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^An answer, yet one that explains so little  I'm not asking what belief system it came from (although that's interesting, so thanks), but rather why numbers represent things and what specific texts refer to them. Why are there letters for such things?
I had a quick look at Wikipedia regarding the number of the beast, 666, and it seems in greek isopsephy and hewbrew gematria, every letter has a corresponding number. So, all our names have corresponding numbers. In the same way, I guess anything that has a word has a number. Then I guess the "point" of 666 is that it is the corresponding number to the name of the beast. You know this already I'm sure, but I didn't.
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In Kabbalistic Judaism the number represents the creation and perfection of the world. The world was created in 6 days, and there are 6 cardinal directions (North, South, East, West, Up, Down).
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What's the relation between these things and these numbers?
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The world was created in six days but then there was also a 7th day too. Actually it was two sets of three days, where a day in the second set of three days corresponded to a certain day in the first set of 3 - but that a whole other thing.
Really there are only four cardinal directions, not six.
Cardinal direction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I can understand why someone might think that now, because we understand three dimensions of space so maybe 6 directions is a later developement but I think the four cardinal (NSEW) was more important, and more prevalent to the ancients , they had to travel by land or see to get where they were going so I don't think they would care too much about up/down especially because arial flight was not achieved.
There will always be different interpretation that wat 666 means, but what I heard it means is a combination of two ideas. The thing is that there were no superlatives so something was repeat three times. 7 is the perfect number and 6 is just shy of 7 perfection, 6 is imperfect. So one interpretation is that it means the most imperfection.
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