A recurrent set of numbers given during Visions.
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66 = Allah, in Crowley Liber ABA pt 1.
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Im having a similar issue albeit in every day life...the numbers 73 and 37 and even 3 and 7 reflected in a mirror make a constant appearance. For instance this morning I went to get coffee and the number 73 appeared on license plates no less than 4 times as I waited at the drive thru.
Ive looked up the number in a gematria calculator but Im a bit unsure about even what the gematria means.
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Off the top of my head... 73 = Chokmah (and a whole series of related ideas, including Gimel and "wisdom" ideas in several languages). 37 = Yechidah (the inherent consciousness of Kether). Is there some reason that Yod ideas would be trying to get your attention right now?
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Im not entirely sure. 73 has been appearing more and more frequently for about a week now. I don't know if attaching any meaning to numbers appearing has to do with Reason, but I have been doing LBRP and invoking Sandalphon.
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Nothing along those lines obvious to me. I suggest that, for five days, you meditate on the Priestess card for five minutes each day, then let it sit for three days.
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I have the High Priestess card up above my sink currently for meditation while I do dishes.
I was going to change it today to The Chariot and wash up.
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Well, if that's what you've been working with, then mystery solved. (At least the first part.) GML = 73. She opens from Tiphereth to Kether, so eventuates in YChYDH = 37. She's showing you her nature, I.e. That she's a visual expression of the Path of Gimel. To follow an intuition (make of this what you will), your Ange is whispering, "Like this..."
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I have been trying to work with the 36 & 37 numbers for a while. 36 is solar, but also the serial value of Nu in Greek (14+22), as well as the circle's 36 divisions.
37 is mystically the point in the circle I think (see the star numbers below where the 37th dot is the center of the hexagram), but lunar in relation to 36. There is a flipping of symbolism in them. As I say I have been trying to understand them for some time, and one image I got was the scarab beetle pushing the sun, where the sun is 36 and the scarab is 37. Thus Khephra I saw as of 37. Skipping ahead, just yesterday I made the leap in understanding that Baphomet is linked to 37 (which is significant to you via your portrait icon). I saw it by realizing Crowley's Liber number is CCCLXX as 370, the book of which is all about Baphomet. 37 plays into the magickal square of the sun, where it is often the number of its outer perimeter, and 37 equals all the diagonal sums. 37 is the innerness of the sun. I personally posit there are 37 Tarot Keys (37+56 = 93), which is partly why my interest is peaked. I ascribe 36 to the Ain Soph and 37 as the Ain--by this it is seen that Baphomet is the most secret god of the Ain. This itself may be a solution to 8, 80, 418 = 506, as BAPHOMET = 506 in Greek-based Latin.
As far as 37 : 73 it is extremely important in number philosophy, there are words that equal 37 serially and 73 metrically: ChKMH being one of them, ALLAGH "Change" in Greek being another. 37x73 is the sum of Genesis I:1...
www.biblewheel.com/gr/GR_73.a
www.biblewheel.com/gr/GR_LogosStar.a -
@Wizardiaoan said
"Skipping ahead, just yesterday I made the leap in understanding that Baphomet is linked to 37 (which is significant to you via your portrait icon)."
Well, the name Baphomet did originate was an AIQ BKR substitution cipher for Sophia - which is the Priestess card and the Wisdom ideas of 73 all rolled into one.
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I have been trying to work with Sandalphon whom I've heard described as The Long Angel. One of his aspects is that of an "ice princess". Now it seems to me since High Priestess goes from Tipareth to Kether and Sandalphon stretches from Malkuth to Kether in this way, as numbers striking out at me from license plates, he is manifesting.
So the communication is there symbolically. I imagine that this must happen all the time only the numbers aren't personally significant. 73 was not significant for me but its repetition over the past week has me wondering. -
"The Number 73 - along with the closely related prime 373 - forms the basis of Logos Holograph, where its meaning shines forth with particular clarity in such identies as:
Discerner
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Kritikos
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Eyes
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Optholmoi"This from the link...reminds me of the hermetic principle of everything as mind.
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The "Logos Holograph" of 373 is amazing as a snowflake, symbolizing the purity of the LOGOS = 373. It is apt to mention AL III:73 in this regard as 373, as by the instruction to "paste the sheets" it is meant the analysis of the "The Word" (incidentally which equals 93 in Serial English). I have both thought it to mean the Tarot Keys in the past (perhaps as 37 Keys), as well as the actual sheets of Liber Legis, though I am not sure what wisdom would gained by so doing. Note there is also an encoding of The Word as O LOGOS = 443 in its number of manuscript pages:
I: 22 = 2+2 = 4
II: 22 = 2+2 = 4
III: 21 = 2+1 = 3443 = O LOGOS, then as above we see that 373 = LOGOS--thus there may be some mystery with the arrangement of the sheets. I have pondered them upon the hexagram, but 65 isn't a star number...it is 5x13 though, which is a star number.
