The Temple of Solomon The King Part 5 Low

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON
THE KING
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE
K Ι Ν G-(sz'z'nwa!)
GREAT as were Frater P.'s accomplishments in the ancient
sciences of the East, swiftly and securely as he had passed in
a bare year the arduous road which so many fail to traverse in
a lifetime, satisfied as himself was—in a sense—with his own
progress, it was yet not by these paths that he was destined
to reach the Sublime Threshold of the Mystic Temple. For
though it is written, “To the persevering mortal the blessed
immortals are swift," yet, were it otherwise, no mortal however
persevering could attain the immortal shore. As it is written
in the Fifteenth Chapter of St Luke's Gospel, “And when he
was yet afar off, his Father saw him and ran." Had it not
been so, the weary Prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches
(astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga)
would never have had the strength to reach the House of his
Father.
One little point St Luke unaccountably omitted. When
a man is as hungry and weary as was the Prodigal, he is apt
to see phantoms. He is apt to clasp shadows to him, and cry:
“ Father! " And, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising
himself as an angel of light, it behaves the Prodigal to have
some test of truth.
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Some great mystics have laid down the law, “Accept no
messenger of God,” banish all, until at last the Father himself
comes forth. A counsel of perfection. The Father does send
messengers, as we learn in St Mark xii. ; and if we stone them,
we may perhaps in our blindness stone the Son himself when
he is sent.
So that is no vain counsel of “ St John” (1 John iv. 1),
“ Try the spirits, whether they be of God,” no mistake when
“ St Paul” claims the discernment of Spirits to be a principal
point of the armour of salvation (I Cor. xii. Io).
Now how should F rater P. or another test the truth of any
message purporting to come from the Most High? On the
astral plane, its phantoms are easily governed by the Pentagram,
the Elemental Weapons, the Robes, the God-forms, and such
childish toys. We set phantoms to chase phantoms. We
make our Scin—Laeca pure and hard and glittering, all
glorious within, like the veritable daughter of the King; yet
she is but the King's daughter, the Nephesch adorned: she is
not the King himself, the Holy Ruach or mind of man. And
as we have seen in our chapter on Yoga, this mind is a very
aspen; and as we may see in the last chapter of Captain
Fuller’s “Star in the West,” this mind is a very cockpit of
contradiction.
What then is the standard of truth? What tests shall we
apply to revelation, when our tests of experience are found
wanting? If I must doubt my eyes that have served me
(well, on the whole) for so many years, must I not much more
doubt my spiritual vision, my vision just open like a
babe’s, my vision untested by comparison and uncriticized
by reason?
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Fortunately, there is one science that can aid us, a science
that, properly understood by the initiated mind, is as absolute
as mathematics, more self-supporting than philosophy, a
science of the spirit itself, whose teacher is God, whose method
is simple as the divine Light, and subtle as the divine Fire,
Whose results are limpid as the divine Water, all—embracing
as the divine Air, and solid as the divine Earth. Truth is the
source, and Economy the course, of that marvellous stream
that pours its living waters into the Ocean of apodeictic
certainty, the Truth that is infinite in its infinity as the primal
Truth With which it is identical is infinite in its Unity.
Need we say that we speak of the holy Qabalah? O
science secret, subtle, and sublime, who shall name thee
without veneration, without prostration of soul, spirit, and
body before thy divine Author, without exaltation of soul,
spirit, and body as by His favour they bathe in His lustral
and illimitable Light?
It must first here be spoken of the Exoteric Qabalah to be

found in books, a shell of that perfect fruit of the Tree of Life,
Next we will deal with the esoteric teachings of it, as Frater
Ρ. was able to understand them. And of these we shall give
examples, showing the falsity and absurdity of the un—
initiated path, the pure truth and reasonableness of the
hidden Way.
For the student unacquainted with the rudiments of the
Qabalah we recommend the study of S. L. Mathers’ “ Intro—
duction ” to his translation of the three principal books of the
Zohar, and Westcott’s " Introduction to the Study of the
Qabalah." We venture to append a few quotations from the
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former document, which will show the elementary principles
of calculation. Dr Westcott’s little book is principally
valuable for its able defence of the Qabalah as against
exotericism and literalism.
The literal Qabalah . is divided into three parts: GMTRIA, Crematria;

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NVTRIQVN, Notariqon; and ThMVRH> Temura.

Gematria is a metathesis of the Greek word γραμματεια. It is based on the
relative numerical values of words, Words of similar numerical values are
considered to be explanatory of each other, and this theory is extended to
phrases. Thus the letter Shin, Sh, is 300, and is equivalent to the number
obtained by adding up the numerical values of the letters of the words RVCh
ALHIM, Ruach Elohim, the spirit of Elohim ; and it is therefore a symbol of
the spirit ‫י‬1131011110):? For R=zoo, V=6, Ch=8, A:], L=3o, ,1=5‫י‬1? ,‫ס‬1=1
M=4o; total=3oor Similarly, the words AChD, Achad, Unity, One, and
AHBH, Ahebah,love, each=13 ; {or A=1,Ch=8, D=4, totalzr3; and Α: r,
H=5, B=2, Has, total: [3. Again, the name of the angel MTTRVN,
Metatron or Methraton, and the name of the Deity, ShDI, Shaddai, each make
314; so the one is taken as symbolical of the other, The angel Metatron is
said to have been the conductor of the children of Israel through the wilderness,
of whom God says, “ My name is in him.” With regard to Gematria of phrases
(Gen. xlix. IO), ΙΒΑ ShILl‘I, Yeba Shiloh, “Shiloh shall come ”=358, which is
the numeration of the word MShICh, Messiah. Thus also the passage,
Gen. xviii. 2, VHNH ShLShH, Vehenna Shalisha, “ And lo, three men,” equals
in numerical value ALV MIKAL GBRIAL VRPAL, ΕΙο Mikhael Gabriel Ve-
Raphael, “These are Mikhael, Gabriel and Raphael "; for each phrase=701. I
think these instances will suffice to make clear the nature of Gematria.
Notariqon is derived from the Latin word notarius, a shorthand writer. Of
Notariqon there are two forms In the first every letter ofa word is taken from
the initial or abbreviation of another word, so that from the letters ofa word
a sentence may be formed, Thus every letter of the word BRASthH,
Berashith, the first word in Genesis, is made the initial of a word, and we obtain
BRAShITh RAH ALI-11M ShIQBLV IShRAL ThVRH, Berashith Rahi
Elohim Sheyequebelo Israel Torah; “In the beginning Elohim saw that Israel
would accept the law." In this connection I may give six very interesting
specimens of Notariqon formed from this same word BRAShITh by Solomon
Meir Ben Moses, a Jewish Qabalist, who embraced the Christian faith in 1665,
and took the name of Prosper Rugere. These have all a Christian tendency,
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and by their means Prosper converted another Jew, who had previously been
bitterly opposed to Christianity. The first is, BN RVCh ΑΒ ShLVShThM
IChD ThMIM, Ben, Ruach, Ab, Shaloshethem Yechad Thaubodo: “ The
Son, the Spirit, the Father, ye shall equally worship Their Trinityr” The third
is BKVRI RAShVNI AShR ShMV IShVO ThOBVDV, Bekori Rashuni
Asher Shamo Yeshuah Thaubodo: “ Ye shall worship My first—born, My first)
Whose name is Jesus." The fourth is, BBVA RBN AShR ShMV IShVo
ThOBVDV, Beboa Rabban Asher Shamo Yeshuah Thaubodo: “When the
Master shall come Whose Name is Jesus ye shall worship." The fifth is,
BThVLH RAVIH ABChR ShThLD ISh V0 ThAShRVH, Bethulh Raviah
Abachar Shethaled Yeshuah Thashroah: “I will choose a virgin worthy to
bring forth Jesus, and ye shall call her blessedr" The sixth is, BOVGTh
RTZPIM ASThThR ShGVPI IShVO ThAKLV, Beaugoth Ratzephim Asattar
Shegopi Yeshuah Thakelo: “ Ι will hide myself in cake (baked with) coals, for
ye shall eat Jesus, My Body."
The Qabalistical importance of these sentences as bearing upon the doctrines
of Christianity can hardly be overrated,
The second form of the Notariqon is the exact reverse of the first. By this
the initials or finals, or both, or the medials, of a sentence, are taken to form a
word or words Thus the Qabalah is called ChKMH NSThRH, Chokhmah
Nesethrah, “ 1118 secret wisdom”; and if we take the initials of these two words
Ch and N, we form by the second kind of Notariqon the word ChN,
Chen, "grece," Similarly, from the initials and finals of the words MI
IOLH LNV HShMIMH, Mi Iaulah Leno Ha—Shamayimah, “ Who shall go up
{or us to heaven?” (Dent. xxx. 12), are formed MILH, Milah, " circumcision,”
and IHVH, the Tetragrammaton, implying that God hath ordained circumcision
as the way to heaven
Temura is permutation. According to certain rules, one letter is substituted
for another letter preceding or following it in the alphabet, and thus from one
word another word of totally different orthography may be formed. Thus the
alphabet is bent exactly in half, in the middle, and one half is put over the
other; and then by changing alternately the first letter or the first two letters
at the beginning of the second line, twenty-two commutation: are produced,
These are called the “Table of the Combinations of TZIRVP,” Tziruph. For
example’s sake, I will give the method called ALBTh, Albath, thus :+
11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Κ l T Ch Z V H D G B A
M N S O P Τι Q R Sh Th L
Each method takes its name from the first two pairs composing it, the system
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of pairs of letters being the groundwork of the whole, as either letter in a
pair is substituted for the other letter. Thus, by Albath, from RVCh, Ruach,
is formed DTzO, Detzau. The names of the other twenty-one methods are:
ABGTh, AGDTh, ADBG, AHBD, AVBH, AZBV, AChBZ, ATBCh, ΑΙΒΤ,
ΑΚΒΙ, ALBK, AMBL, ANBM, ASBN, AOBS, APBO, ATZBP, AQSTz,
ARBQ, AShBR, and AThBSh. To these must be added the modes ABGD
and ALBMl Then comes the " Rational Table of Tziruph,” another set of
twenty—two combinations There are also three “Tables of the Commutations,”
known respectively as the Right, the Averse, and the Irregularl To make
any of these, a square, containing 484 squares, should be made, and the letters
written in. For the “Right Table” write the alphabet across from right to
left; in the second row of squares do the same, but begin with B and end
with A; in the third begin with G and end with B; and so on. For the
“Averse Table" write the alphabet from right to left backwards, beginning
with Th and ending with A; in the second row begin with Sh and end
with Th, &c. The " Irregular Table” would take too long to describe, Besides
all these, there is the method called ThShRQ, Thashraq, which is simply
writing a word backwards. There is one more very important form called
the “Qabalah of the Nine Chambers ” or AIQ BKR, Aiq Bekar. It is thus
formed :
300 30 3 200 20 2 [00 10 1

Sh L G R K B Q I A
600 60 6 500 so 5 400 40 4

M final S V K final N H Th M D
900 go 9 800 80 8 700 70 7

Tzfinal Tz T Pfinal 1’ Ch Nfinal Ο Ζ
lhave put the numeration of each letter above to show the affinity between
the letters in each chamber. Sometimes this is used as a cipher, by taking
the portions of the figure to show the letters they contain, putting one point for
the first letter, two for the second, &c. Thus the right angle, containing
AIQ, will answer for the letter Q if it have three dots or points within it.
Again a square will answer for H, N, or K final, according to whether it
has one, two, or three points respectively placed within iti So also with
regard to the other letters. But there are many other ways of employing
the Qabalah of the Nine Chambers, which I have not space to describe I
will merely mention as an example, that by the mode of Temura called
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AThBSh, Athbash, it is found that in Jeremiah xxv. 26, the word ShShK,
Sheshakh, symbolises BBL, Babel.
Besides all these rules, there are certain meanings hidden in the shape
01 the letters of the Hebrew alphabet; in the form of a particular letter at
the end 01 a word being different from that which it generally bears when
it is a final letter, or in a letter being written in the middle of a word in a
character generally used only at the end; in any letters or letter being written
in a size smaller or larger than the rest of the manuscript, or in a letter
being written upside down; in the variations found in the spelling 01 certain
words, which have a letter more in some places than they have in others; in
peculiarities observed in the position 01 any of the points or accents, and
in certain expressions supposed to be elliptic or redundant
For example the shape 01 the Hebrew letter Aleph, A, is said to symbolise
a Vau, V, between a Yod, I, and a Daleth, D; and thus the letter itself
represents the word IVD, Yod. Similarly the shape of the letter He,
H, represents a Daleth, D, with a Yod, I, written at the lower left-hand
corner, &c.
In Isaiah ix, 6, 7, the word LMRBH, Lemarbah, “for multiplying,” is
written with the character for M final in the middle 01 the word, instead of
with the ordinary initial and medial M. The consequence 01 this is that the
total numerical value of the word, instead 01 being 3o+4o+200+2+5=z77, is
30+6oo+2oo+2+5 =837=by Gematria Th'l‘h ZL, Tet Zal, the profuse Giver.
Thus by writing the M final instead of the ordinary character, the word is
made to bear a different qabalistical meaning.
It is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the Bible,

