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Read about Kabbalah Numerology
About this reading: Kabbalah numerology is a method of assigning numbers to the letters of the alphabet and deriving a number from a name, said to be influenced by the mystical Jewish tradition of Kabbalah, including gematria, the practice of giving Hebrew letters numerical values. Where ordinary numerology maps letters to the numbers 1 through 9 in order, this method uses a table that sorts letters into the numbers 1 through 8 and doesn't use 9. This page adds up the values of the letters in your name and reduces the total to a single digit (keeping 11, 22 and 33).
Where ordinary numerology traces back to ideas attributed to Pythagoras, Kabbalah numerology comes from an entirely different lineage — Jewish mysticism. The same name can yield a different number depending on which system you use. As we see it here, that's not a case of one system being wrong; it's simply two different rulers held up against the same material, a name.
It doesn't use the Kabbalistic Tree of Life itself, and the letter tables vary by school and by source. For example, sources differ on the value of X; this page uses 6.
Lore column: Was 666, the Number of the Beast, a Code Hiding an Emperor's Name?
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
Gematria, the practice of giving letters numerical values and counting a name, is said to have produced the most famous unlucky number in the West. In the New Testament, Revelation 13:18 asks those with wisdom to count the number of the beast, and gives that number as 666.
Among scholars, a leading theory holds that the number points to the Roman emperor Nero. Write "Nero Caesar" in Hebrew letters and add up their values, and the total is said to come to 666. Some see it as a code that let people criticize a ruler in an age of persecution without writing his name outright. Some ancient manuscripts give 616 instead of 666, and since a Latin-style spelling of the name adds up to exactly 616, this variant is also thought to support the Nero theory. A third-century papyrus fragment deciphered only in this century is said to contain a reading of 616 as well.
Over the centuries since, the number has been pinned on all sorts of people and institutions. Each time the name being counted changed, 666 pointed to a new beast.
As we see it here, what makes 666 frightening is not the number itself but the idea that turning a name into a number can expose a hidden identity. This is our own conjecture, but the anger and fear of people who sealed a name they dared not speak inside a number may be what keeps an ominous heat in it nearly two thousand years later. Counting your own name is a quiet reversal of a technique once used to accuse someone.
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