666 - "the number of the beast", still does not give the interpreters of the Bible rest. Its secret remains one of the main mysteries of the Holy Scriptures. At the end of the twentieth century, serious passions flared up around the "number of the beast" associated with the appearance of barcodes and talk about the upcoming mass identification of the population. Meticulous interpreters find the number 666 everywhere - on fasteners and buttons, on shoes, on credit cards, in the numbers of new computers and in bank codes. True, few undertake to reveal the secret of the number itself. To do this, you must at least be able to count.
John the theologian declares the number 666 to be the number of the apocalyptic beast and immediately declares it to be a human number. Since then, 666 have been looking wherever possible out of fear or perhaps out of curiosity. 06.06.2006 the film "The Omen" was released. The film, of course, is more than talentless, funny and ridiculous, showing our general illiteracy and primitive throwing in search of the mysterious and evil. Hollywood, he is Hollywood - it is enough tops without going into history and near-biblical sciences. Nevertheless, it would be nice to figure it out.
If you read the Old Testament, in particular Ecclesiastes, the number 666 is the number of the Israelite king Solomon. That is how much he collected gold talents from the defeated countries. Ancient Jews left inscribed 666 under the door as a talisman of good luck and happiness. The Christian Church interprets 666 as a symbolic number, the name of a person is encrypted in it. Those. in order to identify the Devil and his hellish hordes, you need to translate each letter of this person's name into a number and calculate the amount. In numerology, this is a very well-known technique that came again from Solomon (who is interested I can teach). Of course, they are looking for the Antichrist, calculating the names of rulers close to none and all other mortals, however, as it was written in one journal, the use of this method gives 4% of the names existing in the world,numerical value 666 (with a population of 6 billion people, 240 million people bear the name of the Devil).
Commentators do not have a uniform interpretation as to who is meant in this riddle. But almost everyone agrees that the so-called "gematria" may be a mechanism by which one can try to solve this riddle. Gematria is an ancient method by which numerical and literal values are correlated to understand the hidden meaning of a word. Gematria is based on the fact that both classical Greek and Hebrew did not have special numerical designations, but instead used letters in the sign meaning. Following this principle, the first letter of the alphabet corresponds to the number value "one", the second letter to the number value "two", and so on. Therefore, every word in both languages can be read as a group of numbers. If we further calculate the amount, we get a number,which is a match for a word. In the case of names, we get the so-called "human number". These numbers were used in cases where direct naming (naming) was not convenient or seemed dangerous.
The inscription found in the city of Pompeii is a convincing example of this. This inscription reads (translated from Greek): "I love the one whose number is 545". In this way, the beloved could find out that this inscription was addressed to her, but for other people it remained hidden, in particular, which of the many Greek girls was specifically meant. It is suggested that the same should be done with respect to the biblical human number in Revelation 13.18. The author probably did not want the name to be revealed to strangers, so he hid it. At the same time, for the Christian brothers, the name that stood behind the numbers was revealed without difficulty. But already in the second century Saint Irenaeus confessed that he did not know what kind of person was meant by this number. He suggested three solutions, none of which,in the light of today's research, is not entirely satisfactory. In the course of history, numerous more or less satisfactory solutions have been proposed.
Historians rush to the rescue
Others mentioned the Pope, John Knox, Martin Luther and Napoleon, who were assigned the number of the beast 666. During World War II, someone gave birth to the idea that if we start with the letter "a" and take it for "100" numerical value, that is, in this case "b" will correspond to the number "101" and so on, then the total sum of Hitler's name will also be 666. But of all these decisions, one seems to be the most probable: if we write down the name Caesar Nero (this is the Greek form name of Him) in Hebrew letters, the numerical value of this word will be 666. In addition, this assumption is well supported by the fact that one of the most authoritative biblical manuscripts under the code "C" (this is Ephraim, the fifth century) gives 616 instead of 666, because this number corresponds to the Latin form of the name of Nero. In this case, both versions correspond to the numerical value of his name, and therefore the beast in the text stands to designate one of the most cruel persecutors of the Church. In this case, however, it is not so important to decide which of the answers to this riddle is correct.
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Gematria itself was later developed into numerous number-oriented forms of magic. Already the ancient Greek temples were built in accordance with certain gematric relations. Later, various ideas were used many times, but built on gematric principles. For example, not only were words with the same amount calculated and used for philosophical conclusions, but the messages of the Spirit were compared with the numerical values of their names and rechecked against the keywords of their messages.
