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Written by Bethsheba Ashe.

#1. Letters of the Lord: The letter Beth.

In the first of our series on the Hebrew letters we will be looking closely at the gematria of the first two verses of Genesis because they correspond to and describe the properties and themes of the letter Beth.

#0. The Letters of the Lord. (Prelude).

The following series of articles is written to accompany my recent mathematical analysis of the first two chapters of the Book of Bereshith (Genesis).

The Gematria of the Book of Genesis: Cataloguing the Math of Creation.

I took a break recently to finish working out the gematria of Brashith 1-2, and rather than write a book about it I’ve put it online and made it freely available.

The Gematria of the Mt. Ebal Tablet.

There are two sets of calculations in the text of the Mt. Ebal tablet, which puts the practice of gematria back to the bronze age. We take a look at them, for real this time!

Is this biblical or occult?

The roots of Occultism in the West are deeply entwined in the study of the hidden, secret & sacred things which are written in the Bible. What can we learn from the mistakes of Kircher?

The Gematria of the Acrostic in Psalms 112:1-10.

The Gematria of the Acrostic from Psalms 112:1-10.

The first ten verses of Psalms 112 are an alphabetic acrostic which were written to include gematria. We dive into the calculations.

Real Gematria.

Real Gematria is a formal system of early mathematics. It might not fit modern ideas of mathematics, but for a scribe that was writing at the time of King Solomon, it was just the way math was done in those days.

Biblical Gematria Wiki

From the How-it-should-be-Wiki, the common sense encyclopedia.

I am that I am ~ Light and Darkness (Exodus 3:14).

We dive into the gematria of Exodus 3:14, which is famous for the statement God makes to Moses. Rather than tell Moses his name he says “I am that I am”.

Using gematria to solve textural corruptions.

Here, I talk about corruptions in the text of the Tanakh and how gematria can settle disputes by finding the correct version.

What is a pseudo-cipher?

What is the difference between a useful cipher, and a pseudo-cipher? We explore the differences between working ciphers in formal systems and pseudo-ciphers used by numerologists and conspiracy theorists.

What is a cover-cipher?

A cover-cipher is a published cipher that is openly used to conceal a hidden cipher that is really being used. In this article, we explore a few examples.

The gematria of the Shemhamphorash.

Did you know the Shemhamphorash sums to 9000 with the reversal cipher? Just type it into Shematria to verify.

Gematria, Merkabah and the Birth of the Alephbet!

What does gematria and the merkabah have to do with the birth of the alephbet? Perhaps everything...

The Trees of Life.

There are many types of diagram that call themselves a tree of life, from many sources. We track the trees and their sources.

A few common Torah Mnemonics.

This article list some common mnemonics that you should memorize and be alert for when you’re practicing the art of gematria with the Torah.