BRAShITH, that the first three letters, BRA, are the initial letters of the
names of the three persons 01 the Trinity: BN, Ben the Son ; RVCH, Ruach,
the Spirit; and AB, Ab the Father. Furthermore the first letter of the Bible
is B, which is the initial letter 01 BRKH, Berakhah, blessing; and not A, which
is that of ARR, Arar, cursing. Again, the letters 01 Berashith, taking their
numerical powers, express the number of the years between the Creation and
the birth of Christ, thus: B=2,ooo, R=2oo, A=i,ooo, Sh=3oo, 1:10, and
Th=4oo; total=3910 years, being the time in round numbers. Pious de
Mirandola gives the following working out of BRAShITh, Berashith:—By
joining the third letter, A, to the first, B, AB, Ab=Father, is obtained, 11 to
the first letter B, doubled, the second letter, R, be added, it makes BBR,
Bebar=in or through the Son. If all the letters he read except the first, it
makes RAShITh, Rashith=the beginning. If the fourth letter, Sh, the first
B and the last Th be connected, it makes ShBTh, Shebeth=the end or rest.
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If the first three letters be taken, they make BRA, Bera=created. If, omitting
the first, the three following be taken, they make RASh, Rash=head. If,
omitting the two first, the next two he taken, they give ASh, Ash=fire. If
the fourth and the last he joined, they give ShTh, Sheth=foundation. Again if
the second letter be put before the first, it makes RB, Rab=greatr If after the
third be placed the fifth and the fourth, it gives AISh, Aish=man. If to the
two first be joined the two last, they give BRITh, Berithzcovenant. And if
the first be added to the last, it gives ThB, Theb, which is sometimes used for
TVB, Thob=good.
There are three qabalistical veils of the negative existence, and in them»
selves they formulate the hidden ideas of the Sephiroth not yet called into
being, and they are concentrated in Kether, which in this sense is the Malkuth
of the hidden ideas of the Sephiroth. I will explain this. The first veil of the
negative existence is the AIN, Ain, Negativity. This word consists of three
letters, which thus shadow forth the first three Sephiroth or numbers, The
second veil is the AIN SVP, the limitless. This title consists of six letters,
and shadows forth the idea of the first six Sephiroth or numbers. The third
veil is the AIN SVP AVR, Ain Soph Aur, the Limitless Light. This again
consists of nine letters, and symbolises the first nine Sephiroth, but of course in
their hidden idea only. But when we reach the number nine we cannot
progress farther without returning to the unity, or the number one, for the
number ten is but a repetition of unity freshly derived from the negative, as is
evident from a glance at its ordinary representation in Arabic numerals, where
the circle Ο represents the Negative and the I the Unity. Thus, then, the
limitless ocean of negative light does not proceed from a centre, for it is
centreiess, but it concentrates a centre, which is the number one of the
Sephiroth, Kether, the Crown, the First Sephira; which therefore may be said
to be the Malkuth or the number ten of the hidden Sephiroth. Thus,
uKether is in Malkuth and Malkuth is in Kether.” Or as an alchemical
author of great repute (Thomas Vaughan, better known as Eugenius Philalethes)
says, apparently quoting from Proclus; “ That the heaven is in the earth, but
after an earthly manner; and that the earth is in the heaven, but after a
heavenly manner,” But inasmuch as negative existence is the subject
incapable of definition, as I have before shown, it is rather considered by the
Qabalists as depending back from the number of unity than as a separate
consideration therefrom; therefore they frequently apply the same terms and
epithets indiscriminately to either, Such epithets are “The concealed of the
Concealed," " The Ancient of the Ancient Ones,” the "Most Holy Ancient
One,” etc.
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I must now explain the real meaning of the terms Sephira and Sephiroth.
The first is singular, the second is plural, The best rendering of the word is
“numerical emanation” There are ten Sephiroth, which are the most abstract
forms of the ten numbers of the decimal scale—22a, the numbers I, 2, 3, 4, ;, 6,
7, 8, 9, Io. Therefore, as in the higher mathematics we reason of numbers in
their abstract sense, so in the Qabalah we reason of the Deity by the abstract
forms of the numbers in other words, by the SPIRVTh, Sephiroth. It was
from this ancient Oriental theory that Pythagoras derived his numerical
symbolic ideas
Among the Sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the
persons and attributes of Gad, Of these some are male and some female Now,
for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the Bible
have carefully crowded out of existence and smothered up every reference to the
{act that the Deity is both masculine and feminine. They have translated a
feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word Elohim. They
have,however, left an inadvertent admission oftheir knowledge that it was plural in
Genesis iv. 26: “ And Elohim said : Let Us make man." Again (v, 27), how could
Adam be made in the image of Elohim, male and female, unless the Elohim were
male and female also? The word Elohim is a plural formed from the feminine
singular ALI-I, Eloh, by adding IM to the word, But inasmuch as IM is
usually a termination of the masculine plural and is here added to a feminine
noun, it gives to the word Elohim the sense of a female potency united to a
masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. Now, we hear
much of the Father and the Son, but we hear nothing of the Mother in the
ordinary religions of the day. But in the Qabalah we find that the Ancient of
Days conforms Himself simultaneously into the Father and the Mother, and thus
begets the Son, Now, this Mother is Elohim. Again, we are usually told that
the Holy Spirit is masculine. But the word RVCh, Ruach, Spirit, is feminine,
as appears from the following passage of the Sepher Yetzirah: “ AChTh RVCh
ALHIM ChIIM, Achath (feminine, not Achad, masculine) Ruach Elohim
Chiim: One is She the Spirit of the Elohim of Life.”
Now, we find that before the Deity conformed Himself thus—Le., as male
and female—that the worlds of the universe could not subsist, or, in the words
of Genesis, “The earth was formless and void.” These prior worlds are
considered to be symbolised by the “kings who reigned in Edom before there
reigned a king in Israel,” and they are therefore spoken of in the Qabalah as the
”Edomite kings.” This will be found fully explained in various parts of this
work,
We now come to the consideration of the first Sephira, or the Number One,
the Monad of Pythagoras In this number are the other nine hidden. It is
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indivisible, it is also incapable of multiplication; divide I by itself and it still
remains I, multiply I by itself and it is still I and unchanged. Thus it is a
fitting representative of the unchangeable Father of all. Now this number of
unity has a twofold nature, and thus forms, as it were, the link between the
negative and the positive In its unchangeable one-ness it is scarcelya number ;
but in its property of capability of addition it may be called the first number
of a numerical series Now, the zero, 0, is incapable even of addition, just as
also is negative existence. How, then, if I can neither be multiplied nor divided,
is another I to be obtained to add to it; in other words how is the number 2
to be found? By reflection of itself. For though ο be incapable of definition,
1 is definable. And the effect of a definition is to form an Eidolon, duplicate,
or image, of the thing defined. Thus, then, we obtain a duad composed ofI
and its reflection. Now also we have the commencement of a vibration
established, for the number I vibrates alternately from changelessness to
definition, and back to changelessness again. Thus, then, it is the father of all
numbers, and a fitting type of the Father of all things.
The name of the first Sephira is KThR, Kether, the Crown. The Divine
Name attributed to it is the Name of the Father given in Exod. iii. 4: AHIH,
Eheieh, I am. It signifies Existence.
The first Sephira contains nine, and produces them in succession thus :—
The number 2 or the Duad. The name of the second Sephira is ChKMH,
Chokmah, Wisdom, a masculine active potency reflected from Kether, as I have
before explained. This Sephira is the active and evident Father, to whom the
Mother is united, who is the number 3. This second Sephira is represented
by the Divine Names, IH, Yah, and IHVH; and the angelic hosts by
AVPNIM, Auphanim, the Wheels (Ezek. i.). It is also called AB, Ab, the
Father.
The third Sephira, or triad, is a feminine passive potency, called BINH,
Binah, the Understanding, who is co-equal with Chokmah. For Chokmah,
the number 2, is like two straight lines which can never enclose a space,
and therefore it is powerless till the number 3 forms a triangle Thus this
Sephira completes and makes evident the supernal Trinity. lt is also called
AMA, Ama, Mother, and AIMA, Aima, the great productive Mother, who
is eternally conjoined with AB, the Father, for the maintenance of the universe
in order. Therefore is she the most evident form in whom we can know the
Father, and therefore is she worthy of all honour. She is the supernal Mother,
co-equal with Chokmah, and the great feminine form of God, the Elohim, in
whose image man and woman are created, according to the teaching of the
Qabalah, equal before God. Woman is equal with man, and certainly not
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inferior to him, as it has been the persistent endeavour of so-called Christians
to make her. Aima is the woman described in the Apocalypse (chap, xiii).
This third Sephira is also sometimes called the Great Sea, To her are
attributed the Divine names, ALI-HM, Elohim, and IHVH ALHKM; and
the angelic order, ARALIM, Aralim, The Thrones, She is the Supernal
Mother as distinguished from Malkuth, the inferior Mother, Bride, and Queen,
The number 4. This union of the second and third Sephiroth produced
ChSD, Chesed, Mercy or Love, also called GDVLH, Gedulah, Greatness or
Magnificence; a masculine potency represented by the Divine Name AL, E1,
the Mighty One, and the angelic name, ChShMLIM, Chashmalim, Scintillating
Flames (Ezek. iv, 4).
The number 5. From this emanated the feminine passive potency GBVRH,
Geburah, strength or fortitude; or DIN, Deen, Justice; represented by the Divine
Names, ALHIM GBVR, and ALH, E1011, and the angelic name ShRPIM,
Seraphim (Isa. vi. 6). This Sephira is also called PChD, Pachad, Fear.
The number 6. And from these two issued the uniting Sephira, ThPARTh,
Tiphereth, Beauty or Mildness, represented by the Divine Name ALVH
VDOTh, Eloah Va-Daath, and the angelic names, Shinanim, ShNANIM
(Ps, lxviii. 18), or MLKIM, Melakim, kings. Thus by the union of justice
and mercy we obtain beauty or clemency, and the second trinity of the
Sephiroth is complete. This Sephira, or “Path,” or “Numeration"—»for by
these latter appellations the emanations are sometimes called—together with
the fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, and ninth Sephiroth, is spoken of as ZOIR
ANPIN, Zaur Anpin, the Lesser Countenance, Microprosopus, by way of
antithesis to Macroprosopus, or the Vast Countenance, which is one of the
names of Kether, the first Sephira. The six Sephlroth of which Zauir Anpin
is composed, are then called His six members He is also called MLK, Melekh
the King.
The number 7. The seventh Sephira is NTzCh, Netzach, or Firmness and
Victory, corresponding to the Divine Name Jehovah Tzabaoth, IHVH
TzBAVTh, the Lord of Armies, and the angelic names ALHIM, Elohim,
gods, and ThRShIShIM, Tharshishim, the brilliant ones (Dan. K. 6),
The number 8. Thence proceeded the feminine passive potency HVD,
Hod, Splendour, answering to the Divine Name ALHIM TzBAVTh, Elohim
Tzabaoth, the God of Armies, and among the angels to BNI ALI-11M, Beni
Elohim, the sons of the Gods (Gen. vi. 4).
The number 9. These two produced ISVD, Yesod, the Foundation or
Basis, represented by AL Chi, El Chai, the Mighty Living One, and Sth,
Shaddai; and among the angels by AShIM, Aishim, the Flames (Ps. civ, 4),
yielding the third Trinity of the Sephimth.
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The number ιο. From this ninth Sephira came the tenth and last, thus
completing the decad of the numbers. It is called MLVTh, Malkuth, the
Kingdom, and also the Queen, Matrona, the inferior Mother, the Bride of
Microprosopus; and ShKINH, Shekinah, represented by the Divine Name
Adonai, ADNI, and among the angel hosts by the kerubim, KRVBIM. Now,
each 01 these Sephiroth will be in a. certain degree androgynous, for it will
be feminine or receptive with regard to the Sephira which immediately precedes
it in the sephirotic scale, and masculine or transmissive with regard to the
Sephira which immediately follows it. But there is no Sephira anterior to
Kether, nor is there 3 56911113 which succeeds Malkuthr By these remarks
it will be understood how Chokmah is a feminine noun, though marking a
masculine Sephira, The connecting-link of the Sephiroth is the Ruach, spirit,
Mezla, the hidden influence.
I will now add a few more remarks on the qabalistical meaning 01 the term
MThQLA, Metheqla, balance In each of the three trinities or triads 01 the
Sephiroth is a duad 01 opposite sexes, and a. uniting intelligence which is the
result. 111 this, the masculine and feminine potencies are regarded as the two
scales of the balance, and the uniting Sephira as the beam that joins them,
Thus, then, the term balance may be said to symbolise the Triune, Trinity in
Unity, and the Unity represented by the central point of the beam. But, again,
in the Sephiroth there is a triple Trinity, the upper, lower, and middle. Now,
these three are represented thus: the supernal, or highest, by the Crown,
Kether; the middle by the King, and the inferior by the Queen; which will
be the greatest trinity. And the earthly correlatives 01 these will be the
primum mobile, the sun and the moon. Here we at once find alchemical
symbolism,
The Sephiroth are futher divided into three pillars—the right—hand Pillar of
Mercy, consisting of the second, fourth, and seventh emanations; the left-hand
Pillar ofJudgment, consisting of the third, fifth, and eighth; and the middle
Pillar 01 Mildness, consisting 01 the first, sixth, ninth, and tenth emanations.
In their totality and unity the ten Sephiroth represent the archetypal man,
ADM QDMVN, Adam Qadmon, the Protogonos. In looking at the Sephiroth
constituting the first triad, it is evident that they represent the intellect; and
hence this triad is called the intellectual world, OVLM MVShKL, 01311111
Mevshekal. The second triad corresponds to the moral world, OVLM
MVRGSh, Olahm Morgash. The third represents power and stability, and is
therefore called the material world, OLVM HMVTHBO, Olahm Ha-Mevethau.
These three aspects are called the faces, ANPIN, Anpin. Thus is the tree of
life, OTz ChllM, Otz Chaiim, formed; the first triad being placed above, the
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second and third below, in such a manner that the three masculine Sephiroth
are on the right, the three feminine on the left, whilst the {our uniting Sephiroth
occupy the centre This is the qahalistical “tree 01 life,” on which all things
depend. There is considerable analogy between this and the tree Yggdrasil of
the Scandinavians I have already remarked that there is one trinity which
comprises all the Sephiroth, and that it consists 01 the crown, the king, and the
queen. (In some senses this is the Christian Trinity 01 Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit, which in their highest Divine nature are symbolised by the first three
Sephiroth, Kether, Chokmah, and Binah.) It is the Trinity which created the
world; or, in qabalistical language, the universe was born 110111 the union 01
the crowned king and queen. But according to the Qabalah, before the
complete form of the heavenly man (the ten Sephiroth) was produced, there were
certain primordial worlds created, but these could not subsist, as the equilibrium
01 balance was not yet perfect, and they were convulsed by the unbalanced
force and destroyed. These primordial worlds are called the “kings 01 ancient
time” and the “kings of Edom who reigned before the monarchs 01 Israel.”
In this sense, Edom is the world 01 unbalanced force, and Israel is the balanced
Sephiroth (Gen, xxxvi. 31), This important fact, that worlds were created
and destroyed prior to the present creation, is again and again reiterated in the
Zohar,
Now the Sephiroth are also called the World 01 Emanations, or the
Atziluthic World, or the archetypal world, OVLM ATzILVTh, Olahm
Atziloth, and this world gave birth to three other worlds each containing a
repetition ofthe Sephiroth, but in a descending scale 01 brightness.
The second World is the Briatic world, OVLM HBRIAH, Olahm Ha-Briah,
the world 01 creation, also called KVRSlA, Khorsia, the throne It is an
immediate emanation from the world 01 Atziloth, whose ten Sephiroth are
reflected herein, and are consequently more limited, though they are still of the
purest nature, and without any admixture 01 matters
The third is the Jetziratic world, OVLM HITzIRl-l, Olahm Ha—Yetzirah,
or world 01 formation and 01 angels, which proceeds from Briah, and, though
less refined in substance, is still without matter. It is in this angelic world
that reside those intelligent and incorporeal beings who are wrapped in a
luminous garment, and who assume a form when they appear unto man.
The fourth is the Asiatic world, OVLM HOShIH, Olahm Ha-Asiah, the
world 01 action, called also the world 01 shells, OVLM HQLIPVTh, Olahm
Ha-Qliphoth, which is this world 01 matter, made up of the grosser elements 01
the other three. In it is also the abode 01 the evil spirits, which are called “ the
shells " by the Qabalah, QLIPVTH, Qliphoth, material shells, The devils are
also divided into ten classes, and have suitable habitations. (See Tables in 777.)
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The demons are the grossest and most deficient of all forms. Their ten
degrees answer to the decad of the Sephiroth, but in inverse ratio, as darkness
and impurity increase with the descent of each degree. The two first are
nothing but absence of visible form and organisation The third is the abode
of darkness. Next follow seven Hells occupied by those demons which
represent incarnate human vices, and those who have given themselves up to
such vices in earth-life. Their prince is Samael, SMAL, the angel of poison
and death, His wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom, AShTh ZNVNIM,
Isheth Zenunim ; and united they are called the beast, CHIVA, Chioa. Thus
the infernal trinity is completed which is, so to speak, the averse and caricar
ture of the supernal Creative One. Samael is considered to be identical with
Satan,
The name of the Deity, which we call Jehovah, is in Hebrew a name of four
letters, IHVH; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. I
myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it. The true
pronunciation of it is a most secret arcanum, and is a secret of secrets. “ He
who can rightly pronounce it, causeth heaven and earth to tremble, for it is the
name which rusheth through the universe," Therefore when a devout Jew
comes upon it in reading the Scripture, he either does not attempt to pronounce
it, but instead makes a short pause, or else he substitutes for it the name
Adonai, ADNl, Lord. The radical meaning of the word is “to be,” and it is
thus, like AHIH, Eheieh, a glyph of existence. It is capable of twelve trans-
positions, which all convey the meaning of “to be"; it is the only word that
will bear so many transpositions without its meaning being altered. They are
called the “twelve banners of the mighty name,” and are said by some to rule
the twelve signs of the Zodiac, These are the twelve banners2—IHVH,
IHHV, IVHl-l, HVHI, HVIH, HHIV, VHHI, VIHH, VHIH, HIHV,
HlVH, ΗΗνΙ. There are three other tetragrammatic names, which are
AHlH, Elieieh, existence; ADNl, Adonai, Lord; and AGLA. This last is
not, properly speaking, a word, but is a notariqon of the sentence, AThH
GBVR LOVLM ADNI, Ateh Gebor Le-Olahm Adonai: “Thou art mighty,
for ever, 0 Lord! " A brief explanation of Agla is this; A, the one first; A,
the one last; G, the Trinity in Unity; L, the completion of the great work.
But IHVH, the Tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the
Sephiroth with the exception of Kether, and specially signifies the Lesser
Countenance, Microprosopus, the King of the qabalistical Sephirotic greatest
Trinity, and the Son in His human incarnation, in the Christian acceptation of
the Trinity. Therefore, as the Son reveals the Father, so does IHVH, Jehovah,
reveal AHIH, Eheieh. And ADNI is the Queen, by whom alone Tetra-
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grammaton can be grasped, whose exaltation into Binah is found in the
Christian assumption of the Virgin.
The Tetragrammaton lHVI-I is referred to the Sephiroth, thus: the upper-
most point of the letter Yod, I, is said to refer to Kether; the letter I itself to
Chokmah, the father of Microprosopus; the letter H, or “the supernal He,” to
Binah, the supernal Mother; the letter V to the next six Sephiroth, which are
called the six members of Microprosopus (and six is the numerical value of Vy
the Hebrew Vau); lastly, the letter Η, the “ inferior He,” to Malkuth, the tenth
Sephira, the bride of Microprosopus.
Advanced students should then go to the fountain head,

