24-10-2016, 11:02 PM
Stellar, it seems like a lot of work and wasted time for someone to write out whole words and laboriously work out the sums for each word so they add up to a specific number when they could simply write that number as a single character. In fact, if it were only one number, it could easily be hidden in the drawing as a symbol that only the author would know about.
Plus, cabbalistic numbers were not intended to be used for narrative text. They were computed to look for relationships between things/people/ideas, the idea being that God (and scribes who understood his message) had created a "connectedness" between things with similar numeric values.
Plus, cabbalistic numbers were not intended to be used for narrative text. They were computed to look for relationships between things/people/ideas, the idea being that God (and scribes who understood his message) had created a "connectedness" between things with similar numeric values.