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which is derived from the Latin word notarius, a short-hand writer. Of
Notariqon there are two forms. In the first every letter of a word is
taken for the initial or abbreviation of another word, so that from the
letters of a word a sentence may be formed. Thus every letter of the
word BRAShITh, Berashith, the first word in Genesis, is made the
initial of a word, and we obtain from it BRAShITh RAH ALHIM
ShIQBLV IShRAL ThVRH, Berashith Rahi Elohim Sheyequebelo Israel
Torah: "In the beginning the Elohim saw that Israel would accept the
law.
The second form of Notariqon is that exact reverse of the first. By this
the initials or finals, or both or the medials, of a sentence, are taken to
form a word or words. Thus the Qabalah is called ChKMh NSThRH,
Chokhmah Nesthorah, "the secret wisdom;" and if we take the initials
of these two words Ch and N, we form by the second kind of Notariqon
the word ChN, Chen, "grace." Similarly, from the initials and finals of
the words MI IOLH LNV HShMIMH, Mi Iaulah Leno Ha-
Shamayimah, "Who shall go up for us to heaven?" (Deut. xxx. 12), are
formed MILH, Milah "circumcision," and IHVH, the Tetragrammaton,
implying that God hath ordained circumcision as the way to heaven. 192
We shall experiment with both uses of Notariqon in our examination
of Liber 49.
These techniques were, naturally, the product of Jewish 193 esoteric
philosophy, Hebrew thought to be the Divine language. There are
many excellent introductions to the subject and the reader is
encouraged to pursue them (see bibliography) if he or she is not
familiar. There is also evidence that Greek was also used in this way
and there are instances of “coded” words and, especially, names used
in the New Testament. There are also several systems of Gematria
developed for the Enochian system of magic, though there is some
divergence and it is difficult to choose one over the other, based on
practical results. 194
192
S.L.M Mathers, ibid..
193
“Naturally” as Kabbalah is a mystical stream of Post Second Temple Judaism and practical
Kabbalah is a subset of this philosophy. See Crowley’s Sepher Sephiroth.
194 Which is to say, none of them seem to work very well.
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