“Mashal HaMeara” (“Allegory of the Cave”)
משל המערה
Ordinal Gematria = 105
= Gematria of “Logos”
לוגוס
“Meara” (“Cave” or “Grotto”)
מערה
Gematria = 315
= Gematria of “HaYesh” (“The Ego”)
היש
The Logos emerges from a cave, from the womb of the ego.
In the cave or the matrix, a person believes. Once outside, he knows. But the journey is not complete—far from it. Now he must return to the cave to free those still in darkness. The Light can be blinding. The truth may provoke fear, and those in darkness can easily reject it. Socrates says they might even kill the one who brings the Light.
“Aflatun” (“Plato” in Hebrew)
אפלטון
Classical Gematria = 176
= Gematria of “Even HaChakhamim” (“Philosopher’s Stone”), which originally is Plato’s “Materia Prima.”
אבן החכמים
There is no authentic Kabbalah without Plato and Neoplatonism.