For Love's Sake

Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Philemon 9 (Spoke 13, Cycle 3)

The archaic and somewhat quaint word "bowels" appears three times in the tiny book of Philemon, more than anywhere else in the New Testament. Paul used it with great effect to communicate the depth of his feelings for Onesimus whom he had "begotten" and whom he called "my own bowels." Hebrew translations always use the KeyWord me'eh for this word in Philemon and elsewhere, as when Jesus said "rivers of water" would flow from the belly (me'eh) of believers. This coheres precisely with the discussion above (BW book pg 265). This theme is amplified by five references to love which also link to the rabbinic tradition  that sees love as "the secret of the letter Mem."

Insight from the Gematria Reference: Love = 13 = Unity

The Unity Holograph reveals the divine integration of the Number 13 with the ideas of Love, Unity and three of the fundamental Names of God. It is based on this ascending set of multiples of 13:

Rabbi Ginsburgh notes the relation Love = 13 = Unity and declares that this is the "secret of the Letter Mem" in his online article. The Number 86 is the numerical weight of the name of God given in the first verse of Scripture:

אלהים (Elohim, God) = 86

This means that the Sum of the Shema = 1118 = ONE x GOD, and we can see the meaning of the verse encoded in the intrinsic alphanumeric structure of the Hebrew language. The profundity of this discovery is further amplified by the centrality of the verse (Christ said it was the first and greatest commandment) and its integration with the doctrine of the Trinity (One LORD = 3 x One).

The relation between Love and the Number 13 manifests in the structure of Scripture in many profound ways - most notably in the 13 verses of the 13^th chapter of 1 Corinthians, the Love Chapter.

The meaning of the Number 13 as Love also manifests as a dominant theme here in Book 57 (Spoke 13, Cycle 3). Its name, (Philemon), means "one who kisses." It is from the root (phileo), meaning to love. This name describes the content of this little book in which six of its 25 verses (23%) contain the word love or beloved. This meaning is amplified in the three occurrences of the the archaic "bowels" which is a very literal rendering of the Greek way of expressing deep heart-felt gut-level emotion. Note also that Paul spoke of the bowels being refreshed, which makes me think of the refreshing Water (Mayim) of Love.

In all ways, the little book of Philemon lives up to its name as we witness the great Apostle Paul begging for the welfare of Onesimus, beseeching Philemon with every variation on its fundamental theme: for love's sake.

Embraced and Kissed

The names of Habakkuk and Philemon, which occupy Cycles 2 and 3 on Spoke 13, are closely associated in the text of Holy Scripture. The name Habbakkuk comes from the root (habuk) which means to embrace. Three times in Genesis this word is directly associated with the word kissed:

• Genesis 29.13: And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
• Genesis 33.4: And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
• Genesis 48.10: Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

In each of these verses, the word translated as embraced is from the same root as the name Habakkuk. The word translated as kissed is the Hebrew "nashaq" (Strong's #5401). When these verses were translated into the Greek Septuagint, nashaq became the Greek