(May the Holy One mitigate His severities toward His servant in respect of the haste wherewith this essay hath been composed!

When I travelled with the venerable Iehi Aour in search of Truth, we encountered a certain wise and holy man, Shri Parananda.  Children! said he, for two years must ye study with me before ye fully comprehend our Law.

"Venerable Sir!" answered Frater I.A., "the first verse of "Our" Law contains but seven words.  For seven years did I study that verse by day and by night; and at the end of that time did I presume --- may the Dweller of Eternity pardon me! -=-- to write a monograph upon the first word of those seven words."

"Venerable Sir!" quoth I: "that First Word of our law contains but six letters.  For six years did I study that word by day and by night; and at the end of that time did I not dare to utter the first letter of those six letters."

Thus humbling myself did I abash both the holy Yogi and my venerable Frater I. A.  But alas!  Tegragrammaton!  Alas!  Adonai! the hour of my silence is past.  May the hour of my silence return!  Amen.)
 

0. The Negative --- the Infinite --- the Circle, or the Point.
1. The Unity --- the Positive --- the Finite --- the Line, derived from 0 by extension.  The divine Being.
2. The Dyad --- the Superficies, derived from 1 by reflection 1/1, or by revolution of the line around its end.  The Demiurge.  The divine Will.
3. The Triad, the solid, derived from 1 and 2 by addition.  Matter.  The divine Intelligence.
4. The Quaternary, the solid existing in Time, matter as we know it. Derived from 2 by multiplication.  The divine Repose.
5. The Quinary, Force or Motion.  The interplay of the divine Will with matter.  Derived from 2 and 3 by addition.
6. The Senary, Mind.  Derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication.
7. The Septenary, Desire.  Derived from 3 and 4 by addition.  (There is however a secondary attribution of 7, making it the holiest and most perfect of the numbers.)
8. The Ogdoad, Intellect (also Change in Stability).  Derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 8 = 23.
9. The Ennead, Stability in Change.  Derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 9 = 32.
    (Note all numbers divisible by nine are still so divisible, however the order of the figures is shifted.)
10.  The Decad, the divine End.  Represents the 1 returning to the 0. Derived from 1 + 2 + 3 + 4.
11. The Hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine Tree.  1 + 1 = 2, in its evil sense of not being 1.
 

0. The Cosmic Egg.
1. The Self of Deity, beyond Fatherhood and Motherhood.
2. The Father.
3. The Mother.
4. The Father made flesh --- authoritative and paternal.
5. The Mother made flesh --- fierce and active.
6. The Son --- partaking of all these natures.
7. The Mother degraded to mere animal emotion.
8. The Father degraded to mere animal reason.
9. The Son degraded to mere animal life.
10. The Daughter, fallen and touching with her hands the shells.

It will be noticed that this order represents creation as progressive degeneration --- which we are compelled to think of as evil.  In the human organism the same arrangement will be noticed.
 

0. The Pleroma of which our individuality is the monad: the "All-Self."
1. The Self --- the divine Ego of which man is rarely conscious.
2. The Ego; that which thinks "I" --- a falsehood, because to think "I" is to deny "not-I" and thus to create the Dyad.
3. The Soul; since 3 reconciles 2 and 1, here are placed the aspirations to divinity.  It is also the receptive as 2 is the assertive self.
4-9. The intellectual Self, with its branches:

4. Memory.
5. Will.
6. Imagination.
7. Desire.
8. Reason.
9. Animal being.

Having compared these attributions with those to be found in 777, studied them, assimilated them so thoroughly that it is natural and needs no effort to think "Binah, Mother, Great Sea, Throne, Saturn, Black Myrrh, Sorrow, Intelligence, etc. etc. etc.," in a flash whenever the number 3 is mentioned or seen, we may profitably proceed to go through the most important of he higher numbers.  For this purpose I have removed myself from books of reference; only those things which have become fixed in my mind (from their importance) deserve place in the simplicity of this essay.

