We saw how “sanctuary” spells AVE. Through calculations and knowing the deeper meanings behind numbers we can learn all a word is meant to convey. Incredibly, English words prove to do the same as the Hebrew were designed to do: reveal these deeper meanings.
Here is the word EYE, by its full numbers and by its root numbers:
The full number tells us that with the eye we see. The total root number states that I (I) see (CE) from within (7). And the root, 8, on its side is ∞, a picture of the eyes. The eighth letter is H, pronounced “each,” so with CEH we have “see each.” And we do see through each eye.
In some cases the full word total must be reduced if it is to make sense:
This is amazing, because the original churches were built in a circular design to represent the all-seeing eye of God. So they were really an effigy, a crude image.
The ancient Hebrew Kabbalists saw that the words with the same total were related. So they would further hide truths by substituting a word here and there for an important word, and the substitute would have the same numerical value. Only the wise would understand the meaning behind the veil.
The interesting thing is that the words that are related by total do have a relation to each other. For example, “great fish” in Hebrew is dag gedul, DGGDVL, which totals 50. The word for sea is yawm, IM, and that also totals 50. The fish belongs in the sea and together they are one.
Another useful tool for extracting hidden meanings is to read the interpretation of the Tarot card that has the same number.
For a long time I would not be concerned with the Tarot because of my mistaken notion that they are just fortune-telling cards. But I soon learned that they are filled with symbolism that goes back to biblical times, symbolism that reveals man's true nature and his relation to the world.
The Savant Count de Gebelin was the first to discover that the Tarot is the great key to the hieratic hieroglyphs. The prophecies of Ezekiel and of St. John have these symbols and numbers. Solomon was aware of them and had 36 talismans engraved with these 78 figures.
Later they were found in the Egyptian Book of Thoth, one of the few books saved from the great fire in Alexandria that destroyed the world's greatest library. This library contained thousands of original manuscripts written on papyrus—irreplaceable treasures of ancient wisdoms, knowledge, and thought. Wisemen of the day knew the medieval church would destroy any such knowledge if it were again put in writing, so they set about re-creating it solely in pictures, letters, and numbers on a group of 78 playing cards. The true seeker could learn and the unenlightened could play games. Eliphas Levi said that if a man were imprisoned with only these cards, and meditated on each one, he would gain knowledge and wisdom on every possible subject.
The major arcana consists of 22 cards, the same number as of letters in the original Hebrew alphabet, and each card has a corresponding letter. Each letter originally represented spiritual ideas whose vibratory rate was the number of the letter. These ideas were drawn in symbolic forms that tie in with the attributes of the letter. So each Tarot card's symbols are scientifically accurate in terms of vibration.
The Tarot meanings add insight to words that have the root number corresponding to the Tarot number. The more we understand the meanings behind the symbols and colors of each card, the more information we receive.
The methods of discovering dogma from sacred words are numerous and important, one of which is: finding the least number of a word by adding (and re-adding) the digits of its total number and taking the corresponding key of the Tarot as a key to the meaning of the word.
Every word can also be analyzed the same as a name:
Background numbers (full numbers, for example, the 25 of the 25/7) are the adjectives which describe the type of expression the root number takes.
An easy way to see everything at a glance is to write the word vertically, put the full number next to each letter, then its root number further to the right of each full number, and repeat the vowels in the next column.
For the word LIFE:
Life's desire is 5: to use the five physical senses, and to be free to come and go, to travel, to learn.
The 14 behind the 5 means it wants to experience living and gain control of the physical appetites, or simply enjoy them.
The total expression of the root number of LIFE is 23. That is significant because 2 is the female number and 3, the male. All of life is made up of male and female, positive and negative. It is necessary for the continuance of the species. The 5, as the five senses, shows life to be sensate, a world of feeling.
The full word total is 32/5, which, when the letters are attached, gives us CBE, or See, Be. And that fairly well describes life, doesn't it? Life is what we see and be.
Love is an important life force. When we face adversities with love we find that it is a great neutralizing factor. It makes our whole being light up. The beginning letter to both life and love is L, 12/3, or the Holy Trinity. It is 1, 2, 3 or A, B, C, or fundamental essence. Love's desire is 11, and 11 wants to uplift mankind. The 11 understands the spiritual better than the material. It is happiest when it can let its light shine (Light = 11).
The root total for LOVE is 18, and the root, 9, the number of humanity. It is a number of deep emotion, and is the great lover, the romantic.
The root total digits (1 and 8) are adjectives that define the 9 even further. The 1 refers to the individual expressions of love, and 8 is a picture of the continuing cycle of life. Love makes the world go 'round.
The full word total of LOVE is 54/9. This gives us ED I, or eddy. An eddy is a whirlpool. So LOVE is a whirlpool force that draws all to itself. What it gives out, comes back.
Anything we love we direct our energies to. Where does energy come from? Its full number is:
It is interesting that ENERGY spells GOD, and its desire is 17/8, the root total and root numbers of God.
The full word total and word root number, 26/8, spells BFH, or “be of each.” The ancients believed that a part of God was in every part of His creation, so He really could “be of each.” It can also be read as BF8, or “be fate,” as letters and numbers, in Kabbalah, can be combined to reveal even deeper meanings.
The desire is 6, a picture of the sperm of regeneration, and the number of the Cosmic parent and wise counselor.