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Chiming back in to say it is possible that I have found what III:73 is referring to, that it is a type of magickal square of the 65 sheets. I'm actually surprised I've not heard of this solution before, as it is the simplest really. Anyway when one does this, the horizontal and vertical sums both total to 737, which is opposite the verse of III:73 as 373. The matrice can be arranged 5x13 or 13x5 with the same sum total result of 737.
S(1-22) + S(1-22) + S(1-21) = 253+253+231 = 737. The whole thing seems to be a play upon 373 and 443 as LOGOS and O LOGOS, "The Word" = 93.
Here is what I mean:
5 4 3 2 1 = 15
10 9 8 7 6 = 40
15 14 13 12 11 = 65
20 19 18 17 16 = 90
3 2 1 22 21 = 49
8 7 6 5 4 = 30
13 12 11 10 9 = 55
18 17 16 15 14 = 80
1 22 21 20 19 = 83
6 5 4 3 2 = 20
11 10 9 8 7 = 45
16 15 14 13 12 = 70
21 20 19 18 17 = 95147 156 143 152 139
I don't find that anything is revealed textually by this, just numerically.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"the name Baphomet did originate as an AIQ BKR substitution cipher for Sophia"
Clever idea, but when I try it, I get "BaphoNet".
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@gmugmble said
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@Jim Eshelman said
"the name Baphomet did originate as an AIQ BKR substitution cipher for Sophia"Clever idea, but when I try it, I get "BaphoNet"."
First, my mistake: I hurriedly quote AIQ BKR and meant ATh BSh (the Templer cipher).
It's one of those amazing 5 : 8 Golden Mean type Qabalistic formulae:
Something known predominantly because it is 8-lettered is actually 5-lettered.
BaPhVMeTh (Beth Peh Vav Mem Tav) = ShVPhYA (Shin Vav Peh Yod Aleph)
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@Jim Eshelman said
"BaPhVMeTh (Beth Peh Vav Mem Tav) = ShVPhYA (Shin Vav Peh Yod Aleph)"
I'm familiar with this fact, it is rather fascinating. Using a Greek based Latin, serially VENVS = 81 = BAPHOMET, which reverberates the 5 and 8 fibonacci numbers by number of letters.
What do you think was the motivation for the worship of Baphomet? On one level it seems the concealment of the "beauteous thing" with the "loathsome thing", but I wonder if a type of Luciferean or pan/devil worship was not present. There seems to be the worship of Venus as Lucifer symbolically as the inner lunar light, within the solar.
As remarked in another thread, the symbolism of the 7 in 6 makes its appearance in two of the Seals of the great occult organizations of Theosophy (Venus here symbolizes 7) and Freemasonry (G is the 7th letter of English):
www.ts-adyar.org/emblem.html
www.edgewoodmasons.org/edgewood-lodge-history.phThe symbolism is too voluminous to really delve into, but it does signify Nuit the Ain as the free inner self. There is also indication that the deepest self is the all self "I am above you and in you...", that the innermost is the all or outermost (the vesica pisces)--bad news for the black brothers in other words!
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@Wizardiaoan said
"What do you think was the motivation for the worship of Baphomet?"
I think it was the actual origin of the name Baphomet - that the Templars were actually Sophia-worshipping Gnostics who hid it, as a Christian sect, under a code word that they were never willing to explain honestly. Most other ideas of Baphomet are post-Templar speculations and inventions.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"I think it was the actual origin of the name Baphomet - that the Templars were actually Sophia-worshipping Gnostics who hid it, as a Christian sect, under a code word that they were never willing to explain honestly. Most other ideas of Baphomet are post-Templar speculations and inventions."
I have given much thought to this & am unable to reconcile the Sophian implications of Baphomet with its Mithraic interpretations. Is there actually a common ground for these disparate concepts?
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What Mithraic interpretations?
I'm looking for something before the 13th C. that is explicitly about Baphomet.
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Heh, I see what you are infering that they made a mysterious word up to hide the fact they were worshipping Sophia, they surely wouldn't hide the fact by starting to worship the devil in her place! How did the rumors or myth that Baphomet was a goat god emerge then? I still wonder if there wasn't something to it to start with. The doctrine that has evolved is astonishing, Levi's image of Baphomet is psychically powerful, Crowley took his name as Magus, Book 370 was written, etc.