a belief in gematria or numerology is not required to see that the elites, and occultists in general, place great importance in this.  the jews did not invent this, they borrowed it from the greeks. it was very popular in the ancient world as well. > gematria sums can involve single words, or a string of lengthy calculations. a short example of hebrew numerology that uses gematria is the word , chai, 'alive', which is composed of two letters that (using the assignments in the mispar gadol table shown below) add up to 18. this has made 18 a "lucky number" among the jewish people.   /lib500#table-of-factors   n/58/3   etselarij/gd_r5.html the first 2 links are correspondence tables so that a magician can quickly look up numbers to create a ritual. the last is a golden dawn ritual that has a lot of numerology in it, as well as veneration of jesus.
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