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By consulting the foregoing table of letter values, it is found that the four characters of
this sacred name have the following numerical significance: Yod equals 10. He equals 5,
Vau equals 6, and the second He equals 5. Therefore, 10+5+6+5=26, a synonym of
Jehovah. If the English letters were used, the answer obviously would not be correct.

The second example is the mysterious Gnostic pantheos Abraxas. For this name the
Greek table is used. Abraxas in Greek is βραξας. Α = 1, β = 2, ρ = 100, α = 1, ξ =60, α =
1, ς = 200, the sum being 365, the number of days in the year. This number furnishes the
key to the mystery of Abraxas, who is symbolic of the 365 Æons, or Spirits of the Days,
gathered together in one composite personality. Abraxas is symbolic of five creatures,
and as the circle of the year actually consists of 360 degrees, each of the emanating
deities is one-fifth of this power, or 72, one of the most sacred numbers in the Old
Testament of the Jews and in their Qabbalistic system. This same method is used in
finding the numerical value of the names of the gods and goddesses of the Greeks and
Jews.

All higher numbers can be reduced to one of the original ten numerals, and the 10 itself to
1. Therefore, all groups of numbers resulting from the translation of names of deities into
their numerical equivalents have a basis in one of the first ten numbers. By this system, in
which the digits are added together, 666 becomes 6+6+6 or 18, and this, in turn, becomes
1+8 or 9. According to Revelation, 144,000 are to be saved. This number becomes
1+4+4+0+0+0, which equals 9, thus proving that both the Beast of Babylon and the
number of the saved refer to man himself, whose symbol is the number 9. This system
can be used successfully with both Greek and Hebrew letter values.

The original Pythagorean system of numerical philosophy contains nothing to justify the
practice now in vogue of changing the given name or surname in the hope of improving
the temperament or financial condition by altering the name vibrations.

There is also a system of calculation in vogue for the English language, but its accuracy
is a matter of legitimate dispute. It is comparatively modern and has no relationship either
to the Hebrew Qabbalistic system or to the Greek procedure. The claim made by some
that it is Pythagorean is not supported by any tangible evidence, and there are many
reasons why such a contention is untenable. The fact that Pythagoras used 10 as the basis
of calculation, while this system uses 9--an imperfect number--is in itself almost
conclusive. Furthermore, the arrangement of the Greek and Hebrew letters does not agree
closely enough with the English to permit the application of the number sequences of one
language to the number sequences of the others. Further experimentation with