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numbers; then, and not before, will you fully understand their Validity, and the infinite wisdom of the Grand Arithmetician of the Universe. 671. Useful, as shown in Part I. 741. Useful chiefly as a denial of the Unity; sometimes employed in the hope of tempting it from its lair. 777. Useful in a similar way, as affirming that the Unity is the Qliphoth. But a dangerous tool, especially as it represents the flaming sword that drove Man out of Eden. A burnt child dreads the fire. The devils also believe, and tremble. Worse than useless unless you have it by the hilt. Also 777 is the grand scale of 7, and this is useless to anyone who has not yet awakened the Kundalini, the female magical soul. Note 7 as the meeting- place of 3, the mother, and 10, the Daughter; whence Netzach is the Woman, married but no more. 800. Useful only in 5 = 6 symbolism, q.v. 888. The grand scale of 8. In Greek numeration therefore ™—£Ÿ¥£ the Redeemer, connecting with 6 because of its 6 letters. This links Greek and Hebrew symbolism; but remember that the mystic Iesous and Yeheshua have no more to do with the legendary Jesus of the Synoptics and Methodists than the mystic IHVH has to do with the false God who commanded the murder of innocent children. The 13 of the Sun and the 81 [This may have been wishful thinking on Crowley s part. The time and place of birth accompanying AC s birthchart as printed in Equinox I (7) and Equinox of the Gods actually give Cancer, not Leo, rising, suggesting the figure had been fudged. The editor of the Blue Brick edition of Magick obligingly corrected the time of birth to make Leo the ascendent again. Rupert Gleadow (an astrologer friend of Symonds to whom AC had claimed there was less than one per cent truth in astrology ) prepared a hostile horoscope which was printed in The Great Beast in posthumous revenge T.S] 82 Because Cheth, 8, spelt in full = , 418 T.S. 53 ON THE QABALAH Zodiac was perhaps responsible for Buddha and his 12 disciples, Christ and his 12 disciples, Charlemagne and his 12 peers, &c., &c., but to disbelieve in Christ or Charlemagne is not to alter the number of signs in the Zodiac. Veneration for 666 does not commit me to admiration for Napoleon and Gladstone. I may close this paper by expressing a hope that I may have the indulgence of students. The subject is incomparably difficult; it is almost an unworked vein of thought; and my expression must be limited and thin. It is important that every identity should be most thoroughly understood. No mere perusal will serve. This paper must be studied line by line, and even to a great extent committed to memory. And that memory should already be furnished with a thorough knowledge of the chief correspondences of 777. It is hard to suffer gladly the particular type of fool who expects with a twenty-third-rate idle brain to assimilate in an hour the knowledge that it has cost me twelve years to acquire. I may add that nobody will ever understand this method of knowledge without himself undertaking research. Once he has experienced the joy of connecting (say) 131 and 480 through 15, he will understand. Further, it is the work itself, not merely the results, that is of service. We teach Greek and Latin, though nobody speaks either language. And thus I close: Benedictus sit Dominus Deus Noster qui nobis dedit Scientiam Summam.83 We may now return to Frater P. s experiences. It will be remembered that he found Yoga practices of any kind very difficult in the cold climate of his home; for he was now sufficiently advanced to need long spells of continuous concentration very difficult from the early days of practice when twenty minutes in the morning and again in the evening sufficed for the day. Further, he had entered on the third stage of life, and from a Brahmachari become a householder. It was in the course of the journey undertaken by him shortly after his marriage that occurred the events which we shall proceed to relate. And to that end we must ask the reader to accompany us in imagination to the sovereign nursery of wisdom and initiation, to the holy land of the Uræus serpent, to the land of Isis and Osris, of the Pyramids and the Nile, even to Khem, more magnificent in ruin than all other lands are in plenitude of their glory. *** ***** *** 83 [Lat. May the Lord our God, who gave us the Supreme Science, be blessed. ] 54 LIBER LVIII Transcriber s note. This article on the Qabalah was originally published in Equinox I (5) as part V of the Temple of Solomon the King serial. Essentially it was a filler, knocked together after J.F.C. Fuller who had been doing the legwork of working up the series from Crowley s diaries and notebooks broke with the Beast. In Equinox I (10) it was declared to be Liber LVIII in Class B (since 58 = Grace, a secret title of the Qabalah. ) It was reprinted by Israel Regardie in The Qabalah of Aleister Crowley (a.k.a. 777 and other Qabalistic Writings) under the spurious title Gematria, omitting the opening and closing sections (which were intended to link it in to the serial) and the tables of correspondences (redundant as in that publication it was bound up with 777). It has also been printed as a pamphlet under the title Essay on Number. Hebrew words have generally been rendered in Hebrew letters; in the Equinox publication they were generally, but not consistently, given in letter-for-letter transliteration, e.g. BRAShITh for . Footnotes indicated by *, , etc. are notes by Crowley; unless otherwise indicated these appeared in the Equinox publication, the remainder were taken from a scan of a photocopy of a typed transcript (the original in the collection of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre at the University of Texas, Austin) of holograph notes by Crowley to a set of The Equinox, as transcribed by Gerald Yorke. Footnotes indicated by numbers are by myself. Key entry from the printed edition in the Equinox; could probably use further proof- reading. (c) Ordo Templi Orientis. Key entry, annotation, &c. by Frater T.S. for NIWG / Celephaïs Press. Last revised 13.06.2004. [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ] |