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777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley
This collection of Qabalistic texts is without parallel in the history of Mystical literature. Edited and introduced by Dr. Israel Regardie, the three texts included are Gematria, 777, and Sepher Sephiroth.
Gematria, reprinted from "The Temple of Solomon the King," The Equinox, Vol. 1, No. 5. It provides essential explanations of theoretical and practice Qabalistic number analysis and philosophy. "An Essay ion Number," also included, provides invaluable insights into key numbers as well as techniques and safeguards for practical magical work.
777 itself contains, in concise tabulated form, an overview of the symbolism of the major world religions, as well as the system of correspondence of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In short, it is a complete magical and philosophical dictionary—a key to all religion and practical occultism—an amazing work whose value has been recognized through many edition since its first appearance in 1909 and subsequent enlargement in 1955.
The thrid text is Sepher Sephiroth, a unique dictionary listing hundreds of Hebrew words arranged by numerical value. It was compiled jointly by Crowley and Allan Bennett and first appeared in The Equinox, Vol. 1, No. 8.
Gematria, reprinted from "The Temple of Solomon the King," The Equinox, Vol. 1, No. 5. It provides essential explanations of theoretical and practice Qabalistic number analysis and philosophy. "An Essay ion Number," also included, provides invaluable insights into key numbers as well as techniques and safeguards for practical magical work.
777 itself contains, in concise tabulated form, an overview of the symbolism of the major world religions, as well as the system of correspondence of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In short, it is a complete magical and philosophical dictionary—a key to all religion and practical occultism—an amazing work whose value has been recognized through many edition since its first appearance in 1909 and subsequent enlargement in 1955.
The thrid text is Sepher Sephiroth, a unique dictionary listing hundreds of Hebrew words arranged by numerical value. It was compiled jointly by Crowley and Allan Bennett and first appeared in The Equinox, Vol. 1, No. 8.
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Aleister Crowley
864 books1,870 followersAleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. He founded the religion of Thelema, proclaiming himself as the prophet destined to guide humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, Crowley published extensively throughout his life.
Born Edward Alexander Crowley in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, he was raised in a wealthy family adhering to the fundamentalist Christian Plymouth Brethren faith. Crowley rejected his religious upbringing, developing an interest in Western esotericism. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, focusing on mountaineering and poetry, and published several works during this period. In 1898, he joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, receiving training in ceremonial magic from Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and Allan Bennett. His travels took him to Mexico for mountaineering with Oscar Eckenstein and to India, where he studied Hindu and Buddhist practices.
In 1904, during a honeymoon in Cairo with his wife Rose Edith Kelly, Crowley claimed to have received "The Book of the Law" from a supernatural entity named Aiwass. This text became the foundation of Thelema, announcing the onset of the Æon of Horus and introducing the central tenet: "Do what thou wilt." Crowley emphasized that individuals should align with their True Will through ceremonial magic.
After an unsuccessful expedition to Kanchenjunga in 1905 and further travels in India and China, Crowley returned to Britain. There, he co-founded the esoteric order A∴A∴ with George Cecil Jones in 1907 to promote Thelema. In 1912, he joined the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), eventually leading its British branch and reformulating it according to Thelemic principles. Crowley spent World War I in the United States, engaging in painting and writing pro-German propaganda, which biographers later suggested was a cover for British intelligence activities.
In 1920, Crowley established the Abbey of Thelema, a religious commune in Cefalù, Sicily. His libertine lifestyle attracted negative attention from the British press, leading to his expulsion by the Italian government in 1923. He spent subsequent years in France, Germany, and England, continuing to promote Thelema until his death in 1947.
Crowley's notoriety stemmed from his recreational drug use, bisexuality, and criticism of societal norms. Despite controversy, he significantly influenced Western esotericism and the 1960s counterculture, and remains a central figure in Thelema.
