From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 18:25:16 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote,
> Buffalo coding is an essentially qabbalistic theory, BTW. (Did the
> ancient Israelis have buffalo? Perhaps water buffalo...)
The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the Aleph. "Aleph" means ox.
(Is that close enough to a buffalo for you?) It is also the number one,
because like the later Romans, they used letters to represent numbers. The
earliest form of Aleph was a little ox-head figure carved into clay. It was
used to tabulate cattle. The first mark of writing that became the first
letter of the first written language meant one-ox or one-aleph. Their first
letter literally was both the one and the letter "A" and the ox. This was
not a code invented later for numerology. Rather, this was inherent in
their view of the universe. To them 1=A=ox was the same as Ayn Rand's A=A.
It was so obvious that a thing was itself and that aleph=aleph=aleph, that
the metaphor qabalistic gematria was reality for them.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>
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