Reverse Gematria Defined And Explained

It took me awhile to figure out how I wanted to word this one.  This relates to the historical definition  of gematria and how it’s vastly different these days.  In practice, because of sports, the majority of dialogue about gematria is now Reverse Gematria or Retrograde Gematria if I want to throw out a fancier word.

Starting off with what Reverse Gematria is not:

It is not the application of the misnamed Reverse Ordinal, Reverse Reduction or any of the various Reverse elisions.  Those are a forgivable naming convention to indicate that the alphabetic order is assigned starting with Z instead of A.

I’m far too lazy to retype a dictionary definition of gematria, so there’s the historical definition of it, like Zom said, “back when gematria was gematria”.  If you click on the link at the bottom of that Google search you get the chart that will follow, shortly.

This definition can be abbreviated accurately enough as WORDS=NUMBERS.  Nowhere does it say gematria has anything to do with GPS coordinates, number of times a video has been liked or disliked, the digits of Pi, the time a news article was released or anything involving a number that is just a number not derived from applying the elision of your choice.

The use of just numbers without words has been falsely and quite intentionally claimed to be part of a mathematical equation.  The idea being that if A=B and A=C therefore A=C.  The missing mathematical step in gematria is A=B or C or D or E or F or, etc....  And it’s impossible to identify which of the damned near infinite “or’s” A is equal to.

The two biggest changes in gematria that have occurred are shoehorning in the Freemasons and in what I’m in all sincerity calling the brilliant incorporation of sports statistics.  Somewhere, somehow, someday in the 2000-2010 era someone got the bright idea to use just numbers as the starting point then reverse engineering it into words.

The final score of the baseball game, 5-1.  That’s 51, 15 or prime number raw material or any number of more ridiculous alterations.  Let’s just call it 51 for now.  If a random person walks up to you on the street and says 51 and nothing else, what’s the translation?  The other side of the equation?

Reverse Gematria provides partial reinforcement by allowing easy access to many matches that outwardly seem to make some sense.  Pitcher wearing jersey number 17 throws 17 pitches in an inning and the opposing batter hits his 17th home run of the year.  Those that truly understand statitistics know that occasionally not only might this happen, given enough time it absolutely will happen.

But Reverse Gematria goes too far and winds up digging its own grave since they still pretend that this magical gematria knowledge (use your sarcasm voice when reading that) has predictive value.  And this is easily tested in a scientific manner.  Unbiased person picks a word from the dictionary at random.  After they run it through all the different elisions and all the “valid” methods of changing a number into another one the number is given to a gematria so called expert.  Okay smartass, what’s the word?  The same applies to the niggling details in a sporting event.  In the crudest, most unrefined refutation, since single digit numbers count all you need to do is pick any digit at random and find some stupid statistic and the expert probably won’t even get the game it came from right much less the detail.  Need I remind you that this 4 could be a tribute to Jackie Robinson’s 4th at bat in whatever game he played in I want to focus on?  Here’s your 4, now predict or tell me the other side of the equation.

So, Reverse Gematria is the process of changing numbers into words.

Highly speculative on my part, but the activity chart and modern use of sports statistics does coincide.  Think about it, if sports were proclaimed by the major mooks to be not rigged and the crowd only was allowed to do actual gematria on WORDS I think it would be disappear.  They really don’t seem to be talking about Freemasons so much and mostly want an edge for wagering.  Good luck with that.

On a predictive side note, the Gematrinator has made a prediction for today.  Read this in your sarcasm voice- he’s boldly predicted that something will happen today.