Following Nick’s post and its subsequent discussions: Installing ABJAD on the Numogram or the Decimal Labyrinth.
ABJAD histories
ABJAD is an acronym derived from the first four consonants of Hebrew / Arabic / Persian alphabet; Alif, Ba, Jim, Dal. It’s a simply constructed but complexly functioning alpha-numeric system. The ABJAD system (Arabic ABJAD), however, associates directly to other ABJADs, all systematically connect to an ancient Phoenician [1] or Ugaritic germ cell (evading Indo-European lineage) which now is extinct but operating stealthily through the phase-transitions of ABJADs. There is a fathomless alpha-numeric insurgency in ABJADs -- evoking certain inorganic syntheses of artificial intelligences, dissipating alphabetic multiplicities, engineering compositional anomalies of alphabetic units and having high tolerance of incertitude, horror and hyperstitional pollution -- since they only have characters for consonants which obstruct the vocal repression of vowels as well as their nervous appropratitions of anthropomorphic interfaces with the outside or what Porush calls “the catastrophe of vowels”. In addition, while constituted by anti-vowel inorganic mechanisms, ABJADs intrinsically interconnect to numbers and their multiplications.
ABJADs belong to semitic family of scripts, the reason for the emergence of this derivative line is obvious: semitic languages as Porush insists have a morphemic structure rendering signification of vowels redundant or impossible in most cases ... in semitic languages and their derivitives (see fig. 1) each alphabetic vowelless unit works as an inorganic intelligence meshwork, a molecular musical instrument (producing sound-molecules instead of vocalizations), a cryptographic and a direct multiplicative line to the communicative krypts of numbers.
This is why ABJADs are perfectly applicable to ultra-complex dynamic platforms (such as warmachines and their plane of tacticity), digraming a numeracy “immanenet to thier assemblges” and soft grids of movement (read Nick’s post).
However, there is one problem, that certain warmachines cannot be diagramed exclusively by strictly semitic-based, vowelless-oriented systems of numeracy as in the case of techno-capitalist Warmachines running on WoTerror. Here Arabic Abjad is the best numbering platform (let aside the polarity of Farsi / Arabic cultures in WoTerror) as it has characters for some vowels as well; creatively letting some problematic but also fundamentally crucial numbering entities and functions enter in.
Arabic ABJAD
In working with Arabic ABJAD usually three numeric values (the ABJAD value of a letter, the ABJAD order of a letter in the ABJAD table and the alphabetic order of a letter in Arabic alphabet) are brought in the process, the best and the most complex investigations are those moving on more than one numeric value (i.e. working with ABJAD value, ABJAD order and Alphabetic order all together and simultaneously) but working merely with ABJAD value of a letter is also functional and not problematic. (see fig. 2)
Usually Arabic ABJAD table (from now ‘ABJAD’) is arranged in Powers of 9:
Level 1. Alif (= 1) to Toin (= 9)
Level 2. Ya (=10) to Saad (= 90)
Level 3. Qaf (= 100) to Zoin (= 900)
Level 4. Ghain (= 1000)
Three levels of the table:
The ABJAD values of all levels are based on the connections between the ABJAD order and the ABJAD value of each letter at the first level (1-9) in which ABJAD value of each letter is equal to its ABJAD order.
More details:
Level 1: from 1 to 9 ... take the letter Haa as an example, its ABJAD value is based on its ABJAD order i.e. 5 = 5
Level 2: from 10 to 18 (ABJAD order) ... because of the change in level, we have a phase transition from x to xx (using one ‘0’ as a place holder):
The letter noon (under the letter Haa): 14(ABJAD order) = 1 + 4 = 5 and we have xx in this level so 5 = 50 (as you see, 50 is the ABJAD alpha-numeric value for the letter noon)
Level 3: from 19 to 27 (ABJAD order) ... again a phase transition from xx to xxx; the letter Tha is just under the letter noon; it’s ABJAD order is 23: 2 + 3 = 5 = 500
Level 4: at this level ABJAD hits a multiplicity (A Deleuze-Guattarian “A THOUSAND ...” ), thoroughly degenerating 1 through xxxx as if two zeros are not enough to plague 1.
Now, by installing Arabic ABJAD on the numogram, we have the fig. 3.
