Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Gematria of CSL vs Interests


822, Dewey:

What is the Dewey Decimal number 822?

822 would be English drama and 824 indicates English essays. As you can see and as mentioned before, the more specific the number gets, the more specific a topic is.


Source:
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
https://library.nicc.edu/c.php?g=1238185


The delicious thing is, C. S. Lewis was as a professor in Cambridge doing English Medieval and Renaissance Literature, specifically EXCLUDING drama. He hated Ben Johnson and some ...

But he knew them.

Meanwhile, C. S. Lewis is 822.

C  67
S  83  140  10
L  76  210  16
E  69  270  25
W  87  350  32
I  73  420  35
S  83  500  38


OK, but 538 isn't 822? No, but that was just the upper case actual letters. Each lower case (there are four) as well as each space (two) is 32 (more than the uppercase or simply), while each full stop is 46.

6 * 32 + 2 * 46 = 284
284 + 538 = 822

Recall, when he was a boy, he wanted to write (in English) a Greek drama called Loki bound ... all of it with stasima and the other typical parts of an Attic drama. Expressing a very English agreement with Epicure's dilemma. In a sense he spent lots of his adult life replying to what Loki would have said in that drama./HGL

5 comments:

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

538 Magnetism ... in the Middle Ages, Magnetism was held to emanate from the planet Venus also thought to be conducive to friendship or romantic love or other forms of attraction.

As well as if femininity. A high point in CSL's interests in Medieval astrology.

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

My own gematrias HGLUNDAHL = 663, 663 Beverage technology, HANSGEORG = 670 Manufacturing, I interested in drinks and in the socio-economics of manufacturing, as a distributist, and also have engaged in textile and book manufacturing.

H. G. Lundahl, add 8 * 32 + 2 * 46 = 348, 348 + 663 = 1011, discount the 1000, and 011 = 011 Bibliographies

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

JRRTOLKIEN = 772, 772 Metallic salt processes (of photography)
JULESVERNE = 771, 771 Techniques, equipment, materials (of photography)

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

Jules Verne = 771 + 9*32 = 1059 = 059 General serials & their indexes In other languages
J. R. R. Tolkien = 772 + 9*32 + 3*46 = 1198 = 198 Modern Western philosophy Scandinavia

Well, if you count me as a Modern Western Philosopher, as I'm Scandinavian, Tolkien has influenced the subject.

The connection of Jules Verne to serials is less obvious to me.

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

Hans Georg = 670 + 8 * 32 = 926, People in technology, one of my actual interests, especially as a child.