Codes about God

Talk about relevance/importance?

The following series of tables have a place among the most significant code findings to date.

This series simply starts with the three Names of God that are contained in Exodus 6:2 and 6:3, where God is explaining His Names to Moses. Figure 1 shows the best parallel cluster in Torah for all three Names (note: Hashem appears forwards and backwards), which is in Leviticus 19:15; and the full code extends through the end of this parsha (Torah section), called Kedoshim (Holiness). This parsha deals with morality, with judging righteously and using honest measures; and it exhorts the people "you shall be holy for Me, for I Hashem am holy".

Figure 1

The source passages in Exodus, where God is introducing His Names, lead up to the following: "And you (plural) will know that I am Hashem your God" (because I will rescue and redeem you from Egypt, and take you to Me to be your God - read through Exodus 6:7). In fact, to emphasize the point, God says "I am Hashem" several times in this section of Torah.

As if to emphasize the same point in the code, we find - surprise 1 - "I am Hashem" and "I am Hashem your God" crossing the code 3 times:

Figure 2

As if to triply reinforce the above surprise, there are three more surprises in store for us.

In Figure 3, we notice surprise 2 - that there is a palindrome (a string of letters reading the same forwards and backwards), extending from the ELS for God. It contains within it the word meaning "and My Name" forwards and backwards, which is used in this form only once in Torah - in our original verse, Exodus 6:3.

Figure 3

Surprise 3: we see that two words in one of the verses are echoed in the code in Figure 4 (we could translate these to "He, in His giving", which may or may not connect to our context, but the mere fact of such a long echoed string in the original code's vicinity is a rare event - on the order of 1:1000 in experiments that specifically look for this echoing phenomenon). And surprises 1 and 2 are dramatic to similar orders of magnitude.

Figure 4

Since these surprises are not a priori, we can not assign official statistics to them. But we can regard them as indications that the original code was intentional - that is, we might think of them as "signs". In fact, we discover similarly dramatic surprise 4 - involving this word "sign". We see that each of our first three surprises is "labelled" with precisely positioned occurrences of "sign" - 5 occurrences all told (Figure 5).

Figure 5

Updates - May 6, 2008

I. Thanks to Rabbi Glazerson for pointing out two gematria (numerology) related connections - well-known within this field of study.

First, the first letters of the 3 Names of God that we started with form the acronym, aleph-yod-shin, which means "man". We see the double horizontal appearance of this word outlined in Figure 6, in black.

Second, the gematria for two of these Names sum to 112 (Elokim, 86, plus yod-key-vav-key, 26). The letters yod-beit-koof have the same gematria of 112, and are commonly linked to these Names (besides having important spiritual significance on their own, as they form the name of the river, the Yabbok, which Jacob crossed in Genesis 32:23; this was a spiritual journey during which Jacob acquired the name Israel). These 3 letters appear vertically, also outlined in black.

Figure 6

II. Thanks to Eric Blum for discovering one other Name of God, probably the most important one after the 3 that we started with. This Name is introduced in Exodus 3:14. When Moses first receives instructions from God at the burning bush, to take the children of Israel out of Egypt, he wants to know "Who shall I say sent me?". God replies "I Shall Be". When the original table is opened up by halving the table width, this Name appears in parallel with the first 3, with the very appropriate "label", "My Names" (see Figure 7).

Figure 7