The Signifigance of 666

I'm curious... I would like to gather information/Origin on the signifigance of 666, I understand its the number for the 'beast' , assuming this is the devil?

The main reason I'm looking into this is because recently this number has been appearing frequently; my car odometer, my general calculations (as i work with numbers) and only the day I purchased stuff from the market it totalled 6.66, it truely may mean absolutely nothing, I must also make clear I consider myself a skeptic.

So for my piece of mind I welcome any information.

Off the top of my head I believe it's origin is in revelations, but I don't remember exactly where.

Yes, revelations speaks of the coming deceiver (the beast) and that his number is 666. Some also say it's the mark of the beast that will be used to identify people of the beast... There's lots of hearsay on it all. One thing that has surprised me lately is that I thought previously states blocked out the 666 number from being used on license plates, now I see them on the road every once in a while.

haha, your like 10 years late on this one buddy, I actually figured it out in 2002. Yeah apparently there was a mistranlation in the bible and the satanic number is suppose to be like 616.

Anyways, I believe in China and maybe Greek, 6 was the lucky number!! So in the past 666 would probably the modern equivalent of 777.

Seeing 666 or any reoccuring number, just mean you becoming more conciously aware, basically your able to retrieve some of the unconcious information when your brain is process the visual stimuli (the things you see).

[edit on 20-4-2007 by skyblueff0]

"Number of the Beast" (Wikipedia)

You might find some information here. Although, you're probably looking for more significance in the numbers than just its origins.

Thanks to everyone for the replies, advice and links, greatly appreciated.

Doesnt seem to be a clear definition, well there are a few theories on the origins of 666, that said all seem to always refer to something evil or negative one way or another.

It did dawn on me prior to me making this thread that maybe I had just become concious of the number 666, but as you can tell its in my username and often use the number only for that purpose, I guess if i were suppositious it would most likely have more meaning, being 666 is mainly refered to as bad luck.

I could relate that to many things I guess, but unfortuantly we all have bad luck, I will add I did have a huge amount of bad luck over the weekend, so maybe it was related to that??

the 666 number according to a difficult "code alphabet".(kabbala for some) reveals the true name of evil,hope i helped

i heard a version of the meaning 666, it goes like this... long long long long long time ago two men where running for mayor in a small town A LONG TIME AGO. as the one wanted to win so badly he found out that the address to his rivals home was 666 he told every one he could that the numbers 666 where the sighn of the devil and all things evil and that his rival worshoped evil and he won


have no idea if thats true... i just heard it somewhere

Well a relationship I was involved in ended quite aggressively over the weekend, and now i think about it, it was within that time I was commonly seeing the number 666, turns out this person was a beast
Still could of been a hidden message??

the Triple 6 is a code used to speak about Nero during his reign. Even with the new 616 number, it translates as Nerol (which is his surname). But thats just a theory, even though the Beast of 7 Heads (which resemble the 7 hills of Rome) and Ten Horns (representing the ten Caesars of Rome) fits it to perfection.

In otherwords, everyone has a given number. In the CE, A Hebrew Name was translated into Greek Numbers. Some say that 777 is the name of G-D, but his number is actually 644 in Hebrew under Emmanuel. This is the number in the Texts of Solomon that sent demons fleeing in fear.

With that, in the same book, Solomon asked Satan himself did he have a son and he said "Yes. He lives deep within the Red Sea and I can conjure him up anytime." Solomon asked his name, but satan refused to answer and told him a day will come when his son will rule earth and he'll suport him. Then will his name be known...

Take into account that this came from ancient texts. The authencity of it is up for grabs, but I myself believe in it.Those Nag Hammadi books are very interesting!