Paranoia around the code
In recent years, some fundamentalist and charismatic groups have tried to ascertain the imminent reign of the Antichrist by the fact that all goods are now barcoded. They find the number 666 in the barcode itself and bring it into connection with the quoted passage of the Revelation of John, Each group of lines in the code stands instead of a digit, Two thin lines correspond to the number 6. As if by chance the entire code is divided by three double lines, which are very reminiscent of two thin lines corresponding to the six. Thus, the entire code is divided into three sections. From this, such religious groups conclude that the three double lines in the scanner marking, in fact, are the number of the beast, and the use of the barcode is not accidental, but embodies the implementation of what is said in the passage from the Deviation,saying that no one can buy or sell if he does not have the number of the beast, Of course, one could immediately reject this statement as religious fanaticism. But let's try to check if there are serious grounds for such an interpretation?
To do this, we will have to go back to the way the Greeks and Jews wrote numbers and numbers. The Greeks and Jews used the decimal system, but they used it differently than we did, since neither one nor the other had the meaning of "zero." Despite the fact that it was a decimal system, it was missing the position now occupied by zero. Therefore, to operate the decimal system, they needed more characters than we do today in a system where there are nine characters for numbers plus zero. For numbers up to our 999, they needed twenty-seven different signs, namely, nine characters for simple numbers from 1 to 9, nine for tens - from 10 to 100 and nine more - for hundreds - from 100 to 900. Because they do not have there was zero, they could not, like us, write tens and hundreds with the same symbols,and increase their significance by adding zero and thereby changing the position of the character within the number. This means that they could not use the same symbol, for example, to designate three, thirty and three hundred. Based on this, when writing the number 666, it is absolutely impossible to repeat the six three times, but they had to use different letters, of which the first denoted six hundred, the second sixty, and the third six. Based on this, we come to the conclusion that any speculation based on the threefold repetition of the six is correlated with the modern, today's spelling and has nothing to do with the actual biblical number.when writing the number 666, it is absolutely impossible to repeat the six three times, but they had to use different letters, of which the first meant six hundred, the second - sixty, and the third - six. Based on this, we come to the conclusion that any speculation based on the threefold repetition of the six is correlated with the modern, today's spelling and has nothing to do with the actual biblical number.when writing the number 666, it is absolutely impossible to repeat the six three times, but they had to use different letters, of which the first meant six hundred, the second - sixty, and the third - six. Based on this, we come to the conclusion that any speculation based on the threefold repetition of the six is correlated with the modern, today's spelling and has nothing to do with the actual biblical number.today's writing and has nothing to do with the actual biblical number.today's writing and has nothing to do with the actual biblical number.
Mystical arithmetic …
The sum of the first 36 numbers gives 666. Someone thinks that at the age of 36, a person's energy changes, comes regularity and calmness. The sum of the casino numbers also gives 666. The sum of the chapters of the Bible = 666. The dollar bills are 66.6 mm wide. Cars with number 666 are several times more likely than others to have accidents. In America there is highway number 666 and all sorts of passions constantly happen there. But the last two cases are more likely from the field of the psyche.
However, the Bible contains several layers of information encrypted. Let's try to cast aside our primal fears and church insinuations and look at this number as a number that reflects harmony. You can learn about the existence of harmony within the boundaries of the number 666 from the institute course "Discrete Mathematics".
So, the number 666 means the upper range of stability of binary systems. Binary systems are stable only in the range 1/3 to 2/3 (i.e. from 3.33333 to 6.66666). What does this mean? If we take some kind of economic system, for example, a joint-stock company, then it will function most useful for all if 2/3 percent of the votes belong to one shareholder, and all the rest - to the other (opposite in views and opinions).
In politics, this law is reflected in the "Pareto principle" … … when more than half, but not all of the votes belong to one politician. In economics, this is the Laffer curve, which shows what the maximum optimal percentage of taxes should be in society so that everyone pays them and there is no social tension. (the maximum is 33.3% … in Russia taxes are more than 45% if you count on profits).
If we consider Yin Yang, then its most optimal combination is again in this range …. So all binary systems can be considered from the point of view of optimality (good / evil, beautiful / ugly, static / dynamic, friends / enemies, ravings / heretics, possible / impossible), etc.
What does going out of the 6.66 range mean for a binary system? This means the loss of balance and the principle of optimality, going beyond the limits of binarity, and then all binary qualities begin to lose their signs. Therefore, occultists call this number the number of access to great secrets. The number of the beast is also called the human number due to the limited consciousness and duality of thinking of people due to the unity and struggle of opposites, due to the eternal struggle between good and evil. Exit from binary means exit from the eternal struggle, possibly exit from the boundaries of growth (if we take the Hegelian spiral of development as the truth) …
