English Gematria

Analysis of Liber Al Vel Legis

A quick summary of the more technical terminology to be found in Liber vel Legis is here presented. The Student is left to his or her Wisdom to interpret the significance of these correspondences. Indication is provided only where the difficulty of the subject requires further comment. Formulae are presented in upper case letters.

We remind the student of the significance of certain numbers, already experientially known, and explained as best as might be possible in the old Key. Among such numbers, which we find confirmed in this analysis, we note: 56, 78, 93, 111, 156, 220, 333, 388, 418, 440, 441, 666, 718, 777, 883, 888 and the scales thereof for which we have external Evidence.

Ø – denotes Hebrew Key Tf – denotes t final used Sf – denotes s final used Nf – denotes n final used ĸ – denotes hard c  − denotes L upright ω − denotes initial w

Demonstration

• The Law = 220 (hence number of the BOOK CCXX)
  The Law = (98 + 7 + 1) + (50 + 4 + 60) = 220
• HORUS= 440 = (  ) Crowley = Knowledge = Winged Globe = Secret Word = Kundalini
  HORUSf and HORUS. These are 458 and 440 respectively. We expect the current of Horus to persist through this Aeon. Taking the formula for this current then, with a non-final (non-terminating) S we have 440, a further glyph of these currents and a general formula for many operations under this new scheme : --- As 40 into 11 it is the magickal force (11) of the glyph M (M=40), whose properties are also general attributions of the God: e.g. They typical image of the God is that of a naked child, surrounded by an egg of blue, and pressing the index finger to his lips. The egg of blue is the womb, which is the motherhood of M, this womb is the sea of Binah, which is M, and finger to the lips denotes the silence of M. ---- As 220 into 2, it is the intelligible manifestation of The Law (220) in the sphere of the Living Word (2, Chokmah). ---- As 44 into 10, it is Authority (4 into 11, the magickal force of Jupiter, and the elements) over the 10th sphere or Material Plane (Malkuth).
  
• AIWAZ = 4 + 4 + 60 + 4 + 6 = 78
  (that is, Aiwaz manifest in Kether versus Aiwass the same force manifest into Chokmah) This is the number given by Him for His name. It had not been confirmed until now.
  N.B 78 = Σ12 the summation of all numbers from 1 to 12, and their synthesis.
  
• AIWASS (SSf) = 4 + 4 + 60 + 42 + 42 = 156
  (Aiwaz manifest into Chokmah = 78 × 2 = 156. Note the curious transition from the Z to the double s and the accompanying phonetic changes. A mystery is here concealed as to the distinction between these two manifestations.)
  S is the serpent that climbs the Tree of Life, while Z is the Lightning that flashes through the sephiroth.
  
• AIWAZ (W) = 4 + 4 + 400 + 4 + 6 = 418
  (Aiwaz with W activated gives us the formulaic number for this Being, as declared by Himself in Liber Al vel Legis.)
  
• HOOR= 7 + 200 + 200 + 9 = 416 = Winged Secret Flame, The Sacred Mysteries, Place of Silence
  The elemental Form of Horus (Note his Two Eyes) explained below.
  
