Bethsheba Ashe
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That's a poetic statement, but it sort of smacks of a wild-west nostrum, if you'll excuse the skepticism. I think there are different ways to skin a cat, and I think the bible is way more available than I think you're making it out to be in this post.
It's a take on Origen:
Now that we are going to begin our interpretation of the Psalms, let us preface our remarks with a very pleasing tradition respecting all Divine Scripture in general, which has been handed down to us by the Jew. That great scholar used to say that inspired Scripture taken as a whole was on account of its obscurity like many locked-up rooms in one house. Before each room he supposed a key to be placed, but not the one belonging to it; and that the keys were so dispersed all round the rooms, not fitting the locks of the several rooms before which they were placed. It would be a troublesome piece of work to discover the keys to suit the rooms they were meant for. It was, he said, just so with the understanding of the Scriptures, because they are so obscure; the only way to begin to understand them was, he said, by means of other passages containing the explanation dispersed throughout them. The Apostle, I think, suggested such a way of coming to a knowledge of the Divine words when He said, "Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." ( 1 Cor. ii. 13.)
Philocalia, Origen, pg32, The Philocalia of Origen (1911) pp. 1-237. English translation
Or not. I don't think you've proved that gematria is the raison d'etre. And you are proceeding from that assumption.
I think you might be pre-judging the thesis before assessing the evidence. If it helps, I'm sure you'll agree that there must be some reason why the paper is in the top 0.5% on Academia.edu, so please try and keep an open mind until you've read it? But I like your skepticism btw.