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Samael fulfils a most useful function; he is scepticism, which accuses
intellectually; conscience, which accuses morally; and even that spiritual
accuser upon the Threhold, 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 Apocalypse. 144,000 only means 12 (the perfect number in
the Zodiac or houses of heaven and tribes of Israel) × 12, i.e. settled ×
1000, i.e. on the grand scale.
148. , 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 12 × 13,
the most spiritual form, 13 of the most perfect number, 12, . [It is ,
Zion, the City of the Pyramids. Ed.]52
175. A mystic number of Venus.
203. ABR, initials of , , , the Trinity.53
206. , Speech, the Word of Power.
207. , Light. Contrast with , 9, the astral light, and , 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, ecstatic 11.54
210. Pertains to Part II. See Liber 418.
214. , the air, the mind.
220. Pertains to Part II. The number of verses in Liber Legis.
231. 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.
270. 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 × 40; see 5 = 6 ritual. Also = terror.
300. The letter , meaning tooth, and suggesting by its shape a triple flame.
Refers Yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the Holy Spirit,
52
[Also , Ezekiel, and , Joseph. Elsewhere Crowley connects the City of
Pyramids reference with the 12 by 13 squares on each of John Dee s Tablets of the
Watchtowers and the pyramids drawn on each square in the Golden Dawn s Book of
the Concourse of the Forces. T.S.]
53
[Also , he created , second word of Genesis. T.S.]
54
[See the remarks on Ob, Od and Aour in the introduction to Levi s Rituel de Haute
Magie T.S.]
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= 300. Descending into the midst of , the four inferior elements, we
get Jeheshua, the Saviour, symbolised by the Pentagram.
301. , Fire.
314. , the Almighty, a name of God attributed to Yesod.
325. A mystic number of Mars. , the spirit of Mars, and , the
intelligence of Mars.
326. , Jesus see 300.
333. , see Liber 418, 10th Æthyr. It is surprising that this large scale 3
should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. There is doubtless a
venerable arcanum here connoted, possible the evil of Matter summó.
333 = 37 × 9 the accurséd.
340. the Name.
341. The sum of the 3 mothers, Aleph, Mem, and Shin.
345. , Moses. Note that by transposition we have 543, ,
Existence is Existence, I am that I am, a sublime title of Kether.
Moses is therefore regarded as the representative of this particular
manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name.
358. See 32. , Messiah, and , the Serpent of Genesis. The dogma is
that the head of the serpent ( ) is bruised, being replaced by the letter of
Sacrifice, and Yod, the letter alike of virginity ( = ) and of original
deity ( = the foundation or type of all the letters). Thus the word may be
read: The Sacrifice of the Virgin-born Divine One triumphant ( , the
Chariot) through the Spirit, while reads Death entering the (realm
of the) Spirit. But the conception of the Serpent as the Redeemer is
truer. See my explanation of the 5=6 ritual (EQUINOX, No. III).
361. , the Lord of the Earth. Note 361 denotes the 3 Supernals, the
6 members of Ruach, and Malkuth. This name of God therefore
embraces all the 10 Sephiroth.
365. An important number, though not in the pure Qabalah. See The
Canon. 55 MEIQRAS and ABRAXAS in Greek.
370. Really more important for Part II. , Creation. The Sabbatic Goat in
his highest aspect. This shows the whole of Creation as matter and spirit.
The material 3, the spiritual 7, and all cancelling to Zero. Also =
peace.
400. The letter , The Universe. It is the square of 20, The Wheel of
Fortune, and shows the Universe as the Sphere of Fortune the
Samsara-Cakkram, where Karma, which fools call chance, rules. 400 is
the total number of the Sephiroth, each of the 10 containing 10 in itself
and being repeated in the 4 worlds of Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah, and
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[The Canon: an Exposition of the Pagan Mystery Perpetuated in the Cabala as the
Rule of all the Arts; by William Stirling. First published anonymously, London: Elkin
Matthews, 1897.]
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Assiah. These four worlds are themselves attributed to , which is
therefore not the name of a tribal fetish, but the formula of a system.
401. , the emphatic, meaning essence of, for and are first and last
letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, as ‘ and &! are of the Greek, and A and Z
of the Latin. Hence the Word Azoth, not to be confused with Azote
(lifeless, azotos), the old name for nitrogen. Azoth means the sum and
essence of all, conceived as One.
406. , the letter Tau (see 400), also , Thou. Note that (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. (1) with averted face; (2) with prostration; (3) with
identification.
418. Pertains principally to Part II., q.v.
419. , the letter Teth.
434. , the letter Daleth.
440. , the great dragon.56
441. , Truth. Note 441 = 21 × 21. 21 is , the God of Kether, whose
Will is Truth.
450. , the great dragon.
463. , Moses Wand, a rod of Almond. 3 + 60 + 400, the paths of the
middle pillar.
474. , Knowledge, the Sephira that is not a Sephira. In one aspect the child
of Chokmah and Binah; in another the Eighth Heads of the Stooping
Dragon, raised up when the Tree of Life was shattered, and
Macroprosopus set cherubim against Microprosopus. See 4 = 7 ritual
supra.57 Also, and very specifically, Liber 418. It is the demon that
purely intellectual or rational religions take as their God. The special
danger of Hinayana Buddhism.
480. , the demon-queen of Malkuth.
666. Last of the mystic numbers of the Sun. , the spirit of Sol. Also
, Ommo Satan, the Satanic Trinity of Typhon, Apophis and Besz;58
also , the Name of Jesus. The names of Nero, Napoleon, W. E.
Gladstone, and any person that you may happen to dislike, add up to this
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