On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:11:25 -0500 Patrick Dunn
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
>Here are some more (sorry if I'm stepping on your toes, Steg, but
>gematria is one of my favorite things):

You're not stepping on my toes, but some of these gematriyot are! :)

>aheva "love" = 13
>akhad "unity" = 13

ehhad means "one"

>13+13 = 26
>YHVH "The unpronouncable name of god" = 26

>Ruakh Elohim "The spirit of the divine" = 300
>The letter shin = 300
>(Shin, incidently, looks like three little flames)
>
>hab hab! "give, give!" = 14

This is Aramaic, not Hebrew.  As far as i know, the only form of the root
HB used in Hebrew is the 'extended' form of the imperative, _havah!_,
which is used as "c'mon" or a "let's" form, as in the Babel Text "let's
go make bricks..."

>Davakh "to sacrifice" = 14

This could also be Aramaic....Aramaic /d/ is sometimes cognate to Hebrew
/z/  (probably one of the Proto-Semitic emphatics that they both lost),
and one of the Hebrew roots for "sacrifice" is ZBHh.

>David "beloved, love" = 14
>
>Vav "pin, nail" = 12
>Khad "to penetrate, be sharp" = 12
>
>An "pain" = 51

"strength, sorrow", _on_ is spelled with a vowel-marking _vav_ in the
middle. 57.

>Na "failure" = 51

_na_ "please" is 51 (nun-alef), but _na`_ "move" is 120.

>Havam " to annoy" = 51

I've never seen this root....maybe it's another Aramaic word.

>Hilel "morning star" = 75
>Lileh "night" = 75

Well, _heileil_ and _laila_ have the same value because they're spelled
with the same letters, HYLL and LYLH.


>There are many, many more (and many more than that that don't make any
>sense at all, so don't get feelin' mystic)
>
>BTW, I took most of these from either Godwin's cabalistic encyclopedia
>(in
>which I took his transliterations exactly) or from Crowley'sSephir
>Sephiorth, in which case I tried to figure out their *real*
>transliterations and probably failed.
>
>Yes, I know, both Godwin and Crowley are goyim.  So am I.  Still, it's
>neat.

The problem with Crowley isn't that he's not a Jew, it's that
he's...sorta weird.
Someone i know has a Crowley tarot card deck, with the Hebrew letters on
the trump(?) cards.  You can spell out people's names with the cards and
then 'tell their fortune' that way.  I don't know if it's a valid
tarot-telling use, but sometimes it's fun....like when someone's name has
the Devil card in it  :) .
I wouldn't take anything Crowley writes as authoritative on Kabbalah.  I
don't know about Godwin.


-Stephen (Steg)

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