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    Words can stir the soul on their own. The essence of a groan or shout passes even from human to animal. Names out of history and myth call forth reaction. It is said that there are beings who heed when they are called. Many of the words of power are such stuff. Mantra draws from the construction of the body and brain to produce effects. Words fraught with subtleness command the mind.

    From Reuchlin's De verbo mirifico in the 15th century to Crowley's Magick in Theory an Practice in the 20th a strange practice has gradually emerged. The arts Notary and Qabalistic have increasingly come to bear in vitalizing ancient noises, words and names. These are the Words of Power of the modern magician. Reuchlin sought to trace historic roots and to expose cultural traditions. Crowley turned spelling into poetry and meditation.
    By various arts it is possible to examine the construction of a word in parts and letters as a practice of meditation. A lexicon can turn the squares of Abramelin into free verse. The very process of attempting meaning is the heart of the effect. By spending minutes or hours in concentration over the structure and meaning of traditional words we come to a land not known to the senses. Apparitions appear, voices are heard and the dark sea beyond the world heaves mightily beneath a gathering of elemental powers. This work teaches the language of the angels and the writing of "Sephir Raziel". The magical language is of the mind and of thought. Patterns of association become abstracted from physical things. Of such patterns the Sephira are composed.
    Crowley invented a new thing. It is called "FORMULA". This is not the inflexible equate of mathematics or the dynamic of chemical reaction. Crowley's formulas are the product of meditation on the spelling of words and the ways of doing. When he writes of IAO, he sets forth a measured way of change: Isis, Apophis, Osiris; Attraction, Ennui and Awakening. By turns about a post of letters, the mind establishes awareness and command of the turning. IAO and VIAOV are the essential pattern of his Liber Lapidis Lazuli where vision after vision is called and driven through darkness in the pursuit of fresh brilliance.
    Although Crowley long sought a way of attributing number and meaning to the English Alphabet, his usual method was by correspondence to Hebrew letters. Liber Trigrammaton includes a sequential attribution which can be a basis for number to letter correspondence in English, and the Trigrams in late editions of Liber 777 afford an indirect linkage of English letters to the rest of Qabalah. Although these methods may have stood for Crowley, he did not set them forth with great clarity in his writings. Beyond this there is the question of the meanings of the English letter names. Is "B" a bug? Is "T" a drink? What of "D" and other less punful letters? I suspect he was tempted to say "To Christian 'L with it!" as he strived to fulfill Liber AL, Chapter II, Verse 55. I have seen many attempts to attribute English letters to number; and, while most seem to work to an astonishing degree, none stands out as greatly superior to the others. Let's avoid that here, for now. We will simply take the Goyim to Israel, flying under a false Yamaka if we must. Nothing will be lost by this, for understanding of Crowley's writings and rituals is absolutely impossible without Qabalah of letters. There are those who would attempt A A while eschewing Hebrew Qabalah, and such is folly. A A is so incomprehensible without the Hebrew Qabalah that those who assay it in such futility completely mistake it for an intellectual pecking order. To those who have only arithmetic, calculus is in the outer darkness. To the knob twister, a broken TV is a mystery beyond ken.
    If the word of meditation is in Hebrew, well and good. What if it is not? You can get a back issue of the Thelema Lodge Calendar, December 1986 e.v. issue, for $1 postpaid. The transliteration table and instructions there will do for your needs. Those who attend my class on Magick in Theory and Practice, currently in progress, will have a free copy of the material when we need it. Crowley's methods of transliteration from English to Hebrew were somewhat based on standard British and Masonic ways of representing Hebrew with English letters. This led him to use "Hay" for "E" where "Aleph" is more appropriate, Ayin for "O" and other substitution practices not born out by the actual nature of Hebrew and English. He got results. Do the best you can.
    There are many ways to obtain meaning from the spelling of a word, once that word has been rendered with Hebrew or Greek letters. Crowley provides an extended example in Magick in Theory and Practice, Chapter V. The reader should look to that for his particular method. Crowley provides many other examples in the chapters on "Formulas" and in his notes to Liber Samekh and Liber Reguli. In general, the technique is syncretic and inductive. Spelling may be altered to a limited extent to improve the results. Liber 777 is the best reference for this method, and Crowley included an excerpt of the more useful tables in Magick in Theory and Practice. By matching various columns with either the Hebrew or Greek letter columns, a word may be converted into a sequence of Tarot trumps, a sequence of names of things, a sequence of astrological symbols or even a sequence of spirits. Other possibilities include colors, herbs, deities and numbers. These correspondences to letters may be mixed or matched, with caution. Let's take for an example the Hebrew word "TOB", Tet-Vau-Bet, signifying "good." By Tarot, we have Lust(Strength)-Hierophant-Magician. That could be rendered as: "The natural Forces within Teach Magick". By Astrology, the same word becomes: Leo-Taurus-Mercury (Fire, Earth and Mixture) --- "Strong Self-image combined with Fixity of thought breeds Adaptability." As names of the letters, we get: Serpent-Nail-House --- a quick mental image of a snake nailed to a building to jot down in one's book of Magick, but also the things symbolized by such: "Kundalini yoga establishes the Union necessary to disclose the way of the Temple." These ideas can be blended to see TOB as a formula for attaining Magick through use of ones own physical nature.
    Sometimes this business of multiple correspondence to letters is dizzying and well nigh incomprehensible after the fact. Carlo Suares attempted a simpler formulation in his The Cipher of Genesis. By Suares' approach, each letter is given a meaning based on the process of abstract creation. Paul Foster Case uses similar ideas admixed with Tarot. Unfortunately Suares' method breaks down in the second half of the Hebrew alphabet, and it will not do for our needs. Inspired by these mystics, I worked out my own Genesis Code. This will be provided in the course of the Magick in Theory and Practice class, and may appear in these pages the next time I get caught so far behind my deadline! My Genesis Code provides a uniform way of interpretation of Hebrew spelling of words into sentences. It is limited in that only abstract messages emerge, but that merely fixes the method in one of the four Qabalistic worlds. I also worked out a "Pentateuch" code for the Hebrew alphabet that makes a word go like a nuts and bolts Tarot Reading. But--- the thing is around here some place in a folder, under a pile of paper, in a box or in a drawer. Finding it is like trying to get Koschai's soul! It'll turn up one day; and then, dear reader, you will have it too.