Born Edward Alexander Crowley in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, he was raised in a wealthy family adhering to the fundamentalist Christian Plymouth Brethren faith. Crowley rejected his religious upbringing, developing an interest in Western esotericism. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, focusing on mountaineering and poetry, and published several works during this period. In 1898, he joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, receiving training in ceremonial magic from Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and Allan Bennett. His travels took him to Mexico for mountaineering with Oscar Eckenstein and to India, where he studied Hindu and Buddhist practices.
In 1904, during a honeymoon in Cairo with his wife Rose Edith Kelly, Crowley claimed to have received "The Book of the Law" from a supernatural entity named Aiwass. This text became the foundation of Thelema, announcing the onset of the Æon of Horus and introducing the central tenet: "Do what thou wilt." Crowley emphasized that individuals should align with their True Will through ceremonial magic.
After an unsuccessful expedition to Kanchenjunga in 1905 and further travels in India and China, Crowley returned to Britain. There, he co-founded the esoteric order A∴A∴ with George Cecil Jones in 1907 to promote Thelema. In 1912, he joined the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), eventually leading its British branch and reformulating it according to Thelemic principles. Crowley spent World War I in the United States, engaging in painting and writing pro-German propaganda, which biographers later suggested was a cover for British intelligence activities.
In 1920, Crowley established the Abbey of Thelema, a religious commune in Cefalù, Sicily. His libertine lifestyle attracted negative attention from the British press, leading to his expulsion by the Italian government in 1923. He spent subsequent years in France, Germany, and England, continuing to promote Thelema until his death in 1947.
Crowley's notoriety stemmed from his recreational drug use, bisexuality, and criticism of societal norms. Despite controversy, he significantly influenced Western esotericism and the 1960s counterculture, and remains a central figure in Thelema.
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July 11, 2015
This is a true classic, a definitive reference volume, the correspondence tables are comprehensive and it's also fascinating - Crowley could make even a dry reference book an interesting read.
Three stars off, however, for the blood libel against the Jews of Eastern Europe in the original text. Really, Uncle Al? You actually believed that? (Israel Regardie did excise it from the edition I own (Weiser hardcover ISBN 0 87728 222 6), saying "It is a nasty, malicious piece of writing, and does not do justice to the system with which he is dealing.")
The man was brilliant. But he could also be a racist bigot, and apparently even he didn't see the stupidity in making anti-Jewish remarks (or anti-Black, as he sometimes did) while promoting a religion grounded in Jewish mysticism and northern African deities.
DO read Crowley. He had a lot of important ideas, and there's much to be learned from him. That Regardie continued to promote his work in spite of the bigoted comments speaks for the quality of the writing. Just don't make an infallible god king of him - or anyone.
Three stars off, however, for the blood libel against the Jews of Eastern Europe in the original text. Really, Uncle Al? You actually believed that? (Israel Regardie did excise it from the edition I own (Weiser hardcover ISBN 0 87728 222 6), saying "It is a nasty, malicious piece of writing, and does not do justice to the system with which he is dealing.")
The man was brilliant. But he could also be a racist bigot, and apparently even he didn't see the stupidity in making anti-Jewish remarks (or anti-Black, as he sometimes did) while promoting a religion grounded in Jewish mysticism and northern African deities.
DO read Crowley. He had a lot of important ideas, and there's much to be learned from him. That Regardie continued to promote his work in spite of the bigoted comments speaks for the quality of the writing. Just don't make an infallible god king of him - or anyone.
February 21, 2011
This is like flipping through the journal of an obsessive drug addict... oh wait.
November 22, 2008
Sorry about the German edition -- for some weird reason this site doesn't list the English-language edition of Crowley's Qaballistic reference work. I don't speak much German, and only have the English-language version, 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley Including Gematria and Sepher Sephiroth, edited and with an introduction by Israel Regardie, which is what I'm reviewing here.