Knorr von Rosenroth’s “Kabbala denudata,” and study for
themselves. It should not prove easy; Prater P., after years
of study, confessed: “I cannot get much out of Rosenroth ” ;
and we may add that only the best minds are likely to obtain
more than an academic knowledge of a system which we
suspect von Rosenroth himself never understood in any
deeper sense. As a book of reference to the hierarchical
correspondences of the Qabalah, of course 777 stands alone
and unrivalled.
The graphic Qabalah has been already fully illustrated in
this treatise, See Illustrations 2, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22,
24. 27. 28. 29. 33. 34. 35. 38. 39. 40. 41. 43. 45, 46. 47. 48᾿ 50͵
51. 61. 63. 64. 65. 66. 71, 72. 73. 74. 75. 76, 77. 78᾽ 79. 82.
By far the best and most concise account of the method
of the Qabalah is that by an unknown author, which Mr
Aleister Crowley has printed at the end of the first volume of
his Collected Works, and which we here reprint in full.
QABALISTIC DOGMA
The Evolution of Things is thus described by the Qabalistsi
First is Nothing, or the Absence of Things, ,‫ ?ןיא‬which does not and cannot
mean Negatively Existing (if such an Idea can be said to mean anything), as
S. Liddell Macgregor Mathers, who misread the Text and stultified the
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Commentary by the Light of his own Ignorance 01 Hebrew and Philosophy,
pretends in his Translation of v. Rosenroth.
Second is Without Limit ‫ ?ףוס‬,‫ ןיא‬ic., Infinite Space.
This is the primal Dualism 01 Infinity; the infinitely small and the infinitely
great. The Clash of these produces a finite positive Idea which happens (see
rtwma, in “The Sword of Song,” for a more careful study, though I must not be
understood to indorse every Word irn—our Poet-Philosopher's Thesis) to be Light,
.‫?ר\א‬ This word ‫ ?רוא‬is most important. It symbolises the Universe immediately
after Chaos, the Confusion or Clash 01 the infinite Opposites. ‫ ?א‬is the Egg 01
Matter; \ 15 as, the Bull, or Energy-Motion; and ‫ ?ר‬is the Sun, or organised and
moving System 01 Orbs. The three Letters of ‫ ?רוא‬thus repeat the three Ideas.
The Nature 01 ”us is thus analysed, under the figure 01 the ten Numbers and
the 22 Letters which together compose what the Rosicrucians have diagram»
matised under the name 01 Minutum Mundum It will be noticed that every
Number and Letter has its “Correspondence" in Ideas 01 every Sort; so that
any given Object can be analysed in Terms of the 32. 11 I see a blue Star,
I should regard it as a Manifestation 01 Chesed, Water, the Moon, Salt the
Alchemical Principle, Sagittarius or What not, in respect of its Blueness—one
would have to decide which from other Data—and refer it to the XVIIth Key
01 the Taro in Respect 01 its Starriness.
The Use 01 these Attributions is lengthy and various: l cannot dwell upon
it: but I will give one Example.
11 I wish to visit the Sphere 01 Geburah, I use the Colours and Forces
appropriate: I go there: if the Objects which then appear to my spiritual
Vision are harmonious therewith, it is one Test 01 their Truth.
50 also, to construct a Talisman, or to invoke a Spirit
The methods of discovering Dogma from sacred Words are also numerous
and important: I may mention :—
(a) The Doctrine of Sympathles: drawn from the total Numeration 01 a
Word, when identical with, or a. Multiple or Submultiple of, or a Metathesis of,
that 01 another \Vord.
(b) The Method 01 finding the Least Number of a Word, by adding (and
re-adding) the Digits 01 its total Number, and taking the corresponding Key 01
the Taro as a Key to the Meaning 01 the Word.
(c) The Method 01 Analogies drawn from the Shape 01 the Letters.
(a') The Method of Deductions drawn 110111 the Meanings and Corre-
spondences of the Letters.
(e) The Method of Acrostics drawn from the Letters This Mode is only
valid {or Adepts 01 the highest Grades, and then under quite exceptional and
rare Conditions.
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(7') The Method of Transpositions and Transmutations of the Letters, which
suggest Analogies, even when they fail to explain in direct Fashions
All these and their Varieties and Combinations, with some other more
abstruse or less important Methods, may be used to unlock the Secret of a
Word.
Of course with Powers so wide it is easy for the Partisan to find his
favourite Meaning in any Word, Even the formal Proof :(= 1 =2=3 =4: 5 =
....... =n is possible.
But the Adept who worked out this Theorem, with the very Intent to
discredit the Qabalistic Mode of Research, was suddenly dumfounded by the
Fact that he had actually stumbled upon the Qabalistic Proof of Pantheism or
Monism.
What really happens is that the Adept sits down and performs many useless
Tricks with the Figures, without Result.
Suddenly the Lux dawns, and the Problem is solved,
The Rationalist explains this by Inspiration, the superstitious Man by
Mathematics
I give an Example of the Way in which one works. Let us take IAO, one
of the “Barbarous Names of Evocation,” of which those who have wished to
conceal their own Glory by adopting the Authority of Zarathustra have said
that in the holy Ceremonies it has an inefl’able Power.
But what Kind of Power? By the Qabalah we can find out the Force of
the Name IAO.
We can spell it in Hebrew ‫ ?ואי‬or ‫ ?עאװ‬The Qabalah will even tell us which
is the true Way, Let us however suppose that it is spelt mv. This adds up
to 17.
But first of all it strikes us that I, A, and O are the three Letters associated
with the three Letters ‫ ?ה‬in the great Name of Six Letters, ,‫ ?הוהיהא‬which com-
bines ‫ ?הוהא‬and Til-‘1‘, Macroprosopus and Microprosopusi Now these feminine
Letters ‫ ?ה‬conceal the “Three Mothers " of the Alphabet, R, 7), and w. Replace
these, and we get tem-ws, which adds up to 358, the Number alike of ,‫ ?שחג‬the
Serpent of Genesis, and the Messiah. We thus look for redeeming Power in
IAO, and for the Masculine Aspect of that Power.
Now we will see how that Power works. We have a curious Dictionary,
which was made by a very learned Man, in which the Numbers 1 to 10,000 fill
the left hand Column, in Order, and opposite them are written all the sacred or
important Words which add up to each Numberi
We take this Book, and look at 17. We find that 17 is the number of
Squares in the Swastika, which is the Whirling Disc or Thunderbolt. Also
there is ,‫ ?בוה‬a Circle or Orbit; w, to seethe or boil; and some other Words,
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which we will neglect in this Example, though we should not dare to do so if
we were really trying to find out a Thing we none of us knew. To help our
Deduction about Redemption), too, we find mn, to brighten or make glad.
We also work in another Way. I is the Straight Line or Central Pillar of
the Temple of Life ; also it stands for Unity, and for the Generative Force A
is the Pentagram, which means the Will of Man working Redemption. Ο is the
Circle from which everything came, also Nothingness, and the Female, who
absorbs the Male. The Progress of the Name shows then the Way from Life to
Nirvana by means of the Will: and is a Hieroglyph of the Great Work.
Look at all our Meanings Every one shows that the Name, if it has any
!
Power at all, and that we must try, has the Power to redeem us from the Love
of Life which is the Cause of Life, by its masculine Whirlings, and to gladden
us and to bring us to the Bosom of the Great Mother, Death,
Before what is known as the Equinox of the Gods, a little While ago, there
was an initiated Formula which expressed these Ideas to the Wise. As these
Formulas are done with, it is of no Consequence if I reveal them. Truth is not
eternal, any more than God; and it would be but a poor God that could not and
did not alter his Ways at his Pleasure.
This Formula was used to open the Vault of the Mystic Mountain of
Abiegnus, within which lay (so the Ceremony of Initiation supposed) the Body
of our Father Christian Rosen Creutz, to be discovered by the Brethren with the
Postulant as said in the Book called Fama Fraternitatis,
There are three Officers, and they repeat the Analysis of the Word as
follows :—
Chief. Let us analyse the Key Word—ll
2nd. N.
3rd. R,
All. I.
Chief. Yod. `
znd. Nun. ‫?ג‬
3rd. Resh. ‘I
All. Yod. `
Chief Virgo (mg) Isis, Mighty Mother.
znd. Scorpio (πι) Apophis, Destroyer,
3rd. Sol (Θ) Osiris, slain and risen.
All. Isis, Apophis, Osiris, ΙΑΟ.
All spread Arms as if on a Cross, and say :—

