Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

to 93. 1 Now 93 is thrice 31 ; 31 is LA, “Not” and AL, “The” or “God”; these words run throughout the Book, giving a double meaning to many passages. A third 31 is the compound letter ShT, the two hieroglyphs of Sh and T (many centuries old) being pictures of the “Dramatis Personæ” of the Book; and ShT being a haphazard line scrawled on the MS. touch letters which added to 418, valuing “this circle squared in its failure” as tc correct to six places of décimais, etc. Again: “thou shalt know not”, meaning “thou shalt know LA”; and “he shall discover the Key of it ail”, id est, the Key AL. (c) His power to combine subséquent events beyond the control of the scribe or his associâtes, so that they confirmed statements in the Book. Or, per contra, to predict such events. E.g. The first Scarlet Woman proved unworthy, and suffered the exact penalties predicted. Again, aone cometh after thee; he shall discover the key.” This one was to be the “child” of the scribe, “and that strangely”. Nine months after The Beast 666 had gotten a Magical “child” upon His concubine Jane Foster, a “Babe of the Abyss” was born, Frater Achad asserting his right to that grade, and thus “coming after” The Beast 666, who had been the last Adept to do so. And this “child” was definitely “one”, since “one” is the meaning of his motto Achad. Finally, he did in fact adiscover the key of it ail” after The Beast Himself had failed to do so in 14 years of study. (d) His power to conceive and express in concise terms true solutions of the main problems of the Universe. E.g. The formulae of Nuith and Hadith explain Existence in the terms of MathematicaLLogical Philosophy, so as to satisfy the difficultés of reconciling Dualism, Monism and Nihilism; aM 1. This list by no means exhausts the sériés. In particular, Frater Perdurabo discovered in 1923 that the Hebrew Word for “to will” is also of the value of 93: and its spécial technical meanings throw yet further light on the meaning of OsLrçya as used by Aiwaz. — 261 —