2. The total ABJAD value of each zone is a repetitive number: ex. Zone 9: 9 + 90 + 900 = 999 ... 999 is a Kaprekar number since the square of 999 is 998001: 998 + 1 = 999
(note: Kaprekar number is an n-digit number k. Square number k, add the right n digits of the square to the left n or n-1 digits, the sum is k or Kaprekar number.)
In zone 9: letter Toin (= 9) * or the first Abjad zone of the zone 9 is a Kaprekar number (from now ‘k’): 9 x 9 = 81: 8 + 1 = 9
* [note: the numbers in parentheses are ABJAD values as you can see in the fig. 3]
Also we have: letter Toin (= 9) + letter Saad (= 90) = 99 ... 99 is a k number. 99 x 99 = 9801: 98 + 1 = 99
For all the Abjad zones which belong to Zone 9: Letter Toin (=9) + Letter Saad (= 90) + Letter Zoin (= 900) = 999 ... 999 is a k number too.
As you can see in fig. 3, all ABJAD (and values) and Arabic letters perfectly correspond to the 9 zones of the numogram. There is no redundancy or deficiency.
ABJAD version of the Numogram is a fast-forward journey to utter abjection of One.
‘Zone 1’ is an extraordinary pestilential zone in the Abjad version of the Numogram; it cumulates the greatest ABJAD value (1111) because it is set to hijack ONE into a nameless multiplicity.
The zone 1 now gives a perverse functionality to once this monotheistic slogan: “ONE is both the beginning and the end.”:
The journey begins from one but also from 10 and 100 and 1000. It also ends (or begins?) at 1000 or 100 or 10 or 1 (wherever the multiplicity starts to dissipate):
Zone 1: Aleph (= 1) to the letter Ya (= 10) which is also an end since the letter Ya is 28th or the last letter in Arabic Alphabet ... then it goes to the letter Qaf (= 100) whose Abjad value (100) is itself an apocalyptic finality ... then to the letter Ghain (= 1000) which is the last letter in the Abjad order (again 28th):
From ONE to TEN (a codename for the Decimal Plague of Bible or Zahak, the ten pests [2]) to one hundred or Islamic apocalypse to a becoming-animal multiplicity *, to the Old Ones, to 1000.
* cf. Zahak’s earlier name: Bivar-aspa or Ten Thousand Horses
The total Abjad value of the Zone1 is 1111 which is a repdigit but since it’s merely consisting of the digit 1, it is a repunit taking form as follows:
And since 1111 is a repunit, its square gives a Demlo number:
Notes:
[1] Archeological investigations seem to show that Phoenician culture developed out of Late Bronze Age Canaanite culture
[2] Zahak (Dahak) represents the late Arabic transformations of the strange name Dahak or Dahaka basically means ‘a stinging serpent’ but in Ulama-e-Islam and the Ferdowsi’s epic, he is considered as the bringer of ten plagues (Dah or ten + Aak or pest = ten plagues); Zahak or ‘the ten pests’ is the Arab-Persian king of the most ancient dark ages, he is also known as the Dragon-King because of the two worms (Nemat) germinated on his shoulders (traces left by Ahriman or Druj’s gift ... when the Mother of Abomination kissed his shoulders); the giant worms (Nemats or lines of vermiculation) on his shoulders fed on sacrificial meals. He anti-oedipally slaughtered his family: “I feel no shame, no remorse, no pity” and brought ten pests to the earth. He is still chained in a subterranean cave at Mount Damavand (the North Mountain) waiting for the Apocalypse. He is continuously referred as the engineer of The New Pest Order
Posted by R. Negarestani at June 27, 2004 01:40 AMReza - Simply Wow!
Haven't had time to process this thoroughly yet - but what a fantastic resource.
New Pest (Dis)Order - indeed. This opens a huge number of foul stinking catacombs.
Back here soon.
Posted by: Nick at June 27, 2004 01:52 AMThanks, Nick. I'm really looking forward to your insights.
>>>This opens a huge number of foul stinking catacombs.
hmm ... this sounds very promising.
Posted by: Reza at June 27, 2004 11:26 AMHoping other Ccruoids will jump on the possibility to talk about vowelless alphabets, Near-Eastern numogrammatism, Phoenician legacies etc.