12. HVA, "He," a title of Kether, identifying Kether with the Zodiac, and "home of the 12 stars" and their correspondences.  See 777.
13. AChD, Unity, and AHBH Love.  A scale of unity; thus 13 x 1 = 1; 26 = 13 x 2 = 2; 91 = 13 x 7 = 7; so that we may find in 26 and 91 elaboration of the Dyad and the Septenary respectively.
14.  An "elaboration" of 5 (1 + 4 = 5), Force; a "concentration" or 86 ( 8 + 6 = 14) Elohim, the 5 elements.
15. IH, Jah, one of the ineffable names; the Father and Mother united. Mystic number of Geburah: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5.
17. The number of squares in the Swastika, which by shape is Aleph, A . Hence 17 recalls 1.  Also IAV, IAO, the triune Father.  See 32 and 358.
18. ChI, Life.  An "elaboration" of 9.
20. IVD, Yod, the letter of the Father.
21. AHIH, existence, a title of Keter,  Note 3 x 7 = 21.  Also IHV, the first 3 (active) letters of IHVH.  Mystic number of Tiphereth.
22. The number of letters in the Hebrew Alphabet; and of the paths on the Tree.  Hence suggests completion of imperfection.  Finality, the fatal finality.  Note 2 x 11 = 22, the accursed Dyad at play with the Shells.
24. Number of the Elders; and 72 v 3.  72 is the "divided Name."
26. IHVH.  Jehovah, as the Dyad expanded, the jealous and terrible God, the lesser Countenance.  The God of Nature, fecund, cruel, beautiful, relentless.
28. Mystic number of Netzach, KCh, "Power."
31. LA, "not"; and AL, "God."  In this Part I. ("Nature as it is") the number is rather forbidding.  For AL is the God-name of Chesed, mercy; and so the number seems to deny that Name.
32. Number of Sephiroth and Paths, 10 + 22.  Hence is completion of perfection.  Finality: things as they are in their totality.  AHIHVH, the combined AHIH and IHVH, Macroprosopus, and Microprosopus, is here.  If we suppose the 3 female letters H to conceal the 3 mothers A, M, Sh, we obtain the number 358, Messiach, q.v.  Note 32 = 25, the divine Will extended through motion.  64 = 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first cube, squared.  So we find it a Mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in truth eternal change.
35. AGLA, a name of God = Ateh Gibor Le Olahm Adonai.  "To Thee by the Power unto the Ages, O my Lord!"  35 = 5 x 7.  7 = Divinity, 5 = Power.
36. A Solar Number.  ALH.  Otherwise unimportant, but is the mystic number of Mercury.
37. IChIDH.  the highest principle of the soul, attributed to Kether.  Note 37 = 111 / 3.
38. Note 38 x 11 = 418 q.v. in Part II.
39. IHVH AChD, Jehovah is one.  39 = 13 x 3.  This is then the affirmation of the aspiring soul.
40. A "dead" number of fixed law, 4 x 10, Tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of Malkuth.
41. AM, the Mother, unfertilised and unenlightened.
42. AMA, the Mother, still dark.  Here are the 42 judges of the dead in Amennti, and here is the 42-fold name of the Creative God.  See Liber 418.
44. DM, blood.  See Part II.  Here 4 x 11 = the corruption of the created world.
45. MH, a secret title of Yetzirah, the Formative World.  ADM, Adam, man, the species (not "the first man").  A is Air, the divine breath which stirs DM, blood, into being.
49. A number useful in the calculations of Dr. Dee, and a mystic number of Venus.
50. The number of the Gates of Binah, whose name id Death (50 = Nun  = by Tarot, "Death").
51. AN, pain.  NA, failure.  ADVM, Edom, the country of the demon kings. There is much in the Qabalah about these kings and their dukes; it never meant much to me, somehow.  But 51 is 1 short of 52.
52.  AIMA, the fertilised Mother, the Phallus (Yod ) thrust into AMA. Also BN, the Son.  Note 52 = 13 x 4, 4 being Mercy and the influence of the Father.
60. Samekh, which in full spells 60 x 2 = 120 (q.v.), just as Yod, 10 in full spells 10 x 2 = 20.  In general, the tens are "solidifications" of the ideas of the units which they multiply.  Thus 50 is Death, the Force of Change in its final and most earthy aspect.  Samekh is "Temperance" in the Tarot: the 6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is
"restriction."
61. AIN, the Negative.  ANI, Ego.  A number rather like 31, q.v.
64. DIN and DNI, intelligences (the twins) of Mercury.  See also 32.
65. ADNI.  In Roman characters LXV = LVX, the redeeming light.  See the 5x = 6x ritual and "Konx om Pax."  Note 65 = 13 x 5, the most spiritual form of force, just as 10 x 5 was its most material form.  Note HS, "Keep silence!" and HIKL, the palace; as if it were said "Silence is the House of Adonai."
67. BINH the Great Mother.  Note 6 + 7 = 13, uniting the ideas of Binah and Kether.  A number of the aspiration.
70. The Sanhedrin and the precepts of the Law.  The Divine 7 in its most material aspect.
72. ChSD, Mercy.  The number of the Shemhamphorasch, as if affirming God as merciful.  For details of Shemhamphorasch, see 777 and other classical books of reference.  Note especially I + IH + IHV _ IHVH = 72.
73. ChKMH, Wisdom.  Also GML, Gimel, the path unitingKether and Tiphereth. But Gimel, "the Priestess of the Silver Star," is the Female Hierophant, the Moon; and Chokmah is the Logos, or male initiator.  See Liber 418 for much information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of Part II.
78.  MZLA, the influence from Kether.  The number of the cards of the Tarot, and of the 13 paths of the Beard of Macroprosopus.  Note 78 = 13 x 6. Also AIVAS, the messenger.  See Part II.
80. The number of Peh , the "lightning-struck Tower" of the Tarot.  8 = Intellect, Mercury; its most material form is Ruin, as Intellect in the end is divided against itself.
81. A mystic number of the Moon.
84. A number chiefly important in Buddhism.  84 = 7 x 12.
85. PH, the letter P.  85 = 5 x 17: even the highest unity, if it move or energise, means War.
86. ALHIM.  See "A Note on Genesis," EQUINOX, No. II.
90. Number of Tzaddi, a fishhook = Tanha, the clinging of man to life (9), the trap in which man is caught as a fish is caught by a hook.  The most material aspect of animal life; its final doom decreed by its own lust.  also MIM, Water.
91. 91 = 7 x 13, the most spiritual form of the Septenary.  AMN, Amen, the holiest title of God; the Amoun of the Egyptians.  It equals IHVH ADNI (IAHDVNHI, interlaced), the eight-lettered name, thus linking the 7 to the 8. Note that AMN (reckoning N as final, 700) = 741 = AMThSh, the letters of the elements; and is thus a form of Tetragrammaton, a form unveiled.
100. The number of Qof, the perfect illusion, 10 x 10. also Peh-final Koph, Kaph, the Wheel of fortune.  The identity is that of matter, fatality, change, illusion.  It seems the Buddhist view of the Samsara-Cakkram.
106. NVN, Nun, a fish.  The number of death.  Death in the Tarot bears a cross-handled scythe; hence the Fish as the symbol of the Redeemer.  ICqUS = Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.
108. Chiefly interesting because 108 = 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 3 = the square of 2 playing with the cube of 3.  Hence the Buddhists hailed it with acclamation, and make their rosaries of this number of beads.
111. AChD HVA ALHIM, "He is One God."
   ALP, Aleph, and ox, a thousand.  The redeeming Bull.  By shape the Swastika, and so the Lightning.  "As the lightning lighteneth out of the East even unto the West, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man."  An allusion to the descent of Shiva upon Shakti in Samahdi.  The Roman A shows the same through the shape of the Pentagram, which it imitates.
   ASN, ruin, destruction, sudden death.  "Scil.", of the personality in Samadhi.
   APL, thick darkness.  "Cf." St John of the Cross, who describes these phenomena in great detail.
   AMO, the Hindu Aum or Om.
   MHVLL, mad --- the destruction of Reason by Illumination.
   OVLH, a holocaust.  "Cf." ASN.
   PLA, the Hidden Wonder, a title of Kether.
114. DMO, a tear.  The age of Christian Rosencreutz.
120. SMK, Samech, a prop.  Also MVSDI, basis, foundation.  120 = 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5, and is thus a synthesis of the power of the pentagram.  [Also 1 + 2 + ... + 15 = 120.]  Hence its importance in the 5 = 6 ritual , q.v. "supra" EQUINOX, No. III.  I however disagree in part; it seems to me to symbolise a lesser redemption than that associated with Tiphereth.  Compare at least the numbers 0.12 and 210 in Liber Legis and Liber 418, and extol their superiority.  For while the first is the sublime formula of the infinite surging into finity, and the latter the supreme rolling-up of finity into infinity, the 120 can symbolise at the best a sort of intermediate condition of stability.  For how can one proceed from the 2 to the 0?  120 is also ON, a very important name of God.
124. ODN, Eden.
131. SMAL, Satan so-called, but really only Samael, the accuser of the brethren,. unpopular with the Rabbis because their consciences were not clear.  Samael fulfils a most useful function; he is scepticism, which accuses intellectually; conscience, which accuses morally; and even that spiritual accuser upon the Threshold, 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 Apocapyse.  144,000 only means 12 (the perfect number in the Zodiac or houses of heaven and tribes of Israel) x 12, "i.e." settled x 1-000, "i.e." on the grand scale.
148. MAZNIM, 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 x 13, the most spiritual form, 13, of the most perfect number, 12, HVA.  [It is TzIVN, Zion, the City of the Pyramids. --- ED.]
175. A mystic number of Venus.
203. ABR, initials of AB, BN, RVCh, the Trinity.
206. DBR, Speech, "the Word of Power."
207. AVR, Light.  Contrast with AVB, 9, the astral light, and AVD, 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.
210.  Pertains to Part II.  See Liber 418.
214. RVCh, 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, Men, Nun, Pe, Tzaddi.  Also the number of the squares on the sides of the Vault 7 x 40; see 5 = 6 ritual.  Also RP = terror.
300. The letter Shin , meaning "tooth," and suggesting by its shape a triple flame.  Refers Yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the Holy Spirit, RVCh ALHIM = 300.  Hence the letter of the Spirit.  Descending into the midst of IHVH, the four inferior elements, we get IHShVH Jeheshua, the Saviour, symbolised by the Pentagram.
301. ASH, Fire.
314. ShDI, the Almighty, a name of God attributed to Yesod.
325. A mystic number of Mars.  BRTzBAL, the spirit of Mars, and GRAPIAL, the intelligence of Mars.
326. IHShVH, Jesus --- see 300.
333. ChVRVNZVN, see Liber 418, 10th Aethry.  It is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion.  There is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possibly the evil of Matter summ".  333 = 37 x 9 the accursd.
340. ShM --- the Name.
341. The sum of the "3 mothers," Aleph, Mem, and Shin.
345.  MShH, Moses.  Note that by transposition we have 543, AHIH AShR AHIEH, "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.  MShICh, Messiah, and NChSh, the serpent of Genesis.  The dogma is that the head of the serpent (N) is "bruised," being replaced by M, the letter of Sacrifice, and god, the letter alike of virginity (Yod  = Virgo) and of original deity (Yod  = the foundation or type of all the letters). Thus the word may be read:

