“Chashmal” is regarded as the, or one of the, most mysterious words in the Bible. It occurs in the early description of Ezekiel’s vision. Its meaning is NOT certain. The Best “efforts” at translating it come out akin to “Speaking Silence”, or maybe, “The Sounds of Silence”.
Its Hebrew spelling has 4 Letters. Their values, (8 300 40 30) sum to 378. That is the same as the sum of the Numbers from 1 to 27, i.e. the 27 Letters in the Magic Cube of 42.
8 + 300 + 40 + 30 = 378
The Pool of Bethesda
The name Bethesda is drawn from Aramaic. The “a” on the end of Bethesda is the “giveaway” that the source of the name IS Aramaic. (A LOT of Aramaic words end in “a” – a bit like “migrant Italian English”. )
The original (in a sense) Hebrew version of the name is “Bet Chesed” or “Beth Chesed” or “Beth Hesed”. Just as “Beth Lehem” means “House of Bread” or “House of Food”, “Beth Hesed” means “House of Kindness” or “House of Mercy”.
Tree of The Sephiroth
Hesed – Right Hand Column – Middle one of the Three
HESED (Chesed) is one of the Ten Sephiroth. Sephiroth that are more familiar to English speakers are KINGDOM, POWER, GLORY and WILL> MERCY is yet another one of the Ten. Jesus “knew” it, just as well as He knew Kingdom, Power and Glory.
Hesed in Hebrew, i.e. the Letters in the word/name Hesed, have the value 72. For those of us familiar with the 360 degrees in a circle, 360 degress divided by 5 gives you 72 degrees. This is why the Pool of Bethesda was a Pentagonal shape, a pool with Five Colonades. Whoever designed the walkways, columns, roof etc around the pool, they tried to build the mathematics of Chesed into the structure.
It goes deeper than just the 72. The Pentagon shape builds the Golden Ration (“Phi”) into the Pool, i.e. 1.618
The Upper 42 Letter Name
An Expansion of God’s Tetragrammaton
The 2nd Line is the “Expansion to 72”
The ’72” EXPANSION OF GOD’S 4 LETTER NAME IS THE BASIS OF, AND 2ND LINE OF, THE UPPER 42 LETTER NAME. SO WE ARE BACK TO THE 42 AND TO THE CUBE OF 42 AGAIN, AND TO THE 42 DEGREE SLOPE OF THE CORNERS/DIAGONALS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID AT GIZA/
Tlength of those slopes is just over 719 feet, a connection with the second word in John’s Gospel, the second word in the verse that talks about the Word of God being God, and about (in code) Euler’s Constant. That constant “e” as it is usually represented, is the basis of the Natural Logarithm.
Is “e” significant”?
Well . . . . “e” “i” and “pi”, three major constants in mathematics, ones that “theoretically” should not be related to each other, DO connect. They connect to each other, and to zero and Unity. Put 1 and zero together, and you are staring right at Infinity, Unity (God is One according to Deut 6:4, i.e. the start of The Shema). These constants are tied into God and God’s process of Creation. So is the Magic Cube of 42.
The equation that should scare atheists
38 Years By The Pool of Bethesda
The man who was healed had lain by the Pool for “thirty and eight” years, unable to get himself into the water fast enough each time the angel “moved the waters. The word Chashmal (see the values of the letters earlier in this Post) is “packaged by the values 8 and 30.