Gematria is featured a lot in scott alexander’s Unsong (serialized fiction that was published in via blog) http://unsongbook.com/
Very quick summary is that Kabbalah is real, and corporations set up content farms to brute force search for names of god so they can copyright and sell them.
It’s a really fun read (author probably also has a hacker news account, so if you see this comment thank you for writing such a fun book).
This sounds a lot like Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in that they're a mash-up of (1) taking an ancient tradition literally and (2) a critique of capitalism and modern culture.
Very quick summary is that Kabbalah is real, and corporations set up content farms to brute force search for names of god so they can copyright and sell them.
It’s a really fun read (author probably also has a hacker news account, so if you see this comment thank you for writing such a fun book).