"The Sacrifice of the Virgin-born Divine One triumphant (Chet , the Chariot) through the Spirit," while NChSh reads "Death entering the (realm of the) Spirit."
   But the conception of the Serpent as the Redeemer is truer.  See my explanation of 5 = 6 ritual (EQUINOX, No. III.).
361. ADNI HARTz, 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 Cannon." MEIqRAS  and ABRAXAS in Greek.
370. Really more important for Part II. OSh, 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 ShLM = peace.
400. The letter Taw , "The Universe."  It is the square of 20, "The Wheel of fortune," and shows the Universe therefore as the Sphere of Fortune --- the Samsara-Cakkram, where Karma, which fools call chance, rules.
400 is the total number of he Sephiroth, each of the 10 containing 210 in itself and being repeated in the 4 worlds of Atziluth, Briah, yetzirah, and Assiah.  These four worlds are themselves attributed to IHVH, which is therefore not the name of a tribal fetish, but the formula of a system.
401.  ATh, "The" emphatic, meaning "essence of," for A and Th are first and last letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, as Alpha  and Omega  are of the Greek, and A and Z of the Latin.  Hence the Word Azoth, not to be confused with Azote (lifeless, asotos), the old name for nitrogen.  Azoth means the sum and essence of all, conceived as One.
406. ThV, the letter Tau (see 400), also AThH, "Thou."  Note that AHA (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., q.v.
419. TITh, the letter Teth.
434. DLTh, the letter Daleth.
440. ThLI, the great dragon.
441. AMTh, Truth.  Note 441 = 21 x 21.  21 is AHIH, the God of Kether, whose Will is Truth.
450. ThN, the great dragon.
463. NTH HShQD, Moses' Wand, a rod of Almond.  3 + 60 + 400, the paths of the middle pillar.
474. DVTh, {WEH NOTE: sic, should be DOTh in the substitutions used in text} Knowledge, the Sephira that is not a Sephira.  In one aspect the child of Chokmah and Binah; in another the Eighth Head of the Stooping Dragon, raised up when the Tree of Life was shattered, and Macroposopus set cherubim against Microposopus.  See 4 = 7 ritual "supra."  Also, and very specially, Liber 418. It is the demon that purely intellectual or rational religions take as their God.  The special danger of Hinayana Buddhism.
480. LILITh, the demon-queen of Malkuth.
543. AHIH AShR AHIH, "I am that I am."
666. Last of the mystic numbers of the sun.  SVRTh, the spirit of Sol. Also OMMV SThH, Ommo Satan, the Satanic Trinity of Typhon, Apophis, and Besz; also ShM IHShVH, the name of Jesus.  The names of Nero, Napoleon, W. E. Gladstone, and any person that you may happen to dislike, add up the this number.  In reality it is the final extension of the number 6, both because 6 x 111 (ALPh = 111 = 1) = 6 and because the Sun, whose greatest number it is, is 6.

