Prime numbers create interesting observations in numerology. These observations have been astounding the philosophers, scientists and numerologists who ponder their meanings as though they may hold the keys to unlocking the mysteries of life.
A prime number is a whole number greater than 1, whose only two whole-number factors are 1 and itself. The first few prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, and 29. As we proceed in the set of natural numbers N = {1, 2, 3, ...}, the primes become less and less frequent in general.
There are some interesting correlations that do make us wonder if they were intentional. Let’s explore, for example, the mirrored prime number pair of 37 and 73.
We’ll first go back in time to ancient Babylonia. The Babylonians had a numerology system called gematria. It’s a system where each letter is assigned a number, giving words extra meaning based on those numbers. It became the root of a cabalistic system of interpreting scripture (a cabal is a secret clique or faction).
It was later adopted by the Hebrews and after them, the Christians, who embraced it as a mystical way of looking at the Bible.
Using 37 as a basis for looking at scripture, we know that the word faith is used 37 times in the Gospels. Also, if you convert the Hebrew word for wisdom—chokmah—into its cabalistic equivalent you also get the numerical value of 37.
There are many other examples, but the most interesting is found in Genesis. In fact, the very first line of the Bible in Genesis is, “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” Written in Hebrew, totaling up the numeric values for each Hebrew word, you get 2,701. “So what!” you might say. But if you multiply 37 by 73 it equals 2,701. 2701 = 37 X 73.
Even weirder is, if you take this same verse, multiplied each letter’s value—not each word, but each letter—by the number of letters in the line, then divide that figure by the one totaling the words’ values, you come up with 3.1415. Pi. The earliest approximations of pi go back to the Babylonians. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
The number 37 also has even greater significance in our genetic code. I’ll reveal that in my next blog on the Primes of our Lives.
