It is because we live our lives in a social and cultural context that evolves, that bits and pieces of information, knowledge and practices sometimes go out of fashion and are forgotten. For example, we currently have three generations who don't know how to operate a rotary telephone and the oral tradition regarding its use has died out. During antiquity the Sages prohibited discussion and teaching of the Merkabah, and as a consequence the knowledge of gematria and other scribal methods of interpretation devolved into mere parlor games and were largely forgotten... but in ancient times gematria was a form of ancient mathematics that biblical scribes embedded into their literature to give their writings some valuable extra context on matters such as Creation, the Exodus, the Laws of the Torah, and God's special relationship with ancient Israel and Christianity. Behold has everything you need to extract the gematria from biblical texts and cross-reference it to the design of the Merkabah and the Holy Name. It explains in detail how to go about the Ma'aseh Merkabah - the Work of the Chariot. Features • In-depth information on the ancient Egyptian origins of the Hebrew and Greek writing scripts. • Proven ciphers for the ancient Hebrew and Greek writing scripts. • A thorough description of the system's conventions for calculations and methodology. • Lists of common and rare Operators, Mnemonic words and Flag-words. • Demonstrations of biblical Gematria, Notariqon, Temurah, Iterations, and Alphabetic Acrostic integrations. • A full analysis of the Gematria and Notariqon of Genesis 1-2 and its alphabetic structure (it needs to be reorganized before you can read the story in its proper sequence). • A full analysis of the Gematria and Notariqon of Genesis 3, discussing the fall in its proper context. • A full tutorial on practicing the Art of Gematria for yourself. • A history of the Merkabah and Gematria, from their ancient beginnings to their esoteric uses in modern times. • Discussions on Gematria and the Merkabah at the Temples, in the Talmud, the Mishnah, the Hekhalot, and in Kabbalistic texts. • On Gematria and the Merkabah in the New Testament. • On the uses of Gematria in the Western Mystery Tradition. This third critical edition is 338 pages (108,000+ words), and the verses, translations and calculations are color coded to facilitate student comprehension. ‘A Kabalistic tour de force' — Lon Milo DuQuette.