Liber Porta Arcana
Class "C"
(Being a Further Essay upon Number)
(sub figura: CCIV)
156: Mystery Babalon
BABALON: This variant spelling of Babylon is first found in the Enochian works of John Dee and Edward Kelly.
The qaballistic value of Babalon spelled in Hebrew is 156, the number of squares in each of the four elemental tablets given to Dee and Kelly by the Enochian Angels.
If you use inverted cards in a Tarot spread, there are 156 card meanings.
Aleister Crowley (considered by some to be the reincarnation of Kelly), continued to explore the Enochian magickal system. Liber 418, "The Vision and the Voice", details his skrying of the Enochian Aethyrs.
Babalon and Babylon are both seven lettered words and their values in Hebrew can both be written with seven sevens:
BABALON: This variant spelling of Babylon is first found in the Enochian works of John Dee and Edward Kelly.
The qaballistic value of Babalon spelled in Hebrew is 156, the number of squares in each of the four elemental tablets given to Dee and Kelly by the Enochian Angels.
If you use inverted cards in a Tarot spread, there are 156 card meanings.
Aleister Crowley (considered by some to be the reincarnation of Kelly), continued to explore the Enochian magickal system. Liber 418, "The Vision and the Voice", details his skrying of the Enochian Aethyrs.
Babalon and Babylon are both seven lettered words and their values in Hebrew can both be written with seven sevens:
77
77 + ----- + 77 = 165 = BABYLON
77 + 7
77 + ----- + 77 = 156 = BABALON
7
77 + ----- + 77 = 165 = BABYLON
77 + 7
77 + ----- + 77 = 156 = BABALON
7
In "An Essay Upon Numbers", Crowley has this to say about Babalon and the number 156:
"BABALON. This most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in Liber 418. Notice 12x13=156. This is not one of the a priori helpful numbers. It is rather a case of Qabalah illuminating St John's intentional obscurity."
And in "Magick in Theory and Practice" he has this to say:
"Thus, in low grades of initiation, dogmatic quarrels are inflamed by astral experience; as when Saint John distinguishes between the Whore Babalon and the Woman clothed with the Sun, between the Lamb that was slain and the Beast 666 whose deadly wound was healed; nor understands that Satan, the Old Serpent, in the Abyss, the Lake of Fire and Sulphur, is the Sun-Father, the vibration of Life, Lord of Infinite Space that flames with His Consuming Energy, and is also that throned Light whose Spirit is suffused through out the City of Jewels."
"BABALON. This most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in Liber 418. Notice 12x13=156. This is not one of the a priori helpful numbers. It is rather a case of Qabalah illuminating St John's intentional obscurity."
And in "Magick in Theory and Practice" he has this to say:
"Thus, in low grades of initiation, dogmatic quarrels are inflamed by astral experience; as when Saint John distinguishes between the Whore Babalon and the Woman clothed with the Sun, between the Lamb that was slain and the Beast 666 whose deadly wound was healed; nor understands that Satan, the Old Serpent, in the Abyss, the Lake of Fire and Sulphur, is the Sun-Father, the vibration of Life, Lord of Infinite Space that flames with His Consuming Energy, and is also that throned Light whose Spirit is suffused through out the City of Jewels."
Woman clothed in the Sun = Babalon + Resh (spelled in full) = 156 + 510 = 666
Scarlet Woman = ShNI AShE = 360 + 306 = 666
Scarlet Woman = ShNI AShE = 360 + 306 = 666
666 and English Qabalah
A proof of the Thelemic nature of English Qabalah can be found in Roman Numerals. The key is a recursive formula analyzing the English Qabalah values of the letters forming a roman numeral.
First turn a number into a roman numeral. Then total the English Qabalah values of the letters forming the roman numeral.
The total is used as the starting number for the second pass thru the formula. Continue the process until a loop is formed by the second number repeating an earlier first number.
A proof of the Thelemic nature of English Qabalah can be found in Roman Numerals. The key is a recursive formula analyzing the English Qabalah values of the letters forming a roman numeral.
First turn a number into a roman numeral. Then total the English Qabalah values of the letters forming the roman numeral.
The total is used as the starting number for the second pass thru the formula. Continue the process until a loop is formed by the second number repeating an earlier first number.
Any number you start with will fall into one of three closed loops:
69 = LXIX = 69.
58 = LVIII = 81 = LXXXI = 91 = XCI = 58.
68 = LXVIII = 103 = CIII = 82 = LXXXII = 114 = CXIV = 68.
69 = LXIX = 69.
58 = LVIII = 81 = LXXXI = 91 = XCI = 58.
68 = LXVIII = 103 = CIII = 82 = LXXXII = 114 = CXIV = 68.
