If we consider the development of language as part and parcel of the evolution of the divine creation as a whole (i.e., the universe or even "multiverse", as the case may be) then we understand further the direct interrelationship between numbers and language. Therefore, we have at least a partial explanation for how and why gematria (or in the case of the English alphabet, I use the term "CryptoNumerology") works. The words are connected to the numbers, which are, in turn, representations of the universe (or Multiverse) or the divine creation as a whole.

The reason the number 9 is a key to understanding this connection may relate back to the number "3", the first number to emanate from geometric form. Three 3s gives us the number 9. In mathematics this is called three squared, or 3 times itself. Here is an interesting example of this process showing us what might be called a proof of this concept:

Using the addition function:

Now, to go even deeper, we can apply the multiplication function to the numbers we have just produced, which are 3, 6 and 9. (This might be thought of as the "universal triangle". UNIVERSAL TRIANGLE = 207 = 9). (Also interesting is this: THE VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY OF NINE = 333, [3+3+3=9])

Now, using multiplication:

The number 144 has been associated with the concept of light by many esoteric researchers and even turned out to be the case in the more "scientific" work of Bruce Cathie (see his book, The Harmonic Conquest Of Space, for example).