While other matters on this thread take their course, I thought it might be entertaining to share with everyone something else that I find interesting. This is, I’m afraid, a distant cousin of the Genesis Seal, but reveals coincidences of a different kind. As coincidences go, these have an intriguing and rare kind of charm.
The illustration below is a depiction of a small part of the vast Torah Square, which has the 8x8 G3 Square (Genesis Seal) at its centre. The format may be recognisable as that of a MS Excel spreadsheet. The sloping line in the illustration is part of a diagonal of the whole square, and passes through the middle of the G3 zone. In fact, the first four letters of Genesis are each the origin of a half-diagonal, such that this one begins in the Torah’s second letter. Note that the start of the Torah text is at c277:r277, whereas the Cartesian X-Y origin of the Torah Square is, for purposes of reference, at c1:r1.
In this part of the Torah Square, the source text is seen descending in columns, until it reaches the diagonal, where the text then continues to the left. An important example is shown where the text descending in column 298 turns through a right-angle to continue in row 299. Note: Obviously, the text in this square cannot go round and round the same square layer time after time, so it breaks out into the next layer every time it reaches the upper-left half-diagonal.
The letters of the text shown on backgrounds of green-blue-green-red, in that order, constitute the words
YHWH Elohim which, in English, is ‘The Lord God’. Yet there is something rather curious about this particular YHWH Elohim. For one thing, this is the first occurrence of that composite name of God, in Genesis 2:4, following 34 verses in which ‘Elohim’ has been used alone and exclusively. As a result, many biblical scholars are of the opinion that Genesis 2:4 is the result of a redaction of texts from two sources, and that this single verse is simultaneously the end of the creation account and the start of a new phase. Scholars sometimes designate parts of this verse as Genesis 2:4(a) and (b).That sums up one important characteristic of the composite name, which is merely background for what now follows.
To understand some curious coincidences, we need to look at the white letter on a blue background, two places further down the diagonal. This is a letter
samech, and shares something in common with the composite name of God. For this, too, as well as being embedded in the diagonal is the first occurrence of a
samech in the Torah, in a position that has some strange attributes. So, notice that, embedded in the diagonal, adjacent to the
samech is an emergent copy of the name YHWH, which even shares one letter with its literal, debut counterpart in the source text. In fact, the vast Torah Square reveals no fewer than 256 emergent copies of YHWH, but only this one sits entirely within a diagonal.
A less obvious relationship between all these coincidental elements depends on the numerical value of the letter
samech (60) and the full word values of YHWH (26) and Elohim (86). It is clear that the value of
samech is the difference between the values of the two names, as though YHWH has become separated from His omnipotent origin. And that is, indeed, among the concepts espoused by the mystical Kabbalah. But this
samech has even more merit than that.
For one thing, this letter is the last of the 22 to make its debut in the Torah, at the noteworthy position of #2210, within Genesis 2:11. This is noteworthy because it is sandwiched between 2209 (= 47
2) and 2211, which is the 66
th triangular number. On top of that, in the Torah text this first
samech is within the word ‘compasseth’, as here:
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. So, it is especially significant that all the text from Genesis 1:1 to here in Genesis 2:11 (letter 2208) is exactly sufficient to form the smallest square perimeter that can contain the remainder of the Torah. In which case, the Torah itself may be understood as ‘…
the whole land of Havilah where there is gold.
I hasten to add that everything described here would have been well within the ability of a Hebrew scribe of ancient times to contrive deliberately. But it would sure as heck impress later generations.
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