The Sign of Osiris slain!
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Chief bows his Head to the Left, raises his Right Arm, and lowers his Left
keeping the Elbow at right Angles, thus forming the Letter L (also the
Swastika)
The Sign of the Mourning of Isis,
znd. With erect Head, raises his Arms to form a V (but really to form the
triple Tongue of Flame, the Spirit), and says :—
The Sign o( Apophis and Typhon,
3rd Bows his Head and crosses his Arms on his Breast (to form the
Pentagram).
The Sign ofOsiris riseni
All give the Sign of the Cross, and say :—
L.V.X.
Then the Sign of Osiris risen, and say :—
Lux, the Light of the Cross
This Formula, on which one may meditate for Years without exhausting its
wonderful Harmonies, gives an excellent Idea of the Way in which Qabalistic
Analysis is conducted.
First, the Letters have been written in Hebrew Characters,
Then the Attributions of them to the Zodiac and to Planets are substituted,
and the Names of Egyptian Gods belonging to these are invoked,
The Christian Idea of Ι.Ν.Κ.Ι᾿ is confirmed by these, while their Initials form
the sacred Word of the Gnostics, That is, ΙΑΟ᾿ From the Character of the
Deities and their Functions are deduced their Signs, and these are found to
signal (as it were) the Word Lux (was), which itself is contained in the Cross,
A careful Study of these Ideas, and of the Table of Correspondences, which
one ofour English Brethren is making, will enable him to discover a very great
Deal of Matter for Thought in these Poems which an untutored Person would
pass by.
To return to the general Dogma of the Qabalists.
The Figure of Minutum Mundum will show how they suppose one Quality
to proceed from the last, first in the pure God-World Atziluth, then in the
Angel-World Briah, and so on down to the Demon-Worlds, which are however
not thus organised. They are rather Material that was shed off in the Course
of Evolution, like the Sloughs of a Serpent, from which comes their Name of
Shells, or Husks.
Apart from silly Questions as to whether the Order of the Emanations is
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confirmed by Palaeontology, a Question it is quite impertinent to discuss, there
is no Doubt that the Sephiroth are types of Evolution as opposed to Cata—
strophe and Creation.
The great Charge against this Philosophy is founded on its alleged Affinities
with Scholastic Realism. But the Charge is not very true. No Doubt but they
did suppose vast Storehouses of " Things of one Kind” from which, pure or
mingled, all other Things did proceed.
Since ,‫ ?ג‬a Camel, refers to the Moon, they did say that a Camel and the Moon
were sympathetic, and came, that Part of them, from a common Principle:
and that a Camel being yellow brown, it pan-took of the Earth Nature, to which
that Colour is given.
Thence they said that by taking all the Natures involved, and by blending
them in the just Proportions, one might have a Cameli
But this is no more than is said by the Upholders of the Atomic Theoryi
They have their Storehouses of Carbon, Oxygen, and such (not in one Place,
but no more is Geburah in one Place), and what is Organic Chemistry but the
Production of useful Compounds whose Nature is deduced absolutely from
theoretical Considerations long before it is ever produced in the Laboratory?
The difference, you will say, is that the Qabalists maintain a Mind of each
Kind behind each Class of Things of one Kind; but so did Berkeley, and his
Argument in that Respect is, as the great Huxley showed, irrefragable, For
by the Universe I mean the Sensible; any other is Not to be Known; and the
Sensible is dependent upon Mind. Nay, though the Sensible is said to be an
Argument of an Universe Insensible, the latter becomes sensible to Mind as
soon as the Argument is accepted, and disappears with its Rejection
Nor is the Qabalah dependentrupon its Realism, and its Application to the
Works magical—but I am defending a Philosophy which I was asked to describe,
and this is not lawfuli
A great Deal may be learned from the Translation of the Zohar by S,
Liddell Macgregor Mathers, and his Introduction thereto, though for those who
have Latin and some acquaintance with Hebrew it is better to study the
Kabbala Denudata of Knorr von Rosenroth, in Despite of the heavy Price ; for
the Translator has distorted the Text and its Comment to suit his belief in a
supreme Personal God, and in that degraded Form of the Doctrine of Feminism
which is so popular with the Emasculate.
The Sephiroth are grouped in various Waysi There is a Superior Triad or
Trinity; a Hexad; and Malkuth: the Crown, the Father, and the Mother;
the Son of King; and the Bride.
Also, a Division into seven Palaces, seven Planes, three Pillars or Columns,
and the like
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The Flashing Sword follows the Course of the Numbers; and the Serpent
Nechushtan or of Wisdom crawls up the Paths which join them upon the Tree
of Life, namely the Letters.
It is important to explain the Position of Daath or Knowledge upon the
Tree. It is called the Child of Chokmah and Binah, but it hath no Place. But
it is really the Apex oia Pyramid of which the three first Numbers form the Base.
Now the Tree, or Minutum Mundum, is a Figure in a Plane of a solid
Universe Daath, being above the Plane, is therefore a Figure of a Force in
{our Dimensions, and thus it is the Object of the Magnum Opus. The three
Paths which connect it with the First Trinity are the three lost Letters or
Fathers of the Hebrew Alphabet.
In Daath is said to be the Head of the great Serpent Nechesh or Leviathan,
called Evil to conceal its Holiness. ,‫=ח`שמ‬358=‫ ?(שחכ‬the Messiah or
Redeemer, and ,‫=הוכלמ‬496=‫ ?ךחיול‬the Bride.) It is identical with the
Kundalini of the Hindu Philosophy, the Kwan-se—on of the Mongolian Peoples,
and means the magical Force in Man, which is the sexual Force applied to the
Brain, Heart, and other Organs, and redeemeth him
The gradual Disclosure of these magical Secrets to the Poet may be traced
in these Volumes, which it has been my Privilege to be asked to explain. It
has been impossible to do more than place in the Hands of any intelligent
Person the Keys which will permit him to unlock the many Beautiful Chambers
of Holiness in these Palaces and Gardens of Beauty and Pleasure.
Of the results of the method we possess one flawless gem,

already printed in the EQUINOX (Vol. II, pp. 163-185), “ Α
Note on Genesis ” by V. H. Fra. Ι.Α.
From this pleasant, orthodox, and—so-they—all-lived-happy-
ever—after View let us turn for a moment to the critical aspect.
Let us demolish in turn the qabalistic methods of exegesis;
and then, if we can, discover a true basis upon which to erect
an abiding Temple of Truth.
1. Gematria.
The number 777 affords a good example of the legitimate
and illegitimate deductions to be drawn. It represents the
sentence AChTh RVCh ALHIM ChIIM, "One is the Spirit
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of the Living God," and also OLAHM H-QLPVTh, "The
world of the Shells (excrementsfithe demon-world)”
Now it is wrong to say that this idea of the unity 01 the
divine spirit is identical with this idea of the muddle of chaos
—-unless in that exalted grade in which “The One is the
Many.” But the compiler of Liber 777 was a great Qabalist
when he thus entitled his book; for he meant to imply, " One
is the Spirit of the Living God,” zle, I have in this book
unified all the diverse symbols of the world; and also, “the
world of shells,” i.e. this book is full of mere dead symbols;
do not mistake them for the living Truthl Further, he had
an academic reason for his choice of a number; for the
tabulation 01 the book is from Kether to Malkuth, the course
of the Flaming Sword and if this sword be drawn upon the
;
Tree of Life, the numeration 01 the Paths over which it passes

(taking ,‫ ?ג‬3, as the non—existent path from Binah to Chesed,
since it connects Macroprosopus and Microprosopus) is 777.
[See Diagrams 2 and 12.]
Το take another example, it is no mere coincidence that
463, the Staff of Moses, is ,‫ג‬,‫ס‬,‫ ?ת‬the paths of the Middle
Pillar; no mere coincidence that 26, ,‫ ?ה\הי‬is 1+6+9+Io,
the Sephiroth of the Middle Pillar. But ought we not to
have some supreme Name for 489, their sum, the Middle
Pillar perfect? Yet the Sepher Sephiroth is silent. (We
find only 489: MShLM GMVL, the avenger. Ed.)
Again, III is Aleph, the Unity, but also APL, thick
Darkness, and ASN, Sudden Death. This can only be
interpreted as meaning the annihilation of the individual in
the Unity, and the Darkness which is the Threshold 01 the
Unity; in other words, one must be an expert in Samadhi
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before this simple Gematria has any proper meaning. How,
then, can it serve the student in his research? The uninitiated
would expect Life and Light in the One; only by experience
can he know that to man the Godhead must be expressed by
those things which most he fears
We here purposely avoid dwelling on the mere silliness
of many Gematria correspondences, e.g., the equality 01 the
Qliphoth of one sign with the Intelligence 01 another. Such
misses are more frequent than such hits as AChD, Unity, I3
=AHBH, Love, 13.
The argument is an argument in a circle. " Only an adept
can understand the Qabalah,” just as (in Buddhism) Sakya—
muni said, “ Only an Arahat can understand the Dhamma.”
In this light, indeed, the Qabalah seems little more than a
convenient language for recording experience.
We may mention in passing that Frater P. never
acquiesced in the obvious “ cook” of arguing: +/‫ב‬:}?? r x:
y, by assuming that χ should add one to itself “for the
concealed unity.” Why shouldn’t ): have a little concealed
unity 01 its own?
That this method should ever have been accepted by any
Qabalist argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. In
all»conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less
obviously card-sharping methods!
2. Notariqon.
The absurdity of this method needs little indication. The
most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from Mr
Mathers’ Jew, converted by the Notariqons of “Berashith.”
True, Ρ.Ι.Α.Τ. is Flatus, Ignis, Aqua, Terra; showing the
Creator as Tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements;
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showing the Eternal Fiat as the equilibrated powers of Nature.
But what forbids Fecit Ignavus Animam Terrae, or any other
convenient blasphemy, such as Buddha would applaud?
Why not take our converted Jew and restore him to the
Ghetto with Ben, Ruach, Ab, Sheol !—IHVH, Thora? Why
not take the sacred Ἰχθν: of the Christian who thought it meant
Ἰησονς Χριστος 0500 Ὑιος Σωτηρ and make him a pagan With
“ Ἴσιδος Χαρις Θησαυρος ”‫ ?"םש‬Σοφια; ” ?
Why not argue that Christ in cursing the fig, F.I.G., wished
to attack Kant’s dogmas of Freewill, Immortality, God?
3. Temurah.
Here again the multiplicity of our methods makes our
method too pliable to be reliable. Should we argue that
BBL=ShShK (620) by the method 01 Athbash, and that
therefore BBL symbolises Kether (620)? Why, BBL is con—
fusion, the very opposite of Kether.
Why Athbash? Why not Abshath? or Agrath? or any
other 01 the possible combinations?
About the only useful Temurah is Aiq Bkr, given above.
In this we do find a suggestive reasoning. For example, we
find it in the attribution of ALHIM to the pentagram which
gives π. [See EQUINOX, No. II. p. 184.] Here we write
Elohim, the creative deities, round a pentagram, and read
it reverse beginning with ,‫ ?ל‬£, the letter of equilibrium,
and obtain an approximation to π 3.1415 (good enough
for the benighted Hebrews), as if thereby the finite square of
creation was assimilated to the infinite circle of the Creator.
Yes: but why should not Berashith 2, 2, I, 3, i, 4, give,
say, 2? The only answer is, that if you screw it round long
enough, it perhaps will!
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The Rational Table of Tziruph should, we agree with
Fra. P., be left to the Rationalist Press Association, and we
may present the Irregular Table of Commutations to Irregular
Masons.
4. To the less important methods we may apply the same
criticism.
We may glance in passing at the Yetziratic, Tarot, and
significatory methods of investigating any word. But though
Frater P. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly
pertinent to the pure numerical Qabalah, and we therefore
deal gently with them, The attributions are given in 777.
Thus 111 the Yetziratic world is " Air,” by Tarot “ the Fool,”
‫?א‬
and by signification “an ox.” Thus we have the famous

