Here comes fun?

I use to completely discount this numbers and planets bullshit until I started looking into the Kabbala and the Occult and realised that it plays a very important part of their belief set.

The Culture from which both of these intermingled mystic or spiritual belief sets emerged from has always been besotted with numbers. For heaven’s sake there’s even a book in the Bible called the Book of Numbers. If you observe Rabbi’s reading the Torah many are obsessed with word counts, spelling, the number of times certain words are used, etc.

As a trading culture is it really that surprising that its diaspora should feature so heavily in the lists of Mathematicians and Physicists? Taking it a step further, is it so hard to believe that many of them see ‘magic’ or ‘power’ in numbers in the same way that other cultures see it in other objects in the world around them.

I’m not saying that I believe in the power of numbers, but I am saying there are lots of powerful people who do. That belief can, like many things, eventually manifest itself in the world by the people who do believe in it acting in a certain way – just like there is an element of truth in technical analysis (which is again based around numbers).

Same thing with the movement of the planets. Saturn has always played a big part in the cycles of Jewish Calendar, so again – if enough powerful people believe in it and act accordingly ‘Reflexivity’ occurs.

Underlying the well-known link between Saturday (Shabbat in Hebrew) and Saturn (Shabbetai in Hebrew) is the reference to Saturn as the planet in charge of the Jews. Behind the link between Saturn and Saturday is the astrological theory that assigns the seven planets in succession, beginning with the sun and following the order of their orbs, to the 24 hours of the day and to the seven days of the week. 

Prominent Roman historians such as Tacitus (56–120 CE) and Cassius Dio (ca. 155–after 229), as well as Church fathers like Augustine (354–430), acknowledged a special link between Saturn and Saturday, the holiest day of the week for the Jews. That Jewish society of the talmudic period recognized the same association is shown by the fact that the Babylonian Talmud (Shabbat 156a) refers to Saturn as Shabbetai, i.e., the star of Shabbat (Saturday). Greek and Arab astrology, however, considered Saturn to be the most malignant of the seven planets; and thus the Jews, astrologically governed by Saturn, were considered to be contaminated by the planet’s wicked nature.

Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Much of Judaic Law is actually knowledge pilfered from the Babylonian Empire which itself was descended from the Sumerian Empire, that reigned across a vast empire for nearly as long as the Egyptian Pharos and new all the techniques for dominating and subjugating those it conquered and ruled over

But Sennacherib, king of Assyria, had already come, and through his policy of forced population transfer he had scrambled all the nations of the lands, as it is stated in reference to Sennacherib: “And I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures” This indicates that the children of Simeon were also exiled

(Isaiah 10:13).