At any rate, I have found this work to be one of the most useful resources on esoteric subjects I have ever run across. There are three books included in this work: Book 1, Gematria; Book 2: Liber 777; and Book 3: Sepher Sephiroth. Book 1 discusses Gematria, a powerful tool for analyzing language and harnessing it for Magickal ritual. Book 2 provides a basic Qaballistic lexicon, a set of alphanumeric symbols in a one-to-one/onto correspondence with the integers 0-32, along with a wide variety of phenomena and esoteric concepts associated with each of the symbols indexed by the set of 33 integers. Book 3 is a Qaballistic dictionary indexed by the numbers 1-3321 and various Hebrew words and phrases associated with each one in terms of the sum of the values of the Hebrew letters in each (not all the larger indexing numbers are listed, however, and of those that are given, many are without corresponding Hebrew associations), along with a display of the Hebrew alphabet and the numerical value or values of each of its letters (some Hebrew letters have more than one value, depending on where they fall in a word). In addition, Israel Regardie's introduction provides fascinating insights on Qaballah as well as a discussion of the history of this work and of Crowlety himself.
In Book 1 of this work, Crowley discusses the definition of Qaballah: a set of distinct numbers in bijective correspondence with a set of distinct alphanumeric symbols. He doesn't phrase it quite that way, but that's the meaning of what he says there. He also says that which numbers are used as the indexing set for those symbols can be whatever you wish them to be, as long as you are consistent. That made me realize that looking at Qaballah strictly in terms of information or computer science, any set of distinct numbers that can be placed in a one-to-one/onto correspondence with any given set of distinct alphanumeric symbols is a Qaballah. Depending on the numbers and symbols, it may not be traditional Qaballah, and would be regarded among Qaballistis as a theological abomination, but for purposes of mathematical analysis, those conditions fulfill the definition of Qaballah. The numbers pi, e, V-1 = i, and other strange mathematical entities (various types of sets could also be used for this, e.g., algebras, rings, fields, the Mandelbrot set, julia sets, etc.) would be fine for that purpose. The symbols could include, e.g., the ASCII character set (the original form of which included 93 visible symbols plus the blank, so that the blank could be associated with zero and the rest with the counting numbers 1-93), the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements (the elements from helium to plutonium [hydrogen is not, strictly speaking, an element, as it has no neutron] can be associated with the integers 1-93, and hydrogen with 0), etc. The first two of those sets of 93 elements and a building component (blank, hydrogen) reflect the 93 current of the New Aeon of Horus. To accommodate them on the Tree of Life, additional vertical planes of Left and Right Pillars each at right angles to the traditional, original plane and with one another can be added, each containing six new Sephiroth, in a process continuing indefinitely, producing Trees of Life of 3, 4, 5, . . . ., and so on up to one with transfinite dimensionality. Given that a Path, or Atu, on the Tree of Life is a bijective function associating any two Sephiroth, then, via the process of expansion described above, the n-dimensional Tree of Life will have as many Paths and Sephiroth as needed to accommodate any given set of distinct alphanumeric symbols, however large the latter may be. A Tree of Life for the Multiverse!
As for Books 2 and 3, I use them all the time for various purposes. Among other things, Book 2 provides a tremendous number of ideas for things that can be used to reinforce the efficacy of Magickl ritual: planets, colors, Hebrew letters and words, alchemical concepts, gemstones, perfumes, elixirs, incenses, Buddhist concepts, the Gods of various cultures, the names of God, angles, archangels, you name it, anything can be indexed precisely by Qaballah. Among other things, each element -- each Path and Sephirah -- on the Tree of Life is itself a complete Tree of Life, each of the elements of which is a complete Tree of Life, and so on to infinity. So there's room for anything you wish there. The Tree is a fractal structure, self-replicating and never growing any less complex no matter how many levels of magnification you go on it.
Both as a wonderful reference work for Qaballists, students of the Tarot, Magickians, alchemists, astrologers, and other students and practitioners of the esoteric Arts and Sciences, and cultural anthropologists, mathematicians (for the enjoyment of the intricate structure of the Tree of Life and its possible extentions), and Jungian psychologists, this book will be a great addition to any thinking person's personal library. It should be available in an English-language edition from Samuel Weiser's, or, if it is out of print, amazon.com or other online bookstores may have it.
