Bible.
This has brought to light a completely new and surprising interpretation of the Bible that adds new levels of understanding, which makes this book a very interesting read. It is well written, highly engaging – and most importantly – thought provoking. The author’s enthusiasm for the subject shines through on every page.
To add to this work, Bethsheba Ashe has developed a fully functioning website that allows input of any text in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic and English to be calculated automatically using the new Bible Gematria values that she has discovered were used to encode Gematria into the very fabric of the texts of the Bible’s Old and New Testament.
This website also has a wealth of invaluable resources and links to relevant ancient Jewish books and Kabbalistic literature, which you’ll struggle to find anywhere else. This is indeed a Great Work! 10/10.”
— CK Krogh, Goodreads

“This is a meticulous work, highly commendable for the quality of the original research that has inspired its unique character, worthy of very serious study.”
— David Llewellyn, Goodreads

From the Author
“My interest in cryptography began as a kid after I was presented with a copy of John Worsley’s charming book “The Spirit of the Stones” during the holidays. Armed only with my Commodore 64, I set about attacking the cipher. My success at breaking codes and exposing secrets isn’t because I’m smarter than everyone else. I’m just a very stubborn person and a bit obsessive when I get my teeth into an interesting problem.”
— Bethsheba Ashe.

For comments and questions please contact: bethsheba@vvheel.com

War Engine

April 15, 2019 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

~ Notes.

Today I have the pleasure of taking a look at a small piece of the gematria within the Book of the Law. Written in 1904, Crowley – who had made a keen study of the Merkabah and the Torah – encoded a Hebrew/English transliterated form of gematria within the pages of the dual monikered ‘Liber Al vel Legis’[1]. The story behind Crowley’s relationship with the Merkabah is for another day. Today I just want to share the results of my studies regarding the AL III,7 : “I will give you a war-engine,” as the phrase is particularly enigmatic. Also I believe that allowing you to read my notes will give you insight into how to go about the art of gematria properly.

I have a number of tools open on my desktop; Shematria, this word pad, and an ordinary calculator. I want to start by seeing line 7 in context of the gematria around it, since the math is probably part of a series.

Prior to line 7 we have the following sums in the chapter:
Line 1: Abrahadabra = 418. [abrahadabra + reward + ra + hoor +khut = 1420 (710 x 2. See AL 1.3-4 also).

Line 2: “ There is division hither homeward; [hither homeward = 555, corresponding in value to the phrase “The Hearts of Men”, so we may read “there is division in the hearts of men”.]
[Continuing line 2:]
there is a word not known [probably a reference to the ‘lost word’ of the freemasons, but we have that word and it has the value of 217 so no matter.]

Spelling is defunct; all is not aught”.
[We should pay attention to spelling errors. All is not aught may be an allusion to the value of ‘all’ which is 61, sharing the value with words such as Ain (Nothing (not aught)) which Crowley may have believed was a clever enough reason to include it.]

Beware! 219 + Hold! 109 + Raise the Spell 490 = 818
818 – (minus because it is from) Ra Hoor Khuit! 596 = 222.
Therefore, to cure the division in the hearts of men (which is 555) we add 222 and receive 777.

Line 3: a + God + War + Vengeance = 418
Line 4: Choose ye an island! = 434
Line 5: Fortify it! = 478 [418 + 434 + 478 = 1,330]
Line 6: Dung it about with enginery of war! = 880 [1330 + 880 = 2020]
Line 7: War Engine = 330
Line 8: “With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you”.

Peoples = 330. Peoples – War Engine = 0 and thus the peoples have been metaphorically ‘smited’ with gematria.
Line 9: Law of the Battle of Conquest = 710.

As a student of gematria it’s made me wonder whether Crowley was alluding to biblical battles as being similar plays of mathematics. The first time the word for war is mentioned in the bible is Genesis 14:2 if you fancy following that up, but for me that’s it for today. Have a great day and stay tuned for more numerical honey.

[1] א Aleph A = 1, ב Beth B = 2, ג Gimel G = 3, ש Shin Sh = 3, ד Daleth D = 4, ת Tav Th = 4, ה Heh H,E = 5, ו Vav U,V,W = 6, ז Zayin Z = 7, ח Cheth Ch,C = 8, ט Teth T = 9, י Yod I,J,Y = 10, כ,ך Kaph K = 20, ל Lamed L = 30, מ,ם Mem M = 40, נ,ן Nun N = 50, ס Samekh S,X = 60, ע Ayin O = 70, פ,ף Peh Ph,P = 80, צ,ץ Tsade Ts = 90, ק Qoph Q = 100, ר Resh R = 200.

Shematria ~ now with Arabic

April 14, 2019 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to announce that our dedicated biblical and occult gematria calculator is now able to work with Arabic. You could do Torah over breakfast, have the New Testament for lunch, nibble on the Book of the Law with your dinner and digest the Quran for supper!

Stay tuned for more numerical honey!

Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven ~ 777

January 25, 2019 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven

Welcome to my blog on gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alphabet. I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. Although I promised I’d be back in the new year with an article about the Sefer Bahir and the Seven Palaces, that is taking rather longer to write than I had anticipated so I’ll bring that back at some time later this year. Today I’d just like to share some of my recent findings about the gematria of the seven palaces which are proving to be quite a lot of fun.

Add together ALL of the main gates of the wheel for all the letters of the paths (not the palaces) to find the sum is 3108 which is 777 * 4:

[217 x 3] + [206 x 4] + 9 + 11 + 11 + 25 + 45 + 88 + 209 + 211 + 231 + 254 + 265 + 274 = 3108 = 777 x 4.

In respect of the gates, I thought these examples were pleasing compositions:

Gate of Shin = 12
Gate of Tav = 13
Gate of Tsade = 99
Gate of Qoph = 109
12 + 13 + 99 + 109 = 233 (the gate of the Seventh Palace).

670 – 452 = 218
218 + 265 + 217 = 700.

The Seven Palaces colour coded to HaShem.

When the Seven Palaces is organized into three columns it also totals to 777;
From Beth around to Heh on the left side; 2 + 8 + 1 + 40 + 4 + 200 + 5 = 260
From Beth to Heh down the middle; 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 200 + 60 + 5 = 282
From Beth around to Heh on the right side; 2 + 6 + 1 + 20 + 4 + 4 + 3 + 90 + 100 + 5 = 235
260 + 282 + 235 = 777.

I’ve also been doing a little bit of work with the organization of the bible at the moment. According to the Masoretic text, there were 10 generations from Adam to Noah, inclusive. There were another 10 generations after Noah and to Abraham, inclusive. This may not be a coincidence, but a sign of organization. Perhaps, like the opening 2 chapters of Genesis, the rest of the text has been organized into an alphabetic acrostic of ancestors, but arranged to the 20 count? I’ve made some notes about the gematria of the names and although not all of them yielded to my examination, a few of them threw up some intriguing results. Speculatively then, using the same order as we find the first Genesis alphabetic acrostic;

Order. Generation, (# of name), letter of the alphabet, mnemonic, [my notes];

HaAdam, (50), Beth, The House of God [Note 50 + 2 Beth = 52 (weeks of the year).]
Seth, (7), Aleph, Day and Night [Note ~ 7 for the days of the week.]
Enos, (60), Gimel and Shin, The Sky and Fire – Heat – Warmth – Dry Land [Note ~ 60 x 3 gimel = 180. 60 x 3 shin = 180. 180 + 180 = 360 (degrees in a circle)…]
Cainan, (210), Daleth and Tav, The Doors into and out of the World, and Time [Note ~ 7 x 30. Also, 210 – 4 = 206; the gate of the first path which is where the tav is located (דשתצקה).]
Mahlaleel, (136), Heh, Stars and Starlight upon the World.
Jared, (214), Vav, Birds and Fish [Note ~ 214 + 6 = 220.]
Enoch, (84), Zayin, Cattle and Insects [Note ~ 84 / 7 = 12. 84 x 7 = 588. 588 / 12 = 49 = 7 x 7.]
Methuselah, (91), Cheth, Sight – Vision – The Image of God [Note ~ 91 x 8 = 728 (364 x 2).]
Lamech, (90), Teth, Food [Note ~ Teth is 9 so ‘Lamech’ is 10 x 9.]
Noah, (58), Yod, Rest and Contemplation
Shem, (43), Kaph, Mist – Rain and Desire [Note ~ 43 is half of אלהים ‘Elohim’ ]
Arphaxad, (308), Lamed, Spirit – Neshamah [Note ~ 248 + 60 = 308.]
Salah, (41), Mem, Pregnancy [Note ~ אם ‘Am’ means ‘mother’ with a value of 41.]
Eber, (272), Nun, Life and Death
Peleg, (113), Samekh, The Great River
Reu, (276), Ayin, Temptation
Serug, (212), Peh, Mating and sex [Note ~ 212 + 80 = 292 / 80 = 3.65, but also 212 / 80 = 2.65. Remove the decimal point in these results for 365 days in a year and 265; the gate of the samekh.]
Nahor, (264), Tsade, Childbirth [Note ~ 264 days is the length of an average pregnancy.]
Terah, (212), Qoph, The Moon – Woman – Eve [Note ~ the name of the Moon-god in North Syria was “Terah.”.]
Abram / Abraham, (243 / 248), Resh, The Sun – Man – Adam.

It begs the questions; if this alphabetic acrostic forms the basis of the generations of Adam, then does it follow suit for the descendants of Abraham too? And if so, does this mean the Seven Palaces was used by biblical authors as a sort of… ancient sacred Filofax? What do you think?

777 days a week

Welcome to my blog about gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. This is a short addendum to yesterdays post.

ראשון שני שלישי רביעי חמישי שישי שבת = 777

Gematria # Hebrew English Transliteration

ראשון 260 Sunday Rishon

שני 63 Monday Sheni

שלישי 56 Tuesday Shlishi

רביעי 292 Wednesday Revi’i

חמישי 71 Thursday Chamishi

שישי 26 Friday Shishi

שבת 9 Saturday Shabbat

= 777

Gematria # Hebrew	English	Transliteration
ראשון 260	Sunday	Rishon
שני 63	Monday	Sheni
שלישי 56	Tuesday	Shlishi
רביעי 292	Wednesday	Revi’i
חמישי 71	Thursday	Chamishi
שישי 26	Friday	Shishi
שבת 9	Saturday	Shabbat

What are the odds that the days of the week would sum to 777? Pretty incredible, isn’t it? You can use my gematria calculator to check it out if you’d like; Shematria.

Which is more likely… that the days of the week sum to seven hundred and seventy seven by coincidence? Or that the seven words have been carefully pruned or developed to fit an ideal ‘perfect’ number to the glory of God? And whom might have arranged for such a thing? This poses a lot more questions than answers at the moment. Let me know what you think.

Stay tuned for more numerical honey…

[Reposted here from my blog with The Times of Israel; 777; episodes 12 & 13].

Hear O Israel the Lord Is Our God the Lord is one!

January 25, 2019 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

[First published on DEC 25, 2018, 6:25 AM;
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hear-o-israel-the-lord-is-our-god-the-lord-is-one/].

Welcome to a special installment of my blog on gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. Today I wish to share with you some truly amazing, beautiful and awe inspiring gematria work by Reuben Levi on the Shema! It brought tears to my eyes and I thank him for revealing it and allowing me to share it with you. ~ Bethsheba Ashe.

Reuben Levi ~
Using the Chariot gematria, I took a look at the Shema, which is known as the “watch-word” of the Jewish faith― whatever a “watch-word” is. Those of you who know a little about the format of a Jewish prayer service may know that the ḥazzan (cantor) calls out the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4) as it is written:

שמע ישראל אדוני אלהינו אדוני אחד

(“Hear, O Israel, the Lᴏʀᴅ is our Goᴅ, the Lᴏʀᴅ is one!”)

The gematrical value of this verse using Chariot gematria is 614― ONE MORE than 613.

The following verse does not appear in the Scripture, and if person is praying alone or in a group of less than ten, it is uttered silently― but when a congregation of at least ten people is present, they respond to the leader’s recitation of the Shema by chanting the following phrase aloud:

ברוך שם כבוד מלכותו לעולם ועד
(“Bless His Majesty’s Name forever!”)*

The gematrical value of this phrase using Chariot gematria is 665― ONE LESS than 666.

At Beth’s suggestion, I decided to see what would happen if I substituted “King Solomon” (שלמה המלך) for “His Majesty’s Name” in the response:

ברוך שם שלמה המלך לעולם ועד
(“Bless the name of Solomon the King forever.”)

Lo and behold, the gematrical value sums to exactly 700!