• RA HOORKHU = 13 + 416 + 237 = 666 = Σ36 = LUXFIRE = Edward Alexander Crowley
  Ra = The Sun
  Hoor = The Horizon
  Khu = Means Light, and symbolized to the Ancient Egyptians the concept of the Self (The impersonal Life force that manifests in the Soul) For religionists, Khu can be interpreted as the Soul and the phrase “The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs” – Liber vel Legis I, 8 and can be translated as “Heaven is in the Soul; not the Soul in Heaven”. Note that, hbha = 5+ 2+ 5+ 1= 13= dja = 4+ 8+ 1Ø, and that AHBH which in the new Key is 22: the entirety of the old Law, which the Book of the Law now places in proper relation as under Will, i.e. under Thelema (Will is English for the Greek ΘΕΛΗΜΑ). 24 Note that Ra-Hoor-Khuit is called “The Visible Object of Worship”; MESSIAH = 40 + 1 + 24 + 24 +4 + 4 + 7 = 104.
  LUXFIRE-- What generations past corrupted as Lucifer: The Morning Star, Herald of Dawn, The One who comes raging like a comet from the sky, and in falling, burns and lights the Heavens for the Eyes of the Children of the Earth. A holy name concealing the marriage of Light and Fire. It is the Initiate’s Love and his Lust for the Earth which has him fall and give of this Fire and Light to Others.
• RA-HOOR-KHU or 13 + 416 + 237 is now 666, the word into Tiphareth, versus 444 of the old system (the word into Chesed), essentially reaffirming this force as Solar. See mystical numbers of the heavenly bodies.
  Ra-Hoor or The Sun on the Horizon
  Ra-Hoor-Khu or The Light of the Sun on the Horizon
  13 = Ra (The Sun) = YH the Father and the Mother of the old glyph, and also AHBH (hbha, Love) and AChD (dja , Unity) of the same.
  416 denotes the God’s elemental Form (104 × 4) or the Messiah24into the 4th sphere (Power) which further breaks down to Love acting Materially (13 × 8 × 4) through Mercury (The Word).
  Combining this with Ra we have 13 + 13 × 32 = 13 × 33 or 13 × 11 × 3 for RA HOOR: The Magical Force (11) acting upon Love (13) acting upon Binah (3). Note the idea of Power and how this magickal force is applied to Binah in one case (the active and not in the passive form) in light of the 12th Aire: “There is no power that may endure save only the power that descendeth in this my chariot from Babylon”. ( Babylon is a corruption of BABALON, the Formula by which one transcends and releases the Energies of Binah.)
• Note that RA HOOR= 13 × 11 × 3 while HOORPAARKRAAT = 13 × 11 × 4 and that RA HOOR and HOORPAARKRAAT are the active and passive formulae of the same God HORUS.
  237 is Khu: He is the very Self of RA-HOORand all that this entails as explained above.
  237 = 79 × 3; 79 a prime oddly omitted from the traditional literature26, and this current acting upon Binah once again, so it is again that Power that descends along Cheth (which is 418 spelt fully Cheth + Yod + Tau = 8 + 10 + 400) the Chariot of BABALON and the path uniting Binah to Geburah, the 5th sphere.
  When combined into the Unity of the God’s name, these add up to 666 which is the summation (and so contains the idea) of all the glyphs from 1 to 36. It is the most mystical of the numbers for the Sun, and reaffirms this as essentially a Solar diety. It is the triple Aleph or the Living Word into the 6th sphere, Tiphareth, the Human Consciousness.
  
• RA HOORKHUIT = 759 = 666 + 93
  (93, a number dear to Thelemites, denoting the Old Aeon glyph for Aiwass and Thelema, is here added as a termination to the God Name, indicating the manifestation of the God
  
• PAARKRAAT = 156 = KAOS = BABALON = KAOS, the Victorious Queen in the old Key. Reference notes on Aiwass.
  
• HOORPAARKRAAT = 416 + 156 = 572 = O Nuit! = The Prophet and his Bride [Hoor (416) + PAARKRAAT (156) ] = LOTUS = One Sword = One of Heaven = Universal Heart
  Here we see the elemental form of the God (HOOR) combining with the Supernal energies. Observe that:
  RA HOOR= 11 × 13 × 3 : The Magical Force (11) acting upon Love (13) acting upon Binah (3), while:
  HOORPAARKRAAT = 11 × 13 × 4, The Magical Force (11) acting upon Love (13) acting upon Chesed (4)
  And that these are two halves of the One God HERU RA HA.
  Note also, The Prophet and his Bride = 572 = HOOR(416) + BABALON (156), of which The Beast and The Scarlet Woman are emissaries. HOORPAARKRAAT is Harpocrates in the Greek or HORUS the Child. He is the Child God of the Love Between these two Forces.
  His is The Universal Heart of the Aspirant. He is denoted as the Silent and Passive form of the God HERU RA HA.
  
• HOORPA KRAAT = 416 + 7 + 136 = 559
  13 is left out of formulae in this title of the God
  
• ANKH F Nf KHONSU = 111 + 2 + 6 + 531 = 650 = L.U.X.
  ANKH AF NA KHONSU = 111+ 6 + 74 + 531= 722
  = RA HOORKHUIT + 56
  ANKH AF NA KHONSU (ŏ) = 111+ 6 + 74 + 531= 602
  ANKH = 111 (The triple Aleph – an old glyph of the Word emanating from Creation.)
  
• KHONSU (ŏ) = 401 = “He is the First and Last” : the Aleph(1) and the Tau (400); that is, he is EW on the scale, the East and the West – HE contains the entire tradition / Path with Him.
  
• KHONSU = 531 = The Virgin and the Man = Inviolate = The glory Ineffable = Thy Secret Temple = Secret & Not
  
• HAD = 19
  A prime number, indicating the current to be found in the 2nd Aire. Traditionally, interpreted as the feminine glyph. See also Job in the Tradition.
  
• NU = 270 = 3^3 × 10
  The Supreme Goddess Unmanifest. Note this action upon the 3rd sephira raised exponentially (think: recursively) upon itself : and this acting upon Malkuth, the Kingdom, or the glyph 1 0 which as Unit and Space contains All.
  
