: In the melting pot of Egypt under Greek rule, magicians used these letter-number codes (gematria) to craft powerful amulets and oracles.
The narrative begins in the eighth century B.C.E., likely in the city of . While the Phoenicians provided the alphabet's structure, the Greeks were the first to assign specific numerical values to every letter, creating a system where every word was also a mathematical equation. The Evolution of Symbolism The Greek Qabalah: Alphabetic Mysticism and Num...
By examining sources ranging from to graffiti at Pompeii , Barry suggests that the "Secret Code of Creation" often attributed solely to Hebrew was a shared language of the ancient Mediterranean. You can find more details on this work through Red Wheel/Weiser or Google Books . : In the melting pot of Egypt under