Knowing that King Solomon was also known as Jedidiah (ידידיה), I tried substituting that name instead:

ברוך שם ידידיה המלך לעולם ועד
(“Bless the name of Jedediah the King forever.”)

Wouldn’t you know it, the gematrical value is 665― the same as the traditional response.

It’s worth mentioning that in Kabbalah, the opening verse of the Shema is associated with Heaven, because the word Eloheinu (“Our God”) dwells in it. The response line, then, is associated with the Earth. Traditionally, the Shema is recited when wrapping the tefillin (phylacteries) to the forehead and to the left arm (beside the heart). The significance of this ritual is to “bind” the head, heart and hand into ONE: a unified vehicle for carrying out God’s work on Earth.

In concordance with that precept, the response to the Shema is worded in a very particular way. If you’re familiar with Hebrew or the Jewish liturgy, then you may know that ברוך שם כבוד מלכותו לעולם ועד is typically translated as “Blessed be His glorious Kingdom forever” or “Blessed be the glory of His Kingdom forever.” For those who understand Hebrew grammar, this presents a bit of a problem, because the word kevod (“glory”) is a noun, and is interposed between shem (“name”) and malkhuto (“His Kingdom”).

*Without getting into the intricacies of Hebrew noun construct-chains, the phrase is syntactically odd in that שם כבוד מלכותו literally parses out as “[the] name [of the] glory [of] His Kingdom.” So the glory of His Kingdom has a name? Not exactly. There’s a nuance at play here. The word מלכות means “kingdom” but could also be rendered as “kingship” or even “majesty.” The fact is, כבוד מלכותו is meant to be read as a single unit: an honorific comparable to “His [Glorious] Majesty.” That’s why I translated it as above: “Bless His Majesty’s Name forever.” (That’s what cued Beth into the idea that “His Majesty’s Name” might in fact be the name of King Solomon a.k.a. Jedediah.)

To wrap it up (no pun intended) the Shema and its non-Scriptural response are symbolic of the channeling of Divine Energy from Heaven to Earth. As stated above, the Shema itself represents Heaven, while the response represents Earth. To be more precise, the first line represents the highest Heaven, known in Kabbalah as the World of Atzilut (“Emanation”). The response is like a ladder that steps down one word/world at a time and ends on the Earth. Let’s consider the phrase as literally parsed, “Bless the NAME of the GLORY of His KINGDOM.”

For this purpose, “NAME” represents the head (the phylactery between the eyes) and the World of Beriah (“Creation”), because the name is “created” as a thought (מחשבה) in the brain (מוח). Next, “GLORY” represents the heart (the phylactery on the left arm) and the World of Yetzirah (“Formation”), because glory― a synonym for תפארת (“Beauty”) is formed in the heart (לב). Finally, we end with “KINGDOM” which represents the hand (the strap winding down the arm to the finger) and the World of Assiyah (“Action”), because the good deeds (מעשים טובים) are performed with the hand (יד).

So by wrapping the tefillin and reciting the Shema and its response, we are performing a ritual symbolic of transmitting Heavenly power down to the Earth. At the start, I demonstrated that the gematrical value of the Shema is 614 and the value of its response is 665.The last word of the former is “one” and by transmitting a 1 (i.e. God) down from Heaven to Earth, we end up with 613 Mitzvot above, and 666 representing the Earth below.

In our solar system, any planet’s orbital period (i.e. the time it takes to complete one whole circle around the Sun, in years) is directly related to its average distance from the Sun. If P is the planet’s orbital period in years, and D is its average distance from the Sun in Astronomical Units (AU) then the equation to derive the later from the former is D = P·⁶⁶⁶. That is, D equals P to the power of 0.666. This is accurate to at least 99.9% for every planet from Mercury to Uranus, and accurate to 99.8% for Pluto. You can do the math to prove this.”

What a beautiful gift for the holidays! Note ~ the Palace of King Solomon in 1 Kings corresponds with the first Palace of the Seven, which becomes the Sephiroth of Yesod and Malkuth on the Tree of Life.

And that’s a wrap for today [also no pun intended!] Thank you for reading my blog and for all your support and encouragement. We truly appreciate it. Have a wonderful day. I’ll be back in the new year with my analysis of the Sefer Bahir, so stay tuned for more numerical honey!

~ Bethsheba Ashe.