Okay, so this will all be a bit freeform. But I do feel to put out a preliminary post tying together some of the threads visible in considering King James Version (KJV) numerology and the simulation hypothesis.
One of the things that I find kind of a drag about simulation hypotheses is that they all tend to get based on one source – The Matrix. Ever since that movie came out, excellent though it may be, IMO it overly set the scene for how we considered a simulation might operate.
Let’s take just a tiny step back and consider the bare bones of a simulation via an idea from cognitive science. In that field, it’s common to refer to our typical experience as an agent-arena relationship. That means that there’s an agent – a me, an I; and there’s an arena – the world around me. Right now, I’m the agent, tapping keys on my laptop. The laptop is a part of the arena, along with the table, power socket, shuttered window to my right. I’m sure you get the idea.
Now let’s consider The Matrix. In that movie, the protagonist – Neo – takes a red pill and descends into another world – one where he’s actually strapped inside a machine being fed reality rather like a movie. Thus, in this scenario, the arena changes, but the agent – Neo – essentially remains the same. He learns a bunch of cool stuff in the new realm he’s landed in but it’s basically still him.
There are, I think, some fairly decent reasons why this type of a simulation is grossly unlikely to be reality. The primary one of those is that our very sense of being an agent – an I – is already widely recognised as being a simulation – a kind of virtual user created as we attach to thinking. This is really not a new idea. The Buddha would have told you the same 2.5k years ago. A heap of other spiritual figures throughout history will do the same. These days, there are hairdressers and car mechanics who will merrily inform you that this “you” – this sense of there being a personal observer of life, sitting behind your eyes – is basically an illusion. Everyone and his mother (to use a good old English expression) knows it.
Okay, so I got that off my chest. The Matrix is basically a movie franchise and one that actually serves over time to reinforce any type of genuine simulation. If we’re in a simulation, and we want to find out about it, then the first place we are going to have to look is directly at our sense of I-ness. Now, the KJV.
Aside of that famous movie, the idea of a simulation is also nowadays highly associated with a thing they have in physics called the Fine-Structure Constant, denoted by the symbol α (alpha). According to wikipedia, the fine-structure constant is a dimensionless number that describes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles such as electrons and protons.
This number is almost exactly 1/137.
I’m really no physicist but should you ask one, or AI, it will inform you that were the fine-structure even a tiny bit different, no way could our universe exist. So here we have a number that needs no units and that is highly associated with our very existence in this form. That number is 137.
Okay, let’s get to the KJV. That book is written, of course, in English (EN). EN of today has 26 letters. Thus the most basic form of numerology imaginable in EN is to assign each letter to an ascending number thus… a=1; b=2 up to z=26. The second most basic would be to reverse that sequence thus… a=26; b=25 up to z=1. These two ciphers are known as English Ordinal (EO) and Reverse Ordinal (RO). Bearing this in mind, let us check out the infamous first line of the KJV.
“In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth”
Okay, let’s check out the value of that line with the most basic of our numerological ciphers:
411? Seems a nondescript kind of number perhaps. But it is actually 137 x 3. Now let’s just take the first phrase – In the beginning.
Okay, so what have we got here? We’ve got the opening line of the KJV Bible featuring both the fine-structure constant as is, and as multiplied by three, the number of the Trinity. It’s actually the value of the opening phrase and the opening verse.
Now let’s stick our opening line through the Reverse Ordinal cipher:
Again, we get a hit. 777 is a big number to anyone involved in Christian numerology because 7 are the days of creation and 3 is the Trinity. Thus 777 symbolizes fullness expanded to spiritual perfection.
(I must be honest here and admit that I haven’t included the RO value of the first three words as that comes to just 241, which on the surface isn’t phenomenally exciting.)
Okay, now let’s move on a little. Perhaps we could consider line 137 of the Bible. If God or whoever were trying to drop some hints, that would seem a reasonable place to put them. That line is Genesis 5:31 and this is how it reads:
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
So straight away we have a reference, and actually the only one in the entire Bible, to 777, this time in written form. To me that’s another confirmation. Next perhaps we could look at the text and see if the number 137 appears anywhere, perhaps again in written form. Lo and behold, it does! Not surprisingly in Genesis once again, where all sorts of patriarchal characters and their ages are listed. It’s found in Genesis 25:17.
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
This is line 676 of the KJV. 676 happens to be the square of 26, the number of letters in the EN alphabet. (Note as an aside that the words “an hundred and thirty and seven years” give 360 in EO – the number of degrees in a circle.)
So, to me, this is all highly interesting. Just the beginning of an investigation into the KJV is revealing these two numbers entangled together – 137 and 777 – repeatedly.
Now, to anyone with an ounce of scepticism, and let’s face it, if you’re going to be into KJV numerology you’re going to need a fair bit of that, a few questions will be arising. I imagine the first of those will go something like… okay, but the original KJV from 1611 was written in an older kind of English; what about that, huh?
My reply to this is that you need to consider things a little more deeply. Yes, the KJV was originally translated by a bunch of guys back in the early seventeenth century. But who would really think that they, of their own wit, would be able to weave this stuff into the text, especially considering that the fine-structure constant itself wasn’t discovered til the early twentieth century? Basically no one.
Okay, so what is going on here, if we say just for a minute that this stuff isn’t random? I see two, related possibilities.
The translators are to some degree channeling their translation. They are being influenced by a higher-dimensional agency whilst their doing their thing, or they are tapping into some higher-dimensional repository of intelligence. So, this also means that the English language itself either is the work of, or has been influenced by, a higher-dimensional intelligence. This is not unprecedented. Both Hebrew and Greek, the earlier languages of the Old and New Testaments are recognised by people into numerology as such.
So if some higher intelligence is at work, what is it actually trying to say? Well, it doesn’t look to me as though it is trying to explain a load of complex mystical or mathematical stuff to us. I see no indication of that. Instead he, she or it is simply indicating their presence, rather in the manner that grafitti artists tag their work. That act alone has significance. Essentially, they are indicating that a higher intelligence is present in our world. They are indicating that this world is indeed some form of simulation, one where a higher-level intelligence has some degree or control or influence. Or at least did back in the day.
In closing, I want to reiterate that this article really is just a preliminary piece, based on what I’ve found out so far. This whole field of KJV numerology and the fine-structure constant needs a heap more research.
Thank you for reading.