Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.pdf

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
Fifteenth Call Seventeenth Call
L - first D - third
DARG - 6739 TAXS - 7336
Sixteenth Call Eighteenth Call
VIU - second ERAN - 6332
EMOD - 8763
Nineteenth Call (the unnumbered Call, the Call of the 30 Aethyrs)
L - one
AG L - no one
L - one SAGA - one
In these examples two major methods of representing numbers within the calls can be seen.
(a) letters employed as numbers in which each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a
number, and
(b) words employed as numeral names.
The unique use of letters as numbers in these Calls is modeled directly upon the Sanskrit
alphabet. The alphabets of Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Coptic, and Latin are additional; the value of
any given word is the sum total of the letters composing that word. But with Sanskrit the
alphabet becomes positional, and every letter of a word becomes the digit of a number. The
Hindu mathematician Aryabhata in his work Dasagitka, published in 499 A.D., details a system of
substituting numbers for letters of the Sanskrit alphabet. In this system each letter of a word is a
separate digit of a number; thus a word composed of three letters would represent a number
composed of three digits. This code was Ka-Ta-Pa-Ya, the most poetical and complex allocation of
numbers to letters for the Sanskrit alphabet. (For a description of this number system refer to the
third section of this essay.) This same method of numerical notation is used in the 48 Enochian
Calls.
Of the sixty-three times numbers are mentioned in the Calls, this digital system is used 32
times:
L - 1 (Calls 4, 5, 10, 19 twice)
OS - 12 (Call 3 twice) CLA - 456 (Calls 3 and 4) PD - 33
(Call 4)
MAPM - 9639 (Call 5) AF - 19 (Call 5)
PEOAL - 69636 (Call 5) ACAM - 7699 (Call 6)
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