In the Kabbalah, the letter O can remain as the number 0 (zero).
In that case GOD would read:
| G—7 |
| O—0 |
| D—4 |
The Cosmic Egg is in the center, and the Cosmic Egg is all. Energy totals 74. It is as though energy comes directly from the Cosmic Egg, the symbol of First Cause, or God.
In the Kabbalah, as in India, the Deity was considered the Universe (depicted by the circle) and was not, in His origin, the God made in man's image as He is now.
In Hebrew, God is Yod Hé Vau Hé.
The total is equal to the full number of God in English.
The TAROT is an anagram for Jewish law minus one T: Rota.
Tarot is a collection of cards, and 20 is the number that refers to collections. But by its word root number, Tarot is 11. What does 11 signify? It is light:
The desire of light is 9 and 9 is the number of humanity, so it is there for all people, to serve and enlighten them. The 9, remember, is a reflection of the lamp of Hermes.
The desire of Tarot, however, is 7—desire to hold secret spiritual knowledge. Fewer people will seek light through the Tarot.
Someone once asked me if I would define God and dog the same since they have the same letters and same numbers. The answer is no, for the sequence of the letters and numbers is different. The first letter gives the nature of the word. God begins with a G, the seventh letter. The 7 is a spiritual number. God is first of all a spiritual nature.
Dog begins with D, the fourth letter, and 4 is a physical number. A dog has a physical body with four legs. It's fun to see what the difference is by taking the word “difference” literally. I subtracted one from the other and an amazing thing happened:
| G O D — 7 6 4 |
| D O G — 4 6 7 |
| 2 9 7 |
| BIG |
There is a BIG difference between God and a dog!
Actually, in several mythologies dogs are the guardians of Hell, the opposite end of the polar spectrum from where all emanates from the God of Heaven.
Something very interesting happens when we analyze the Hebrew name for God, Yod Hé Vau Hé, by the letter numbers in English:
Hé is the female, negative force.
Vau (peg or nail) is the factor that joins Yod and Hé.
The second Hé is the womb from which all becomes manifest, the result of the union (Vau) of Yod (masculine) and Hé (feminine).
Sometimes there is an alternate word used in different Bible translations where the word “door” is used instead of the word “words.” George M. Lamsa caught this in his direct translation from the ancient Eastern manuscripts in the following verse: “Trust not your friends, put no confidence in your neighbors, guard the words of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom” (Micah 7:5).
In all other Bibles the word “door” is used, as in this translation from the King James version: “Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom” (Micah 7:5).
As we can see, other words are translated differently also. But the interesting thing is the substitution of door for words, and the expression “door of the mouth.”
Yod Hé Vau Hé is then a series of doors which, when opened, will bring forth words; words that establish creation. This is significant to us for we are made in His image and likeness, as lesser creators. But few of us realize our words are creative tools, and our mouth is the door that keeps them in or lets them out.
Daleth also means mouth, or womb. This refers to the entire circle of the Deity from which all creation is given birth. How appropriate then that Yod Hé Vau Hé be composed of 4's, or doors, or various birth channels.
This brings us to the word BIRTH:
It is appropriate that BIRTH starts with a B, for it is pronounced “Be.” B is said to be the explosive sound from the lips suggesting the primal explosion that spewed the planets from the Creator's mouth as He spoke them into existence.
On close inspection, the letter B is graphically composed of 1 and 3 attached: 13: B. And 1 + 3 = 4, the number of manifestation. This is where form takes place in the outer world, after birth. Following the “Be” is I and R, or “I Are.” It is after we are born (be) that we come to the self-realization that we exist (I are).
The only vowel is I, so the activating spirit is the individual. I is the ninth letter, the number of humanity, emotion, and feeling; it is a picture of the generative sperm, the Yod of creation—a part of the light from the Creator Itself that is within each and every one of us.
The root total is 30, the number of the Creative Trinity (3) next to the Cosmic Egg (0). The cypher always refers to the Source of all and all the God-Power within it.
The full word total is 57. Kabbalistically that spells EG, or “Egg.” How appropriate for a correspondence with birth.
The 5 + 7 = 12, and 1 + 2 + 3, so we have the 12th letter, L, and the third letter, C. Viewed together this is EGLC. Immediately the eye sees the word LEGACY, which means anything passed on by an ancestor—again, a perfect description for birth.
We saw how IHVH, the Hebrew spelling for Jehovah, reveals its many doors that give birth to all forms of creation:
The 69 is a picture of the generative sperm.
The 33 is the number of spiritual gifts.
The vowels = 12/3, the desire to create.
Once we understand the meanings of the letters and numbers, and learn to read between the lines, not much can remain hidden from us. And with the meanings of the corresponding Hebrew letters, nothing remains hidden, for the word itself, HIDDEN, has a window (H) and two doors (D). By opening the right doors and having the windows of our soul unobstructed, mysteries are revealed.
For there is nothing hidden which will not be uncovered; and nothing done in secret which will not be revealed.
—Mark 4:22
H is a picture of a ladder, or a window with a sash across its center. On its side it is a big I. I see through the windows of my soul, which is my understanding. If my understanding is good, I see clearly. My beliefs color my viewpoint and affect the depth of my understanding.
If I climb the ladder and observe from the upper window, my viewpoint will be much brighter and broader than it would be from the limitations of the basement window, which is the physical eye, or limited understanding.