(I here interpolate a note on the "mystic numbers" of the planets. The first is that of the planet itself, "e.g." Saturn, 3.  The second is that of the number of squares in the square of the planet, "e.g." Saturn 9. The third is that of the figures in each line of the "magic square" of the planet, "e.g." Saturn 15.  A "magic square" is one in which each file, rank, and diagonal add to the same number, "e.g." Saturn is 816, 357, 492, each square being filled in with the numbers from 1 upwards.

The last of the magic numbers is the sum of the whole of the figures in the square, "e.g." Saturn 45.  The complete list is thus:

                               Saturn 3, 9, 15, 45.
                               Jupiter 4, 16, 34, 136.
                               Mars 5, 25, 65, 325.
                               sol 6, 36, 111, 666.
                               Venus 7, 49, 175, 1225.
                               Mercury 8, 64, 260, 2080.
                               Luna 9, 81, 369, 3321.

Generally speaking, the first number gives a divine name, the second an archangelic or angelic name, the third a name pertaining to the Formative world, the fourth a name of a "spirit" or "blind force."  Fro example, Mercury has AZ and DD (love) for 8, DIN and DNI for 64, TIRIAL for 260, and ThPThRThRTh for 2090.  But in the earlier numbers this is not so well carried out.  136 is both IVPhIL, the Intelligence of Jupiter, and HSMAL, the Spirit.

The "mystic numbers" of the Sephiroth are simply the sums of the numbers from 1 to their own numbers.

Thus (1) Kether = 1.
        (2) Chokmah = 1 + 2 = 3.
        (3) Binah = 1 + 2 + 3 = 6.
        (4) Chesed = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10.
        (5) Geburah = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15.
        (6) Tiphereth = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 21.
        (7) Netzach = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 = 28.
        (8) Hod = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 = 36.
        (9) Yesod = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 45.
        (10) Malkuth = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 = 55.

The most important attributions of 666, however, pertain to the second part, q.v.
671.  ThORA the Law, ThROA the Gate, AThOR the Lady of the Path of Daleth, RPThA the Wheel.  Also ALPH, DLTh, NUN, IVD, Adeonai (see 65) spelt in full.

This important number marks the identity of the Augoeides with the Way itself ("I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life") and shows the Taro as a key; and that the Law itself is nothing else than this.  For this reason the outer College of the A.'. A.'. is crowned by this "knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel."

This number too is that of the Ritual of Neophyte.  See Liber XIII.
741.  AMThSh, the four letters of the elements.  AMN, counting the N final as 700, the supreme Name of the Concealed One.  The dogma is that the Highest is but the Four Elements; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond Tetragrammaton.  This dogma is most admirably portrayed by Lord Dunsany in a tale called "The Wanderings of Shaun."
777. "Vide supra."
800. AShTh, the Rainbow.  The Promise of Redemption (8) --- 8 as Mercury, Intellect, the Ruach, Microprosopus, the Redeeming Son --- in its most material form.
811. Iota Alpha Omega  (Greek numeration).
888. Jesus (Greek numeration).
913. BRAShITh, the Beginning.  See "A Note on Genesis."  This list will enable the student to follow most of the arguments of the dogmatic Qabalah. It is useful for him to go through the arguments by which one can prove that any given number is the supreme.  It is the case, the many being but veils of the One; and the course of argument leads one to knowledge and worship of each number in turn.  For example.

Thesis.  The Number Nine is the highest and worthiest of the numbers.

Scholion alpha .  "The number nine is sacred, and attains the summits of philosophy," Zoroaster.

Scholion beta . Nine is the best symbol of the Unchangeable One, since by whatever number it is multiplied,the sum of the figures is always 9, "e.g." 9 x 487 = 4383.  4 + 3 + 8 + 3 = 18.  1 + 8 = 9.

Scholion gamma .  9 = Tet , a serpent.  And the Serpent is the holy Uraeus, upon the crown of the Gods.

Scholion delta . 9 = IX = the Hermit of the Tarot, the Ancient One with Lamp (Giver of Light) and Staff (the Middle Pillar of the Sephiroth).  This, too, is the same Ancient as in 0, Aleph.

"The Fool" and Aleph = 1.

Scholion digamma . 9 = the foundation of all things = the Foundation of the alphabet = Yod = 10 = Malkuth = Kether = 1.

   Scholion zeta . 9 = IX = The Hermit = Yod = 10 = X = The Wheel of Fortune = K = 20 = XX = The Last Judgment = Sh = 300 = 30 = L = Justice = VIII = 8 = Ch = The Chariot = VII = 7 = Z = The Lovers = VI = 6 = V (Vau) = The Pope = V = 5 = H = The Emperor = IV = 4 = D = The Empress = III = 3 = G = The High Priestess = II = 2 = B = The Magus = I = 1 = A = The Fool = 0.

   Scholion eta . 9 = Luna = G _ 3, etc., as before.

                   Z Indigo ?
   Scholion theta . 9 = 4        C Saturn = 3, etc., as before.
                   @ Lead   Y

There are many other lines of argument.  This form of reasoning reminds one of the riddle "Why is a story like a ghost?"  Answer.  "A story's a tale; a tail's a brush; a brush is a broom; a brougham's a carriage; a carriage is a gig; a gig's a trap; a trap's a snare; a snare's a gin; gin's a spirit; and a spirit's a ghost."

But our identities are not thus false; meditation reveals their truth. Further, as I shall explain fully later, 9 is not equal to 1 for the neophyte. These equivalences are dogmatic, and only true by favour of Him in whom All is Truth.  In practice each equivalence is a magical operation to be carried out by the aspirant.
 
 

 In the first part we have seen all numbers as Veils of the One, emanations of and therefore corruptions of the One.  It is the Universe as we know it, the static Universe.

Now the Aspirant to Magic is displeased with this state of things.  He finds himself but a creature, the farthest removed from the Creator, a number so complex and involved that he can scarcely imagine, must less dare to hope for, its reduction to the One.

