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148 777 REVISED a Pallas (Minerva) g Vulcan b Venus h Mars c Phoebus i Diana d Mercury j Vesta e Jupiter k Juno f Ceres l Neptune. Crowley omitted Jupiter and Phoebus from these for some reason. Col. XXXVI. The Evangelists follow the traditional attribution to the Kerubim. Godwin gives the Apostles thus (he does not state his source): a Matthias b Thaddeus c Simon d John e Peter f Andew g Bartholemew h Phillip i James son of Zebedee j Thomas k Matthew l James son of Alpheus. Stirling (The Canon, p. 102) gives a completely different arrangement. Col. CLXXXVII. See Magick in Theory and Practice for a discussion of some of these formulæ. Another set of attributions of magical formulæ to the Tree of Life survives in one of Crowley’s magical notebooks and may be studied in Magick: Book 4 Parts I-IV (editor’s notes to Appendix V col. 34). Line 0: LASTAL is not necessarily an error for LAShTAL (for which see Liber V vel Reguli) but may be a variant form, the ST representing the Coptic sou, identified with the Greek stau and attributed to Kether (see Col LI and Magick, loc. cit.). M . . . . M probably refers to MUAUM, said (in a letter from C.S. Jones to Frank Bennet) to be the Word of a Neophyte of A∴A∴, representing the whole course of the breath. Spelt \wawm in Hebrew, it adds to 93 (it also contains a concealed yod in third place, not pronounced or counted in the numeration, which explains one of the dots in M . . . . M and the greenish-yellow coloured band in the glyph for the word in Pyramidos). Lines 1-9: In The Heart of the Master, section Aves (‘Birds’), nine magical formulæ are given as the voices of various symbolic birds, apparently referred to the Sephiroth 1-9, thus: 1 (the Swan): AUMGN (one version has AUM) 2 (the Phœnix): AL 3 (the Raven): AMEN 4 (the Eagle): SU 5 (the Hawk): AGLA 6 (the Pelican): IAO 7 (the Dove): HRILIU 8 (the Ibis): ABRAHADABRA 9 (the Vulture): MU Line 24: Possibly ON (ayin nun) could also be referred here. Col. XLVI. Crowley’s later attributions of the Taoist principles and the trigrams of the I Ching to the Sephiroth are given in The Book of Thoth (Appendix II, diagram ‘The Chinese Cosmos’) thus: 0: Tao. 1: Tao Teh. 2: Yang. 3: Yin. Daath: Khien. 4: Tui. 5: Kbn. 6: Li. 7: Kbn. 8: Sun. 9: Khân. 10: Khwbn. Col. XLVIII. Most of these refer to symbols appearing in Golden Dawn rituals. Line 26: Possibly should read “Calvary Cross of 6, Solid” i.e. a cross composed of six cubes which will have a surface area of 26 squares. Col L. Line 31-bis: Add Ire (to Go). See The Book of Thoth, Appendix 2, diagram 8. Note S.V.A.T.I., Sub Vmbra Alarum Tuarum Iehovah (or Isis). Col LI. This arrangement differs slightly from the G.D. attributions in Regardie (ed.), Complete G.D. (buried in the Ring and Disk paper), in that t and y have been interchanged. In the printed
TRANSCRIBER’S ENDNOTES edition of 777, G was given in line 1 as well as line 13, and $ in line 10 (C did not appear on the table). These have been corrected as compositor’s errors; $ has been placed in line 1 and C in line 10 in accordance with G.D. attributions. For each letter, ‘upper case’ and ‘lower case’ forms are shown; there is a certain amount of variation in the orthography of Coptic. The three un-numbered columns are extracted in this instance from Appendix V to the ‘Blue Brick’ edition of Magick, in turn deriving from Crowley’s magical notebooks. Numbers seem in most cases to be those of the equivalent Greek letter; the ‘English equivalents’ do not always represent the original phonetic value of the letters but rather refer to the transliterations employed in the Golden Dawn, where Coptic spellings of the names of various Egyptian Gods were constructed according to the Qabalistic attributions of the letters. The letter sou ($, #) did not historically have a phonetic value as such but was rather used to fill out the numbering scheme by standing for 6; whence it was identified with the obsolete Greek letter stau or stigma ($) which was also used for number 6, and given the value ‘st.’ Col LII. The letters are shown in their ‘isolated’ forms; since Arabic is written cursively, letter forms vary slightly depending on whether the letter appears on its own, or in the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word. The repetition of one letter in lines 9 and 10 appears to be deliberate. Table II (the Elements) Col. LXVI. The numerical value of each of these spellings gives the number in Col. LXV, which, rendered in Hebrew letters, gives the “secret name” in Col. LXIV. Line 31. Printed as hyh wyw hyh dwy, which adds to 82 rather than 72. The reading here is from Mathers’ introduction to Kaballah Unveiled. Col. LXXVI. The five skandhas are categories of mental phenomenon in Buddhist psychology. The translations are taken in this instance from the “Buddhist Dictionary” by Ven. Nyanatiloka, issued by the Buddhist Publication Society. 149 Table III (the Planets) Col. LXXVIII. Line 13. Various spellings of this horrendous name have appeared in the literature, and as mentioned in Crowley’s notes, this spelling can only be got to 3321 by counting the final \ as 700 rather than the more usual 600. Liber D had \yrhc hwrb dow \ycycrtb aklm, Malkah be-Tarshishim ve-A’ad be-Ruah Sheharim, which gives the required value without any fudging. The oldest known form (Agrippa, op. cit., lib. II, cap. xxii) is \yqjc jwrb do \ytycrtb aklm, Malkah be-Tarshithim A’ad be-Ruach Shechaqim. Table IV (the Sephiroth) Col. LXXXVIII. These originally given in Latin; I have translated them into English. Col. XCII. The original had this in Latin; it was a slight garbling of the Vulgate of Isaiah VI, 2-3. I have translated it into English as it appeared. Col. XCIV. Although headed “English of Palaces” this column was printed in Latin. The translations of the Seven Heavens are mostly from Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia, s.v. “Heaven.” Col. CIII. This column originally printed in Latin (from Kabbala Denudata, tom. I, par. IV, fig xvi (P).). Col. CVIII. For what it’s worth (probably not much; see Crowley’s note), here are transliterations of the Hebrew names in this column: Line 2. Samael (“poison of God” or “blind god”). lams = 131 = Pan. Line 3. Isheth Zanunim (Woman of Whoredom), said to be the wife of Samael. \ynwnz tca = 864 = \ycdq cwdq, Qadosh Qadeshim, Holy of Holies. Doubtless there is an Arcanum concealed here, possibly along the lines of “you can prove anything with Gematria if you try hard enough.” Line 5. Ashteroth. Historically a Middle Eastern goddess (Ishtar, Astarté, Asherah, etc.), denounced and maliciously mis-spelt by Old Testament writers and given an inexplicable sex change by medieval demonologists.
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CONTENTS * EDITORIAL PREFACE (to 77
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EDITORIAL PREFACE fountain head fro
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LIBER 777 VEL P ROLEGOMENA S YMBOLI
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777 THE FOLLOWING is an attempt to
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INTRODUCTION putrid bones of their
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INTRODUCTION xv The same difficulty
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INTRODUCTION xvii “ Forthwith on
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TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCES
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0 VI. The Heavens of Assiah. . . .
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0 XIII. The Paths of the Sepher Yet
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XIX.* Selection of Egyptian Gods. T
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0 XXIV. Certain of the Hindu and Bu
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LII. The Arabic Alphabet. CLXXXIV.
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TABLE IV LXXXIV. LXXXV. LXXXVI. LXX
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TABLE VI CLXXV. CLXXVI. CLXXVII.* C
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TABLE VI (continued) CLXXXII. CLXXX
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VARIOUS ARRANGEMENTS Daleth The Wif
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VARIOUS ARRANGEMENTS Neptune THE GE
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NOTES The Zodiacal Gods are as for
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