Bernard Pick, as quoted in "the Ancient Cipher", a Masonic inspired text released in the 1930's, said, "The art of discovering the hidden sense of the text by means of numerical equivalence of the Letters" was an apt definition of what was "Gematria". In this manner, which really is what "profane Gematria" as been reduced to, Letters are given values based on their "ordinal placement in the Alphabet", and words are then added to find their total value, and words that have the same value are said to have esoteric equivalencies. This process is extended to whole phrases.

Examples of this might be, "The Ancient Word of God = 206 = The Word of Numbers", or "The Number Within the Letter = 302 = Written Beneath Visible Word = 302 = Wisdom Hidden Under the Letter", or "Miraculous Cipher = 191 = God's Spell in Cipher = 191 = The Supreme Miracle = 191 = The Pure White Magic = 191 = Words as Numbers = 191 = The Super Words = 191 = The Silent Words = 191 = Written in Cipher = 191 = The Letters Double = 191 = Letters-Numbers = 191 God-Word Revealed = The Word of Power".

Some of my students have even come to me to reveal that the phrase, "I, Fetch, speak the words of the Gods." = 314 (3.14) itself has an "esoteric significance" in that indeed, what is being revealed is the underlying nature of Pi as the framework to the English Initiated (Illuminatus) System.

However, what is important to note is that contrived or crafted words set against numerical equivalences is a critical component, indeed, THE CRITICAL COMPONENT, to understanding the nature of the Construct, a construct wholly based on, and set against, Pi.