The numbers useful to him, therefore, will be those which are subversive of this state of sorrow.  So the number 2 represents to him the Magus (the great Magician Mayan who has created the illusion of Maya) as seen in the 2nd Aethyr.  And considering himself as the Ego who posits the Non-Ego (Fichte) he hates this Magus.  It is only the beginner who regards this Magus as the Wonder-worker --- as the thing he wants to be.  For the adept such little consolation as he may win is rather to be found by regarding the Magus as B = Mercury = 8 = Ch = 418 = ABRAHADABRA, the great Word, the "Word of Double Power in the voice of the Master" which unites the 5 and the 6, the Rose and the Cross, the Circle and the Square.  And also B is the Path from Binah to Kether; but that is only important for him who is already in Binah, the
"Master of the Temple."

He finds no satisfaction in contemplating the Tree of Life, and theorderly arrangement of the numbers; rather does he enjoy the Qabalah as a means of juggling with these numbers.  He can leave nothing undisturbed; he is the Anarchist of Philosophy.  He refuses to acquiesce in merely formal proofs of the Excellence of things, "He doeth all things well," "Were the World understood Ye would see it was good," "Whatever is, is right," and so on.  To him, on the contrary, whatever is, is wrong.  It is part of the painful duty of a Master of the Temple to understand everything.  Only he can excuse the apparent cruelty and fatuity of things.  he is of the supernals; he sees things from above; yet, having come from below, he can sympathise with all. And he does not expect the Neophyte to share his views.  Indeed, they are not true to a Neophyte.  The silliness of the New-Thought zanies in passionately affirming "I am healthy!  I am opulent!  I am well-dressed!  I am happy," when in truth they are "poor and miserable and blind and naked," is not a philosophical but a practical silliness.  Nothing exists, says the Magister Templi, but perfection.  True; yet their consciousness is imperfect.  Ergo, it does not exist.  For the M.T. this is so: he has "cancelled out" the complexities of the mathematical expression called existence, and the answer is zero.  But for the beginner his pain and another's joy do not balance; his pain hurts him, and his brother may go hang.  The Magister Templi, too, understands why Zero must plunge through all finite numbers to express itself; why it must write itself as "n - n" instead of 0; what gain there is in such writing.  And this understanding will be found expressed in Liber 418 (Episode of Chaos and His Daughter) and Liber Legis (i. 28-30).

But it must never be forgotten that everyone must begin at the beginning. And in the beginning the Aspirant is a rebel, even though he feel himself to be that most dangerous type of rebel, a King Dethroned.7

hence he will worship any number which seems to him to promise to overturn the Tree of Life.  He will even deny and blaspheme the One --- whom, after all, it is his ambition to be --- because of its simplicity and aloofness.  He is tempted to "curse God and die."

Atheists are of three kinds.

1. The mere stupid man.  (Often he is very clever, as Bolingbroke, Bradlaugh and Foote were clever.)  He has found out one of the minor arcana, and hugs it and despises those who see more than himself, or who regard things from a different standpoint.  Hence he is usually a bigot, intolerant even of tolerance.

2. The despairing wretch, who, having sought God everywhere, and failed to find Him, thinks everyone else is as blind as he is, and that if he has failed --- he, the seeker after truth! --- it is because there is no goal.  In his cry there is pain, as with the stupid kind of atheist there is smugness and self-satisfaction.  Both are diseased Egos.

3. The philosophical adept, who, knowing God, says "There is No God," meaning "God is Zero," as qabalistically He is.  he holds atheism as a philosophical speculation as good as any other, and perhaps less likely to mislead mankind and do other practical damage than any other.

Him you may know by his equanimity, enthusiasm, and devotion.  I again refer to Liber 418 for an explanation of this mystery.  The nine religions are crowned by the ring of adepts whose password is "There is No God," so inflected that even the Magister when received among them had not wisdom to interpret it.

   1. Mr Daw, K.C.: M'lud, I respectfully submit that there is no such
        creature as a peacock.
   2. Oedipus at Colonus: Alas! there is no sun!  I, even I, have looked and
        found it not.
   3.  Dixit Sultus in corde suo: "Ain Elohim."

There is a fourth kind of atheist, not really an atheist at all.  He is but a traveller in the Land of No God, and knows that it is but a stage on his journey --- and a stage, moreover, not far from the goal.  Daath is not on the Tree of Life; and in Daath there is no God as there is in the Sephiroth, for Daath cannot understand unity at all.  If he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see Liber 418.  10th Aethyr.  I may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on Advanced Qabalah, and of course it is only intelligible to Advanced Students)).

This atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation.  He has done with the illusions of dogma.  From a Knight of the Royal Mystery he has risen to understand with the members of the Sovereign Sanctuary that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the Jugglery of the Magician.  he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungred and athirst seeks a seat at the Table of Adepts, and a portion of the Bread of Spiritual Experience, and a draught of the wine of Ecstasy.

It is then thoroughly understood that the Aspirant is seeking to solve the great Problem.  And he may conceive, as various Schools of Adepts in the ages have conceived, this problem in three main forms.

    1.  I am not God.  I wish to become God.
              This is the Hindu conception.
        I am Malkuth.  I wish to become Kether.
              This is the qabalistic equivalent.

    2.  I am a fallen creature.  I wish to be redeemed.
              This is the Christian conception.
        I am Malkuth, the fallen daughter.  I wish to be set upon the throne
                of Binah my supernal mother.
              This is the qabalistic equivalent.

    3.  I am the finite square; I wish to be one with the infinite circle.
              This is the Unsectarian conception.
        I am the Cross of Extension; I wish to be one with the infinite Rose.
              This is the qabalistic equivalent.

The answer of the Adept to the first form of the problem is for the Hindu "Thou art That" (see previous chapter, "The Yogi"); for the Qabalist "Malkuth is in Kether, and Kether is in Malkuth," or "That which is below is like that which is above" or simply "Yod."  (the foundation of all letters having the number 10, symbolising Malkuth.)