    Here are examples of my "Genesis Code", with thanks to Suares and Case:

    TOB: Tet-Vau-Bet: "Power from inside - joins with - direction of action."

    ELOHIM: Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal: "Being - is harmonized - for the propagation of order - in the creation -- of matter."

    ASTAROTH: Ayin-Shin-Taw-Resh-Taw: "A vision - of fire - in the Earth - brings knowledge - to the Earth."

		1582 Marty 11
		Sonday. a Meridie hora .a. circiter1.
		3
		-- Uriel being called by Edward Talbot there appeared one;
		clothed with a long robe of purple all spangled with gold, and on
		his head a garland, or wreath of gold, his eyes sparkling. Of whom
		I asked whether the characters noted for the Table were perfect:
		He answered,
i.		*Lundrumguffa: They are perfect. There is no question2.
		: Are you Uriel?
		Then presently came in one, and threw the brave spirit down by the
		shoulders, and beat him mightily with a whip; and took all his
		robes, and apparel off him.: And then he remained all hairy and
		ugly; and still the spirit was beaten of him, who came in after
		him. And that spirit, which so beat him, said to the hearing of my
		Skryer:
		Uriel: Lo, thus are the wicked scourged.
		: Are you Uriel, who speaketh that?
		Uriel: I am he. Write down, and mark this; for it is worthy of
		the Noting:
ii.		*This was thy persecutor Lundrumguffa. I brought him hither to
		let thee see, how God hath punished thy enemy.
		Lo, thus hath God dealt for thee: Lo, thus have I dealt for thee:
		Thank God.
		: Blessed be his holy name, and extolled, World Without end.
		Edward Talbot-- He drew the wicked spirit away by the legs; and
		threw him into a great pit, and washed his hands, as it were, with
		the sweat of his own head: for he seemed to be all in a sweat.
		-- Hereupon, my skryer saw Uriel go away, and he remained out of
		sight a little while. Then he came in again; and another with him,
		and jointly these two said together:
		Glorify God forever.
		And then Uriel did stand behind; and the other did sit down in
		the chair with a sword in his right hand, all his head glittering
		like the sun. The hair of his head was long, he had wings, and all
		his lower parts seemed to be with feathers. He had a robe over his
		body, and a great light in his left hand.
		He said:
		Michael: We are blessed from the beginning, and blessed be the
		name of God forever.
		-- My Skryer saw an innumerable Company of Angels about him. And
		Uriel did lean on the Square Table by.
		He that sat in the chair (whom we take to be Michael) said then:
		Michael: Go forward. God hath blessed thee.
		I will be thy Guide.
		Thou shalt attain unto thy seeking.
		The world begins with thy doings.
		Praise God.
		The Angels under my power, shall be at thy commandment.
		Lo, I will do thus much for thee.
		Lo, God will do thus much for thee.
		Thou shalt see me, and I will be seen of thee.
		And I will direct thy liking and conversation.
iii.		*Those that sought thy life, are vanished away.
		Put up thy pen.
		-- So he departed.
		Gloria, laus, honor, Virtus et Imperium.
		Deo immortali, invisibili, et Omnipotenti, in saecula saeculorum.
		Glory, praise, honor, to the Power and Authority.
		Unto God immortal, invisible, and Omnipotent, world without end.
		Amen.

    ii. Note: Lundrumguffa scourged spiritually.

    iii. Lundrumguffa.

1. Sunday March 11, 1582. About the third hour before noon, i.e. 9am.
2. See plate {below Dee's picture}.

Events Calendar for September 1988 e.v.

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