Hey blackdog, let me offer some clues I learned about this work you are doing here. I don't mean to be right, but just to comment the little I've learned about it.
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Masonic cults and rituals are based on ancient Egypt, so the Emerald Tablets is one of their Bibles, as to say. The origin of gematria and numerology lies in the Kabbalah and the Tarot Cards. Firstly based on the hebrew alfabet, might have been adapted to the English language by Scottish Masons (1st Lodge?).
So, the numbers (probably) was (also) given by the Emerald Tablets (32 sons + 1 father = 33), where each son (of father) occupy one of the Halls of Amenti, as described on tablet II, such as an hierarchical system (of power?)
these Halls of Amenti certainly may be related to the 33 vertebra in the spine, the pathway of kundalini (as bellow), but about Jesus, which was adopted as Solar Logos by Church, this numbers should mean more a matter of liturgical hierarchy than a fact. Among others, the persa myth of Mithra (Indo-Iranian) have similar characteristics of Jesus (click this link to see more mystical similar representatives, where chronologically, the first one Solar Logos that appeared was Horus, from Egypt)Quote:
exerpt from tablet II - the Halls of Amenti
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Side by side then, placed they other spaces,
filled them with Life and with Light from above.
Builded they then the Halls of Amenti,
that they might dwell eternally there,
living with life to eternity's end.
Thirty and two were there of the children,
sons of Lights who had come among men,
seeking to free from the bondage of darkness
those who were bound by the force from beyond.
Deep in the Halls of Life grew a flower, flaming,
expanding, driving backward the night.
Placed in the centre, a ray of great potence, Life
giving, Light giving, filling with power all who came near it.
Placed they around it thrones, two and thirty,
places for each of the Children of Light,
placed so that they were bathed in the radiance,
filled with the Life from the eternal Light.
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Custodians and watchers of the force of man's bondage,
ready to loose when the light has been reached.
First and most mighty,
sits the Veiled Presence, Lord of Lords,
the infinite Nine,
over the other from each
the Lords of the Cycles;
Three, Four, Five, and Six, Seven, Eight,
each with his mission, each with his powers,
guiding, directing the destiny of man.
There sit they, mighty and potent,
free of all time and space.
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33 is the number of vertebra in the spine, the pathway of the kundalini. There are 33 degrees in Scottish Rite Freemasonry. The Christ is the figure man becomes upon enlightenment, which is why Jesus was resurrected at the age of 33.
I would like to discuss this (controverse) data bellow, because not seems me accurated
The Eras are about 2150 years long (and not 2000), so if the Pisces Era started at Zero Year, the Age of Aquarius will start at the middle of next century (XXII).Quote:
The Age of Aquarius started on 9/11/2001.
I had notice that will be at 2138~2142, a transition period, and if So, the Pisces Era started about year 10 BC (that makes more sense)
The claim of 2000 years long Eras, that leads people to say Aquarius Era started at year 2001, don't seems me accurated, but it has been used as massive propaganda by esoteric and mythical people, to support New Age cults.
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These three images bellow means the origins of gematria used by kabalah and tarot (22 cards - major arcanes), and each one have astrological meaning too, as planets and signs related. The cults are complex, old and well structured. The modern cosmology also involve 22 items -- the 12 signs of zodiac and 10 external (Earth) elements -- Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
http://www.pray4zion.org/images/grap...sandvalues.gif
https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/alpha...habetchart.gif
Numbers --- Letters --- Symbols ---22 Tarot Cards (with Roman numbers),
Astrological correspondences to the Tree of Life (the forbidden fruit tree ?)
https://www.tarotica.net/uploads/1/5...153266.gif?314
note -- the occultist Aleister Crowley made a change in The Arcane VIII (justice) and the Arcane XI (strenght), so the Justice and the Strenght changed position in the (other) conventional order. It's a very subtil and intriguing change, indeed, because Crowley claiming that the conventional mode is distorted to disguise hidden secrets.
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BTW, the idea of gematria its The Thoughts (words) creates Substances (numbers), and inversely, the Matters Substances(numbers) represent Thoughts(words).
examples:
"Let there be Light"
Full Reduction - 75 (3), Reverse Full Reduction - 78 (6)
English Ordinal - 156 (3), Reverse Ordinal - 249 (6)
tarot cards for 6 is the Lovers and 3 is the Empress (sexually receptive)
for 33 number, the Arcane card is 6, the Lovers, so, an interpretation,
the words expressed by this number, may be more lovely than others.
Worshipers of the cult, can use this names to be better accepted,
or for to seduce & persuade (others) ..
secondary interpretations of 33 (plausible)
the element 11 on 33, improves The Strenght to The Lovers (domination by force)
other element 3, The Empress, reinforces sex appeal (the woman sitting with legs opened)
If use the Crowley model, instead Strenght, improves by Justice, very interesting way (of cult)