Conspiracies
Conspiracy 9
Is there a secret code in the Hebrew letters?
There are two ways to study the Hebrew letters, and they lead to two different places. One points you to Jesus and the plain Bible. The other is Kabbalah, where the letters become hidden spiritual forces, numbers become a code, and the Bible becomes a veil over secret knowledge. That second road runs straight through the Freemasons and Aleister Crowley’s magic. It’s satanic, Luciferian Freemasonry dressed up as Bible study.
What’s true about the Hebrew
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, and the words carry meaning you can miss in English. The letters have names that mean things. Aleph means ox, bet means house, and put together, aleph and bet spell ab, father. Each letter also stands for a number, because Hebrew had no separate numerals.
Take faith. The Hebrew word is emunah, from the root aman, the same root as “amen.” It means firm, steady, something you can lean your weight on. The first time the word shows up, it’s about Moses’ arms during the battle: “his hands were steady until the going down of the sun” (Exodus 17:12). “Steady” there is emunah. Then Habakkuk: “the just shall live by his faith” (Habakkuk 2:4), his emunah. Faith in the Bible isn’t a feeling. It’s leaning your whole weight on God and staying there. That’s the kind of thing the woman at Arise was talking about, and it’s good Bible study.
The first and the last
Jesus said, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last” (Revelation 22:13). Alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. In Hebrew, the first and last letters are aleph and tav.
Those two letters together, et, show up in the Hebrew Bible thousands of times, starting in Genesis 1:1, and English Bibles never translate them. Be honest about why: et is a grammar marker that points to the object of a sentence, like a flag. Even the teachers who love this say it’s not proof, it’s a pattern: “The alfav isn’t proof. It’s an invitation.” But God really did call Himself “the first, and I am the last” (Isaiah 44:6), and Jesus took that exact title. Seeing the first and last letters there is a picture that points to Him, the way the Passover lamb does.
That’s the line. The letters can point you to Jesus. They don’t replace Him.
The counterfeit: letters as power
Here’s where it turns. In Jewish mysticism, “the major premise,” as one Jewish teacher puts it, is that God created the world by first creating the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and by combining letters together He created the reality of everything. The letters themselves become the building blocks of creation, and if you know their code, you know reality.
The Bible says God created by His Word, and the Word is a Person. “In the beginning was the Word... All things were made by him” (John 1:1, 3). “The worlds were framed by the word of God” (Hebrews 11:3). Not by letters. By Jesus.
Then the occult takes the letters and runs. The Golden Dawn, the magic order Aleister Crowley trained in, teaches its new members Hebrew right away. One of its own teachers says it plainly: “The letters themselves are part of the magical technology”. Each letter gets a number, a meaning, a planet, a zodiac sign, a place on the Tree of Life and a tarot card. They vibrate God’s names in rituals like the pentagram ritual. Aleph is ox, bet is house, the exact same letter meanings, now used to do magic.
Numbers as a code
In Hebrew every word adds up to a number, and Kabbalah uses that to “decode” things. It’s called gematria. Two words with the same total are supposed to be secretly connected. God’s name YHWH adds up to 26, and the Kabbalist goes looking for other words that equal 26 and asks why. Even the magic teacher warns that this can turn into a mind that thinks it sees hidden codes in everything.
The famous saying the woman quoted, that every word of Scripture is “70 layers deep,” comes from this world. It’s not in the Bible or even the Talmud. It first shows up in a medieval book, Numbers Rabbah, from about the 12th century, and it’s built on gematria: the Hebrew word for wine adds up to 70, so “there are seventy modes of expounding the Torah.” Later it became a big idea in the Zohar, the main book of Kabbalah.
The Bible is deep, and you’ll never reach the bottom of it. But it isn’t a code you need a secret key for. “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation” (2 Peter 1:20). “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever” (Deuteronomy 29:29).
Kabbalah even rewrites faith
Remember emunah, faith that leans its whole weight on God? A Kabbalah teacher answering “what do Kabbalists mean by emuna, faith?” says the normal meaning is wrong: “faith is that which I don’t see but I accept as existing... that’s not good. This is the basis of every religion.” To him, faith is a “quality of bestowal” you attain.
The Bible: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). They took the very word and turned it inside out.
Where it leads: the Masons
This is the same Kabbalah the lodge runs on. Albert Pike, the head of the Scottish Rite, wrote that “all the Masonic associations owe to it their Secrets and their Symbols”, that the Kabbalah “has the keys,” and that the Bible tells the truth only “in an incomplete and veiled manner.” That’s the whole lie in one sentence: the Bible isn’t enough, you need the secret behind it. And the god at the end of that road is Lucifer, the light bearer. The full story is in What is a Freemason?.
It’s the oldest temptation there is. The serpent offered Eve hidden knowledge, “your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5). Paul’s warning: “I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:3). “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men... and not after Christ” (Colossians 2:8).
How to study the Hebrew without falling in
Use a plain tool. A Hebrew interlinear or Strong’s numbers (Blue Letter Bible is free) shows you the Hebrew word under the English, and what it means.
Ask one question every time. Does this point me to Jesus and the plain meaning of the verse? Or does it say the real truth is hidden and I need a code? The first is Bible study. The second is Kabbalah.
Let Jesus be the key. He already showed how to read the Old Testament: “beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:27). “Search the scriptures... they are they which testify of me” (John 5:39). The feasts are the best place to start: Where is Jesus in the Old Testament?.
Say it like this
“Hebrew is beautiful, and the words go deep. Faith, emunah, means leaning your full weight on God. And Jesus called Himself the first and the last, the aleph and the tav. But Kabbalah takes the same letters and turns them into magic and secret codes, and says the Bible is just a veil. That’s what the Freemasons and Crowley ran on. The Bible doesn’t need a secret key. It points to Jesus, plainly.”
Keep reading: What is a Freemason? · Where is Jesus in the Old Testament? · Aren’t we all God?