Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

AIWAZ, the name of the Intelligence in question, proves: (a) His power to pre-arrange events unconnected with His scribe so that they should fit in with that scribe’s private calculations. E. g. The Stélé which reveals the Theogony of the Book was cfficially numbered 666, in the Boulak Muséum. The scribe had adopted 666 as His magical number, many years previously. Again, the scribe’s magical House, bought years earlier, had a name whose value was 418. The scribe had calculated 418 as the clusion of an article callecl “The Revival of Magick” by the Master Therion. The last sentence reads: “Herein is Wisdom; let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and three score and six. TO ME! A 0HPION, the Great Wild Beast, has the value, according to the Greek System, of 666. It is, of course, the title of the Master Therion. The Master H herion was, about this time, in communication with an intelligence who gave the name of Amalantrah. On Sunday, February 24, 1918, at 9*3° P* m-, The Master Therion asked Amalantrah if he could use the Word OHPION as if it were Hebrew, with the idea of gettins; further information as to the mystic meaning of the Word. The answer was “Yes”. He then asked: “Am I to take the Word OHPION alone, or the three words TO META OHPÏON ? ” The answer was to take the word OHPION alone. The Master Therion then asked what Hebrew letters should be used to transliterate the Greek. The answer was: “Tau, Yod, Resh, Yod, Ayin, Nun”, which adds to 740 or 1390, according as Nun is given its ordinary value of 50, or its value as the final letter of a Word, 700. Neither of these numbers possessed any spécial signihcance to The Master Therion. He became very annoyed at Amalantrah’s faiîure to be of use; so much so that the communications became confused, and the work had to be abandoned for that evening. He tried various other Hebrew spellings for the word 0 H PION, but was unable to obtain anything of interest. This is rather remarkable, as it is nearly always possible to get more or less good results by trying various possibilités. For example, the O might be equally well Ayin, Vau or Aleph. On Monday morning, The Master Therion went to the office of The International, of which he was editor. At this period there was a coal famine in New York, and it was forbidden to heat office buildings on Mondays. He merely took away his mail and went home. O11 Tuesday morning He found on his desk a letter which had arrived on Monday for the general editor, who had sent it across to Him for reply, as it concerned The Master Therion rather than himself. This letter had been written and posted on Sunday evening, at about the same time — 258 —