Conspiracy Gematria Debunked By Paul Foster Case

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Foster_Case

Paul was a rock star in the occult world, and an important forerunner in the debunking of the way gematria is used today.  (Aside from the general loopiness and how it ends up debunking itself).

Paul liked himself some Tarot, and reading through his life story you can assess that he was one of the forerunners of the inevitable side show when competing grifters get together - The Shill Game.  After making a name for himself in the world of Tarot, Paul didn’t like the attention given to other occult studies.  A long time before Hubbard discovered or invented or modified and perfected Manley P. Hall’s system or whatever else Zach has claimed or will claim about gematria’s origin in the past or future, Paul wrote these words:

https://www.scribd.com/document/459055340/PaulFosterCase-Bota-TheGreatWork-Lesson-2

“Gematria is in disrepute because it has been abused.  By perverting it one may make any writing whatever yield any meaning one wishes to extract from it, and fanatics and charlatans have so misused the Literal Qabalah again and again.”

Which is something a current day flat earther or sovereign citizen content creator could repeat word for word today and be 100% accurate.  In theory a political candidate with some decorum and sense of duty to his office could denounce the practice of old timey occult grifting and win an election based on ideas and policies, but sadly the Shill game is the only time people really pay attention to grifter content.  It’s never, “You people need to stop the baseless accusations.”  It’s always, “More votes for me!  Cooooooool!”

The reality of conspiracy gematria is more to do with rebranding than creation of something fresh and new.  People had forgotten that a hundred years ago gematria was abused to create any narrative you want.  As well as how Tarot card readings can produce any result.  It’s just a question of quality and charisma of the promoter and tweaking it to current societal trends.  Notably, a significant societal trend today missing from Paul’s time is the gambling on NFL games.  Then, as this sports predicting system got traction so many competing grifters jumped on the bandwagon.  There’s a ready supply of internet newbies and a collection of disenfranchised world haters with significant confirmation bias issues.  Others needed simply create their own sports pick blogs, websites, and Patreons or adjust to something else that came along that was new to society.  Topics like cryptocurrency, the modern political atmosphere and in general anything or technology has advanced to do.  Why just complain about NASA being an actual scientific authority when you can throw in a little loony lunar or eclipse gematria into your moon landing hoax nonsense?

Before taking this to the next logical step I correctly predicted my results.

Of course there’s no mention at all of Paul in the Fee to Find Misinformation blog.  If one searches for just FOSTER there’s a couple of hits for Jodie Foster and Arian Foster.  Other Fosters.  The ‘this celebrity was murdered in a ritual sacrifice’ and ‘this NFL running back is playing in the rigged league that’s mocking us’ content.  Actual research on someone involved in gematria issues, especially one who pointed out accurately and succinctly the make up any bullshit you want aspect of gematria would be a big no-no.  Also note that although the image isn’t shared here that a search for PAUL CASE yields only some mentions of other Paul’s without or Tarot loving friend.

Another feature of Paul’s Tarot fame is how he organized  and clarified the varied occult and Tarot writings of the time into his The Secret Doctrine of the Tarot. This kind of effort is missing from the current landscape of gematria and related internet conspiracy content.  The goal was to talk about the occult and not the grift.  Today it’s all about the grift and not the actual belief.  Today it’s all outrage porn and known baseless accusations.  I’d much rather have sat down with a Paul Foster Case and shared a beer than listen to a modern day angry rant about how someone is a crisis actor because of a two digit number.