(86) - gematria & all that jazz

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

robinlandseadel wrote: 
> Thought of this on my way to Amvets today. The term "ELOHIM"---is 
> a plural form of the Hebrew word for Diety, in part indicating a Hebrew 
> layer that is polytheistic, one of the levels of Semitic culture that got 
> 86'd by later monothiests. 
> 
> For what it's worth, there are many Deities in Against the Day.
> 
> By the way Mike: What does the "GR" stand for here?
> 
> tp://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_86.asp

"Gematria reference" - the biblewheel site has several divisions.
It was the first hit when I searched "Gematria 86"

The Tree of Life has the 10 Sephiroth, it's like they
personified each number with attributes and colors and shapes.
So if you work with that a while, each time you think "5", you 
also think "Geburah"...these guys at biblewheel and lots of
other places that exist - Biblewheel was just the 1st I found
on this search - must have minds full of associations linking
back and forth between number and various other concepts.

A good way to bridge the 2 worlds gap, ie science & lit...maybe?
At least for artistic purposes; nobody's yet proved to me that
material properties such as suitability for bridge-building
could be determined by qabbalistic attribute (although I think
a lot of herbal medicine uses that as a raionale: wonder if that
was built-on after the fact, or if people went out in the
morning dew looking for pentagram-shaped flowers?)