I.N.R.I.=~. :. ':1172, "I, 0,702; the Virgin, the Evil Serpent,
-‫?ר‬
the Sun, suggesting the story of Genesis ii. and of the Gospel.
The initials of the Egyptian names Isis, Apophis, Osiris, which
correspond, give in their turn the Ineffable Name IAO; thus
we say that the Ineffable is concealed in and revealed by
the Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Christ; and further
the Signs of Mourning of the Mother, Triumph of the
Destroyer, and Rising of the Son, give by shape the letters
'-
L.U.X., Lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed
by the Cross V X the Light of the Cross. Further
examples will be found in “ Α Note on Genesis." One of the
most famous is the Mene, Tekel, Upharsin of Daniel, the
imaginary prophet who lived under Belshazzar the imaginary
king.
ΜΝΑ. The Hanged Man, Death, the Fool:“ Sacrificed
to Death by thy Folly.”
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THE EQUINOX
ThKL. The Universe, the Wheel of Fortune, Justice:
“Thy kingdom’s fortune is in the Balance.”
PRSh. The Blasted Tower, the Sun, the Last Judgment
: “ Ruined is thy glory, and finished.”
But we cannot help thinking that this exegesis must have
been very hard work.
We could more easily read
MNA. Το sacrifice to death is folly.
ThKL. Thy kingdom shall be fortunate, for it is just.
PRSh. The Tower of thy glory shall endure until the
Last Day.
There! that didn’t take two minutes ; and Belshazzar
would have exalted us above Daniel.
Similarly AL, God, may be interpreted, “ His folly is
justice,” as it is written: “ The wisdom of this world is
foolishness with God,”
Or, by Yetzirah: “ The air is His balance,” as it is written:
“God made the firmament, and divided the waters which
were under the firmament from the waters which were above
the firmament.”
Or, by meaning: " The ox and the goad,” i.e., “ He is both
matter and motion.”
We here append a sketch MS. by Frater P., giving his
explanation by Tarot, etc,, of the letters of the alphabet spelt
in full.
MYSTIC READiNcs or THE LETTERS or THE ALPHABET

(See T AROT CARDS, AND mzn/mm)
ALP. Folly’s Doom is Ruin,
BITh. The Juggler with the Secret of the Universe.
GML, The Holy Guardian Angel is attained by Self-Sacrifice and Equilibrium.
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DLTh. The Gate of the Equilibrium of the Universe, (Note D, the highest
reciprocal path.)
HH. The Mother is the Daughter ; and the Daughter is the Mother.
VV. The Son is (but) the Son. (These two letters show the true doctrine
of Initiation as given in Liber 418; opposed to Protestant
Exotericism.)
ZI Ν. The answer of the Oracles is always Death.
ChITh. The Chariot of the Secret of the Universe.
TITh. She who rules the Secret Force of the Universe
IVD, The Secret of the Gate of Initiation.
KP. In the \Vhirlings is War.
LMD. By Equilibrium and Self-Sacritïce, the Gate!
MIM. The Secret is hidden between the Waters that are above and the
Waters that are beneath. (Symbol, the Ark containing the secret
of Life borne upon the Bosom of the Deluge beneath the
Clouds.)
NVN. Initiation is guarded on both sides by death.
SMK. Self-control and Self-sacrifice govern the Wheel.
OIN. The Secret of Generation is Death,
PH. The Fortress of the Most High. (Note P, the lowest reciprocal
path).
sz. In the Star is the Gate of the Sanctuary.
QVP. Illusionary is the Initiation of Disorder.
RISh. In the Sun (Osiris) is the Secret of the Spirit.
Sth. Resurrection is hidden in Death.
ThV. The Universe is the Hexagram.
(Other meanings suit other planes and other grades.)
Truly there is no end to this wondrous science; and

when the sceptic sneers, “ With all these methods one ought
to be able to make everything out of nothing,” the Qabalist
smiles back the sublime retort, ”With these methods One
did make everything out of nothing,"
Besides these, there is still one more method—a method
of some little importance to students of the Siphra Dzenioutha,
namely, the analogies drawn from the shapes of letters;
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THE EQUINOX
these are often interesting enough. ,‫ ?א‬for example, is 3
‫?ו‬
between~ and `, making 26. Thus ‫ ?ה\הי‬,‫=א‬26 1. Therefore
Jehovah is One. But it would be as pertinent to continue
26:2 I3, and 13=Achad = I, and therefore Jehovah is Two.
<>
This then is an absurdity. Yes; but it is also an

arcanum!
How wonderful is the Qabalahl How great is its
security from the profane; how splendid its secrets to the
initiate!
Verily and Amen! yet here we are at the old dilemma,
that one must know Truth before one can rely upon the
Qabalah to show Truth.
Like the immortal burglar :
“ Bill wouldn’t hurt 3 baby—he’s 3 pal 35 you can trust,

He’s all right when yer know ’im ; but yer've got to know ’im fust.”
So those who have committed themselves to academic

study of its mysteries have found but 3 dry stick: those
who have understood (favoured of God!) have found therein
Aaron’s rod that budded, the Staff of Life itself, yea, the
venerable Lingarn of Mahasival
It is for us to trace the researches of Prater P. in the
Qabalah, to show how from this storehouse of child’s
puzzles, of contradictions and incongruities, of paradoxes and
trivialities, he discovered the very canon of Truth, the
authentic key of the Temple, the Word of that mighty
Combination which unlocks the Treasure-Chamber of the
King.
And this following is the Manuscript which he has left
{or our instruction.
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AN ESSAY UPON NUMBER

(May the Holy One mitigate His severities toward His servant in respect of
the haste wherewith this essay hath been composed 1
When I travelled with the venerable Iehi Aour in search of Truth, we

encountered a certain wise and holy man, Shri Parananda. Children! said he,
for two years must ye study with me before ye fully comprehend our Law.
“Venerable Sir " answered Frater LA., " the first verse of Our Law contains
!
but seven words. For seven years did I study that verse by day and by night ;
and at the end of that time did I presume—may the Dweller of Eternity
pardon me l—to write a monograph upon the first word of those seven words."
" Venerable Sir! ” quoth I: "that First Word of our law contains but six
letters. For six years did I study that word by day and by night; and at the
end of that time did Ι not dare to utter the first letter of those six letters."
Thus humbling myself did I abash both the holy Yogi and my venerable
Frater l. A, But alas! Tetragrammaton! Alas! Adonai! the hour of my
silence is past, May the hour of my silence return Amen.)!
PART I
THE UNIVERSE AS [I IS
SECTION I
o. The Negative—«he Infinite—the Circle, or the Point.
!, The Unity—the Positive—the Finite—the Line, derived from ο by
extension. The divine Being.
2. The Dyad—the Superficies, derived from I by reflection -
: ,or by
revolution of the line around its end. The Deiniurge. The divine Will.
3, The Triad, the Solid, derived from I and 2 by addition. Matter. The
divine Intelligence
4. The Quaternary, the solid existing in Time, matter as we know it.
Derived from 2 by multiplication. The divine Repose.
ς. The Quinary, Force or Motion. The interplay of the divine Will with
matter. Derived from 2 and 3 by addition.
6. The Senary, Mind. Derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication.
7. The Septenary, Desire. Derived from 3 and 4 by addition. (There is
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THE EQUINOX
however a secondary attribution of 7, making it the holiest and most perfect of
the numbers.)
8. The Ogdoad, Intellect (also Change in Stability). Derived from 2 and 3
by multiplication, 8:23.
9. The Ennead, Stability in Change. Derived [rom 2 and 3 by multiplication,
9= 32>
(Note all numbers divisible by nine are still so divisible, however the order
of the figures is shifted.)
Io. The Decad, the divine End. Represents the I returning to the ο.
Derived from i+2+3+4.
π. The Hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine
Tree. 1+1=2, in its evil sense of not being L
SECTION Π
. The Cosmic Egg,
. The Self of Deity, beyond Fatherhood and Motherhood.
. The Father.
. The Mother,
. The Father made ksh—authoritative and paternal.
.
‫»ס‬-‫סשססאוסחווגגסגאב‬
The Mother made flesh—fierceand active,

. The Son—partaking of all these natures.
The Mother degraded to mere animal emotion,
. The Father degraded to mere animal reason.
͵ The Son degraded to mere animal life.
. The Daughter, fallen and touching with her hands the shells.
It will be noticed that this order represents creation as progressive degenera-

tion—which we are compelled to think of as evil. In the human organism the
same arrangement will be noticed.
SECTION III
0. The Pleroma of which our individuality is the monad : the “All-Self."
I. The Self—the divine Ego of which man is rarely conscious.
2. The Ego; that which thinks “ ‫ ?”כ"ב‬falsehood, because to think “I” is
to deny “ not-I " and thus to create the Dyad.
3. The Soul; since 3 reconciles 2 and 1, here are placed the aspirations to
divinityi It is also the receptive as 2 is the assertive self.
4-9. The Intellectual Self, with its branches:
4. Memory.
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. Will.
"‫סח‬
Imagination.
.
. Desire.
. Reason.
‫\סססאו‬
. Animal being.
6. The Conscious Self of the Normal Man: thinking itself free, and really
the toy ofits surroundings
9. The Unconscious Self of the Normal Mani Reflex actions, circulation,
breathing, digestion, etc,, all pertain here.
10. The illusory physical envelope; the scafi‘olding of the building.
SEc‘rxou IV
Having compared these attributions with those to be found in 777, studied
them, assimilated them so thoroughly that it is natural and needs no effort to
think “ Binah, Mother, Great Sea, Throne, Saturn, Black, Myrrh, Sorrow,
intelligence, etc, etc. etc.," in a. flash whenever the number 3 is mentioned or
seen, we may profitably proceed to go through the most important of the higher
numbers. For this purpose I have removed myself from books of reference;
only those things which have become fixed in my mind (from their importance)
deserve place in the simplicity ofthis essay.
12. ΗνΑ, “ He,” a title of Kether, identifying Kether with the Zodiac, the
“ home of 12 stars " and their correspondences, See 777.
13. AChD, Unity, and AHBH Love. A scale of unity; thus 13 <>!=!;
26:13 ><2=2; 91 =13 ><7=7; so that we may find in 26 and 91 elaborations
of the Dyad and the Septenary respectively.
14. An " elaboration " of 5 (1 +4=5), Force ; a “ concentration ” of 86
(EH-6:14) Elohim, the 5 elements.
15. IH, Jah, one of the inePfable names; the Father and Mother united.
Mystic number of Geburah : i+2+3+4+ 5.
17. .The number of squares in the Swastika, which by shape is Aleph, .‫?א‬
Hence 17 recalls !, Also IAV, IAO, the triune Father. See 32 and 358.
18. ChI, Life. An “ elaboration ᾽᾿ of 9.
20. ΝΒ, Yod, the letter of the Father.
21. AHIH, existence, a title of Kether, Note 3x7=2L Also IHV, the
first 3 (active) letters of ΙΗνΗ. Mystic number of Tiphereth.
22. The number of letters in the Hebrew Alphabet; and of the paths on
the Tree. Hence suggests completion of imperfection, Finality, and fatal
finalityi Note 2 <> 11 :22, the accursed Dyad at play with the Shells.
24. Number of the Elders; and =72 + 3. 72 is the “ divided Name."
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THE EQUINOX
26. IHVH. Jehovah, as the Dyad expanded, the jealous and terrible God,
the lesser Countenance. The God of Nature, fecund, cruel, beautiful, relentless.
28. Mystic number of Netzach, KCli, “ Power.”
3x. LA, " not"; and AL, “God." In this Part I. (“Nature as it is ") the
number is rather forbidding. For AL is the God-name of Chesed, mercy; and
so the number seems to deny that Name.
32. Number of Sephiroth and Paths, 10+22, Hence is completion of
perfection. Finality: things as they are in their totality. AHIHVH, the
combined AHIH and IHVH, Macroprosopus and Microprosopus, is here. ΙΓ
we suppose the 3 female letters H to conceal the 3 mothers A, M, Sh, we obtain
the number 358, Messiach, q.v. Note 32:25, the divine Will extended through
motion. 64:26, will be the perfect number of matter, {or it is 8, the first cube,
squared. So we find it a Mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in
truth eternal change.
35. AGLA, a name of God = Ateh Gibor Le Olahm Adonai, “ To Thee be
the Power unto the Ages, O my Lord " 35 :5 X7. 7:Divinity, 5: Power.
!
36. A Solar Number. ALH. Otherwise unimportant, but is the mystic