Nota bene: The beauty of the extended version of the Tree of Life is that the original, traditional version is preserved within it, undistorted and intact, protected by the additional "struts" that are the new Paths added to fill out the system of connections among Sephiroth. Also, on a purely mathematical level, topologically speaking this entity is infinitely connected, as figures such as the Mandelbrot set, Koch curve, or Peano space are not.
At any rate, I have found this work to be one of the most useful resources on esoteric subjects I have ever run across. There are three books included in this work: Book 1, Gematria; Book 2: Liber 777; and Book 3: Sepher Sephiroth. Book 1 discusses Gematria, a powerful tool for analyzing language and harnessing it for Magickal ritual. Book 2 provides a basic Qaballistic lexicon, a set of alphanumeric symbols in a one-to-one/onto correspondence with the integers 0-32, along with a wide variety of phenomena and esoteric concepts associated with each of the symbols indexed by the set of 33 integers. Book 3 is a Qaballistic dictionary indexed by the numbers 1-3321 and various Hebrew words and phrases associated with each one in terms of the sum of the values of the Hebrew letters in each (not all the larger indexing numbers are listed, however, and of those that are given, many are without corresponding Hebrew associations), along with a display of the Hebrew alphabet and the numerical value or values of each of its letters (some Hebrew letters have more than one value, depending on where they fall in a word). In addition, Israel Regardie's introduction provides fascinating insights on Qaballah as well as a discussion of the history of this work and of Crowlety himself.
In Book 1 of this work, Crowley discusses the definition of Qaballah: a set of distinct numbers in bijective correspondence with a set of distinct alphanumeric symbols. He doesn't phrase it quite that way, but that's the meaning of what he says there. He also says that which numbers are used as the indexing set for those symbols can be whatever you wish them to be, as long as you are consistent. That made me realize that looking at Qaballah strictly in terms of information or computer science, any set of distinct numbers that can be placed in a one-to-one/onto correspondence with any given set of distinct alphanumeric symbols is a Qaballah. Depending on the numbers and symbols, it may not be traditional Qaballah, and would be regarded among Qaballistis as a theological abomination, but for purposes of mathematical analysis, those conditions fulfill the definition of Qaballah. The numbers pi, e, V-1 = i, and other strange mathematical entities (various types of sets could also be used for this, e.g., algebras, rings, fields, the Mandelbrot set, julia sets, etc.) would be fine for that purpose. The symbols could include, e.g., the ASCII character set (the original form of which included 93 visible symbols plus the blank, so that the blank could be associated with zero and the rest with the counting numbers 1-93), the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements (the elements from helium to plutonium [hydrogen is not, strictly speaking, an element, as it has no neutron] can be associated with the integers 1-93, and hydrogen with 0), etc. The first two of those sets of 93 elements and a building component (blank, hydrogen) reflect the 93 current of the New Aeon of Horus. To accommodate them on the Tree of Life, additional vertical planes of Left and Right Pillars each at right angles to the traditional, original plane and with one another can be added, each containing six new Sephiroth, in a process continuing indefinitely, producing Trees of Life of 3, 4, 5, . . . ., and so on up to one with transfinite dimensionality. Given that a Path, or Atu, on the Tree of Life is a bijective function associating any two Sephiroth, then, via the process of expansion described above, the n-dimensional Tree of Life will have as many Paths and Sephiroth as needed to accommodate any given set of distinct alphanumeric symbols, however large the latter may be. A Tree of Life for the Multiverse!
As for Books 2 and 3, I use them all the time for various purposes. Among other things, Book 2 provides a tremendous number of ideas for things that can be used to reinforce the efficacy of Magickl ritual: planets, colors, Hebrew letters and words, alchemical concepts, gemstones, perfumes, elixirs, incenses, Buddhist concepts, the Gods of various cultures, the names of God, angles, archangels, you name it, anything can be indexed precisely by Qaballah. Among other things, each element -- each Path and Sephirah -- on the Tree of Life is itself a complete Tree of Life, each of the elements of which is a complete Tree of Life, and so on to infinity. So there's room for anything you wish there. The Tree is a fractal structure, self-replicating and never growing any less complex no matter how many levels of magnification you go on it.
