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The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

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A NOTE ON GENESIS of the Universe (or Magical Mirror in Man). As it were the Egg of the Black Swan of Time, the Kala Hams, the Triune a"y, or word of Power or of Seb, the Bird of Life, whose will was heard in the Night of Time. The total numeric value of the verse is u1n3= 4459, of which the Key is 22, the number of the Paths from 8 ton; and the Key of 22 is 4, the Tetractys and the Threshold of the Universe. Now to proceed to what I have termed the Time Process, the first Word of the Law then is mwxo3a. Now in the Hebrew Scriptures the first word of a Book is also its Title. Thus Genesis is called by the Rabbins “ B’rasheth,” or “ In the Beginning,” wherefore we may regard this Word as not the first word—albeit that is shadowed forth therein—but as the seal and title and Key of the whole book. Holding this in mind, let us proceed to analyse it. The number of its letters is six, the Seal of Creation, and their total numeric value is 2911. 2911 = 13 = Death, the Transformer *—the distinct formulation of the Three in One, uniting once more to produce the 4. Now Beth primarilysignifieth a House or Abode, and in Taro it is ¥, the Magus—the Vox Dei—and Thoth, the Recorder. Coalesce these two ideas and we get a. “ This is the Magical History.” 4 signifieth the Head or Beginning of Time and * Asit is written: “Thy youth shall be renewed as the Eagle’s.” Now the Eagle is 3, For further consideration of this 13, vide in the Portal Ritual the explanation of that terrible Key. See account of this ritual in “ The Temple.” Also, 13 is the numeration of tmx = Unity, as also is the Great Name of God, 5x, by Aiq Bekar or Temurah, 179
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