CHARACTER STUDY – JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

The one example of this numerological technique in the book was that of Enlightenment Era philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau. His name in Gematria equals 2331. Because the number 2000 doesn’t appear in the Table of Significations, we drop that number and just go with the 331, which breaks down as follows:

300 – Safety, Belief, Faith, Philosophy

31 – Love of Glory, or Love of Virtue

The 300 makes perfect sense; he was a philosopher, and his philosophizing often got him in trouble with either the local authorities or the local clergy, which meant that for his own safety, he would have to move, sometimes to another geo-political region altogether. A philosopher can be said to be a lover of virtue, because they ask the Big Questions: Why are we here? What does it mean to be a good person? What does it mean to lead a good life? So that’s where the 31 comes in. But look what happens when we break down the 31 into its component parts:

30 – Fame; a Wedding

1 – Passion, Ambition, Design

Rousseau never got married, although he did live in a more-or-less common-law arrangement with a couple of women over the course of his life. But his philosophy certainly did make him famous during his lifetime and afterward. He had to have had a passion for his subject, in order for him to have written 20 books and garnered the fame he did. I don’t know if he had any ambition to become famous, but design had to feature in his life at some point, because a philosopher has to come up with a framework of thought which makes a sort of sense. So that’s where the 1 comes in. In situations like this, you don’t have to do any further breakdown beyond the specific number, if it falls between 10 and 50, but in my opinion, it can be illuminating.

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