• IT = 93
  (A suffix to God names and formulae, indicating manifestation, i.e. that He or She is manifest: eg, Nu, Had versus Nuit, Hadit)
  
• HADIT =112 = An Ibis, Chit, Ptah, Path, Beth, Magician
  All these ideas pertaining to Chokmah and the Grade Therein : (112 = 56 × 2, the old glyph for Nu upon Chokmah; i.e. Mazloth – a star in Her body); the Ibis which is sacred to Thoth, the Egyptian form of Mercury which “presides” over Chokmah in his office as the Living Word; Ptah partaking of this Sephira as well as after Uranus; Chit is the mindstuff – the effusive river of energies called thought; Beth is the corresponding Path of the Magician, i.e. the Magus28
  
• THELEMA = 221 = The Shrine
  The word of the law is Thelema” might translate : The Word (Aleph) + The Law = Thelema : 1 + 220 = 221)
  
• BES NA MAUT = 456 = Enginery of War = The Chief of All (L averse) = O Blessed Beast (L averse) = Uraeus
  
• MAUT = 333 = Fallen and Defiled
  The number of Choronzon in the old Key
  
• MAAT = 137 = Thebes
  
• TA NECH = 93 + 108 = 201, Tf
  TA NECH = 102 + 108 = 210 = Σ20 = A Babe in an Egg, Titan
  
• COPH NIA = 93 + 78 (= 93 + AIWAZ) = 171
  
• ABRAHADABRA = 23 + HAD + 23 = 65 = Aleph = (The double word of power uniting the 6 and 5 = 65)
  
• L.U.X. = 650 = Ankh f n Khonsu (= 65 x 10 = Abrahadabra x 10) = Night of Time = NOX (ŏ)
  L.U.X. which culiminates in the Union with HGA is the equivalent of 65 (or the two-fold word, ABRAHADABRA) into the material plane or 10th sphere (650) is the other half of N.O.X. which
  28 The Grade and Title given to the Initiate operating at this level (Chokmah, or the second sphere).Page The English Qabalah
  together are 13 x 10 x 10.
  
• My heart =156 = AIWASS = BABALON = KAOS
  
• My tongue = 699 = Word of the Law = A Secret Key of this Law
  
• Restriction = 465 = Σ30 = Black Brothers = Double = Wickedness
  
• BE-WITH-US = 418 = Let ASARbe with ISA = The Silver Star = Perfection = The Prophet (ŏ)
  (418 – a Glyph for the Great Work accomplished and Abrahadabra (Ø) in the old Key. Note also in the injunction: “Let Asar be With Isa” that ASAR+ ISA = 333 in the old Key and 73 in the new. This may be suggestive to NEMO.)
  
• Seven spirits of unrighteousness = 1550 = 155 into Malkuth (155 = evil, veil)
  
• NEMO = 311 = The Beast & His Bride = TARO = ROTA = Every way Perfect = The Self-Slain (See Ankh-af-na-Khonsu)
  
• SEBEK = 439 = Crocodile
  
• Crowned Child = 450 =“Amoun”
  (Amoun is mate to Maut, father to Ankh-af-na-Khonsu: a revision of the YHVH formulae) He is both the father and son of their love.
  Moloch, is Baal, which is Abel, or Apis the Bull and he ap­pears as a man with the head of a bull, and later, a calf. In a sense, He is the dark or averse side of Kether, and has been alternately viewed as a God and a demon depending on the culture of the nation. He demands great sacrifice (often the first born), and the Initiate must slay the God’s appearance in the final projection of this sphere.
  
• Great work = 440 Tf
  
• The Great Work = 777
  
• No-thing = 469 = Being Not = Let Being be Empty = The Chief of All
  
• English Alphabet = 486 = Key of this Law
  
• Cosmos = 518 = Chaos is my name = Egg of Blackness
  (Cosmos is the Naming of Chaos i.e. attributing an Order to elements in the Universe: the Egg of Blackness, which is Spirit.)
  
• O Prophet = 521 = A Word = Saviour = ISIS, my mother = Strange Pale God = Be done with Speech = The work is ended = Annihilation = Divine Perfection
  An interesting set of entries. Taken from Liber vel Legis, technically it refers to the scribe of the Book, who as a Student in Chokmah, was the Word made Flesh, which children of Men take for Messianic force (Saviour). This prophet is extolled to abandon this bloodless Life (Strange Pale God), to be Silent*, for the Work is ended, and the Annihilation of Himself into this Force, that is the Word (instead of opposing and so refracting it in Speech) results in the Divine Perfection – a title of Kether. *Liber Bvel Magi 2-3: “2. …the Word that is God is none other than He. 3. How shall He end His Speech with Silence? For He is Speech.”
  
