Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

the 11 Key – it is after all, an English rendering of the name as well as
support for the proposition that NAEQ6 is used to encode Liber 49.
And even though Crowley was in possession of the Key when he and
Neuberg evoked Choronzon at Bou Sada in Algeria, the key was not
deciphered until several decades after his death.
Astarte
The working is of nine moons.
The Astarte working, with music and feasting, with wine and all arts of
love. 207
We have previously encountered clues to the identity of the force that
identified itself with the name Babalon in Liber 49, finding
connections with the Dianic Goddess of Witchcraft and her cult
supposedly uncovered by Charles Godfrey Leland in the 19 th Century
as well as noting that Babalon’s statements are comparable to a
fictional god, Cthulhu, written about by H. P. Lovecraft, especially
when she declares that she will reclaim the Earth, as if it had once
been hers. Verses 27 and 28 reinforce that speculation in several
important ways.
The text of verse 27; The working is of nine moons has the value in
NAEQ6 of 407 208 which reduces to11. Further, the Notariqon of the
verse, TWIONM = 92 which also reduces to 11. This lends some
credence to Grant’s assertion that the operation was designed to
engender a non-physical child, as the number 11, we recall, is the
prime number of Magick. Further, the Notariqon value, 92 is 1 less
than 93, the value of Thelema and connects with the next verse which
states The Astarte working, with music and feasting, with wine and all
arts of love. Significantly, the value of Astarte in NAEQ6 is 92!
Obviously, Astarte also reduces to 11.
We may then consider that Astarte is more than a reference to the
Syrian Goddess that has been identified with the Greek Aphrodite in
207
Liber 49, Verses 27-28.
208
Note that this is the value of the entire verse and not a random selection of words
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