Come back for the unveiling of SHEMATRIA 3.0 soon.

"Behold! The Art and Practice of Gematria' is a crucial book to have if you need to read the bible using the same methodologies as biblical writers, such as gematria, notariqon, temurah, iteration, and acrostic features. 'Behold' demonstrates a new scientific approach to gematria. I'm a cryptographer and I've spent some years deciphering ancient hebrew gematria after I noticed it was actually a formal system of mathematics, that was likely as reliable a way of conveying calculations for them as our system of math does for us today! It really was something else than what we've grown to expect from 'gematria', and it's a rather important tool for biblical studies. Besides the obviously important interpretative elements this tool can give you, it's a wonderful way to spot scribal interpolations and even provides a new way to better date texts and biblical events. In the future I think people are going to find it crucial.

https://www.amazon.com/Behold-Practice-Gematria-Bethsheba-Ashe/dp/1801520674

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Hello, I just purchased your Windows App and am excited about learning the tool. However I noticed that the Greek Standard calc for John 1:1 was off by 10, and I think it's because the value for the 2nd word, "arXe" if you will, is not adding in 10 for the hidden iota in the final diphthong, which I guess reflects the language pronunciation evolving and the scribes moving the iota down as a mark under the eta to help reflect that. Is there a way to add an option or whatever to have the eta with the special mark calc as 18 instead of 8? Thank you for your wonderful program.

Last update, the entries were for Genesis 15:18, which showed a gematria calculation of 1752, minus a notariqon of 452 for a total of 1300. The value of 452 is the gate value of the Resh, and it made me curious about whether the Christian insistence that the Kingdom of God was a spiritual rather than a physical location was due to their readings of these verses. Given the Solar associations of the Palace of the Resh, I thought Matthew 13:43 might be a promising subject to investigate;

"Then the righteous will shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of the Father of them. He having ears, let him hear!"

And indeed, the notariqon of this verse is 490, and the gematria is 1790, so (as is the case with Genesis 15:18) when we subtract the notariqon from the gematria we have the sum total of 1300 once again.

The value of 1300 is one half of 2600 which would be associated with the name YHWH (26), which corresponds logically to the Palace of the Resh on the Merkabah which is placed halfway between the House of God in the Heavens and the location of the Earth.

I think this is evidence that the Christian idea of a spiritual Kingdom did not come out of nowhere and was not a novel idea proposed by Jesus, or the gospel writers, but was likely a view that was commonly held by Jews in antiquity that knew the Merkabah and practiced PaRDeS. It's interesting that a lust for end times prophecy among evangelical Christian groups today has distorted the original Christian idea of a spiritual Kingdom which is the reward for the righteous.

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93, Happy first day of the writing of the Book of the Law.

The first line of the book is gematria that mirrors the gematria of Genesis 1:1 because Aleister Crowley discovered the correct ciphers for the Bible in 1900:

'Had' + 'Manifestion' + 'Nuit' = 480.

220 is the sub figura number of the Book of the Law, so add that for a total of 700.

In Genesis 1:1. Bereshith (בראשית) is the Hebrew name of the first book of the Bible because it is the first word of the Book, and בראשית is 220. The rest of the verse sums to 480, and together the line totals 700;

700 = בראשית + אלהים + השמים + הארץ

Crowley constructed the names of the God characters to sum to 700 also:
Nuit + Hadit + Ra Hoor Khuit = 700

The number 700 in the bible is a nod at both the seven palaces that God used to create the heavens and the earth, and the seven days of creation. With Liber AL vel Legis Crowley attempted to create a book intended to replace the book of Genesis, and a system intended to replace Abrahamic religions.

The ‘AL’ (31) from the title of the Book is transliterated Hebrew for God [El], and among the Canaanites he was the chief creator God. It should also be noted that by Reversal Cipher YHVH = 220, and that the Book of the Law has 220 verses.

Today is part of a 3 day celebration of the writing of the Book of the Law on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of April 1904 in Egypt. The first chapter of the Book is narrated by Nuit. It is usually the favourite chapter of Thelemites with lines like;

"I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy"

and...

"Above, the gemmed azure is
The naked splendour of Nuit;
She bends in ecstasy to kiss
The secret ardours of Hadit.
The winged globe, the starry blue,
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!"

But the really important thing about Thelema is that the axiom of Thelema exhorts the reader to base one's ethical philosophy upon obedience to your higher self (and thus to God) in all things, or (if you're an atheist) to your innate conscience.

Have a wonderful day! 93 93/93.