Both as a wonderful reference work for Qaballists, students of the Tarot, Magickians, alchemists, astrologers, and other students and practitioners of the esoteric Arts and Sciences, and cultural anthropologists, mathematicians (for the enjoyment of the intricate structure of the Tree of Life and its possible extentions), and Jungian psychologists, this book will be a great addition to any thinking person's personal library. It should be available in an English-language edition from Samuel Weiser's, or, if it is out of print, amazon.com or other online bookstores may have it.
Nota bene: The beauty of the extended version of the Tree of Life is that the original, traditional version is preserved within it, undistorted and intact, protected by the additional "struts" that are the new Paths added to fill out the system of connections among Sephiroth. Also, on a purely mathematical level, topologically speaking this entity is infinitely connected, as figures such as the Mandelbrot set, Koch curve, or Peano space are not.
May 27, 2021
Reading and referencing this book enough lately to warrant marking it as another reading. 777 is indispensable for the student of Western Occultism, or any magician or mystic working with the systems of or influenced by Aleister Crowley. The essays contained in this book (also found in The Equinox) become more rewarding with each reading.
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January 9, 2017Reference book. Haven't read front to back -- The section on Gematria is a very interesting series of essays on Kaballah. 777 and the Sepher Sephiroth are somewhat interesting to peruse.
April 27, 2021
Appropriation. Racism. Antisemitism. No need to say anymore. Crowley is an ass and he cares for nothing but his own ideas.
November 29, 2014
This is a good book, however, even Crowley knew it was incomplete and wrote that he hoped to expand it one day or that someone else would do so, which he never got around to doing. However, that better, clearer and more expanded book is Stephen Skinner’s The Complete Magician’s Tables. Still, this is a good substitute and the essays that have been added may be interesting for some to read.
For our own part, these elves find Crowley’s writings to be both a challenge and a paradox, sometimes quite good and sometimes less so. He was one of those people who liked to write as though there were deeper mysteries that he knew but could not reveal, which may be the case, but we’ve meet others like that and it turned out in most cases just a habit of speech they developed mixed with a touch of blarney. Interesting in most cases, even entertaining, but often empty at their core. We much prefer, in this case, Skinner’s direct and clear writings, but then we are simple folk.
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For our own part, these elves find Crowley’s writings to be both a challenge and a paradox, sometimes quite good and sometimes less so. He was one of those people who liked to write as though there were deeper mysteries that he knew but could not reveal, which may be the case, but we’ve meet others like that and it turned out in most cases just a habit of speech they developed mixed with a touch of blarney. Interesting in most cases, even entertaining, but often empty at their core. We much prefer, in this case, Skinner’s direct and clear writings, but then we are simple folk.
The Silver Elves
Goodreads authors of Liber Aelph: Words of Guidance from the Silver Elves to Our Magical Children
May 14, 2022
Yet another great piece to have for the coming Fall of mankind. I will use this constantly in the coming years as my mystical practice continues. He has done much of the work for me that I have been writing on barely legible Sephora on a malformed Tree of Life. I happen to be the worlds worst artist as my children and wife will gladly tell you. I won’t pretend to act like I understood much of what I read, yet, but I am still a neophyte as far as Initiation into the mystery schools goes. I can say I love the way Aleister writes and he was, much like myself, a grade A dick. Besides he put it best when he wrote, “It is hard to suffer gladly the particular type of fool who expects with a 23rd rate idle brain to assimilate in an hour the knowledge that it has cost me 12 years to acquire.” I picture myself meditating on these tables and writings inside a cave during the coming panic when everyone realizes their never ending boosters of mRNA spike protein gene therapies are killing their children, grandchildren and themselves.
August 9, 2007
gawd crowley is so fucking theatrical but i guess that show-boatey-ness is what got him where it did. either way his stuff is fun to read, as long as you don't take him too seriously.
December 26, 2016
Qabala reference book interspersed with nuggets of wisdom, analysis and explanatory information. Most useful for those well versed in Qabalistic practices. Not for the beginner.
