Welcome to the fourth installment of my blog about gematria, the Merkabah and the birth of the alephbet, and a happy Hanukkah to you all. Yesterday I gave you the Genesis alphabetic acrostic to contemplate, but today I’m going to attempt a brief potted commentary on it, although its really something … [Read more...]
Light, and the Genesis alphabetic acrostic.
Welcome back to the third installment of my blog, dedicated to gematria, the Merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. Today I’d like to discuss with you how the people of the ancient near east may have thought about light, and we’ll explore some common mystical and philosophical thoughts about the … [Read more...]
The conventions of biblical gematria.
Yesterday I called the biblical art of gematria ‘sophisticated’, and today I’d like to elaborate a little upon that theme. You’ll all be familiar with the concept of written grammar, but have you ever paid mind to numerical grammar? It is by convention to numerical grammar that we structure … [Read more...]
Genesis and the Tarot.
The verses of the Torah were first publicly numbered (as we find them today) by Robert Estienne (Robert Stephanus) in 1571, but the move was not without criticism at the time from traditionalists. The original manuscripts did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in a numbered … [Read more...]