the tale of a name
a livingstonemusic.net/article

Curiosity was the reason I began a word-play with my birth name, Ian Livingstone.
I had a very basic knowledge of Gematria and I knew that I wanted to take the name 'Ian Livingstone', bring it into Hebrew and later, calculate the numerical value.

I looked at "IAN":
Remove the vowels I and A from "IAN". (Hebrew does not use vowels) My justification for removing I and A was based upon the old magical formula of "IAO".
I being "Isis" the child with a healthy interest in his work.
A being "Apophis" the destroyer, the depression, the self-doubt, the dark night of the soul.
O being "Osiris", a new and superior condition which is only made possible by the process of death. This "death" being the relinquishing of human desires.
.'. the formula "IAO" allows the formula I + A = O
.'. (I + A = O)N = "ON"
.'. "IAN" now becomes "ON"

I looked at "LIVINGSTONE":
Remove the vowels I, O and E from "LIVINGSTONE".
I then noticed that the word "EGO" was contained in the surname, then I noticed the phrase, "I IN EGO" was present. The removal of the "I IN EGO" is a life-objective of mine, so it seemed fitting to remove it from my name....
.'. remove I, I, N, E, G and O from "LIVINGSTONE" leaving the remaining letters, L, V, S, T and N.
By process, "LIVINGSTONE" becomes "LVSTN"

.'. "IAN LIVINGSTONE" .'. "ON LVSTN"

I took my crumpled sheet of paper home to do the maths....:

ON LVSTN into Hebrew is; Ayin (O), Nun (N), Lamed (L), Vau (V), Samekh (S), Tau (T), Nun (N)
The numerical values of these Hebrew letters:
Ayin (O) = 70 / Nun (N) = 50 / Lamed (L) = 30 / Vau (V) = 6 / Samekh (S) = 60 / Tau (T) = 400 / Nun (N) = 50

.'. ON LVSTN .'. (Sum) 70+50+30+6+60+400+50 = 666
.'. ON LVSTN .'. 666 .'. DCLXVI


Too much time to think if you ask me......