TITLE:
Decoding with Gematria the Number 1737, Jesus Christ’s Lifespan in Weeks, according to a XX-Century Mystic
AUTHORS:
Emilio Matricciani
KEYWORDS:
Gematria, Maria Valtorta, Italian Literature, Jesus’ Lifespan, Jesus’ Birth Hour, Jesus’ Death Hour, Exponential Function, Natural Logarithm of 2
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.4,
April
24,
2022
ABSTRACT: The paper reports a mathematical exercise, mainly
based on Jewish Gematria, to decode the integer 1737, Jesus’ lifespan
calculated in weeks according to the Italian mystic Maria Valtorta. We show
that the sequence of integers 1000 + 700 + 37 = 1737 describes the character
Jesus, seen as the Messiah. The first two integers can be directly interpreted
with Gematria; the third can be related to Jesus’ life, both as 33 + 4—the
number of years (33) and months (4) of his life—, or as 34 + 3—the calendar
year of his death (34, Julian calendar) and the number of days (3) to
Resurrection. With the exponential function, other meanings can be extracted
from 1737, related to the Act of Creation, in Jewish terms, and/or to the
second person of the Trinity, in Christian terms. From the integer 1737, it is
also possible to estimate the approximate hour of Jesus’ birth and verify the
hour of death reported in the Gospels. Since the knowledge and mathematical
tools we have used were surely not known to Maria Valtorta, it is surprising to
arrive at a self-consistent and coherent framework from what she writes.