Building A House From The Attic Down

Let's move on to Hubbard's chapter 2. Yes, I started with chapter 3. I'm holding true to the time honored tradition of gematria doing things ass backward, like starting with the conclusion and forcing the numerology to work the narrative.


2. The 4 Foundational English Ciphers and the Geometry of the English Language


I don't like that 4 in there. This is a book about numbers and words. Generally accepted good grammar has you spell out the words one through nine. Optional for larger numbers. As with the 7 in chapter 3 and other chapters this is consistently misused. Just to get the record straight as long as I'm giving free proofreading.


Foundational? I'm pretty sure you don't really know what this means. It sounds pretty and scholarly. But there's another reason I started with chapter 3. That chapter referred to the "7 Complimentary English Ciphers, Tributes to Hebrew Gematria and Greek Isopsephy." (sic)


The complementary ciphers are paying tribute to the foundation. A foundation is a basis to be built upon, like the foundation of a building. You don't start building at the attic and work down, unless you want a house that looks like it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wrong.


Without being listed I have a pretty good idea that the four elisions (ciphers) in question are ordinal, reverse and the corresponding reductions. As near as I can tell the reverse systems were created (acknowledged, if you believe these guys) in early 2017, maybe late 2016. You can't have a foundation started years after using certain numbering systems that didn't include the foundation. And pay tribute to historical systems that didn't use them. I haven't seen any ancient texts or old work showing the Greeks or Hebrews used reductions  or reverse alphabetical order.


Now is a good time to remind everyone of a huge problem with the reverse ordinal system. Since by misnaming it foundational you are acknowledging its importance. ARE and WERE, the present and past tense if the same verb, both equal 57 in reverse numbering. The odds that a supremely powerful force has guided all our language, to make numerology instead of just words, allowing such a simple confusion to exist is somewhere between zero and zero. And zero doesn't count.


I don't know if a direct antonym of geometry exists. I know that 108 is used to mean geometry in Gematria in the sense of "look how cool this word is, it equals 108! That's geometry/gematriot!" I do know geometry is a course taught in school. There are other things about school that =108. Health is 108. I had health education in high school. We got to talk about sperm and ovaries and stuff. And speaking of health, HEALTHY and SICKLY are direct antonyms with the same numerology. Business is 108 in both ordinal ND reverse, just like geometry. That seems appropriate because the math was easier. Me and my fellow nerds always looked down on the poor schlubs in the business curriculum. And unlike GEOMETRY, BUSINESS has the added benefit of equaling 666 in the English elision. Another thing that could happen to a school student is getting kicked out. Like trying to pretend numerology has any semblance to real math could lead to. EXPULSION =108. I think since like the Kelvinator said, all numbers have duality, I'll use that last one when I'm told 108 has to equal geometry in narratives.