Everyone and everything adds up to “666” if you fiddle with it a bit.
There’s a lot of misunderstanding similar to yours, about Gematria - that it’s about ‘fiddling with numbers.’
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
https://www.gematriacalculator.us/
Scrolling down the page gives basic background on Gematria and explanations of different ciphers. It’s a really good into to the subject.
Gematria is a system of assigning numerical values to words or phrases in order to find hidden meanings or associations between words. This system is used in various ways by different cultures and traditions, including Jewish, Islamic, and early Christian practices.
In Jewish gematria, each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is assigned a numerical value, and the sum of the values of the letters in a word is used to find relationships between words or to uncover hidden meanings in texts. For example, the Hebrew word for "truth" (emet) has a numerical value of 441, which is the same as the value of the word "death" (mavet). This coincidence is thought to indicate a connection between truth and death in Jewish thought.
Islamic gematria is similar to Jewish gematria, but it uses the Arabic alphabet instead of the Hebrew alphabet. The system is used in a variety of ways in Islamic tradition, including for divination and for finding hidden meanings in the Quran.
Christian gematria, also known as Isopsephy, is a system used by early Christians to find hidden meanings in the Bible. It involves assigning numerical values to letters in the Greek alphabet and using those values to find connections between words or to uncover hidden meanings in texts.
Overall, gematria is a system that has been used for centuries to find connections and uncover hidden meanings in texts, and it continues to be used by a variety of cultures and traditions today.
Analysts and decoders continue to this day to find codes and ciphers embeded in many old writings, including Shakespeare.
Over the years the Gemetria calculator has indicated MANY names that add up to 666.
IIRC, PeeWee Herman is the Anti-Christ.;-) (just joking...it's Maggie Thatcher).
And then it went nowhere.
Same for Gemetria...unless there's a new wrinkle.
Welcome to a site devoted to uncovering secret information from the past. These pages detail research that all originated in one burning question: "Who wrote Shakespeare?" When first confronted with that question, sometime in the mid-1980s, I had no idea of the depth of the rabbit-hole into which it would take me.
Starting with the contention that the man from Stratford Upon Avon was in every way unqualified to have been the author of the famous plays and poems, it was a short leap to suspect that the true author, whoever he or she was, would want to set the record straight. This would imply the presence of information concealed within Shakespeare's works by cryptographic means.
Initially, I followed the path of gematria, which is a method of concealing information in a piece of text by substituting letters for numbers. I set about to discover the system of gematria of the English language. While the gematria of Hebrew ancient Greek, Arabic and some other languages was well-documented, knowledge of English gematria seemed to be lost. However, I found out that it wasn't totally unknown but deeply buried and only transmitted in secret between the initiates of certain traditions.
In 2004, I was the first person in 473 years to publish and draw attention to the main gematria code of English. I went on to document how its use underpins the symbols of Freemasonry. When I applied my gematria knowledge to Shakespeare's Sonnets, I found enough evidence to convince me that I was on the right track, but there was clearly something else missing.
It was around 2002 that I made my next big breakthrough. When I put the first letter of every line in the Sonnets into a 14 x 154 grid, I discovered the acrostic message, "KIT MARLOWE WROTE THIS". It had always been my main hypothesis that Christopher Marlowe - who apparently died 12 days before the name Shakespeare was first appended to a piece of writing - was the actual author of the works. The utter genius of the acrostic message became apparent to me when I realised that it is double encrypted by means of gematria. There is a certain measure of irregularity in the construction of the acrostic, and while this would normally invalidate a simple acrostic, I was able to demonstrate the irregularity serves a very sophisticated purpose. The selection of the line numbers from which it is constructed creates an exquisite and rigorously consistent geometric signature based on the name "Christopher Marlowe".
In 2005, I wrote a book Shakespear's Sonnets - Written by Kit Marlowe detailing the acrostic message and also showing how Marlowe's name is encrypted at key locations within the Sonnets by means of gematria.
In recent years, I have made a great advance in my understanding of the way the Sonnets are coded. For example, I have discovered certain of the sonnets can be letter-gridded in their entirety to reveal both cryptograms and pictograms. I have also found a mathematically perfect scheme of geometry underlying the gematria of the dedication and cover page(s) of the Sonnets. In fact, the discoveries I have made go well beyond the scope of a single book.
The first fruit of this new research is reported in Recknynge Time for the Bard. This details the main codes in the Sonnets that reveal Marlowe's authorship. I will follow this up with a second book unlocking codes in certain sonnets which refer to specific friends. I also intend to address the substantial body of Hermetic symbolism hidden beneath the surface of the Sonnets. This constitutes a most significant masterwork within the Western esoteric tradition.