September 1, 2022
this is devil proogrpaganda and also kinda ableist.
September 15, 2022
Gematria is, in the fairly popularised form propagated by Crowley and successors, largely a device for engineering whatever spurious links between things serve your immediate purpose. This is the manual for how Thelemites do it. Crowley working cute little jokes into some of the correspondences in particular makes the whole exercise mildly silly.
Further thoughts, and how the show Hellier is a case study of using this to dive down a pointless rabbithole: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/202...
Further thoughts, and how the show Hellier is a case study of using this to dive down a pointless rabbithole: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/202...
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July 20, 2025meow, i plowed through this. was just seeking something magickal tonight. didn’t really pay it much mind, found what i needed, new subjects of study <333 mwahahahaa 40 Buddhist meditations? god the Holy Ghost (as incubus)??? the vision of sorrow in western mysticism?? Saturn is adorned with the blue rays of the king scale of chokmah???? this book is very complicated, however , magick is very simple to me, it’s a recipe of my fascination and fixation, and i picked what i wanted. good book for picking new studies tbh
July 28, 2020
A great reference book, full of insight and connections that work to illuminate many aspects of magick for anyone with the time and patience to sit down and connect the dots.
I unfortunately didn't have much time with the book, so I ended up reading it cover to cover; which, I know, isn't really the point. But I could see the connections and could tell that this is really powerful stuff to look into for anyone at a more intermediate level in magick.
But also, ew, Crowley.
I unfortunately didn't have much time with the book, so I ended up reading it cover to cover; which, I know, isn't really the point. But I could see the connections and could tell that this is really powerful stuff to look into for anyone at a more intermediate level in magick.
But also, ew, Crowley.
dropped
November 21, 2022Leaving unrated due to having seen only a small portion of it - particularly I read the preface & start of the first chapter (The Magical Alphabet) from 777 itself, for having Crowley's more philosophical & thus-intriguing-to-me musings (being of that time aside). I don't think I'm actively invested in the Qabalistic yet, but a starting glance that goes past just the few peculiar anecdotes I've heard.
November 12, 2023
Pay attention to the number 777. From the British Transport Police - "On 7 July 2005 four suicide bombers struck London's transport network, killing 52 people and injuring over 770 others."
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January 25, 2020
777 is more of a reference book than one you are intended to read cover to cover (though I did do so). It is very useful for these purposes thanks to its comprehensive nature, just be aware that unlike some of Crowley’s works it is mainly for reference rather than reading all at once.
January 13, 2018
"The freakin' holy grain of Western Esoteric Kabbalah" should basically sum it up. Just a few of us have found this to be a very useful reference book, to put it mildly ;)
August 13, 2018
The gold standard! Recently noticed I had misplaced my copy and managed to get another one. I think I've probably gone through 3 or 4 copies since my first from around when I was 15.
September 17, 2020
"Currently reading"....
You can't ever not be reading this book if you know what it contains. It's like an encyclopedia or a reference book.
You can't ever not be reading this book if you know what it contains. It's like an encyclopedia or a reference book.
March 1, 2021
This one is not just for reading. Is for studying.
April 3, 2021
Most complete toolbox for the adept
June 2, 2021
Dense rubbish
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 14, 2022
Best correspondences chart for ceremonial magicians
December 8, 2023
How was Crowley so good.
August 29, 2025
Great Reference book on correspondences.
November 6, 2022
How does one review a book like 777? I found myself asking this as I worked my way through the text. The reason being that the essays make up only a fraction of this work, so it isn't really a cover-to-cover read. Instead, the bulk of it is essentially reference material - tables of correspondences for ceremonial work are the heart of it, but it also contains a sort of 'dictionary' that gives both a long list of numbers and their Qabalistic interpretations via Gematria, as well as a compendium of Hebrew words, their English translations, and their numeration (again using gematria).