The sum of the roman numerals forming any of the three closed loops is equal to the total English Qabalah value of the letters forming the loops roman numerals.
LXIX = 69
LVII + LXXXI + XCI = 230
LXVIII + CIII + LXXXII + CXIV = 367
LVII + LXXXI + XCI = 230
LXVIII + CIII + LXXXII + CXIV = 367
The sum of the eight roman numerals forming the three closed loops is equal to the total value of their letters in English Qabalah.
LXIX + LVIII + LXXXI + XCI + LXVIII + CIII + LXXXII + CXIV = 666
LXIX + LVIII + LXXXI + XCI + LXVIII + CIII + LXXXII + CXIV = 666
The I-Ching and 418
The 64 hexagrams of the I Ching are based on the interplay of yin and yang, expressed as broken and solid lines, derived from even and odd numbers.
In light of English Qabalah this is striking as:
'Yin + Yang' = 93 (eq) and 'Even + Odd' = 93 (eq).
The progression of the formation of the 64 hexagrams is:
Yin and Yang = 2
The Four Images = 4
The Eight Trigrams = 8
The Sixty-four Hexagrams = 64
For a total of 78 symbols, the number of cards in a Tarot deck.
The number of lines used to form these 78 items are:
Yin and Yang = 2
The Four Images = 8
The Eight Trigrams = 24
The Sixty-four Hexagrams = 384
For a total of 418, a key Thelemic number.
The 64 hexagrams of the I Ching are based on the interplay of yin and yang, expressed as broken and solid lines, derived from even and odd numbers.
In light of English Qabalah this is striking as:
'Yin + Yang' = 93 (eq) and 'Even + Odd' = 93 (eq).
The progression of the formation of the 64 hexagrams is:
Yin and Yang = 2
The Four Images = 4
The Eight Trigrams = 8
The Sixty-four Hexagrams = 64
For a total of 78 symbols, the number of cards in a Tarot deck.
The number of lines used to form these 78 items are:
Yin and Yang = 2
The Four Images = 8
The Eight Trigrams = 24
The Sixty-four Hexagrams = 384
For a total of 418, a key Thelemic number.
204 and the Sun and Venus
Using the Hebrew Yetzeratic attributes for 204 we get:
200 = the Sun and 4 = Venus.
Could there be a better glyph of the Sun/Venus working?
Reading chapter 54 of the "Book of Lies" one finds the Freemasons "rediscovering" that the word is 111. But Crowley says that here lies their error; that the Word of the Law is Thelema (93).
"They have the half, Unite by thine art so that all disappear."
93 + 111 = 204
So not only is it the "Dual Word," but also a blueprint for the Sun/Venus work.
In this light Abra = 204 as the beginning of the "Word of the Aeon", Abrahadabra, points to a powerful ritual for the New English Cabalah Magician.
The first Abra points to an initiate that has successfully worked the Sun/Venus ritual. Working With another Magician also having the 204 initiation, they come together to do the "Had" working. H in Hebrew has the Thoth Card "The Emperor" assigned to it. The final D has the "The Empress" card assigned to it. The H and the D are fruit "the Emperor and the Empress of the couple's previous successful Sun/Venus working. The H and the D come together to form the A or Fool as a bud will. This spiritual "child" incarnate in the couple working the rite, becomes a manifestation of Ra Hoor Kuit, that will inform and protect those who have worked this rite.
-The Magus Love
Some examples of ALW Gematria Within Liber AL VEL Legis.