• MERCURIUS = 535 = The Ruby Star = The Serpent Flame Therein = Beast of the Field
  
• The Great Work = 777 = Key of the Vault = Three Ordeals in One = Yea Than, Yea Theli, yea Lilith*
  *The three ordeals and their passwords.
• The Understanding = 701 = The Gate of the Abyss = The Four Beasts = Knowledge and Delight
  
• City of Fifty Gates = 718 = Of All Truth = Company of Heaven
  
• Secret Understanding = 731 = Secretest Chamber of the Palace = One Knowledge = Absolute Bliss = Sweeter than death (ϖ)
  
• Power of Understanding = 1070 = Stabat Crux Juxta Lucem*= Stabat Lux Juxta Crucem* = Light, LIFE, LOVE, Force, Fantasy, FIRE = Wisdom and Folly
  The first two entries denote the proper means of acquiring and increasing such Power as witnessed in the 10th Aire. The third lists the virtues of such a Power. The car called Millions of Years refers to the soul’s path. Power of Understanding as we know by the incidence, reciprocity and identity (See BABALON AND KAOS) is equivalent to Wisdom (the traditional title for Chokmah) which leads to Folly (The Fool, is a title corresponding to the Kether).
  *Two means of achieving such power. See the 6th Aire. Lat: Erect the Cross near the Light; and, Erect the Light near the Cross.
• The Gates of Understanding = 1156 (scale of 156) = The Wisdom of the New Aeon
  (A beautiful example of the Geometries revealed by the Key. Here we have the two Supernal Formulae, contiguous and counterbalancing themselves on the more material continuum of 103, Understanding or Binah and Wisdom or Chokmah, being technical terms corresponding to 2nd and 3rd spheres and here adding to 156 × 10, whose formula for transcendence and release is 156.)
  
• The Throne of Understanding = 1288 = Watchtowers of the Universe (see Liber 418)
  
• Winners of the Ordeal X = 1087 = The Royal and the Lofty
  
• That Mighty Devil Choronzon = 1317 = Weird and Monstrous Speech*= Tremble ye O Pillars of the Universe (from 10th Aire before confrontation with this Demon) *See 10th Aire.
  
• The Stone of the Philosophers = 1366 = The Gross must pass through fire = Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy Rapture = In swoon of the Excellent Kisses!
  Succumbing to the ecstasies and the Bliss destroys the Energies that are the cause of which it is the effect. Orgasm or Samadhi—these are Death. The Communion is over. Yet, it is the Reward of the Operation.
  
• The Whirlpool and Leviathan and the Great Stone = 1371 = The dung of Choronzon = The Great Snake of Khem, the Holy One
  (Note: This is one less than the Lord of the Forces of Matter. See doctrine on the Shame of Khem and 4th Aire wherein all this is enacted.)
  
• The Lord of the Forces of Matter = 1372 = The great princes of the Evil of the World = Olalam Imal Tutulu (Regards Mayan, and the 2nd and 3rd Aires)
  Note here the (666 + 20) into Chokmah. 666 reduces to the Unity for it is the Number of a Magus, for “He is One”*. It is also three circles, taking in from above by the glyph of the numeral (see doctrine on three Wheels). * “One is the Magus, twain his forces…” Liber Bvel Magi, 00
  
• Victory over Choronzon = 1519 = Aye! Listen to the Numbers and the Words = The Athanoor called Dissolution = Unity Uttermost Showed
  Aye! Listen to the Numbers and the Words: a promise to NEMO who confronts this dispersive Force. In this wise, Let Him be Sure.
  
• The Key of the Pylon of Power = 1403 = The Chosen Priest & Apostle of Infinite Space = Warrior of Ra Hoor Khu*= The wisdom of Ra Hoor Khuit* = The Reward of Ra Hoor Khut*
  * Different manifestations of the God taken verbatim from the text.
  
• The Stabilities of Being and of Consciousness and of Bliss = 1777 = Leaping Laughter and Delicious Langour (  )
  
• The Direful Judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit = 1812 = The Palace of Two Hundred and Eighty Judgments = The Wings of Maut the Vulture
  Self-explanatory. Recall that Maut = 333. The Palace of Two Hundred and Eighty Judgments is encountered in the 3rd Aire after where the Seer de-feathering the Vulture takes these for the plumes of his Arrow.
  
• Thus Is the Art and Craft of the Magus But Glamour = 2222 (Note this action : the Grand Scale of 2 and its rela­tion to Chokmah.)
  

This short list shows that the text of Liber vel Legis is consistent with both the English Key and the Mystical Traditions and Interpretations we have from prior researches. Meanwhile it may be of interest to compare the values of certain formulae and names in light of this new key. These revisions further explicate the nature of the formulae in light of the new key and the New Aeon energies.