Magick Without Tears

THE GOD-LETTERS 409 But the consonants? That is a harder nut to crack. Students of language have been accustomed to group the consonants exactly as we now happen to require . Here, in brief, is the list: Dentals, Labials, Gutturals. Various modifications extend them to fifty-nine and there are twenty-seven vowels. I shall naturally concern myself only with those that matter to the subject : in practice, the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet will serve for this preliminary study, especially as in that case, we have already the attributions. I will begin by classing them. Gutturals: 1. G Luna. 2. Ch Cancer, house of Luna; Jupiter here exalted . 3. K Jupiter. 4. Q Pisces, house of Jupiter. Atu XVII "The Moon." You will note that either Jupiter or Luna occurs in every case; in two, doubly. Guttur, moreover, is the Latin word for 'throat'. Both planets emphasize the soft open expansive aspects of Nature; they both refer accordingly to the feminine throat, the tube either of present or of future life. (J upiter, when in Sagittarius, has an aggressive, masterful, male side; but his letter when there is Samekh.) Now pronounce these letters; observe the motions of opening and expulsion of the breath. Well, then, you will no longer wonder at that list we had in another letter of the words Cwm, coombe, quean, queen, and so on; also (?) quill, queer, quaintest, curious, (?) quick , (?) quince: especially with the U vowel, which sounds prehensile, ready to suck. Kupris (or Cotytto) the Greek or Syrian Aphrodite-Venus, is the outstanding example in Theogony. But, you ask, what has all this to do with the Gods? Patience, child; this will develop as we proceed. Let us look at the dentals. These, for the profane scholar, include the "sibilan ts," and "liquids ."