Therefore, it seems the best way to review it is to attempt an experiment! As a warning, I may not be doing this 'right' - I treated it as if I was reading this book when it was originally published; as if I did not have the internet, or other similar references available beyond just this. What can I glean from 777 alone? (well for one thing, I learned that Gematria will never be a major focus of my studies, lol, but it was still fascinating to consider)...
I used my chosen name: MOTHER LACHRYMARVM. This comes from Mater Lachrymarum, or Mother of Tears. I was unsure if I should just tally the numbers with mixed English and Latin, so I used Sepher Sephiroth to find analogous Hebrew words. It had 4 entries for 'Mother' and 6 entries for 'Tear(s)'/'Weeping'. I noted all these words, as well as the associated words their numbers linked them with. I chose the word for Supernal Mother (52) and Tears (520). I picked them for both feeling like the best options, but also for their associations, and because of the significance of their total (572) and how it relates to the whole. I also thought there was a certain relevance to 520 being 52 with a 0 at the end, it seemed intuitively to confirm they should be used together. 572 = touched by a chastening god he became active...?
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Therefore, it seems the best way to review it is to attempt an experiment! As a warning, I may not be doing this 'right' - I treated it as if I was reading this book when it was originally published; as if I did not have the internet, or other similar references available beyond just this. What can I glean from 777 alone? (well for one thing, I learned that Gematria will never be a major focus of my studies, lol, but it was still fascinating to consider)...
I used my chosen name: MOTHER LACHRYMARVM. This comes from Mater Lachrymarum, or Mother of Tears. I was unsure if I should just tally the numbers with mixed English and Latin, so I used Sepher Sephiroth to find analogous Hebrew words. It had 4 entries for 'Mother' and 6 entries for 'Tear(s)'/'Weeping'. I noted all these words, as well as the associated words their numbers linked them with. I chose the word for Supernal Mother (52) and Tears (520). I picked them for both feeling like the best options, but also for their associations, and because of the significance of their total (572) and how it relates to the whole. I also thought there was a certain relevance to 520 being 52 with a 0 at the end, it seemed intuitively to confirm they should be used together. 572 = touched by a chastening god he became active...?
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December 6, 2015
Some of the editorial bits are as interesting as hell; Crowley's prickly academic disposition shines through. It isn't exactly a work by Aleister Crowley alone, however; this has been curated and arranged at another level by another and more. Lots of tables, many curated several times over a few thousand years, so it is difficult to tell what is real or not, thought it may be a matter of precision that will matter to very few.
Certainly vital for a deeper understanding of the connections between - I'd like to say Tarot and Kabbalah, but the connections are literally between everything (and nothing). This could be very useful if one were creating a work of fiction - characters and plots pour out of these pages. Lots to know.
Categorize it as Reference Material and keep it close.
Certainly vital for a deeper understanding of the connections between - I'd like to say Tarot and Kabbalah, but the connections are literally between everything (and nothing). This could be very useful if one were creating a work of fiction - characters and plots pour out of these pages. Lots to know.
Categorize it as Reference Material and keep it close.
March 13, 2011
This is an older one that had many years ago and let go for some reason. Only recently have I reacquired it through the magic of my lovely girlfriend. Thank you punkin. I can still remember this book by aleister when I flip through it thinking I had forgotten it over the years. I was wrong. This is a book that will stick with you for years to come, atleast inside your mind it will. Crowley truly had his finger tapped on the vein and had a way of enlightening the reader. The symbols, the tables and information wash upon you like a warm wind in the spring night air. Pick this one and don't let go of it. I'm not making that mistake twice. Fool me once....
September 12, 2011
The reference book to end them all. Since this book came out, there have been countless authors writing similar ones in the hopes of achieving a bit of what this one has accomplished. It's a guide for almost any symbol, color, number, planet, deity or archetype you can think of. The difference is that it wasn't meant to end there, yet there are authors making their own washed-down versions without half of the organization and explanations this one has (for example, Eileen Holland's Grimoire of Magical Correspondences), and not bringing anyting new to the table. If you want just one book to begin your research, whether for witchcraft or ceremonial magick, this one is the one for you.
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