number of Mercury.
37. IChIDH. The highest principle of the Soul, attributed to Kethcr.
Note 37:111 +3.
38. Note 38 <>11 :418 q.v. in Part II.
39. IHVH AChD, Jehovah is one. 39:13 X3. This is then the affirma-
tion οἵ the aspiring soul.
40. A “dead” number of fixed law, 4 <> 10, Tetragrammaton, the lesser
countenance immutable in the heaviness of Malkuth.
41. AM, the Mother, unfertilised and unenlightened,
42. AMA, the Mother, still dark. Here are the 42 judges o( the dead in
Amennti, and here is the 42-fold name of the Creative God. See Liber 418.
44, DM, blood. See Part 11. Here 4xu=the corruption of the created
world.
45. ΜΗ, a secret title of Yetzirah, the Formative World. ADM, Adam, man,
the species (not “ the first man ”(, A is Air, the divine breath which stirs DM,
blood, into being.
49. A number useful in the calculations of Dr Dee, and a mystic number of
Venus.
50. The number of the Gates of Binah, whose name is Death (se:! =by
Tarot, “ Death ”).
51. AN, pain. NA, failure. ADVM, Edom, the country ofthe demon kings.
There is much in the Qabalah about these kings and their dukes; it never meant
much to me, somehow. But 51 is I short of 52.
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THE EQUINOX
91. 91 =7 x13, the most spiritual form of the Septenary. AMN, Amen, the
holiest title of God; the Amoun of the Egyptians. It equals IHVH ADNI
(IAHDVNHI, interlaced), the eight—lettered name, thus linking the 7 to the 8.
Note that AMN (reckoning N as final, 7oo)=741 =AMThSh, the letters of the
elements ; and is thus a form of Tetragrammaton, a form unveiled.
100. The number of p, the perfect illusion, roxlo. Also ,‫ ?ףכ‬Kaph, the
Wheel of Fortune. The identity is that of matter, fatality, change, illusion. It
seems the Buddhist View of the SamsaraCakkram.
106, NVN, Nun, a fish. The number of death. Death in the Tarot bears
a cross-handled scythe ; hence the Fish as the symbol 01 the Redeemer.
IX9Y2=Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.
108. Chiefly interesting because 108:2 X2 X3 <> 3 X 3=the square of 2
playing with the cube of 3. Hence the Buddhists hailed it with acclamation,
and make their rosaries of this number 01 beads.
111. AChD HVA ALHIM, “He is One God.”
ALP, Aleph, an ox, a thousand. The redeeming Bull. By shape the
Swastika, and so the Lightning. " As the lightning lighteneth out 01 the East
even unto the West, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man." An allusion to
the descent of Shiva upon Shakti in Samahdi. The Roman A shows the same
through the shape of the Pentagram, which it imitates.
ΑΒΝ᾽ ruin, destruction, sudden death, 5:17.,011110 personality in Samadhi.
APL, thick darkness, Cf. St [01111 01 the Cross, who describes these
phenomena in great detail.
AOM, the Hindu Aum or Om.
MHVLL, mad—the destruction of Reason by illumination.
OVLH, a holocaust. ᾳ ASN.
PLA, the Hidden Wonder, ‫ ?ב‬title 01 Kether.
114. DMO, a tear. The age of Christian Rosencreutz,
120. SMK, Samech, a prop. Also MVSDI, basis, foundation. 120:1 x2
><3><4><5, and is thus a synthesis of the power of the pentagram. [Also
1+2+, . .+15=120.] Hence its importance in the 5:6 ritual, q.v. supra
EQUINOX, No. III. I however disagree in part; it seems to me to symbolise a
lesser redemption than that associated with Tiphereth. Compare at least the
numbers 012 and 210 in Liber Legis and Liber 418, and extol their superiority.
For while the first is the sublime formula of the infinite surging into finity, and
the latter the supreme rolling-up of finity into infinity, the 120 can symbolise at
the best a sort 01 intermediate condition of stability. For how can one proceed
from the 2 to the O? [20 is also ON, a very important name 01 God.
124. ODN, Eden,
131. SMAL, Satan st)-called, but really only Samael, the accuser of the
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brethren, unpopular with the Rabbis because their consciences were not clear.
Samael fulfils a most useful function ; he is scepticism, which accuses intellec-
ually; conscience, which accuses morally; and even that spiritual accuser upon
the Threshold, without whom the Sanctuary might be profaned. We must
defeat him, it is true; but how should we abuse and blame him, without abuse
and blame of Him that set him there?
136. A mystic number of Jupiter ; the sum of the first 16 natural
numbers
144. A square and therefore a materialisation of the number 12. Hence the
numbers in the Apocalpyse, 144,000 only means 12 (the perfect number in the
Zodiac or houses of heaven and tribes of Israel) (> 12, ie. settled X1000, i.e. on
the grand scale.
148. MAZNIM, Scales of Justice.
156. BABALON. See Liber 418. This number is chiefly important for
Part II. It is of no account in the orthodox dogmatic Qabalah. Yet it is
12X 13, the most spiritual form, 13, of the most perfect number, 12, HVA.
[It is TZIVN, Zion, the City of the Pyramidsindt]
I75. A mystic number of Venus.
203. ABR, initials of AB, BN, RVCh, the Trinity.
206. DBR, Speech, “ the Word of Power."
207. AVR, Light. Contrast with AVE, 9, the astral light, and AVD, 11, the
Magical Light. Aub is an illusory thing of witchcraft (cf. Obi, Obeah);
Aud is almost=the Kundalini force (“Odic” force). This illustrates well the
difference between the sluggish, viscous 9, and the keen, ecstastic 11.
210. Pertains to Part ΙΙ. See Liber 418.
214. RVCh, the air, the mind.
220. Pertains to Part ΙΙ. The number of verses in Liber Legis.
‫י‬231 The sum of the first 22 numbers, 0 to 21 ; the sum of the Key<Numbers?
of the Tarot cards; hence an extension of the idea of 22, q.v.?
27o. I.N.R.I. See 5:6 ritual.
280. The sum of the “five letters of severity," those which have a final
form—Kaph, Mem, Nun, Pe, Tzaddi. Also the number of the squares on the
sides of the Vault 7 X40; see 5:6 ritual. Also RP=terror.
300. The letter w, meaning "tooth," and suggesting by its shape a. triple
flame. Refers Yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the Holy Spirit, RVCh
ALHIM 2300. Hence the letter of the Spirit. Descending into the midst of
IHVH, the four inferior elements, we get IHShVH Jeheshua, the Saviour,
symbolised by the Pentagram.
301᾿ ASH, Fire.
314. ShDI, the Almighty, a name of God attributed to Yesod.
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(lifeless, azotos), the old name for nitrogen. Azoth means the sum and essence
of all, conceived as One.
406. ThV, the letter Tau (see 400), also AThH, "Thou." Note that AHA
(7), the divine name of Venus (7), gives the initials of Ani, Hua, Ateh—I, He,
Thou ; three different aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in three
ways: viz. (r) with averted face; (z) with prostration ; (3) with identification.
418. Pertains principally to Part ll., q.v.
4x9. TITh, the letter Teth,
434. DLTh, the letter Daleth.
440. ThLI, the great dragon,
441. AMTh, Truth, Note 441=21<>21. 21 is !1111111118 God of Kether,
whose Will is Truth.
450. ThN, the great dragon.
463. MTH HShQD, Moses’ Wand, a rod of Almond. 3+60+4oo, the paths
of the middle pillar.
474. DVTh, Knowledge, the Sephira that is not a Scphira. In one aspect
the child of Chokmah and Binah; in another the Eighth Head of the Stooping
Dragon, raised up when the Tree of Life was shattered, and Macroposopus set
cherubim against Microposopus. See 4:7 ritual [‫ ?שעמ‬Also, and very
specially, Liber 418. It is the demon that purely intellectual or rational
religions take as their God. The special danger of Hinayana Buddhism.
480. LILITh, the demon-qucen of Malkuth.
543. AHIH AShR ΑΗΙΗ,"Ι am that I am."
666. Last of the mystic numbers of the sun. SVRTh, the spirit of Sol.
Also OMMV SThN, Ommo Satan, the Satanic Trinity of Typhon, Apophis, and
Besz; also SliM IHShVH, the name 01 Jesus. The names of Nero, Napoleon,
W. E, Gladstone, and any person that you may happen to dislike, add up to
this number. In reality it is the final extension of the number 6, both because 6
<> I 1 1
:
(ALPh: 111 [(=6 and because the Sun, whose greatest number it is, is 6.
(I here interpolate a note on the “mystic numbers " of the planets, The
first is that of the planet itself, ag Saturn, 3. The second is that of the number
of squares in the square of the planet, e.g. Saturn 9. The third is that of the
figures in each line of the “magic square“ of the planet, eg. Saturn is. A
‘magic square” is one in which each file, rank, and diagonal add to the same
number, eg. Saturn is 816᾿ 357, 492, each square being tilled in with the
numbers from 1 upwards.
The last of the Magic numbers is the sum of the whole of the figures in the
square, e.g. Saturn 45. The complete list is thus:
Saturn 3, 9, 15,45.
Jupiter 4, 16, 34, 136.
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THE EQUINOX
Mars ;, 25, 65, 325.
Sol 6, 36, !!!, 666.
Venus 7,49,175,1225.
Mercury 8, 64, 260, 2080.
Luna 9, 81, 369, 3321.
Generally speaking, the first number gives a divine name, the second an
archangelic or angelic name, the third a name pertaining to the Formative
world, the fourth a name of a “spirit " or “ blind force." For example, Mercury
has AZ and DD (love) for 8, DIN and DNl {or 64, TIRIAL {or 260, and
ThPThRThRTh for 2080. But in the earlier numbers this is not so well carried
out 136 is both IVPhIL, the Intelligence of Jupiter, and HSMAL, the Spirit.
The “mystic numbers " of the Sephiroth are simply the sums of the numbers
from 1 to their own numbers.
Thus (ι) Kether: .
(2) Chokma =1+2=3.
(3) Binah: ! +2 +3 :6.
(4) Chesed=x+2+3+4: !0.
(5) Geburah:t+2+3+4+5=ls.
(6) Tiphereth:l+2+3+4+5+6=2L
(7) Netzach: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7:28.
(8) Hod= 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8=36
(9) Yesod:I+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9=45-
(IO) ‫ז‬2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+‫ו‬:‫ ?שמתשמ‬10=55:
The most important attributions of 666, however, pertain to the second part,
q. v.
67L ThORA the Law, ThROA the Gate, AThOR the Lady of the Path of
Daleth, ROThA the Wheel, Also ALPH, DLTh, NUN, lVD, Adonai (see
65) spelt in full.
This important number marks the identity of the Augoeides with the Way
itself(“ I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life ”) and shows the Taro as a key;
and that the Law itself is nothing else than this. For this reason the outer
College of the A.: A:. is crowned by this “knowledge and conversation of the
Holy Guardian Angel."
This number too is that of the Ritual of Neophyte, See Liber XIII.
74L AMThSh, the {our letters of the elements. AMN, counting the N
final as 700, the supreme Name of the Concealed One. The dogma is that the
Highest is but the Four Elements ; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond
Tetragrammaton. This dogma is most admirably portrayed by Lord Dunsany
in a tale called " The Wanderings of Shaun.”
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777. Vida :”?”,
800. QShTh, the Rainbow. The Promise of Redemption (8)—8 as Mercury,
Intellect, the Ruach, Microprosopus, the Redeeming Son—in its most material
form.
8n. IAQ (Greek numeration).
888. Jesus (Greek numeration).
913. BRAShITh, the Beginning. See "A Note on Genesis.” This list‘
will enable the student to follow most of the arguments of the dogmatic
Qabalah. It is useful for him to go through the arguments by which one can
prove that any given number is the supreme. It is the case, the many being
but veils ofthe One ; and the course of argument leads one to knowledge and
worship of each number in turn. For example.
Thesis. The Number Nine is the highest and worthiest of the numbers.
Scholion a. " The number nine is sacred, and attains the summits of philo—
sophy,” Zoroaster.
Scholion β. Nine is the best symbol of the Unchangeable One, since by
whatever number it is multiplied, the sum of the figures is always 9, e.g. 9
‫י‬487=4383<>? 4+3+8+3= !& 1+8=9~
Scholion γ. 9::3, a serpent, And the Serpent is the Holy Uraeus, upon the
crown of the Gods,
Scholion ὃ. 9=IX:the Hermit of the Tarot, the Ancient One with Lamp
(Giver of Light) and Stafi' (the Middle Pillar of the Sephiroth). This, too, is the
same Ancient as in o, Aleph.
" The Fool " and Aleph: I.
Scholion s. 9=ISVD=80:P=Mars=5
:GML: :ChKMH:
:
the Mother: Binah : : 3 =AB The Father:
=(1 +2) Mystic Number of Chokmah:
=Chokmah:2:B=the Magus: : I. I
Scholion 9:the Foundation of all
F. things:tbe Foundation of the
alphabet: Yod =10=Malkuth: Kether: I.
Scholion ξ. 9 = IX=The Hermit Yod: Io:X=The Wheel of Fortune:
K=2o=XX=The Last Judgment=Sh=3oo o L=Justice:VIII=8=Ch
::5:H:The :
The Chariot=VII 7 = Z = The Lovers:VI :6:
V (Vau): The Pope: V
Emperor:1V:4:D:The Empress:III=3:G:The High
:
Priestess: II :2 B:The Magus: I : ! :A=The Fool:o.
* The complete dictionary, begun by Fra. 1. A., continued 15f;
P. and r;
vised by Fra. A. e. G. and others, will shortly be published by authority of the
A.: A:.
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Scholion η. 9=Luna=G= 3, etc., as before.
Scholion θ. 9: Indigo } =Saturn= 3, etc, as before.
f
1 Lead
There are many other lines of argument. This form of reasoning reminds
one of the riddle “ Why is a story like a ghost ? " Answer. “ Α story’s a tale;
a tail’s a brush; a brush is a broom ; a brougham’s a carriage; a carriage is a
gig; at gig‘s a trap; a lrap’s a snare; asnare’s a gin; gin’s a spirit; and a
spirit‘s a ghost.”
But our identities are not thus false; meditation reveals their truth.
Further, as I shall explain fully later, 9 is not equal to I for the neophyte,
These equivalences are dogmatic, and only true by favour of Him in whom All
is Truth. In practice each equivalence is a magical operation to be carried out
by the aspirant.
PART ll
THE UNIVERSE AS WE SEEK TO MAKE IT
In the first part we have seen all numbers as Veils of the One, emanations
of and therefore corruptions of the One. It is the Universe as we know it, the
static Universe.
Now the Aspirant to Magic is displeased with this state of things. He finds
himself but a creature, the farthest removed from the Creator, a number so
complex and involved that he can scarcely imagine, much less dare to hope for,
its reduction to the One.
The numbers useful to him, therefore, will be those which are subversive of
this state of sorrow. So the number 2 represents to him the Magus (the great
Magician Mayan who has created the illusion of Maya) as seen in the 2nd
Aethyr. And considering himself as the Ego who posits the NonAEgo (Fichte)
he hates this Magus. It is only the beginner who regards this Magus as the
Wonder—worker—as the thing he wants to be. For the adept such little con-
solation as he may win is rather to be found by regarding the Magus as B:
Mercury=8=Ch=418=ABRAHADABRA, the great Word, the " Word of
Double Power in the Voice of the Master " which unites the 5 and the 6, the Rose
and the Cross, the Circle and the Square, And also B is the Path from Binah
to Kether; but that is only important for him who is already in Binah, the
“ Master of the Temple,”
He finds no satisfaction in contemplating the Tree of Life, and the orderly
arrangement of the numbers ; rather does he enjoy the Qabalah as a means of
juggling with these numbers. He can leave nothing undisturbed; he is the
Anarchist of Philosophy. He refuses to acquiesce in merely formal proofs of
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the Excellence of things, “ He doeth all things well,” “ Were the world under-
stood Ye would see it was good,” " Whatever is, is right,” and so on. To him,
on the contrary, whatever is, is wrong. It is part of the painful duty of a
Master of the Temple to understand everything. Only he can excuse the
apparent cruelty and {atuity of things He is of the supernals; he sees things
from above; yet, having come from below, he can sympathise with all. And
he does not expect the Neophyte to share his views. Indeed, they are not true
to a Neophyte. The silliness 01 the New-Thought zanies in passionately
affirming “I am healthy! I am opulent! I am well-dressed! I am happy,”
when in truth they are “ poor and miserable and blind and naked,” is not a
philosophical but a practical silliness. Nothing exists, says the Magister
Templi, but perfection. True; yet their consciousness is imperfect. Ergo, it
does not exist. For the MT. this is so: he has “cancelled out " the complexities
of the mathematical expression called existence, and the answer is zero. But
for the beginner his pain and another’s joy do not balance; his pain hurts him,
and his brother may go hang. The Magister Templi, too, understands why
Zero must plunge through all finite numbers to express itself; why it must
write itself as “n—n" instead οἷο; what gain there is in such writing. And
this understanding will be found expressed in Liber 418 (Episode of Chaos and
His Daughter) and Liber Legis (i. 28-30).
But it must never be forgotten that everyone must begin at the beginning.
And in the beginning the Aspirant is a rebel, even though he {eel himself to be
that most dangerous type of rebel, a King Dethroned.‘
Hence he will worship any number which seems to him to promise to over-
turn the Tree of Life. He will even deny and blaspheme the One—whom,
after all, it is his ambition to be—because o( its simplicity and aloofness. He
is tempted to “curse God and die."
Atheists are of three kinds.
I. The mere stupid man. (Often he is Very clever, as Bolingbroke, Bradlaugh,
and Foote were clever.) He has found out one of the minor arcana, and hugs it,
and despises those who see more than himself, or who regard things from a
different standpoint. Hence he is usually a bigot, intolerant even of tolerance
2. The despairing wretch, who, having sought God everywhere, and failed
to find Him, thinks everyone else is as blind as he is, and that if he has failed—
he, the seeker after truth !—it is because there is no goal. In his cry there is
* And of course, 11 his revolt succeeds, he will acquiesce in order. The first
condition of gaining a grade is to be dissatisfied with the one that you have.
And so when you reach the end you find order as at first ; but also that the law
is that you must rebel to conquer.
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pain, as with the stupid kind of atheist there is smugness and self-satisfaction.
Both are diseased Egos.
3. The philosophical adept, who, knowing God, says “ There is No God,”
meaning " God is Zero,” as qabalistically He is. He holds atheism as a philo—
sophical speculation as good as any other, and perhaps less likely to mislead
mankind and do other practical damage than any other.
Him you may know by his equanimity, enthusiasm, and devotion. I again
refer to Liber 418 for an explanation of this mystery The nine religions are
crowned by the ring of adepts whose password is " There is No God,” so
inflected that even the Magister when received among them had not wisdom to
interpret it.
I, Mr Daw, KC. : M’lud, I respectfully submit that there is no such creature
as a peacock.
2. Oedipus at Colonus Alas there is no sun I, even Ι, have looked and
: ! !
found it not.
3. Dixit Stultus in corde suo: “Ain Elohim."
There is a fourth kind of atheist, not really an atheist at all. He is but a
traveller in the Land of No God, and knows that it is but a stage on his
journey—and a stage, moreover, not far from the goal. Daath is not on the
Tree of Life; and in Daath there is no God as there is in the Sephiroth, {or
Daath cannot understand unity at all. If he thinks of it, it is only to hate it,
as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see Liber 418. 10th Aethyri
Ι may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on Advanced
Qabalah, and of course it is only intelligible to Advanced Students).
This atheist, not iri-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation.
He has done with the illusions of dogma. From aKnight oithe Royal Mystery
he has risen to understand with the members of the Sovereign Sanctuary that
all is symbolic; all, if you will, the Jugglery of the Magician, He is tired of
theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and
anhungered and athirst seeks a seat at the Table of Adepts, and a portion of
the Bread of Spiritual Experience, and a draught of the wine of Ecstasy.
It is then thoroughly understood that the Aspirant is seeking to solve the
great Problem, And he may conceive, as various Schools of Adepts in the
ages have conceived, this problem in three main forms.
I. I am not God. I wish to become God.
This is the Hindu conception.
I am Malkuthi I wish to become Kether,
This is the qabalistic equivalent.
2. I am a fallen creature. 1 wish to be redeemed.
This is the Christian conception,
I am Malkuth, the fallen daughter. I wish to beset upon the throne
of Binah my supernal mother.
3. I am the finite square ; to be one with the infinite circle.