The answer of the Adept to the second form of the problem is for the Christian all the familiar teaching of the Song of Songs and the Apocalypse concerning the Bride of Christ.

For the Qabalist it is a long complex dogma which may be studied in the Zohar and elsewhere.  Otherwise, he may simply answer "H" (the letter alike of mother and daughter in IHVH).  See Liber 418 for lengthy disquisition on this symbolic basis.

The answer of the Adept to the third form of the problem is given by pi , implying that an infinite factor must be employed.

For the Qabalist it is usually symbolised by the Rosy Cross, or by such formulae as 5 = 6.  That they concealed a Word answering this problem is also true.  My discovery of this word is the main subject of this article.  All the foregoing exposition has been intended to show why I sought a word to fulfil the conditions, and by what standards of truth I could measure things.

But before proceeding to this Word, it is first necessary to explain further in what way one expects a number to assist one in the search for truth, or the redemption of the soul, or the formulation of the Rosy Cross. (I am supposing that the treader is sufficiently acquainted with the method of reading a name by its attributions to understand how, once a message is received, and accredited, it may be interpreted.)  Thus if I ask "What is knowledge?" and receive the answer "DOTh," I read it Daleth the door, O matter, Th darkness, by various columns of 777 (To choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition.  Solvitur ambulando).  But here I am only dealing with the "Trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of God."

Suppose now that a vision purporting to proceed from God is granted to me. The Angel declares his name.  I add it up.  It comes to 65.  An excellent number! a blessed angel!  Not necessarily.  suppose he is of a Mercurial appearance?  65 is a number of Mars.

Then I conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit.  The Devil does not understand the Qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony.

But suppose an angel, even lowly in aspect, not only knows the Qabalah --- your own researches in the Qabalah --- as well as you do, but is able to show you truths, qabalistic truths, which you had sought for long and vainly!  Then you receive him with honour and his message with obedience.

It is as if a beggar sought audience of a general, and showed beneath his rags the signet of the King.  When an Indian servant shows me "chits" signed by Colonel This and Captain That written in ill-spelt Babu English, one knows what to do.  On the contrary the Man Who Was Lost rose and broke the stem of his wineglass at the regimental toast, and all knew him for one of their own.

In spiritual dealings, the Qabalah, with those secrets discovered by yourself that are only known to yourself and God, forms the grip, sing, token and password that assure you that the Lodge is properly tiled.

It is consequently of the very last importance that these final secrets should never be disclosed.  And it must be remembered that an obsession, even momentary, might place a lying spirit in possession of the secrets of your grade.  Probably it was in this manner that Dee and Kelly were so often deceived.

A reference to this little dictionary of numbers will show that 1, 3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 17, 21, 22, 26, 32, 37, 45, 52, 65, 67, 73, 78, 91, 111, 120, 207, 231, 270, 300, 326, 358, 361, 370, 401, 406, 434, 474, 666, 671, 741, 913, were for me numbers of peculiar importance and sanctity.  Most of them are venerable, referring to or harmonious with the One.  Only a few --- "e.g." 120 --- refer to the means.  There are many others --- any others --- just as good; but not for me.  god in dealing with me would show me the signs which I should have intelligence enough to understand.  it is a condition of all intellectual intercourse.

Now I preferred to formulate the practical problem in this shape; "How shall I unite the 5 and the 6, Microcosm and Macrocosm?"

And these are the numbers which seemed to me to bear upon the problem.