93:
Chapter 1:
"over you" "in yours" "and to her" "no other" "among you" "in this" "him be" "Divide" "swear it" "may make" "who calls us Law is" -- "if thou" "the gross" "Be goodly" "dress ye" "apparel" !* "him not" "that hour" "wear rich" "you. pale" "with you" "she shall be" |
Chapter 2:
"of the old" "time" "go aright" "of Life" "ye that" "being" "for this" "in beds" "a million" "coiling" "Power asks" "reason is a" "Tahuti" "unto Nu" "choose his" "is a light" "thyself" |
Chapter 3:
"I feel" "listen" "proof. I" "let blood" "warrior, I" "soften" "the host" "altar is of" "poured" "Unity" !* "I shall make" "have made" "I beat" "shameless" "original" "is a key also" !* "of Jesus" "wings in" "among you" "law beyond" "ending" |
111:
Chapter 1:
"Behold! it" "men adore" "The Hadit" "Now ye shall know" "woman, bend" "I am earth" "and there" "ye by my" "black earth" "speak not"!* "division"!* "the ordeals" "of the sword" "will do no wrong" "one know well" "the house" "for them" "invoking" "her eyes" |
Chapter 2:
"come! all ye" "evil ones" "nine by" "people" "WE ARE NOT" "To worship" "burning" "trample" "O my chosen" "I droop down" "For a feast" "O secret" "a greater" "damned & dead" "Blue egg" "I will hide" "breathe" "the house" <418> |
Chapter 3:
"I am a god of war" "I shall deall hardly" "Ye shall be sad" "become" "my force" "thereon" "I invoke" "is in me" "is mine" "this bliss" "is success" "argue not" "I breed" "Hawk-Headed Lord" "empty" "of the words" |
156:
Chapter 1:
"Scarlet Woman, is" "power given" "hearts of men" "flame of blue" "I swear it is so." "shall learn and teach" "in chosen ones" "the direful" "the seeing" "in the earth". |
Chapter 2:
"I am the Hadit" "everywhere" "I see thee" "wast the knower" "be in them" "there is joy" "these runes" "thine heart" "Blue egg I am." "Blue am I and gold" "the red gleam" "is righteous" "are masked ones" "A king may choose" "whoso seeth it" "breathe not" "Aye the Kings" "O be this glad word" |
Chapter 3:
"in locked glass for a proof" "from the ill-ordered" !* "the ill-ordered house" !* "in the Victorious" "other images group" "are Beast & his Bride" "be they long kept" "the double-wanded one" "called the word of Heru-Ra-Ha" "and I the inspired" "I invoke, I greet" "I, I before Thee" "stir me or still me" "convert not: talk not" "pity and compassion" "I will fill her with joy" "go on in my strentgth" "who shall discover the key" "Buddhist, Mongol, and Din." "Splendour in my name" |
231:
Chapter 1: "Three Ordeals in one" "the child of thy bowels" "Sing in her love-chant" Chapter 2: "the complement" "circumference" "unto me" is a foolish word" "is nine by the fools" "deny thee for this" "perish with the dogs" "for there is a factor" "writing of the book" "gleam is in my eyes" "my eyes & my spangles" "these virtuous words" "my honour ye shall laugh not" "filthy shall be filthy" "yet all is that is ever was" "splendour & rapture" "shall be the strength" "tell them this glad word" Chapter 3: "in locked glass for a proof" "from the ill-ordered" !* "the ill-ordered house" !* "in the Victorious" "other images group" "are Beast & his Bride" "be they long kept" "the double-wanded one" "called the word of Heru-Ra-Ha" "and I the inspired" "I invoke, I greet" "I, I before Thee" "stir me or still me" "convert not: talk not" "pity and compassion" "I will fill her with joy" "go on in my strentgth" "who shall discover the key" "Bhuddist, Mongol, and Din." "Splendour in my name" |
418:
Chapter 1: "unveiling of the company of heaven" "I am Heaven, and there upon the Earth" "by a secret name which I will him give" "if he calls us Thelemites Who will do no wrong?" "But they, four hundred & eighteen" !* "a word to say about the Heirophantic task" !* "pure heart and the serpent flame" "Thou hast that which remains, O prophet!" Chapter 2: "Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!" "A night of the Prophet and his Bride" "Blue am I and gold in the light of my egg" "In these vices are my virtuous words" "But I will hide thee in a mask of gladness" "I am light undesired, most desirable." "Aye!, listen to the numbers and the words" "Lift up theyself, for there is none." "worship thy name, foursquare and mystic" Chapter 3: "Thus, shall my worship be about conquest." "torture, spare not, be upon them" "What is this?, the winners of Ordeal X." "Then they shall chance to abide in this." "As as trodden serpent turn and strike." "Drag down their souls to awful torment;laugh." "With my claws I tear down Mohammed and blind him!" "Bahlasti, Ompheda!, I spit on Mongol and Din!" |
666:
Chapter 1: "They shall rule the many & the known, these are fools that men adore." "I am above you and in you, My ecstasy is in yours, My joy is to love." "The chosen is that priest & apostle of infinite space." "For I am divided for the light of the stars, faint & faery, and two." "O man, refuse not thy wife Law!, The word of sin is restriction!" "Refuse not thy wife if she will, O lover, if thou wilt depart." !* "There is a word and name to say: splendor is the lord initiating" "Little world, my sister, unto whom I send my heart & my tongue" "All these old letters of my book are aright, but --tzaddi--hebrew-- is not the star." "To the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night sky. To me!" Chapter 2: "Hadit hath not yet been revealed. I am the complement." "Come unto me, is the wheel, and the cube in the circle." "Now thou knewest not, and why?, because thou wast the knower, and me." "The outcast and unfit, let them die in their misery." "There is a light before thine eyes with them, master!" Chapter 3: "It shall not fade ever, but miraculous colour shall come back to it." "The others exalt me. I am the visible object of worship." "Unity uttermost showed, I adore the might of thy breath!" "The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the business way." |