I wish
This is the Unsectarian conception.
I am the Cross of Extension; I wish to be one with the infinite Rose.
The answer of the Adept to the first form of the problem is for the Hindu
" Thou art That ” (see previous chapter, " The Yogi ”) ; for the Qabalist
“Malkuth is in Kether, and Kether is in Malkuth,” or “ That which is below is
like that which is above ” or simply "Ved." (The foundation of all letters
having the number 10, symbolising Malkuth.)
The answer of the Adept to the second form of the problem is {or the
Christian all the familiar teaching of the Song of Songs and the Apocalypse
concerning the Bride of Christ?
For the Qabalist it is a long complex dogma which may be studied in the
Lohar and elsewhere, Otherwise, he may simply answer “ He’” (the letter alike
of mother and daughter in IHVH). See Liber 418 for lengthy disquisitions on
this symbolic basis.
The answer of the Adept to the third form of the problem is given by 7r,
implying that an infinite factor must be employed.
For the Qabalist it is usually symbolised by the Rosy Cross, or by such
formulae as 5 =6, That they concealed a Word answering this problem is also true.
My discovery of this word is the main subject of this article. All the foregoing
exposition has been intended to show why I sought a word to fulfil the
conditions, and by what standards of truth I could measure things.
* This Christian teaching (not its qabalistic equivalent) is incomplete, The
Bride (the soul) is united, though only by marriage, with the Son, who then
presents her to the Father and Mother or Holy Spirit. These four then com-
plete Tetragrammaton. But the Bride is never united to the Father, In this
scheme the soul can never do more than touch Tiphcreth and so receive the
ray from Chokmah. Whereas even St John makes his Son say “I and my
Father are one," And we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in
Truth) more than one; this Christian dogma says " never less than four." Hence
its bondage to law and its most imperfect comprehension of any true mystic
teaching, and hence the difficulty of using its symbols.
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But before proceeding to this Word, it is first necessary to explain further
in what way one expects a number to assist one in the search for truth, or the
redemption of the soul, or the formulation of the Rosy Cross. (I am supposing
that the reader is sufficiently acquainted with the method of reading a. name by
its attributions to understand how, once a message is received, and accredited,
it may be interpreted) Thus if I ask “ What is knowledge?” and receive the
answer “DOTh,” I read it Daleth the door, 0 matter, Th darkness, by various
columns of 777 (To choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition.
Solvitur ambulando). But here I am only dealing with the “trying of the
spirits, to know whether they be of God.”
Suppose now that a vision purporting πο proceed from God is granted to
me. The Angel declares his name. I add it up. It comes to 65. An
excellent number! a blessed angel! Not necessarily. Suppose he is of a
Mercurial appearance? 65 is a. number of Mars.
Then I conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a
false spirit. The Devil does not understand the Qabalah well enough to clothe
his symbols in harmony
But suppose an angel, even lowly in aspect, not only knows the Qabalah»
your own researches in the Qabalah—as well as you do, but is able to show you
truths, qabalistic truths, which you had sought for long and vainly! Then you
receive him with honour and his message with obedience,
It is as if a beggar sought audience of a general, and showed beneath his
rags the Signet of the King. When an Indian servant shows me " chits " signed
by Colonel This and Captain That written in ill»spelt Babu English, one knows
what to clot On the contrary the Man Who Was Lost rose and broke the
stern of his wineglass at the regimental toast, and all knew him for one of
their own.
In spiritual dealings, the Qabalah, with those secrets discovered by yourself
that are only known to yourself and God, forms the grip, Sign, token and pass-
word that assure you that the Lodge is properly tiled.
It is consequently of the very last importance that these final secrets should
never be disclosed. And it must be remembered that an obsession, even
momentary, might place a lying spirit in possession of the secrets of your
grade, Probably it was in this manner that Dee and Kelly were so often
deceived,
A reference to this little dictionary ofnumbers will show that I, 3, 5, 7, 12, η,᾿
Ἱ7: 21, 22, 26, 32, 37, 45. 52; 65, 57, 73͵ 78ν 9L 1”, 1201 2071 2311 270- 300, 326,
358, 361, 370, 401, 406, 434, 474, 666, 67x, 741, 913, were for me numbers of
peculiar importance and sanctityi Most of them are venerable, referring to or
harmonious with the One. Only a few—4g. [zo-refer to the means. There
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are many others—any others—just as good; but not for me. God in dealing
with me would show me the signs which I should have intelligence enough to
understand. It is a condition of all intellectual intercourse.
Nowl preferred to formulate the practical problem in this shape: "How
shall I unite the 5 and the 6, Microcosm and Macrocosm?"
And these are the numbers which seemed to me to bear upon the
problem.
1. Is the goal, not the means. Too simple to serve a magician’s purpose.
2. Vide supra.
3. Still too simple to work with, especially as 3:1 so easily. But, and
therefore, a great number to venerate and desire.
4. The terrible number of Tetragrammaton, the great enemy. The number
of the weapons of the Evil Magician. The Dyad made Law.
;. The Pentagram, symbol of the squaring of the circle by virtue of
ALHIM=3.1415, symbol of man’s will, of the evil 4 dominated by man’s spirit.
Also Pentagrammaton, Jeheshua, the Saviour. Hence the Beginning of the
Great Work.
6. The Hexagram, symbol of the Macrocosm and Microcosm interlaced, and
hence of the End of the Great Work. (Pentagram on breast, Hexagram on
back, of Probationer’s Robe.) Yet it also symbolises the Ruach, 214, q.v., and
so is as evil in uid as it is good in termino.
7. A most evil number, whose perfection is impossible to attack.
8. The great number of redemption, because Ch=ChITh=418, q.v. This
only develops in importance as my analysis proceeds. A priori it was οἴῃ
great importance.
9. Most Evil, because of its stability. AVB, witchcraft, the false moon of
the sorceress.
IO. Evil, memorial of our sorrow. Yet holy, as hiding in itself the return to
the negative.
Il. The great magical number, as uniting the antitheses of 5 and 6 etc.
AVD the magic force itself.
12. Useless. Mere symbol of the Goal.
13. Helpful, since if we can reduce our formula to 13, it becomes 1 without
further trouble.
17. Useful,because though it symbolises 1, it does so under the form ofa
thunderbolt. " Here is a magic disk for me to hurl, and win heaven by violence,”
says the Aspirant,
zl. As bad, nearly, as 7.
26. Accursed. As bad as 4. Only useful when it is a weapon in your hand;
then—“ if Satan be divided against Satan," etc.
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28. Attainable; and so, useful. “ My victory,” “ My power,” says the
Philosophus.
30. The Balance—Truth. Most useful.
31. LA the reply to AL, who is the God of Chesed, 4. The passionate denial
of God, useful when other methods fail.
32. Admirable, in spite of its perfection, because it is the perfection which
all from 1 to lo and Aleph to Tau, share. Also connects with 6, through
ΑΗΙΗνΗ.
37. Man’s crown.
44. Useful to me chiefly because I had never examined it and so had
acquiesced in it as accursed. When it was brought by a messenger whose words
proved true, Ithen understood it as an attack on the 4 by the u. “Without
shedding of blood (DM =44) there is no remission.” Also since the messenger
could teach this, and prophesy, it added credit to the Adept who sent the
message.
45. Useful as the number of man, ADM, identified with ΜΗ, Yetzirah, the
World of Formation to which man aspires as next above Assiah. Thus 45
baffles the accuser, but only by affirmation of progress, It cannot help that
progress.
52. AIMA and ΒΝ. But orthodoxy conceives these as external saviours;
therefore they serve no useful purpose.
60. Like 30, but weaker. “ Temperance ” is only an inferior balance 120,
its extension, gives a better force.
65. Fully dealt with in “ Konx om Pax," qrv.
72. Almost as bad as 4 and 26; yet being bigger and therefore further
from I it is more assailable, Also it does spell ChSD, Mercy, and this is
sometimes useful.
73. The two ways to Kether, Gimel and Chokmah. Hence venerable, but
not much good to the beginner.
74. LMD, Lamed, an expansion of 30. Reads “By equilibrium and self—
sacrifice, the Gate!” Thus useful. Also 74: 37 X2.
So we see 37 (> 1 = 37 Man’s crown, Jechidah, the highest SoulfK in termino."
37 ><2=74, The Balance, 2 being the symbol “in via.”
37 X3: l [ I, Aleph, etc., 3 being the Mother, the nurse of the soul.
37X4=I48, “ The Balances,” and so on. I have not yet worked
out all the numbers of this important scale.
77. OZ, the Goat, !!![. of the Sabbath of the Adepts. The Baphomet of the
Templars, the idol set up to defy and overthrow the false god—though it is
understood that he himself is false, not an end, but a means. Note the 77 =7 <> I I,
magical power in perfection.
n4
78. Most venerable because MZLA is shown as the influence descending from
On High, whose key is the Tarot: and we possess the Tarot. The proper
number of the name of the Messenger of the Most Exalted One, [The account
of AIVAS follows in its proper place.—Ed.]
85. Good, since 85:5 <> 17.
86. Elohim, the original mischief. But good, since it is a key of the
Pentagram, ;:
91. Merely
1
+4: 14 = 8+6: 86.
venerable
111: Priceless, because of its 37x3 symbolism, its explanation of Aleph,
which we seek, and its comment that the Unity may be found in “ Thick dark-
ness” and in “Sudden death.” This is the most clear and definite help we have
yet had, showing Samadhi and the Destruction of the Ego as gates of our final
victory.
120. See Part I. and references.
124. ODN, Eden. The narrow gate or path between Death and the Devil,
156. BABALON. This most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in
Liber 418. Notice 12 ><13=156. This was a, name given and ratified by
Qabalah; 156 is not one of the a. priori helpful numbers. It is rather a case of
the Qabalah illuminating St John’s intentional obscurity.
165. Π XXV should be a number Capricorni Fneumatici. Not yet
fulfilled.
201. AR, Light (Chaldee). Note 201 =3 x67, Binah, as if it were said,“ Light
is concealed as achild in the womb of its mother.” The occult retort of the
Chaldean Magi to the Hebrew sorcerers who affirmed AVR, Light, 207, a mul-
tiple of 9. But this is little more than a. sectarian squabble. 207 is holy enough.
206. DBR, the Word ofPower. A useful acquisition:“ The Gateway of the
Word of Light.”
210. Upon this holiest number it is not fitting to dilate. We may refer
Zelatores to Liber VII. Cap. I., Liber Legis Cap. Ι., and Liber 418. But this was
only revealed later. At first I only had ABRAHA, the Lord of the Adepts. Cf
Abraha-Melin.
214. RVCh is one ofthe most seductive numbers to the beginner. Yet its
crown is Daath, and later one learns to regard it as the great obstacle, Look
at its promise 21, ending in the fearful curse of 4! Calamity!
216. I once hoped much from this number, as it is the cube of 6-
But I fear it only expresses the fixity of mind. Anyhow it all came to
no good.
But we have DBIR, connected with DBR, adding the Secret Phallic
Power.
220. This is the number of the verses of Liber Legis. It represents 10 )(22,
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the whole of the Law welded into one. Hence we may be sure that the Law
i.e.
shall stand as it is without a. syllable of addition.
Note 1022, the modulus of the universe of atoms, men, stars, See “ Two new
worlds."
222. The grand scale ofz; may one day be ofvalue.
256. The eighth power of 2; should be useful.
280. A grand number, the dyad passing to zero by virtue of the 8, the
Charioteer who bears the Cup of Babalon. See Liber 418, 12th Aethyr. See
also 280 in Part I.
300. Venerable, but only useful as explaining the power of the Trident, and
the Flame on the Altar. Τοο stable to serve a revolutionary, except in so far as
it is fire.
333. See Part I.
340. Connects with 6 through ShM, the fire and the water conjoined to
make the Name. Thus useful as a hint in ceremonial.
358. See Part I.
361. See Part1. Connects with the Caduceus; as 3 is the supernal fire, 6 the
Ruach, 1 Malkuth. See illustration of Caduceus in EQUINOX No. II.
370. Most venerable (see Part Ι.). It delivers the secret of creation into the
hand of the Magician. See Liber Capricorni Pneumatici.
400. Useful only as finality or material basis.. Being 20 X20, it shows
the fixed universe as a system of rolling wheels (20=K, the Wheel of
Fortune).
401. See Part I. But Azoth is the Elixir prepared and perfect; the Neo-
phyte has not got it yet.
406. See Part l.
414. HGVTh, Meditation, the ι dividing the accursed 4. Also AIN SVP
AVR, the Limitless Light.
418. CHITh, Chcth. ABRAHADABRA, the great Magic Word, the
Word of the Aeon. Note the 11 letters, 5 A identical, and 6 diverse. Thus
it interlocks Pentagram and Hexagram. BITh HA, the House of He the
Pentagram; see Idra Zuta Qadisha, 694. “ For H formeth K, but Ch formeth
IVD." Both equal 20.
Note 4+1+8= 13, the 4 reduced to 1 through 8, the redeeming force; and
418 = Ch = 8.
By Aiq Bkr ABRAHADABRA=1+2+2+I +5+I+4+l+2+2+l=21
Also 418:22 x19=Manifestation. Hence the word manifests the 22 Keys of
Rota,
It means by translation Abraha Deber, the Voice of the Chief Seer.
It resolves into Pentagram and Hexagram as follows :—
I16
/\
A
[This is by taking the 5 middle letters]
R—B
/A\ The pentagram is 12, HVA, Macroprosopus.
The hexagram AThH, Microprosopusi
I:
is 406,
/D
BA—TR Thus it connotes the Great Work.
/ Χ
A Note ABR, initials of the Supernals, Ab, Ben, Ruach.
/\ /
(2) A [This is by se Ρ arating the One (Ale Ρ h from the ManY
(diverse letters).]
A A R H “ The Vision and the Voice,” a
\|
i) BRH=2°Z
.
\A ‫ ?־‬A/ £ AUF: Light phrase which meant much
DBR=205,D8b€FVOICC to me at the moment of dis»
covering this Word.
/\ /\
(3) A A
\ /
A A B A
, | [By taking each alternate letter.]
\/
R—B Η D
:3:;i§§k’n;§;fgl}’rhis shows Abrahadabra as

