I know you are asking Clete this question but since his comment was directed to me I will answer for myself as to your question so that you might know where I am coming from also, (so as to clarify my position). I cannot speak for Clete but I suspect that he and I have a different understanding of the word
create as to what it means in the most basic sense. One thing that seems to be so often overlooked in Hebrew cosmology, (which is so often touted in the flat-earth meme thanks to the work of Logos Bible Software and Dr. Michael Heiser, by way of that one particular image file that always gets posted), is the fact that the first thing believed to have been created by the Father, in the very beginning, is the Hebrew aleph-bet or alphabet.
This thinking is taken from the aleph-taw found right in the first statement from Genesis 1:1, and thus, it is a critical point that should not be overlooked in Hebrew cosmology: for if Elohim created the Hebrew alphabet first, before anything else, then here we have mathematics introduced right from the very beginning; for the letters of the Hebrew alphabet are not just
letters but also corresponding
numbers, (no matter which script one argues to be the original script of Moses and the Prophets, (for there is a debate over that)). However the word
create does not mean
"to make something from nothing" as I understand it, (it means something more like
to cut down trees, (so as
to make a house)), and this may be seen by the fact that the whole creation of the first chapter of Genesis is spoken Word. Therefore what I mean when I say
create is that the things created came forth from the Father, (and that therefore answers to your question about mathematics possibly being part of the intrinsic nature of the Father). In this manner also the Word is not a
created being but proceeded and proceeds from the Father, (as in most of the Christian creeds).
One simple gematria example:
The first two words spoken by Elohim:
Genesis 1:3 —
יהי אור — "YAHI AUR — "LET THERE BE LIGHT" = Gematria 232
Compare:
The Word of YHWH —
דבר־יהוה — "DABAR YHWH" = Gematria 232
My Firstborn —
בכרי — "BECHORI" (Exodus 4:22) = Gematria 232
As for what I have said about the Hebrew alphabet being the first thing created, (coming forth from the "mind of the Father" and not "from nothing"), you can find examples of this understanding online. This one is similar, and though I do not agree with everything said it presents the basic idea from what appears to be a more Christian perspective:
http://hethathasanear.com/Aleph-Tav.html