1. Is the goal, not the means.  Too simple to serve a magician's purpose.
2. "Vide supra."
3. Still too simple to work with, especially as 3 = 1 so easily.  But, and therefore, a great number to venerate and desire.
4. The terrible number of Tetragrammaton, the great enemy.  The number of the weapons of the Evil Magician.  The Dyad made Law.
5. The Pentagram, symbol of the squaring of the circle by virtue of ALHIM = 3.1415, symbol of man's will, of the evil 4 dominated by man's spirit.  Also Pentagrammaton, Jeheshua, the Saviour.  Hence the Beginning of the Great Work.
6. The Hexagram, symbol of the Macrocosm and Microcosm interlaced, and hence of the End of the Great Work.  (Pentagram on breast, Hexagram on back, of Probationer's Robe.)  Yet it also symbolises the Ruach, 214, q.v., and so
is as evil "in vi" as it is good "in termino."
   7. A most evil number, whose perfection is impossible to attack.
   8. The great number of redemption, because Ch = ChITh = 418, q.v.  this only develops in importance as my analysis proceeds.  A priori it was of 'n' great importance.
   9. Most Evil, because of its stability.  AVB, witchcraft, the false moon of the sorceress.
   10. Evil, memorial of our sorrow.  Yet holy, as hiding in itself the return to the negative.
   11. The great magical number, as uniting the antitheses of 5 and 6 etc. AVD the magic force itself.
   12. Useless.  Mere symbol of the Goal.
   13. Helpful, since if we can reduce our formula to 13, it becomes 1 without further trouble.
   17. Useful, because though it symbolises 1, it does so under the form of a thunderbolt.  "Here is a magic disk for me to hurl, and win heaven by violence," says the Aspirant.
   21. As bad, nearly, as 7.
   26. Accursed.  As bad as 4.  Only useful when it is a weapon in your hand; then --- "if Satan be divided against Satan," etc.
   28. Attainable; and so, useful.  "My victory," "My power," says the Philosophus.
   30. The Balance --- Truth.  Most useful.
   31. LA the reply to AL, who is the god of Chesed, 4.  The passionate denial of God, useful when other methods fail.
   32. Admirable, in spite of its perfection, because it is the perfection which all from 1 to 10 and Aleph to Tau, share.  Also connects with 6, through AHIHVH.
   37. Man's crown.
   44. Useful to me chiefly because I had never examined it and so had acquiesced in it as accursed.  When it was brought by a messenger whose words proved true I then understood it as an attack on the 4 by the 11.  "Without shedding of blood (DM = 44) there is no remission."  Also since the messenger could teach this, and prophesy, it added credit to the Adept who sent the message.
   45. Useful as the number of man, ADM, identified with MH, Yetzirah, the World of Formation to which man aspires as next above Assiah.  Thus 45 baffles the accuser, but only by affirmation of progress.  It cannot help that progress.
   52. AIMA and BN.  But orthodoxy conceives these as external saviours; therefore they serve no useful purpose.
   60. Like 30, but weaker.  "Temperance" is only an inferior balance.  120, its extension, gives a better force.
   65. Fully dealt with in "Knox om Pax," q.v.
   72. Almost as bad as 4 and 26; yet being bigger and therefore further from 1 it is more assailable.  Also it does spell ChSD, Mercy, and this is sometimes useful.
   73. The two ways to Kether, Gimel and Chokmah.  Hence venerable, but not much good to the beginner.
   74. LMD, Lamed, an expansion of 30.  Reads "By equilibrium and self-scrifice, the Gate!"  Thus useful.  Also 74 = 37 x 2.
   So we see 37 x 1 = 37, Man's crown, Jechidah, the highest Soul --- "in
                          termino."
             37 x 2 = 74, The Balance, 2 being the symbol "in vi."
             37 x 3 = 111, Aleph, etc., 3 being the Mother, the nurse of the
                          soul.
             37 x 4 = 148, "The Balances,: and so on.  I have not yet worked
                          out all the numbers of this important scale.
   77. OZ, the Goat, "scil." of the Sabbath of the Adepts. The Baphomet of the Templars, the idol set up to defy and overthrow the false god --- though it is understood that he himself is false, not an end, but a means.  Note the 77 = 7 x 11, magical power in perfection.
   78. Most venerable because MZLA is shown as the influence descending from On High, whose key is the Tarot: and we possess the Tarot.  The proper number of the name of the Messenger of the Most Exalted One.  [The account of AIVAS
follows in its proper place. --- ED.]
   85. Good, since 85 = 5 x 17.
   86. Elohim, the original mischief.  But good, since it is a key of the Pentagram, 5 = 1 + 4 - 14 - 8 + 6 = 86.
   91. Merely venerable.
   111. Priceless, because of its 37 x 3 sumbolism, its explanation of Aleph, which we seek, and its comment that the Unity may be found in "Thick darkness" and in "Sudden death."  This is the most clear and definite help we have yet had, showing Samadhi and the Destruction of the Ego as gates of our final victory.
   120. See Part I. and references.
   124. ODN, Eden.  The narrow gate or path between Death and the Devil.
   156. BABALON.  This most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in Liber 418.  Notice 12 x 13 = 156.  This was a name given and ratified by Qabalah; 156 is not one of the  priori helpful numbers.  It is rather a case of the Qabalah illuminating St John's intentional obscurity.
   165. 11 x XV should be a number Capricorni Pneumatici.  Not yet fulfilled.
   201. AR, Light (Chaldee).  Note 201 = 3 x 67, Binah, as if it were said, "Light is concealed as a child in the womb of its mother."  The occult retort of the Chaldean Magi to the Hebrew sorcerers who affirmed AVR, Light, 207, is holy enough.
   206. DBR, the Word of Power.  A useful acquisition = "The Gateway of the Word of Light."
   210. Upon this holiest number it is not fitting to dilate.  We may refer Zelatores to Liber VII. Cap. I., Liber Legis Cap. I., and Liber 418.  But this was only revealed later.  At first I only had ABRAHA, the Lord of the Adepts. "Cf." Abraha-Melin.
   214. RVCh is one of the most seductive numbers to the beginner.  Yet its crown is Daath, and later one learns to regard it as the great obstacle.  Look at its promise 21, ending in the fearful curse of 4!  Calamity!
   216. I once hoped much from this number, as it is the cube of 6.  But I fear it only expresses the fixity of mind.  Anyhow it all came to no good.
   But we have DBIR, connected with DBR, adding the Secret Phallic Power.
   220. This is the number of the verses of Liber Legis.  It represents 10 x 22, "i.e." the whole of the Law welded into one.  Hence we may be sure that the Law shall stand as it is without a syllable of addition.
   Note 1022, the modulus of the universe of atoms, men, stars.  See "Two new
worlds."
   222. The grand scale of 2; may one day be of value.
   256. The Eighth power of 2; should should be useful.
   280. A grand number, the dyad passing to zero by virtue of the 8, the Charioteer who bears the Cup of Babalon.  See Liber 418, 12th Aethyr.  See also 280 in Part I.
   300. Venerable, but only useful as explaining the power of the Trident, and the Flame on the Altar.  too stable to serve a revolutionary, except in so far as it is fire.
   333. See Part I.
   340. Connects with 6 through ShM, the fire and the water conjoined to make the Name.  Thus useful as a hint in ceremonial.
   358. See Part I.
   361. See Part I.  Connects with the Caduceus; as 3 is the supernal fire, 6 the Ruach, 1 Malkuth.  See illustration of Caduceus in EQUINOX No. II.
   370. Most venerable (see Part I.).  It delivers the secret of creation into the hand of the Magician.  See Liber Capricorni Pneumatici.
   400. Useful only as finality or material basis.  Being 20 x 20, it shows the fixed universe as a system of rolling wheels (20 = K, the Wheel of Fortune).
   401.  See Part I.  But Azoth is the Elixir prepared and perfect; the Neophyte has not got it yet.
   406. See Part I.
   414. HGVTh, Meditation, the 1 dividing the accursed 4.  Also AIN SVP AVR, the Limitless Light.
   418. CHITh, Cheth.  ABRAHADABRA, the great Magic Word, the Word of the Aeon.  Note the 11 letters, 5 A identical, and 6 diverse.  Thus it interlocks Pentagram and Hexagram.  BITh HA, the House of H the Pentagram; see Idra Zuta Gadisha, 694.  "For H formeth K, but Ch formeth IVD."  Both equal 20.
   Note 4 + 1 + 8 = 13, the 4 reduced to 1 through 8, the redeeming force; and 418 = Ch = 8.
   By Aiq Bkr ABRAHADABRA = 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 22. Also 418 = 22 x 19 Manifestation.  Hence the word manifests the 22 Keys of Rota.
   It means by translation Abraha Deber, the Voice of the Chief Seer.
   It resolves into Pentagram and Hexagram as follows: ---

The five letters used in the word are A, the Crown; B, the Wand; D, the Cup; H, the Sword; R, the Rosy Cross; and refer further to Amoun the Father, Thoth His messenger, and Isis, Horus, Osiris, the divine-human triad.

