Historicity of Jesus - 2

[acharya]

Numbers and names - which came first?





This is an highly relevant and extremely important question. If the numbers came first and the names were construed or chosen only for their numerical value - what, then, becomes of the historicity of the persons having that name assigned to them? If, alternatively, the names came first, how, then, can we account for the fact that so many names “just happen” to have a highly significant numerical value?

It seems unlikely that ´Iêsous just happens to be 888 or that Kêphas and petra “just happen” to be 729 and 486 - two figures representing a cube.

It seems unlikely that Paulos and sophia “just happen” to be 781. We have seen that sophia is closely associated with counting and we have seen examples that “Paulos” was extremely good at counting. Paulos and Sophia are intimately associated, just as Prajnâ and Upâyas form a pair. Is Paulos, in fact, not simply Upâyas in fairly obvious disguise? There is, in fact no independent evidence to spport that either Jesus or Paul were historical persons. We only have the word of the NT for it, and that is not enough.

It seems unlikely, does it not, that Munis, Tathâgatas and Sâkyamunis, always in the nominative form, “just happen” to be 700, 816 (2/3 of 1224) and 932, respectively.



And does it not seem unlikely that axôn, omphalos and Sanskrit Sûrias/Sûryas “just happen” to be 911 - just as its seems unlikely that certain significant events “just happen” to take place 9/11 - even today.



In his remarkable book Jesus Christ: Sun of God, from 1993, David Fideler (p. 72-73) points to some striking examples suggesting that the canon of Greek gematria, going back to the time before Plato, presupposes that the names of the major divinities and mythological figures were consciously codified in relation to the natural ratio of geometry to equal specific numerical values.

If this is true, and I think it is, this means that the numbers came before the gods and the mythological figures, in other words that the gods etc., or at least their names, were simply made up or fabricated. Examples are provided by the solar divinity Abraxas that in Greek has the numerical value of 365, the number of days in a solar year. Mithras, in the most common spelling, equals 360, the value of a year in some places, but several old writers purposefully add an extra “e” to make the name total 365, a more precise reckoning of the solar years. Likewise, says Fideler, the name of every single ones of the Hebrew planetary spirits and intelligences was consciously formulated by someone to bring out the precise number from the appropriate “magic square”.



The most striking example is that of Zeus, having the number 612 - just like Buthas, I may add. The value of Hermes is 353 and that of Apollo is 1061. It was the British writer William Sterling who in 1897 pointed out that the numerical values of these three “numerical gods” relate precisely to one another through the ratio of the square root of 3, i.e. an irrational number, approximately 1.7320508... See Figure 15 in Fideler´s book, p. 71.



I find Sterling´s discovery to be extremely important. It more than suggests that the names of the principal gods were simply made up to achieve certain numbers relating to certain geometrical figures. And what, indeed, remains of the gods if stripped of their names? Nothing - or rather, nothing apart from geometrical figures.