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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 weapon 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 \yhla = 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 of the End of
the Great Work. (Pentagram on breast, Hexagram on back, of Probationer s Robe.) Yes
it also symbolises the Ruach, 214, q.v., and so is as evil in viâ as it is good in termino.
7. A most evil number, whose perfection is impossible to attack.
8. The great number of redemption, because j = tyj = 418, q.v. This only develops in
importance as my analysis proceeds. A priori it was of no great importance.
9. Most Evil, because of its stability. bwa, 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. dwa 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.
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31. al the reply to la, 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 hwhyha.
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 (\d = 44) there
is no remission. Also since the messenger could teach this, and prophecy, it added credit
to the Adept who sent the message.
45. Useful as the number of man, \da, identified with hm, 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. amya and }b. 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 Konx Om Pax, q.v.65
72. Almost as bad as 4 and 26; yet being bigger and therefore further from 1 it is more
assailable. Also it does spell dsj, 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. dml, Lamed, an expansion of 30. Reads By equilibrium and self-sacrifice, the Gate!
Thus useful. Also 74 = 37 × 2.
So we see 37 × 1 = 37, Man s crown, Jechidah, the highest Soul in termino.
37 × 2 = 74, The Balance, 2 being the symbol in viâ.
37 × 3 = 111, Aleph, etc., 3 being the Mother, the nurse of the soul.
37 × 4 = 148, The Balances, and so on.
I have not yet worked out all the numbers of this important scale.
77. zu, 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 × 11, magical power in perfection.
78. Most venerable because alzm is shown as the influence descending from On High, whose
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