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> Biblical gematria used conventions of language to describe the mode or logic of the calculation (+, -, /, *, etc) at a time prior to the invention of special math notation. Words such as הִנֵּה which is usually translated as "Behold!" are there to indicate gematria is present in the text afterwards.

The possibility of this kind of encoding is exactly the kind of thing to accept before one can take the study seriously - to realize that it may seem esoteric and twisted to us moderns now, but was not necessarily so in other times.

Folks love to hear about how the latest Tool album has Fibonnaci spirals encoded into the music, but have trouble accepting that perhaps very important scientific and social concepts could have been encoded this way into 'stories' for posterity.

> TIL A statistician spent years writing a science fiction novel to teach university statistics. Even though he didn't know anything about writing fiction, he got an illustrator to create graphic novel strips for his story which contained the equivalent of 60 research papers

• https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/crf5y2/til_a_statistician_spent_years_writing_a_science/
  
• https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/5645/literary-works-authored-by-mathematicians
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Men-Numbers-Story-Mathematicians-Mathematics/dp/0486289737

Biblical scribes composed their gematria to match gate values on the Seven Palaces, which is the ancient forerunner to the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Basically its a map of the ancient universe where each letter governs a specific domain of creation. Take a look at these diagrams;

https://shematria.pythonanywhere.com/sp

http://bethshebaashe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gates2-e1554676425461.jpg

And this page about the basic correspondences of the letters of the Seven Palaces to the verses of Genesis 1-2:
https://shematria.pythonanywhere.com/hebrew

By the time we get to Genesis 3, the scribe is presenting numbers representing groupings of gates that correspond with sections of the Temple.

In Crowley's case, he's much more freestyle. He knew about the Seven Palaces of course, and his AL II,76 riddle relies on it, but his goal was to write an upgrade of the book of Genesis, and therefore while he draws an initial correspondence in line 1 of the book of the law and line 1 of Genesis, he diverges quite early on to insert (for example) the value of pi approximate to six digits into the text. He also uses notariqon quite a bit. Do you know notariqon? I have an article that showcases some of Crowley's work here;

http://bethshebaashe.com/liber-al-vel-legis-13-4

My first book was about the keys to Crowley's work. Its 5 years old, in which time I've learned quite a bit about writing and gematria, but I think it's still a useful guide to his A.'.A.'. hermeneutics:

https://www.amazon.com/Aleister-Crowleys-Secret-Temple-Palaces-ebook/dp/B07BXV84YX

> https://www.amazon.com/Chariot-Bethsheba-Ashe/dp/1530524431

thanks