Also 418 = ATh IAV, the Essence of IAO, q.v.

This short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the Expression of the Goal and the Exposition of the Path.

 419. Teth, the number of the "laughing lion" on whom BABALON rideth.  See Liber 418.  Note 419 + 156 = 23 x 25, occultly signifying 24, which again signifies to them that understand the interplay of the 8 and the 3.  Blessed be His holy Name, the Interpreter of his own Mystery!
   434. Daleth, the holy letter of the Mother, in glory as Queen.  she saves the 4 by the 7 (D = 4 = Venus = 7), thus connects with 28.  Mystic number of Netzach (Venus), Victory.  Note the 3 sundering the two fours.  This is the feminine victory; she is in one sense the Delilah to the divine Samson.  Hence we adore her from full hearts.  It ought to be remembered, by the way, that the 4 is not so evil when it has ceased to oppress us.  The square identified with the circle is as good as the circle.
   441. Truth, the square of 21.  Hence it is the nearest that our dualistic consciousness can conceive of 21, AHIH, the God of Kether, 1.  Thus Truth is our chiefest weapon, our rule.  Woe to whosoever is false to himself (or to another, since in 441 that other is himself), and seven times woe to him that swerves from his magical obligation in thought, word or deed!  By my side as I write wallows in exhaustion following an age of torment one who did not understand that it is a thousand times better to die than to break the least tittle of a magical oath.
   463.  Shows that the Wand ought to represent.  Not 364; so we should hold it by the lower end.  The Wand is also Will, straight and inflexible, pertaining to Chokmah (2) as a Wand has two ends.
   474. See Part I.  To the beginner, though, Daath seems very helpful.  He is glad that the Stooping Dragon attacks the Sanctuary.  He is doing it himself. hence Buddhists make Ignorance the greatest fetter of all the ten fetters. But in truth Knowledge implies a Knower and a Thing Known, the accursed Dyad which is the prime cause of misery.
   480. Lilith.  See Liber 418.  So the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and sublime Zero.  "And therefore their breaths stink."
   543. Good, but only carries us back to the Mother.
   666. Chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in Part I., partly for the reasons given in the Apocalypse.  I took the Beast to be the Lion (Leo my rising sign) and Sol, 6,666, the Lord of Leo on which Babalon should ride.  And there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary to enter upon in this place.  Note however that the Tarot card of Leo, Strength, bears the number XI., the great number of the Magnum Opus, and its interchange with Justice, VIII.; and the key of 8 is 418.

   This all seemed to me so important that no qabalistic truths were so firmly implanted in my mind at the time when I was ordered to abandon the study of magic and the Qabalah as these: 8, 11, 418, 666; combined with the profoundest veneration for 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 37, 78, 91, 111.  I must insist on this at the risk of tautology and over-emphasis; for it is the key to my standard of Truth, the test-numbrs which I applied to the discernment of the Messenger from the Sanctuary.

   That such truths may seem trivial I am well aware; let it be remembered that the discovery of an identity may represent a year's toil.  But this is the final test; repeat my researches, obtain your own holy numbers; then, and not before, will you gully understand their Validity, and the infinite wisdom of the Grand Arithmetician of the Universe.
   671. Useful, as shown in Part I.
   741. Useful chiefly as a denial of the Unity; sometimes employed in the hope of tempting it from its lair.
   777. Useful in a similar way, as affirming that the Unity is the Qliphoth. But a dangerous tool, especially as it represents the flaming sword that drove Man out of Eden.  A burnt child dreads the fire.  "The devils also believe, and tremble."  Worse than useless unless you have it by the hilt.  Also 777 is the grand scale of 7, and this is useless to anyone who has not yet awakened the Kundalini, the female magical soul.  Note 7 as the meeting-place of 3, the Mother, and 10, the Daughter; whence Netzach is the Woman, married but no more.
   800. Useful only in 5 = 6 symbolism, p.v.
   888. The grad scale of 8.  In Greek numeration therefore Iota Eta Sigma Omicron Upsilon Sigma the Redeemer, connecting with 6 because of its 6 letters.  This links Greek and Hebrew symbolism; but remember that the mystic Iesous and Yeheshua have no more to do with the legendary Jesus of the Synoptics and the Methodists than the mystic IHVH has to do with the false God who commanded the murder of innocent children.  The 13 of the Sun and the Zodiac was perhaps responsible for Buddha and his 12 disciples, Christ and his 12 disciples, Charlemagne and his 12 peers, &c., &c., but to disbelieve in Christ or Charlemagne is not to alter the number of the signs of the Zodiac. Veneration for 666 does not commit me to admiration for Napoleon and Gladstone.

   I may close this paper by expressing a hope that I may have the indulgence of students.  The subject is incomparably difficult; it is almost an unworked vein of thought; and my expression must be limited and thin.  It is important that every identity should be most thoroughly understood.  No mere perusal will serve.  This paper must be studied line by line, and even to a great extent committed to memory.  And that memory should already be furnished with a thorough knowledge of the chief correspondences of 777.  It is hard to "suffer gladly" the particular type of fool who expects with a twenty-third-
rate idle brain to assimilate in an hour the knowledge that it has cost me twelve years to acquire.  I may add that nobody will ever understand this method of knowledge without himself undertaking research.  Once he has experienced the joy connecting (say) 131 and 480 though 15, he will understand.  Further, it is the work itself, not merely the results, that is
of service.  We teach Greek and Latin, though nobody speaks either language.

   And thus I close: Benedictus sit Dominus Deus Noster qui nobis dedit Scientiam Summam.

                                    Amen!