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  1. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    Someone counted them all? lol. :-)
  2. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    David, if I write: 2 + 19 - 300 + 295 = then by mathematical convention the answer is 16. We cannot see what we want with the text and still get the right answer. Biblical gematria has similar mathematical and logical conventions. Nice Lizard/Leaf though. :-)
  3. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    Thank you for your wishes towards my success, but I don't understand what the subconscious has to do with this. The calculations are analysed objectively according to the scribal conventions of the time. No subconscious prompting is necessary. I have a couple of papers about biblical...
  4. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    Many cultures have a creator deity. The Norse peoples had a primordial cow. Before the Bible the Sumerians knew Enlil, so I don't think the Bible is the cause of that belief, although it has shaped the way Abrahamic religions think of a creator God.
  5. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    In my new book [The Genesis Wheel ~ out 1st August] I argue that many of the so-called miracles and supernatural happenings in the Bible are not true accounts, but are there because of underlying gematria calculations the scribes were setting down. I write: "From the burning bush to the...
  6. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    If you've read the paper on Academia.edu and you want to know about Vav to Resh, you'll be interested to know that I'm publishing the full book of The Genesis Wheel shortly. I think it might be against forum rules to post a link to it, but it will be out on the 1st August. Its on Amazon and is...
  7. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    It was fixed by the same people who invented and developed the alephbet; these were the ancient Hebrews and Canaanites from the West Semitic culture[1]. It is possible that the letters were used to represent numbers before they were used to represent sounds of speech, but further work must be...
  8. Bethsheba Ashe

    'Who Told Thee...'

    Might the answers you seek be found by other ways of reading the Torah? i.e. the PaRDeS?
  9. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    Are you referring to the thread on the Thelema forum? Crowley changed it to Babalon so that it would number 166 in Greek [ΒΑΒΑΛΩΝ], so when it was added to the Notariqon he created from "Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast", which...
  10. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    Apart from the fact they both use numbers - no. Numerology is a new age free-association type of thing. Biblical gematria deals with the Hebrew and Greek texts of the bible, and adheres to the strict conventions of the biblical scribes. They're chalk and cheese.
  11. Bethsheba Ashe

    Does the grammatical difference indicate something deeper?

    Rabbi Sacks wrote about this matter 6 months ago. I recall it because it was a really good blog; The Universal and the Particular (Mikketz 5779) Have you considered that the 4 letter name could be an acronym for the seven palaces?
  12. Bethsheba Ashe

    The Hermeneutics of Aleister Crowley

    Any Thelemites around that fancy a chat about the hermeneutics of Aleister Crowley? I chuckled after reading a thread on Lashtal recently about Babalon. "Is she the Scarlet women?" they wanted to know. Of course she is! This is how you tell; Liber Al vel Legis 1:15: "Now ye shall know that...
  13. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    This is an extract from a new paper I'm writing. Please consult "The Gematria Substrate" on academia.edu before reading. Thank you. Abstract I present evidence that the creation myth of Genesis was founded upon an alphabetic framework that corresponds to the letter attributions of the Seven...
  14. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    "In other news, besides regularly updating the Shematria database with calculations, I’ve also added support for Arabic[2] to the calculator. I’d like to send special thanks to Firemorphic and Komori from Religious Forums for helping me iron out the kinks of the code." ~ Bethsheba Ashe, The...
  15. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    If you'd like to know more about the Temple of Solomon, Professor Hurowitz recorded a marvelous video for the Library of Congress before he passed away. I highly recommend it.
  16. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    1 Kings was written using a goodly amount of gematria calculations. With them we can arrive at a more complete picture than ever before of what the scribal author of the text was trying to convey. 1 Kings does not aim at reflecting an authentic chronology of events but rather presents numbers...
  17. Bethsheba Ashe

    Biblical Gematria

    Today I want to discuss the gematria of the Holy Name and why it was such a unifying monotheistic engine in ancient times, as well as asking “Where does the holy name come from?” And “What do the letters Yod Heh Vav Heh actually stand for?” [As usual I’m using biblical gematria values which...
  18. Bethsheba Ashe

    What makes religion beneficial or harmful to communities?

    Without them, there would have been the same moral and intellectual development in those indigenous cultures but it would have been a culturally appropriate development. Now we just have this monoculture and it breeds a great deal of madness.
  19. Bethsheba Ashe

    When Democrats became Socialist.

    They're both.
  20. Bethsheba Ashe

    mark of the beast 666

    Its probably because the χξς (666) = 300 with gematria, which is the value of the hebrew letter Shin with Standard gematria. I note however that John didn't use Standard Gematria. He was a biblical gematria guy all the way down.
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