USES OF GEMATRIA

The source-book for this called it a way of reading a person’s character, but it seems equally-good for telling you a person’s destiny. It can drop hints about their background, possibly things which secretly trouble them, though they’d never breathe a word about it. If you do someone’s Gematria break-down and the number 30 figures into it, you’re likely looking at someone who has a better-than-average chance of becoming famous someday, or will at least know someone famous. If the number 37, you’re looking at a person who is probably destined to be a happy homemaker. If the number 28, you won’t be surprised to learn they are always richly-gifted on Valentine’s Day.  Say you have a friend whose life seems to be a series of battles; they suffer much and are troubled greatly. Then you do the Gematria on their name and discover it’s 1934. 900 is ‘wars, combat, struggles’ and 34 is ‘suffering and trouble of mind’, but the 1000 in their name is ‘mercy’. That mercy, for them, could well be you.

Knowing such things about a person might give you an assist when dealing with them, and retroactively resolve mysteries. Say a deeply-religious but contentious relative died, and you decide to do the Gematria of their name. Lo and behold, the Gematria of their name works out to 522. ‘Holiness’ and ‘A Scourge, the Divine Vengeance.’ No surprise; they were born to tell you that you’re going to hell.

This divination technique may serve no more useful a purpose than the satisfaction of idle curiosity, and something to pass the time on an idle Sunday afternoon. That having been said, this can be addictive. You do the Gematria for one person’s name, then curiosity will itch, and you’ll do it for another. Then you’ll want to do it for the company you work for or the school you attend. I started amusing myself by putting together possible number combinations from the Table of Significations and laughing at the results, especially at the ones that would make for a truly-miserable life (I’m terrible). It then occurred to me that if I were a writer of fiction, this might be a useful tool for fleshing-out the background of characters in my story (a good writer always knows more about their characters than appears in the story).

Get good at this, and in short order, you’ll know which of your associates will someday be a CEO of their own company, who will become a clergyperson, who will have an enjoyable life, and who will have a challenging one. You’ll know who to hitch your wagon to, and who you’ll want to avoid (I personally would not stay in touch with someone whose Gematria works out to 666).

Perhaps the chief benefit of Gematria is that it can bring the user understanding, which in turn can bring peace. May Gematria bring you both!

EXERCISES

  1. Do the Gematria on someone you know well, and whose full name at birth you know. Do two or three such people, if you’re so-inclined. Given what you know of these people and how their lives have transpired, does their Gematria profile make sense? Can you see how the Gematria has played-out in their lives?
  2. Think of a family whose multiple members you’re familiar with, and do the Gematria for just the family name. Given what you know of this family’s collective personality or energy, does the Gematria of their collective name make sense? Does it effectively describe them as a group?
  3. Choose a famous person or two from history and do the Gematria on their names. Given what you know about these famous individuals, do their Gematria profiles make sense? Can you see how the Gematria has played-out in their lives?
  4. EXTRA CREDIT: Go to the Gematrinator.com website and experiment with the Gematrinator. Try your own name in the Gematrinator, and have a scan at the accompanying list of matching terms. Were there any surprises there?
  5. Given all this experience with Gematria, do you think this divination technique is useful? What are the down-sides, if any, to this form of divination? Under what circumstances would you use it?

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