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Name. Thus useful as a hint in ceremonial.
361. See Part I. Connects with the Caduceus; as 3 is the supernal fire, 6 the
Ruach, 1 Malkuth. See illustration of Caduceus in EQUINOX No. II.75
370. Most venerable (see Part I.). It delivers the secret of creation into the
hand of the Magician. See Liber Capricorni Pneumatici.76
400. Useful only as a finality or material basis. Being 20 × 20 it shows the
fixed universe as a system of rolling wheels (20 = , the Wheel of
Fortune).
401. See Part I. But Azoth is the Elixir prepared and perfect; the Neophyte has
not got it yet.
406. See Part I.
414. , Meditation, the 1 dividing the accursed 4. Also , the
Limitless Light.
418. , Cheth. , the great Magic Word, the Word of the
Æon. Note the 11 letters, 5 identical, and 6 diverse. Thus it interlocks
Pentagram and Hexagram. , the House of Hé the Pentagram; see
Idra Zuta Qadisha, 694.  For formeth , but formeth . 77 Both
equal 20.
74
[Marcelo Motta took this number on declaring himself a Master of the Temple.  T.S.]
75
[The reference is to one of the Golden Dawn admission badges.  T.S.]
76
[ is also the Hebrew names for the constellation of the Great Bear.  T.S.]
77
[Comparing this with the Mathers translation, this appears to be a loose paraphrase of
von Rosenroth s glosses rather than a direct quote; the relevant paragraphs are 696 and
697.  T.S.]
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Note 4 + 1 + 8 = 13, the 4 reduced to 1 through 8, the redeeming force;
and 418 = = 8.
By Aiq Bkr, ABRAHADABRA = 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2
+ 1 = 22. Also 418 = 22 × 19, 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:
A
(1)
[This is by taking the 5 middle letters.]
R B
A
The pentagram is 12, , Macroprosopus.
H D
The hexagram is 406, , Microprosopus.
A A
Thus it connotes the Great Work.
B R
Note , initials of the Supernals, Ab, Ben, Ruach.
A
[This is by separating the One (Aleph) from the Many
(2)
AB
(diverse letters).]
R H
 The Vision and the Voice, a
A A
= 207, Aur, Light phrase which meant much to
B D
= 206, Deber, Voice me at the moment of dis-
A A }
R
covering this Word.
[By taking each alternate letter.]
(3)
AA
This shows Abrahadabra as the Word
205 = , mighty
B A
of Double Power, another phrase
A A
213 = , mighty
}
that meant much to me at the time.
H D
at the top of the Hexagram gives , , ,
B
R
Father, Mother, Child.
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 of Horus dominating the
Stooping Dragon of 8 Heads, the Supernals bursting the Head of Daath.
Also A
The Supernals are supported upon two squares:
R B
= , Love, 8.
A B A H
= , Light, 207.
A D R A
Now 8 × 207 = 1656 = 18 = , Living, and 207 = 9 × 23, , Life. At
this time  Licht, Liebe, Leben was the mystic name of the Mother-
Temple of the G4"D4".
The five letters used in the word are , the Crown; , the Wand, , the
Cup; , the Sword; , the Rosy Cross; and refer further to Amoun the
Father, Thoth His messenger, and Isis, Horus, Osiris, the divine-human
triad.
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Also 418 = , 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 ( = 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 21, , the God of Kether, 1. Thus Truth
is our chiefest weapon as a 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 I 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.78
463. Shows what the Wand ought to represent. Not 364;79 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, Daath 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 all misery.80
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 I.,
partly for the reasons given in the Apocalypse. I took the Beast to be the
78
[Victor Neuburg, according to a note by Crowley in a copy of Equinox I (5), as
transcribed by Yorke.  T.S.]
79
[364 = inter alia, , the Hidden Light, a title of Kether, and , the
Adversary  T.S.]
80
[vide AL I. 22  T.S.]
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Lion (Leo my rising sign81) and Sol, 6, 666, the Lord of Leo on which
Babalon should ride. And there were other more intimate considerations,
unnecessary to enter upon in this place. Note however that the Tarot card
of Leo, Strength, bears the number XI, the great number of the Magnum
Opus, and its interchange with Justice, VIII.; and the key of 8 is 418.82
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 of magic and the Qabalah as these: 8, 11, 418, 666; combined
with the profoundest veneration for 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 37, 78, 91, 111. I must
insist on this at the risk of tautology and over-emphasis; for it is the key
to my standard of Truth, the test-numbers which I applied to the
discernment of the Messenger from the Sanctuary.
That such truths may seem trivial I am well aware; let it be
remembered that the discovery of such an identity may represent a year s [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]