I made some discoveries about the hidden numerologies embedded as
ciphers in the Book of the Law, Liber AL vel Legis; which was channeled
by Aleister Crowley April 9th, 10th and 11th, 1904 in Cairo,
Egypt. I made these discoveries the summer of 2005, and showed
them to one person, my friend Jay, when he was visiting Denver,
Colorado. I held off sharing the discovery with a wide audience,
in order to study what I had uncovered, because to me it was more about
the discovery and potential English Qabala than me being the discoverer
or taking on the title of the child prophesized to do so in Liber
AL. I believe that there are many discoveries and many Thelemic
children, and probably Frater Achad, Charles Stanfield Jones, was
probably the first with his discovery of 31 as the key to Liber AL vel
Legis, as he has written of it in his Liber 31.
I feel I was born with an interesting perspective in
1955. Discovering early on that I was a gay male, and also
telepathic to some degree, I had a vantage point of a rebel with a
cause, definitely forced to think outside the box at an early
age. (please bear with my obtuse background information, not that
my personal ego history makes one bit of difference to the discovery,
if anything, I am happy a gay person discovered it because sometimes
the obvious thing is the most overlooked).
My paternal grandmother Dorothy Jewel Lamon Adams,
was descended from her great grandfather Amanual Lamon, who was a Mason
in Harrison County, Indiana, and later became a sheriff there.
Dorothy taught me to read numerology and the symbolism in a regular
deck of playing cards. She has always reminded me of Lucy O’Ball,
the comedian, for her independence and lite-heartedness. She
always emphasized my own will and independence in the things she taught
me.
Thus my interest in the occult happened early in
life. My first boyfriend has his psychic friend give me my first
official tarot reading, with a tarot deck, and the Magician came
out as significant, prompting the reader to tell me that I knew how to
do all of this, read cards, that is. When I threw my first I
Ching in Boulder in 1984, I got the first hexagram, The Creative,
Ch’ien, right off the bat, all solid lines. So things tended to
pull me in this direction. When I was about 21 I met a guy while
I was hitchhiking in my hometown of Evansville, Indiana. He
turned me onto a little red book called Liber AL vel Legis right after
we had sex. He couldn’t believe that I had never heard of Crowley
because at the time I had a blue tattoo of the number six on my right
hand. He had questioned me about the significance of the number
before he mentioned Crowley and gave me the book. I had responded
in my usual coy self that it meant Virgo, that it looked like a 9 from
my point of view. I always never gave a straight answer back in
the day, as a rebellious poet with the blue tattoo. I finally
gave in, after Wizard (his nickname) prodded and showed some real
interest and I told him I put it there to flaunt it in the face of
Christianity because I was so tired of growing up hearing about
Armageddon, the antichrist and doom and gloom, and war, and rumors of
war! Wizard then asked me if I knew of Aten? He told me the
story of the Pharoah Akhenaton and then about Aleister Crowley, and how
Crowley always signed his name, 666, The Great Beast. I was
fascinated. I liked hearing this and read what I could.
Jumping ahead to 2005, I had just read Perdurabo, by
Richard K, his biography of Crowley, the great beast. Richard
spoke how he believed, in studying the copies of the handwritten text,
that certain words and phrases were not in Crowley’s handwriting, that
probably his wife Rose Kelly had added some words to Liber AL vel
Legis, like the first word Had! (which is written outside the indention
of the rest of the page) in Chapter 1, and some other phrases like “the
omnipresence of my body,” “division,” “The five Pointed Star,
with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red.,” and
“Force of Coph Nia,” in Chapter 3, because of the difference in
the handwriting style.
I had already begun a numerology group on yahoo
egroups called English Qabala, and having some interesting thelemic
folk sharing their numerological discoveries. I myself had
created about half a dozen numerologies of my own, like 388 Harmonics,
prior to this discovery. On our yahoo group we explore numbers
together searching for an understanding of the English Qabalas that are
around.
So I got to thinking, if I remove the first word
Had, since Rose may have disobeyed the writing in the Book of the Law
about not changing the style or even one letter I might have a key I
could work with. Why have this rule about not changing the style
or a letter? Maybe if changing anything would throw off a cipher,
a numerology hidden in Chapter 1 of the Book of the Law
itself. (I am not the first to think this or do this, John
Farthing did this with his Toavotea Key on the page in Liber AL vel
Legis that has the line drawn through it and the words, “Then this line
drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key also”).
I thought perhaps the reason we are not to change
the words is because a numerology lay there.
Luckily, with the help of a computer and word
processing, I was able to find the hidden Key by removing repeating
letters in Chapter One of the Book of the Law:
The Manifestation of Nuit
Which is like creating a sigil, kind of like what Austin Osman Spare
did with sigils.
The Manifsou (and so on).
Theman if so u (as I’ve named this system, using the first 11 letters
for the name).
Here is the complete key:
T=1
H=2
E=3
M=4
A=5
N=6
I=7
F=8
S=9
O=10
U=12
V=13
G=14
C=15
P=16
Y=17
R=18
W=19
B=20
D=21
K=22
K=23
Z=24
X=25
Q=26
Interesting that the letters P and R are in the same
position 16 and 18 as they are in the original English!
Immediately I double checked the system against the cryptic verse 76 in
Chapter 2 of the Book of the Law:
4 6 3 8 ABK 2 4 ALBMOR 3 Y X 24 89 RPSTOVAL
We know that the numbers add up to 143.
Now with this system the letters add up to 237.
237 + 143 = 380
A perfect circle is 360.
I was stumped. That was interesting but no definite proof.
My friend Jay and I played around with it and found some interesting
connections:
143 was the word CONSCIOUS DREAM.
DREAMS and URANUS seemed to match as number 60.
64 revealed some interesting words: SCARLET, BES NA MAUT, HERU RA
HA.
LUCID and MAGICK came in under the number 67.
66 held: THEMAN IF SO U, DREAMTIME, LIMITLESSNESS, SOURCE, KEPHRA.
93 held ADVERISTY, ABKALGMO.
72 is interesting being it’s the number for PENTAGRAM, MANIFESTATION.
WILL and TYPHON come in under 52.
IPSOS, DREAM and I CHING are the number 51.
BAPHOMET and TELEPATHY the number 61.
There was lots of interesting connections, but again
nothing standing out strongly.
I was quick to realize I may have fulfilled the
statement: “then this circle squared in its failure is a key also.”
380/4 = 95
95 = CROWLEY, INQUIREY
I was soon to realize this was not the key, or was
it?