the Word of Double Power, another phrase that meant much to me at the
time. AAB at the top of the Hexagram gives AB, AIMA, BN, Father, Mother,
Childl
HDR by Yetzirah gives Horus, Isis, Osiris, again Father, Mother, Child
This Hexagram is again the human Triad.
Dividing into 3 and 8 we get the Triangle 01 Horus dominating the
Stooping Dragon of 8 Heads, the Supernals bursting the Head of Bath
Also A
RAB The Supernals are supported upon two squares—
A—B A—H ABAD: DD, Love, 8.
|
.l.—113 Ill—A
AHRA: AVR, Light, 207.
Now 8xzo7=1656=18=ChL Living, and 207=9><23, ChIH, Life. At
this time “Licht, Liebe, Leben "
was the mystic name of the Mother-Temple
oftheG.'.D.'.
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The five letters used in the word are Α, the Crown; B, the Wand; D, the
Cup; Η, the Sword; R, the Rosy Cross; and refer further to Amoun the
Father, Thoth His messenger, and Isis, Horus, Osiris, the divine-human triad.
Also 418=ATh IAV, the Essence of IAO, q,v.
This short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the
symbol will remain the Expression of the Goal and the Exposition of the Path.
419. Teth, the number of the “laughing lion ” on whom BABALON rideth.
See Liber 418. Note 419+156=575=23<>25, occultly signifying 24, which
again signifies to them that understand the interplay of the 8 and the 3.
Blessed be His holy Name, the Interpreter of his own Mystery!
434, Daleth, the holy letter of the Mother, in her glory as Queen. She
saves the 4 by the 7 (D=4=Venus=7), thus connects with 28. Mystic number
of Netzach (Venus), Victory. Note the 3 sundering the two fours. This is the
feminine victory; she is in one sense the Delilah to the divine Samson. Hence
we adore her from full hearts. It ought to be remembered, by the way, that the
4 is not so evil when it has ceased to oppress us. The square identified with
the circle is as good as the circle.
441. Truth, the square of 21. Hence it is the nearest that our dualistic
consciousness can conceive of 2!, AHIH, the God of Kether, 1. Thus Truth
is our chiefest weapon, our rule, Woe to whosoever is false to himself (or to
another, since in 441 that other is himself), and seven times woe to him that
swerves from his magical obligation in thought, word, or deed! By my side
as 1 write wallows in exhaustion following an age of torment one who did not
understand that it is a thousand times better to die than to break the least
tittle of a magical oath.
463. Shows what the Wand ought to represent. Not 364; so we should
hold it by the lower end. The Wand is also Will, straight and inflexible,
pertaining to Chokmah (2) as a Wand has two ends.
474, See Part I. To the beginner, though, Death seems very helpful.
He is glad that the Stooping Dragon attacks the Sanctuary. He is doing it
himself. Hence Buddhists make Ignorance the greatest fetter of all the ten
fetters. But in truth Knowledge implies a Knower and a Thing Known, the
accursed Dyad which is the prime cause of misery.
480. Lilith. See Liber 418. So the orthodox place the legal 4 before the
holy 8 and the sublime Zero. “ And therefore their breaths stink."
543. Good, but only carries us back to the Mother,
666. Chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in Part
L, partly for the reasons given in the Apocalypse. 1 took the Beast to be the
Lion (Leo my rising sign) and Sol, 6, 666, the Lord of Leo on which Babalon
should ride. And there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary
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to enter upon in this place. Note however that the Tarot card 01 Leo, Strength,
bears the number XL, the great number 01 1116 Magnum Opus, and its inter-
change with justice, VIIL; and the key of 8 is 418.
This all seemed to me so important that no qabalistic truths were so firmly
implanted in my mind at the time when I was ordered to abandon the study 01
magic and the Qabalah as these: 8, II, 4i8, 666; combined with the pro-
{oundest veneration {or I, 3, 5, 7, x3, 37, 78, gl, in. I must insist on this at
the risk 01 tautology and over-emphasis; 101 11 is the key to my standard of
Truth, the test-numbers which I applied to the discernment 01 the Messenger
110111 the Sanctuary.
That such truths may seem trivial I am well aware; let it be remembered
that the discovery 01311 identity may represent a year’s toil. But this is the
final test; repeat my researches, obtain your own holy 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 Ι.
74L Useful chiefly as a denial 01 the Unity; sometimes employed in the
hope 01 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 017, 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 xo, the Daughter; whence Netzach is the Woman, married but
no more.
800. Useful only in 5:6 symbolism, q.v.
888᾿ The grand scale 01 8. In Greek numeration therefore ΙΗΣογΣ the
Redeemer, connecting with 6 because 01 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 01 the Synoptics and the Methodists
than the mystic IHVH has to do with the false God who commanded the
murder 01 innocent children. The 13 of the Sun and the Zodiac was perhaps
responsible 101 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 the signs 01 the Zodiac, Veneration
for 666 does not commit me to admiration 101 Napoleon and Gladstone.
I may close this paper by expressing a hope that I may have the indulgence
‫י‬015111061115? The subject is incomparably difl‘lcult; it is almost an unworked
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THE EQUINOX
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. [t is hard to
" suffer gladly” the particular
type of [001 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) 13r and 480 through 15, he will understand. Further,
it is the work itself, not merely the resultsJ 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,
Amen !
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 different 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 became 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 Uraeus serpent, to the
land of Isis and Osiris, of the Pyramids and the Nile, even
to Khem, more magnificent in ruin than all other lands are
in plenitude of their glory.
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON

It must ﬁrst here be spoken of the Exoteric Qabalah to be

The literal Qabalah . is divided into three parts: GMTRIA, Crematria;

NVTRIQVN, Notariqon; and ThMVRH> Temura.

300 30 3 200 20 2 [00 10 1

600 60 6 500 so 5 400 40 4

900 go 9 800 80 8 700 70 7

It is to be further noted with regard to the ﬁrst word in the Bible,

Advanced students should then go to the fountain head,

All spread Arms as if on a Cross, and say :—

Of the results of the method we possess one ﬂawless gem,

Tree of Life, the numeration 01 the Paths over which it passes

and by signiﬁcation “an ox.” Thus we have the famous

MYSTIC READiNcs or THE LETTERS or THE ALPHABET

Truly there is no end to this wondrous science; and

This then is an absurdity. Yes; but it is also an

“ Bill wouldn’t hurt 3 baby—he’s 3 pal 35 you can trust,

So those who have committed themselves to academic

AN ESSAY UPON NUMBER

When I travelled with the venerable Iehi Aour in search of Truth, we

The Mother made ﬂesh—ﬁerceand active,

It will be noticed that this order represents creation as progressive degenera-

36. A Solar Number. ALH. Otherwise unimportant, but is the mystic

3. I am the ﬁnite square ; to be one with the inﬁnite circle.

:3:;i§§k’n;§;fgl}’rhis shows Abrahadabra as

We may now return to Frater P.,s experiences. It will

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