Numbers no cloak
From “The Two Babylons” Chapter III
Festivals Section I. Christmas and Lady-day
The name Meni, “the numberer,” on the other hand, seems just a synonym for the name of Cush or Chus, which, while it signifies “to cover” or “hide,” signifies also “to count or number.” The true proper meaning of the name Cush is, I have no doubt, “The numberer” or “Arithmetician”; for while Nimrod his son, as the “mighty” one, was the grand propagator of the Babylonian system of idolatry, by force and power, he, as Hermes, was the real concocter of that system, for he is said to have “taught men the proper mode of approaching the Deity with prayers and sacrifice” (WILKINSON); and seeing idolatry and astronomy were intimately combined, to enable him to do so with effect, it was indispensable that he should be pre-eminently skilled in the science of numbers. Now, Hermes (that is Cush) is said to have “first discovered numbers, and the art of reckoning, geometry, and astronomy, the games of chess and hazard” (Ibid.); and it is in all probability from reference to the meaning of the name of Cush, that some called “NUMBER the father of gods and men” (Ibid.). The name Meni is just the Chaldee form of the Hebrew “Mene,” the “numberer” for in Chaldee i often takes the place of the final e. As we have seen reason to conclude with Gesenius, that Nebo, the great prophetic god of Babylon, was just the same god as Hermes, this shows the peculiar emphasis of the first words in the Divine sentence that sealed the doom of Belshazzar, as representing the primeval god–”MENE, MENE, Tekel, Upharsin,” which is as much as covertly to say, “The numberer is numbered.” As the cup was peculiarly the symbol of Cush, hence the pouring out of the drink-offering to him as the god of the cup; and as he was the great Diviner, hence the divinations as to the future year, which Jerome connects with the divinity referred to by Isaiah. Now Hermes, in Egypt as the “numberer,” was identified with the moon that numbers the months. He was called “Lord of the moon” (BUNSEN); and as the “dispenser of time” (WILKINSON), he held a “palm branch, emblematic of a year” (Ibid.). Thus, then, if Gad was the “sun-divinity,” Meni was very naturally regarded as “The Lord Moon.”
So while we have the Indian system of numbers that essentially came from the Babylonians but was called Brahmasphutasiddhanta in India, the reality of the non-creating nature of modern mathematics and their attempt to hide the truth that there is enough ( of everything ) in the lie of non-creatingness as ‘limited resources’ ( ..because of their supposed limited nature and the supposed lack of new creation because of what non-creating speech pretends is the eternal absence of Jesus Christ as Creating Speech, can and must be counted to know ‘how much’ is left.. ) is made plain.
All those who live and die and seek to make other people live and die ‘by the numbers’ are themselves victims of anti-Christ’s witchcraft through Cush and Nimrod directly as false religion as the occult/Satanism. In numbering at all, the accusation against God from within non-creating speech is that there isn’t enough and so thing must be numbered to make sure you have enough ..of anything.
In truth you have to be taken outside the numbers to see reality and it should give students pause to see that very many computer science and mathematics majors and professionals are Zoroastrians –the name given to the original Babylonian number/religious system. The numbers themselves as non-creating speech /spirits-as-words are liars. It is not simply the case that they are being used to lie “with”.
A clear example of numbers being used to hide truth is in the construction industry. In past days the cubit, the length from a man’s elbow to the split between his thumb and first finger was the measure of length with hand breadths added as smaller measures. That meant buildings were built that could be traced back to specific individuals because while that distance is close in most men, it is individually unique and each builder had a rod that was his specific ‘measure’. Thus the saying “the measure of the man”. Each builder was responsible for the lifetime of the building. If the wall collapsed or some evil happened because of bad labor, that builder was killed. In other aspects of that evil of a ’standard’ measure, specific individuals ‘measure’ was forced on others as covering over the individuality of the each person in the “masses”.
In Egypt for example, one may well ask of “The beveled surface offers precious information: on the left are marked the digit (here 1.86 cm) and the palm (7.47 cm), while on the right the graduations show the royal cubit of 7 palms (52.3 cm) and the common cubit of 6.” ..whose palm? Part of claiming to be a ‘god’ was to be the thing by which all other things were meaured.
Even in the Old Testament He Who Is Actually God, Jehovah, marks the Temple of Ezekiel with His own stamp of being the builder by the cubit rod in the angel’s hand and by His Own hand as ‘the handbreadth’.
Ezekiel 40:5 And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring-reed of six cubits, each of one cubit and a hand breadth. And he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
Even in more recent history, measurements were “standardized” based on averages of measurements of hands, legs, palms, etc.
When you have a “standard” measure of length, that distinction of individuality is lost and the builder becomes anonymous as the numbering system itself is as an ideology ‘takes responsibility’. The numbering system itself becomes a cloak over reality without even needing some complicated equation. Understand that is going on and is applied to political systems as houses for populations and you have an automatic cloak of anonymity that the pagan politician is trained is the best possible system and that righteousness is a thing done within that system rather than completely outside of it. You also have the plain understanding of the hidden hands that seem to guide world events and what they must believe and therefore what they will do becuase they literally measure themselves by themselves and want to make the world follow suit.
But God Says of us as new creatures in Jesus Christ we are not to follow them:
2 Corinthians 10:12 For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not intelligent.
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“…that some called “NUMBER the father of gods and men” Indeed. Number worshipers as numerologist would have to think that numbers rule the universe and would then be very interested in the spiritual aspect of numbers as spirits, not just the supposed usefulness to measure and would naturally apply numbers to themselves to measure other things by.
Yet in the end, you can’t get out of your own individuality. You are literally sealed in forever. You can be born again in Jesus Christ as a new creature, not measurable by non-creating speech, but as a non-regenerate soul, you cannot get out of being known by your measurements God has wrought. That can be used, in some form to find anonymous hackers and computer criminals in general as well as a whole host of other criminals: the numbers they use and the way they measure are like fingerprints you can’t wash off no matter the cloak of standardization. In addition, one’s associates and their beliefs can be tracked by those same means. The standardization cloaks the eyes of men, not God and even the cloak only hides what is actually still there even if such people truly forget themselves as a successful venture in hiding.
Isaiah 28:14-22 Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol have we made an agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I lay for foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation: he that trusteth shall not make haste. And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, ye shall be trodden down by it. As it passeth through it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night; and it shall be terror only to understand the report. For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it. For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act. Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and one determined, upon the whole land.
Such persons invariably find interest in “the philosophy of mathematics” and progress from there into the occult because they falsely perceive of numbers as power. Yet they are very deceived they can hide from God’s justice.
Amos 9:1-6 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar; and he said, Smite the chapiter that the thresholds may shake; and break all of them in pieces, in the head; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not get away by flight, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down; and though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them; and though they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. And the Lord Jehovah of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall wholly rise up like the Nile, and sink down as the river of Egypt. It is he that buildeth his upper chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.
Revelation 3:7,8 And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith the holy, the true; he that has the key of David, he who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open: I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an opened door, which no one can shut, because thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen