»AL887 = Jesus Christ«

As pointed out by commenters on this blog and other sites, there are a few license plates other than the "IS 5416" that appear in the Matrix movies or on the Matrix website. One is given special attention on the Matrix: Reloaded site, "AL887", earning its own closeup photo and a mysterious title. A quick Google search revealed that we were not the first to ponder its meaning, but that no conclusive answers had been found. Someone on the Zion Switchboard Forum was almost there, linking to a page that had evidence that 888 was a number representing Jesus, proposing that 887 plus The One equals 888. This wasn't too convincing, but on that page I found a remarkable fact. If you take the string "JESUS CHRIST" and convert all the characters (including the space) to their ASCII values

Don't freak out or anything but...

Do we sometimes in our search to understand the matrix dig further than intended? Do we some how make the W brothers out to be more than they really are? Are we in our quest, actually comming up with material they would have never fathomed and are just silently taking the credit for( smart move for them)? I mean we are giving them credit for being versed in several languages, cultures, religions, ans philosophies.Well we'll never know unless they tell us so I guess we will continue our discussions until run dry.

Anyway might as well shovel a little more...

I found this on the site and I know everybody and their mother is posting it but I want to use it as an example: "When Agent Smith pulls up in an Audi at the beginning of the film, his license plate is "IS 5416". In the King James Bible, Isaiah 54:16 says, "Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy."

Were they intending to alude to this verse?

um....i believe the number for Jesus is 777, not 888.

Agent Zero wrote:

um....i believe the number for Jesus is 777, not 888.

I have heard that too. Especially regarding the significance of the numbers 6 and 7. As I recall being told, 3 is a perfect number, and 7 is a perfect number; 6 is a number of imperfection, so three sixes is 'perfect imperfection,' the devil, the dragon, the bad guy, etc.; and so, three sevens must be the perfect good.

I have also heard that 6 is not so much imperfection as it is preparation, so, 666 is perfect preparation, which makes 777 the perfect culmination.

HOWEVER,

according to gematria, the Hebrew science of numbers (among other, probably better descriptions) each letter is assigned a number. The Greeks used a similar system with their own alphabet. The name 'Iesous' (as 'Jesus' appears in the original Greek - I can only do the English transcription of the Greek letters, sorry) has the values:
I = 10
E = 8
S = 200
O = 70
U = 400
S = 200
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888

Adding together the values of all 24 letters of the Greek alphabet also produces 888. More interesting still, (to a musician like me, at least) .666 is the Pythagorean string ratio of the musical perfect fifth, and .888 is the ratio of the whole tone. Cool, no?

huh....

It's not trying to look deeper into something, nor it is us trying to find something that cannot be found. On

annaerullo wrote:

As I recall being told, 3 is a perfect number, and 7 is a perfect number; 6 is a number of imperfection

3 and 7 are Prime Numbers (Numbers with 2 factors, itself and 1) - as are 2 and 5
6 is a Perfect Number (equal to the sum of factors excluding itself - 1+2+3).

The Next Perfect Number is 28 (1+2+4+7+14)

Just to complete the lesson, 1 and 4 are square numbers as is 9.

If you want more,

1, 3 and 6 are Triangle Numbers, (Numbers of Trinity?)
1,2,4 and 8 are Binary Numbers (powers of 2)

So to summarise;

1 = Square, Triangle, Binary
2 = Square, Prime, Binary
3 = Triangle, Prime
4 = Square, Binary
5 = Prime
6 = Triangle, Perfect
7 = Prime
8 = Binary
9 = Square

The only two numbers with the same properties (above) are 5 and 7 and these border on 6 the perfect number.

You'll find all sorts of sorts of interesting patters, and the cumulative term for these patterns is "Mathematics".

marl64 wrote:

...6 is a Perfect Number (equal to the sum of factors excluding itself - 1+2+3)....

Excellent! Except for two things:

1) a Perfect Number is not "equal to the to the sum of factors excluding itself" but rather "equal to the sum of its "'aliquot parts.'"

an aliquot part of a number is a "proper quotient" of a number. id est,
a quotient different from the number itself (hence, the number itself is not a proper quotient). For example, the aliquot parts of the number 10 are 1, 2, and 5, because, 1=10/10, 2=10/5, and 5=10/2. 10 is not a proper quotient because 10=10/1=10... as I understand the terminology, dividing by 1 is simply redundant, so the number itself does not count....confusing, at least to me. But I think I'm getting it....

SO, if a "Perfect Number" is the sum of of its aliquot parts, then the first four Perfect Numbers are:
6=1+2+3,
28=1+2+4+7+14,
496=1+2+4+8+16+31+62+124+248
8128=1+2+4+8+16+32+64+127+254+508+1016+2032+4064

obviously, any Perfect Numbers beyond that are pretty friggin' huge.

(source: www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk...)

2) While I appreciate the correction, (because I had to look that up, and learned something new! ) that was not what I was referring to. I was using the terms "perfect" and "imperfect" because that is what I was told in my catechism; "perfect" was generally assumed to mean "stable," or "sacred," I think. I, like a good little catholic, never questioned the actual meaning. The idea, however, regardless of the terminology used (however incorrectly), was that '7' and '3' were somehow 'godly' and '6', being not quite '7', was not.

Mathematics is (are) a fascinating and frightening science. Thanks for the lesson! However scary numbers are, they are inescapable, and they are integral to the understanding of the universe. ...Now if only we could shift the general world mathematical focus away from money, to that end....

maybe AL stands for Andy and Larry?

Or Alameda? That's where the highway scene was shot.

I guess we wont really know for sure huh....