A few initial remarks from me (very crude for starters):
(1) The differences between Abjad-related qabbalistic systems and Anglossic Qabbala (to use Barrow's name) are all freighted with potential consequence. Within the Anglossic system there is no difference between alphanumeric order (0-Z) and gematria value, no overcoding of letters by numerical values (actual letters function as numerals within a modulus-36 number system, folded back into decimal) - the system is (i would argue) properly 'alphanumeric' insofar as the numerals and letters coexist on a single plane (broken only by modulus alteration). I think these differences support a terminological distinction between 'traditional' (Hebrew/Farsi/Arabic mystico-poetic) and 'alphanumeric' (Anglophone-technocommercial) qabbalism. [The case of Greek is quite interesting, but it can safely be left for later.]
(2) There has been woefully inadequate work dedicated to the connection of either qabbalistic orientation to the Numogram, so both actually start out on an even footing. In fact, with this post, you have taken Abjad clearly into the lead -based also on techniques with a solid pedigree of 'working' the Tree of Life. For what it is worth, I definitely firmly endorse the steps you have taken so far.
(3) While in principle there could no doubt be a 'truly' alphanumeric qabbala of non-English alphabetical languages (e.g. Farsi, Arabic) I think you are right to disdain such a technocratic approach, preserving the greatest mass of intercodal difference and ethnocollisional chaos. The difference between traditional 'values' (literal and numerical) and technomodernist re-coding is part of the WoT battlefield to be dramatized and intensified in this domain among others.
(4) While Col. West evidently received considerable training in Farsi and Arabic prior to his deployment to Mesopotamia, he would no doubt have had to rely on local sources for his education into the Abjad. Any ideas who he met in the region, diverting him on the semiotic precursors to neo-Sumerian and Z-current exhumation?
(5) For English cryptomaterial non-alphanumeric qabbala faces a problem of broken immanence of course. Assuming this would typically be resolved by translation into a language accessible to a traditional qabbala. English never 'received' a 'traditional' gematria system (in which letter sequence is distinct from gematria value) - it was 'failed' by tradition and revelation, hence its position on the technocommercial pole of WoT.
OK, this probably exhausting people's patience already.
Posted by: Nick at June 27, 2004 12:20 PMExcellent remarks, every one should be posted as a separate piece. For now:
>>> the system is (i would argue) properly 'alphanumeric' insofar as the numerals and letters coexist on a single plane (broken only by modulus alteration). I think these differences support a terminological distinction between 'traditional' (Hebrew/Farsi/Arabic mystico-poetic) and 'alphanumeric' (Anglophone-technocommercial) qabbalism. [The case of Greek is quite interesting, but it can safely be left for later.]
IMHO, very interesting discussions emerge at this point.
1. Although Anglossic Qabbala apparently sounds simplistic but think it’s constitutionally very complex ... the coexistent functions of letters and numerals on one plane (here, too, letters interconnect to numerals like ABJAD but in this case through a techno-commercial ciphering space) as you mentioned is a key for understanding (diagramming and interlocking with) the smooth (in a Deleuze-Guattarian term) dynamism of the techno-capitalist warmachines and their terminal tacticity. This smoothness is indeed enabled through an internally complex ‘simplicity’ which eases the functioning of the (techno-capitalist) warmachines ... or we’d better put it in this way: this simplicity imparts a ‘smooth / deliriously dynamic / lubricated’ functionality or tacticity to warmachines; easily and effectively aligning them with the techno-capitalist meshwork.
2. there is a question here: why the stepwise model? Why not other popular English models of gematria which also give different results? for example, see:
http://www.realm-of-shade.com/gematria/
http://members.aol.com/Sabrin1315/gem1.htm
... this one raises some truly exciting discussions, I think.
>>> (4) While Col. West evidently received considerable training in Farsi and Arabic prior to his deployment to Mesopotamia, he would no doubt have had to rely on local sources for his education into the Abjad. Any ideas who he met in the region, diverting him on the semiotic precursors to neo-Sumerian and Z-current exhumation?
oh, yes ... will answer this in a separate post.
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Posted by: sajid at April 28, 2005 12:17 PMHi,
Firstly two (fairly) good links on the subject I have found:
www.nurmuhammad.com/IlmHuroof/IlmHuroofArticles/welcometothescienceofhuroof.htm
www.momineen.com/Jaffer/chptr-3.htm
Also, I have something I want to share with you.