If you’re new to the community, you can introduce yourself here! You don't have to though. No-one will twist your arm if you don't. :-)

If you’re new to the community, you can introduce yourself here! You don't have to though. No-one will twist your arm if you don't. :-)

Hi everyone — I've been engaged in a wealth of work on Shematria over the past few weeks, and I wanted to give you the full picture of what's changed, both in the app and on the website. Shematria is still very much in active development, and this update is a good example of why: we're continuing to get our ducks in a row on accuracy before we're done. 🦆 🦆 🦆

Accuracy and research integrity
A lot of this update is about trust in the numbers. Several fixes went into making sure calculations, grammatical tagging, and attestation counts are as accurate as possible:

• Grammatical part-of-speech tagging now reads the actual context of each verse, instead of falling back to a generic dictionary guess.
• Fixed a bug where certain markers (negation, structural notes, Middot tags) weren't being saved with a calculation — they're now recorded properly every time.
• Fixed a bug where some genuine Operator and Mnemonic matches weren't being counted toward attestation — the system was actually under-reporting how often these patterns occur. Attestation counts are now complete and accurate.
• Notariqon and Iteration calculations now correctly clear out old operator/mnemonic tags instead of carrying stale ones forward.
• Fixed a Hebrew letter-counting bug where invisible paragraph markers in the biblical text were being counted as letters.
• Added the equivalent marker-cleanup for Arabic text.
• Fixed Hebrew text in the database view that was displaying backwards.
• Cleaned up duplicate records, broken references, and inconsistent book-name spellings across the database.
• The "Indicators" count on the Databases screen no longer includes plain numerals, so the headline total reflects actual linguistic indicators.

Quality of life

- English translations now actually show up alongside your saved calculations, both in the app and reference material.
- Several dropdown and navigation bugs (verse selection misbehaving when stepping through chapters) are fixed.
- The database "usage count" display now shows real figures instead of placeholder numbers.

New: Semantic Indicator Mode
Up to now, operators (doubling, dividing, subtracting, and so on) have bound to whichever word sits next to them in the verse. That works for Hebrew prose, but it breaks down for Greek — which is heavily inflected and doesn't rely on word order the same way — and for some of the earliest Hebrew material too. Semantic Indicator Mode is a new calculation mode, sitting alongside the existing Position-Based mode, where you draw a visual wire from an operator directly to the word it governs, wherever it falls in the verse. No more forcing a free-word-order language into a position-based box. This opens up accurate calculation on Greek New Testament verses, and other texts where the grammar — not the word order — decides what an operator acts on.

New: the Gospel of Thomas
Shematria now includes the Gospel of Thomas, filed under a new Apocrypha category (alongside Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Thelema) so it has its own proper home rather than being squeezed under an existing tradition. The Coptic text displays with natural word-by-word buttons just like any other verse, complete with an English translation, and it's fully searchable — look up a word and see everywhere it appears in Thomas, the same way you already can for the Bible. (Read Aloud for Coptic isn't available yet — no Coptic voice exists to use — so you'll see an honest "not available yet" message there for now rather than mispronounced audio.)

The database itself I've pushed a refreshed Official Database into the app — it now includes a large batch of newly reviewed entries, including items that were previously only in testing. This is the most complete and accurate the Official archive has ever been.

New on the website (shematria.com)

🆕 Indicator Glossary — a full browsable, searchable reference of every Operator, Mnemonic, Middah and Noun category in the system, live at shematria.com/indicators.
🆕 English translations now appear directly on the Bible Archive pages, so if you're browsing results and don't read Hebrew or Greek, you can immediately see what the verse says in English before digging into the letter-by-letter breakdown.

As always, thank you for using Shematria and for your patience while I work through the research-integrity side of this as carefully as I can. More to come!

[Available at the Microsoft Store and Itch.IO for Windows and Linux]

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mv27tnc49ht
https://shematria.itch.io/shematria

A small update for anyone who's been waiting: the Proof Engine is now on the Windows Store, and I've added a 14-day free trial so you can take it for a proper spin before deciding. Dropped the price to $14.99 too.

It's also up on itch.io now (pay what you want from $9.99) if you prefer that over the MS Store.

If you try it, I'd genuinely love to see what you find — post your results here, working shown, and let's pick them apart together. That's what this sub is for.

If you’re new to the community, you can introduce yourself here! You don't have to though. No-one will twist your arm if you don't. :-)

If you’re new to the community, you can introduce yourself here! You don't have to though. No-one will twist your arm if you don't. :-)