Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

My objective in this posting is to show some neat coincidences which vindicate the Ordinal system of gematria, where the simple counting values A=1 to Z=26 are assigned to the letters of the alphabet. I also want people to see that multiplying all these counting values by 6, as is done in so-called "Sumerian" gematria, just messes things up by destroying some of the neat coincidences. So first consider this very neat gematria coincidence using the Ordinal method with A=1 to Z=26

351 = Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
... = The Z letters of the English alphabet
... = The 26 letters of the English alphabet

A little explanation is needed. The "..." on the left side in the above is just a place-holder I stuck in for an empty space which I wanted to put there. But I can't just type in spaces, because the text editor at this site will just throw them away, and move the text over to the left boundary, which would detract from the idea that this is an orderly list of equalities. I want everyone to understand that each of the three lines above associate together with the other two because each line has a gematria sum of 351.

In the second and third lines above I am reminding you that Z=26, so that I can use Z to mean the number 26, if I want to. Also, if you check my work using the gematria calculator at this site, you'll find that the second line (where I used the letter "Z") has a value of 351, but the calculator says the third line is only equal to 325, which falls short by 26. That's because the calculator doesn't know how to add in an ordinary number, hence gives zero value to any ordinary number. But I hope you'll agree with me that ordinary decimal numbers should be given their ordinary values, and added in with the gematria values of the letters in that line.

I hope you'll also agree with me that "The 26 letters of the English alphabet" is a perfect description of the first line in the equation, which actually was the 26 letters of the English alphabet. That's what makes this a perfect coincidence which gives one small vindication to the Ordinal gematria system. But don't let anyone kid you. Even the most striking gematria coincidence is just one small coincidence.

Okay, so what happens if we try to duplicate the above coincidence using the so-called Sumerian method, where the counting values A=1 to Z=26 are all multiplied by 6 to yield an assignment of values ranging from A=6 to Z=156? This is the best we could get:

2106 = Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
.... = The Z letters of the English alphabet
.... = The 156 letters of the English alphabet

As you see, the first two lines above still have equal gematria values, because we've just multiplied everything by 6, which changes the gematria sums from 351 to 351x6 = 2106. And the letter "Z" now means 156. But this is nonsense, because the English alphabet has 26 letters, not 156 letters. And if you tried to multiply the simple A=1 to Z=26 counting values by any other number (like 7 instead of 6), you'd run into the same kind of nonsense.

Now I'll go back and add many more expressions that add up to 351 to my first short gematria list using the Ordinal values A=1 to Z=26. I've mainly focused on looking for more expressions that describe the 26 letters of the English alphabet, and which use the decimal expression "26", giving it its ordinary value of 26, in order to show coincidences that make sense, but which won't make sense when everything is multiplied by 6 as in Sumerian gematria:

351 = Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
... = 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 25 + 26
... = The 26 letters of the English alphabet
... = The total of all the 26 alphabet values
... = is the sum of the counting values.
... = is sum of three hundred and fifty one.
... = equals the value of the whole alphabet
... = The foundation of the numerology
... = The foundation of English Bible gematria
... = The foundation for the gematria sum
... = The foundation for the simple sum
... = The plain truth of the 26 letters
... = All 26 letters are there in the alphabet.
... = All 26 letters add up to a foundation.
... = All the 26 letters add up to truth.
... = 26 letters add up to numerology
... = The numerological English letters
... = Numerology or gematria letters
... = Numerological truth of the alphabet
... = Alphabet has twenty six letters.
... = Gematria values for the 26 letters
... = Correct values for all 26 letters
... = Numbered values for all 26 letters
... = Counted values for all 26 letters
... = Calculated values for all 26 letters
... = The truth of alphabetical increments
... = Count values in increments of one. [One = 34 = The 1]
... = Count the values in increments of 1.
... = A equals 1 to Z equals 26 in sequence
... = The correct set of 26 alphabet values
... = The correct numerological set of 26
... = The sum of all the 26 letter values
... = The letter values, the sum of all 26
... = Sum of the 26 letters of the alphabet
... = Sum total: three hundred fifty one
... = The total number of three fifty one
... = Three fifty one, a triangular number
... = Three hundred and fifty one is a number.
... = Three hundred and fifty one is the king.
... = A three hundred and fifty one system
... = Proof of Ordinal gematria for English
... = The proof of all 26 numerical values
... = God's numerology or gematria truth
... = God's simple numerological truth
... = God's holy numerological system [Is it really?]
... = The truth of simple gematria is one.
... = The truth of simple gematria is the 1. [A=1]
... = The truth of English gematria is the 1.
... = Sumerian gematria is a beast system. [Ha ha.]

Whew! That list was longer than I thought. I hope I didn't repeat anything, or make any arithmetical mistakes. I was mostly checking the gematria sums one more time as I copied from my note cards, but I might have overlooked something. If you spot check my work, don't forget to add in the regular decimal numbers by hand, or else use a letter substitution such as A for 1, or Z for 26.

How did I find all this stuff? Just by fooling around here and there for the last week or so. I've been playing with gematria for many years. As you should be able to see, there is an awful lot of freedom to compose whatever words you like to fit a number, because there are so many different ways of saying or suggesting much the same thing. And there are so many possible meanings packed into a rather small range of numbers. And even if you had a bad gematria system, but believed in it, you could probably find lots of coincidences that would convince you it was correct, if you worked at it.

Note that I did include some expressions that would still look very good in Sumerian gematria, such as "God's holy numerological system." Just multiply its value of 351 by 6 to get 2106 if you want the Sumerian result, which might seem to help confirm Sumerian as a valid numerological system. But all those places where I used "26" or other regular decimal numbers, or where I referred to the number 351 in words, are going to be nothing but trouble for the Sumerian gematria system, which ignores all numbers except those that are multiples of 6, after it inflates everything by a factor of 6.

My main complaint with the Sumerian gematria, though, is that I have never seen anything that looked even remotely like a valid reason for doing it in the first place. Back around 1977, I remember seeing an explanation that said something like this: "Count the letters in increments of 6, because man was created on the 6th day. So 6 is the number of man." Sorry, that's not a reason. That's just nonsense disguised to look like a reason. If that's a good reason, why not count your dollars in increments of 6? Why not count your children in increments of 6? And I'd give 100 to 1 odds that this nonsense didn't originate with the ancient Sumerians, even if they did have a way of writing numbers that was in some way based on 6. Well, we have the decimal system which is based on 10. Does that mean that we should count the letters of the alphabet in increments of 10, so that A=10, B=20, C=30, ... , Z=260? Of course not.

None of this means that I think the A=1 to Z=26 gematria is the only valid numerological system for English, although it is the system that I began with. Recently, I'm mainly playing with the A=1 to Z=800 Greek-Hebrew style gematria, in my search for hints about the meaning of Rev 13 and 666. But is it appropriate to appropriate the numerical pattern of ancient gematria, and apply this pattern to modern English letters? This coincidence (amongst many others) suggests that it is:

Appropriate = 666 [Using the default English gematria in the calculator]

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