En Sof as eternity refers to the infinity of time: Time that embraces past, present and future and becomes limitless. Circles, with no beginning or nor end, become the appropriate symbol to represent infinity of any type. Numbers thru gematria hold the key to unraveling this mystery. Gematria, in Hebrew, once equated, and still does, letters and numbers by the same symbol.
En sof, our featured word, has a gematria of 207. Incidentally. “light”
אוֹר spelled aleph, vav and reisch (1 + 6 + 200) also equals 207. Our featured word means limitlss light.
So how do we get to eternity from this point? Strike a circle having a circumference by number of 207 units. Its diameter uses 66 of the same units of measurement (65.89… then rounded up). Past, present and future describe the three primary tenses. All three become fashioned, in Hebrew, by three letters: yud, vav and hei. These letters in the dress of all three tenses are inscribed underneath the 66 diameter. These numbers help in seeking out the names of the Almighty. Take diameter double six and this time make it into the circumference of a circle as I did in the lower part of the page of the above diagram. Their sum equals 21 as five plus six plus ten. The newly formed circle from diameter six six equals twenty one (21.0008…).
The geometrical poetry continues as you can see from the diagram. If you strike the two diameters of the equilateral cross, right angles, the four quadrants (again in the lower diagram)to form the square each have a length of fifteen of our units. Fifteen forms the gematria of the yud and hei part of the Almighty’s name yah! Finally from the eternity of En Sof (207) comes the eternity of time- the three tenses (66)
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