The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

EDITORIAL NOTE HIS dictionary was begun by Allan Bennett (Fra Iehi Aour, now Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya) in the last decade of the nineteenth century since ],ס-?ןוזIt was bequeathed to the present Editor, with many other magical MSS,, on I.A.’s departure for Ceylon inי899!? Frater Perdurabo used it, and largely added to it, in the course of his Qabalistic workings. With George Cecil Jones (Fra Volo Noscere) he further added to it by making it a complete cross-correspondenceto the Book DCCLXXVII, It was further revised and checked, re-copied by a Jewish scribe, and again checked through, in the year V of the present Era. The mathematical additions were continued by Fra P, and Fra Lampada Tradam; and the MS. finally copied on a specially constructed typewriter by Gerald Rae Fraser (Fra ψ) who added yet further mathematical data. This copy has again been checked by Fra; Ρ. and Soror; N.N. and the proofs further by three separate scholars. The method of employing the dictionary has been fully indicated in The Temple of Solomon the King [Equinox V]. None of the editors claim to possess even the smallest degree of scholarship. The method of compilation has been to include all words given in Van Rosen- roth’s Qabalistlc Dictionary, those specially commented on in S.D., LR.Q., and LZiQi, those given in 777, and those found by Fratres Ι.Α. and P. Some of them are found in texts of the Hebrew Scriptures which appeared to those adapts to be of magical importance. Owing to their carelessness, the meaning of some few words has been lost, and cannot now be traced.