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GEMATRIA

A Preliminary Investigation of The Cabalacontained in the

Coptic Gnostic Books

and of a similar Gematria in the Greektext of the New Testament

SHOWING THE PRESENCE OF A SYSTEM OF TEACHING BYMEANS OF THE DOCTRINAL SIGNIFICANCE OF NUMBERS, BYWHICH THE HOLY NAMES ARE CLEARLY SEEN TO REPRESENTAEONIAL RELATIONSHIPS WHICH CAN BE CONCEIVED IN AGEOMETRIC SENSE AND ARE CAPABLE OF A TYPICALEXPRESSION OF THAT ORDER.

BY

FREDERICK BLIGH BOND, F.R.I.B.A.

AND

THOMAS SIMCOX LEA, D.D.

First Published 1917

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EPIGRAPH.

‘... numbers are the thoughts of God ... The Divine Wisdom is reflected in the numbersimpressed upon all things ... the construction of the physical and moral world alike isbased upon eternal numbers.’

St Augustine

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CONTENTS

PrefaceThe Method of Gematria

Chapter

I

A Brief Outline of the Gematria

II

The Existence of the Gnosis

III

The Uses of Gematria

IV

The Key AppliedNote on Digamma

Appendix

A

The Number 485

B

Of the Square and Circle Contained

C

Names of Christ as Multiples of 37

D

Schema of the Numbers of Jesus

E

The Decree of the First Mystery

F

Of the Three Primary Figures

G

Cabala of the Cosmos

H

The Cube of Light

Supplement

I

On the Symbolism of Numbers

II

On Geometric Truth

III

The Geometric Cubit as a Basis of Proportion in the Plans of Mediaeval Buildings

by Frederick Bligh Bond F.R.I.B.A. (From

The Builder

, Third Series, Vol. XXIII, No.15, 10 June 1916, pages 249 - 255. By courtesy of The Royal Institute of BritishArchitects, London.)

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Cephas: The name given by Our Lord to Peter3

PREFACE.

By recovering the Key of the Knowledge (St.Luke xi. 52), and the Mysteries of the Faith(I. Cor. xiii. 2) the Church would greatly increase the strength of her appeal to thethinking man. The authors believe that the Key may be recovered, and the subject-matterof their work already tends to shew that the Apostolic Church possessed a real GNOSISwhich made the Faith a great reality and joy to the intelligence, and gave an insight intothe nature of the Spiritual powers that were exercised. The Gospel narrative, in itssimplicity, is the pure milk of the Word. Christianity was a re-birth of religion (Heb. i. I,2) and was preached as to children in the Faith. But that there was reserved for those whohad progressed, a more inward revelation, there can indeed be no doubt. And thediscovery in the Gematria of the Greek Scriptures of indubitable traces of a coherent andconsistent teaching in harmony with the exoteric expression of the Christian dogma andforming a definite link between the theology of the Sacred Books and that wonderfulscheme of imagery and symbolism of an architectural or geometrical nature with whichthe Gnostic Books abound, and which is so evident in scripture, gives point to thatoutstanding fact in the story of the life of Jesus, that He was trained as a4Carpenter or Builder (

ΤΕΚΤΩΝ

), and suggests that behind this natural and outward factthere lies a mystery, namely that He, in His Divine Personality, was the Builder of theAeons (Heb. i. 2) and that the knowledge which He gave His Church was the knowledgeof those principles by which the worlds were made (Heb. xi. 3).It should be understood that the authors are fully aware of the immensity and thedifficulty of the task that lies ahead in the interpretation of the Teaching discovered, andare conscious of the limitation of their efforts. More research will have to be undertaken,but in the meantime it may be explained that part of the further investigation must be intothe meaning of such passages as those in which St. Paul mentions “unspeakable wordswhich it is not lawful (or not possible) for man to utter”, and where St. John is bidden toseal up that which the seven thunders uttered. And it is just possible that this revelationhas been reserved for these great times in which the Church now struggles to proclaimthe Faith.

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