It may not be correct in details but the overall scheme seems too apt to be a coincidence.
It not only links Hebrew, Arabic and i-Ching; but has scope for Runes (=Greek?) and also, perhaps with a bit of imagination, Sanskrit too.
www.ge*cities.com/operation_firewalkwithme/iching_abjad_00.jpg
www.ge*cities.com/operation_firewalkwithme/firstabjad_00.jpg
(NB: please replace '*' with the letter 'o')
What you see tabulated in the first link is a 'mapping' of the cubic image in the top left corner of the second link.
This is a very interesting form - I'd like to think it was a 'Throne' of sorts.
It also has interesting properties if you count the small tetrahedrons you get 10+1 (The +1 being in the centre and inverted).
This seems to portray a Kabbalistic scheme (but in 3D).
Notice there are 27 smaller cubes [extended Hebrew with final forms] and each cube has 8 'aspects' [Ba Gua] - totalling 216.
["Pi the Movie" could have set me up though].
The 3x3x3 cubic form of Hebrew makes a 4x4x4 nodal network of the i-Ching (64 DNA codons).
See Stan Tenon's work: www.meru.org/Posters/Ennearubik.html
Now, within this spacial matrix, and nodal network, is a strange looking composite of 4 octahedrons ["metatrons"].
This forms the 28 Arabic Letters.
Each triangle is attributed 3 Runes and a Ba Gua.
Runes being the 24 valid syllogisms of the 256 Odu of the Ifa (Ilm Al-Raml of Idris):[www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/VodouFA.html]
The 8 Ba Gua appear from taking triplet sequences of the 5 elemental phases seen in Chinese Alchemy.
There may also be links to the Tree and Flower of Life (under investigation presently).
I know there is a numerical system for the Flower of Life which sums in rows to 114 (Quran?) for example.
Peace,
sultan.
Sultan,
Superb links; thanks very much. There is also a forthcoming post on cube. Sorry for the delay in responding, this article has long been buried in the archive. Thanks again for the wonderful resources.
Posted by: Reza at May 4, 2005 04:59 AMSajid,
Sorry, there are few resources on the topic; many Abjad books but only few works on the system itself. however, i guess you should check Sultan's links; they might help.
Posted by: Reza at May 4, 2005 05:01 AMGlad you liked the links...
btw, I also have something similar to the Numogram,
but is a kind of celluar automaton forming a tree-like decad.
This is actually a reduced set of the 16 tetragrams of the Ilm Al-Raml [aka "Geomancy"] (16->10 via redundancy).
It is formed from binary conjunctions using simple arithmetic rules.
So it seems that a decimal tree-like system naturally arises from binary:
www.ge*cities.com/operation_firewalkwithme/cellautom_00.jpg
(looks like the "tetractys" of the Pythagoreans)
I wonder if the traditional 'Kabbalistic' scheme can be reverse engineered in a similar way,
into a cellular automaton with appropriate 'rules of transition' between sephiroth?
... oh, and the cube ("Tron") is also a tesseract or 4-dimensional hypercube...
Sultan,
Many thanks for the links; we're preparing a post on the numogran in the next few days. there are fundamental differences between the Numogram and the Three of Life which is regarded as a negatively degenerated decimal numogram: see our index on numogramatic articles posted at hyperstition:
del.icio.us/Hyperstitionarchive/Numogramatic;Mechonomics
(Please read the ‘Qabbala Unshelled’ piece and particularly ‘Qabbala 101’ series.)
On Numogram, see: www.ccru.net/declab.htm
(also check northanger's journal for extensive materials on traditional Qabbala): www.livejournal.com/users/northanger/
Posted by: Reza at May 6, 2005 03:36 PM
please send my name munira's arabic numerical value and number of my name.
Posted by: munira at May 12, 2005 01:47 PMI want to know much of numerical system of arabic. do you think that "alif" has value one? Can you tell me that the arabic word " aqra' " spell with hamza-qaf-ra'-hamza, was differen with " iqra' " alif-qaf-ra-hamza? How to differen that?
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Yup!
really great work reza, althogh i knew alot about Ilm-e-Jafar and its numerology working, but still i am thirsty, and i want to learn more and more.
I'm some deep in it and i have also sort out some questions of my life via this system.
but unfortunately i'd a book on it from writer "KASH-UL-BARNI", which i lost few days ago.
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