777 Questions
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OK, I don't have that many questions, just questions about 777....
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In column IV, Consciousness of the Adept, the Arabic is written a little odd, and appears to be trying to say the phrase from the Qur'an, "Huwa Allah, la' illah illa huwa" (He is God, there is no [other] god but him). Is this correct?
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In Column VI, the Heavens of Assiah, Kokab is written as Kobak. Accidental temurah in the Hebrew?
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In column VIII, Orders of the Qliphoth
a) Ghagiel is written in Hebrew as A'ugu'el (Ayn-waw-gimel-waw-aleph-lamed). Which (if either) is correct?
b) Ga'agsheklah is written in Hebrew with only one gimel (I assume it's a typo?)
c) Gamaliel is written in Hebrew as Gamiel (another typo?) -
In Column LXVI, Spelling of Tetragrammaton in the Four Worlds, the entries for Yetzirah, Atziluth, and Assiah all match the values in Columns LXIV and LXV. But Briah does not match? Why? Also the values for Yetzirah, Atziluth, and Briah are all multiples of 9, but Assiah is not. Why?
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@AvshalomBinyamin said
"2. In Column VI, the Heavens of Assiah, Kokab is written as Kobak. Accidental temurah in the Hebrew?"
Not in my copies. It's KVKB. - There are many typographical errors in the book, but this isn't one of them.
"3. In column VIII, Orders of the Qliphoth
a) Ghagiel is written in Hebrew as A'ugu'el (Ayn-waw-gimel-waw-aleph-lamed). Which (if either) is correct?"It does begin with the A'ayin. The 'g' is an attempt to represent the gutteral (not so bad an attempt as one might think, for an initial A'ayin). It's Ghogiel.
"b) Ga'agsheklah is written in Hebrew with only one gimel (I assume it's a typo?)"
Again, that's using an English 'g' to capture the gutteral. Sort of a "caught in the throat" sound. The spelling is correct.
"c) Gamaliel is written in Hebrew as Gamiel (another typo?)"
The spelling is correct. The Hebrew letters are GMLYAL. If you add the vowels you get GaMaLiYAL.
"4. In Column LXVI, Spelling of Tetragrammaton in the Four Worlds, the entries for Yetzirah, Atziluth, and Assiah all match the values in Columns LXIV and LXV. But Briah does not match? Why?"
YVD HY VAV HY = 20 + 15 + 13 + 15 = 63, which is the number written.
"Also the values for Yetzirah, Atziluth, and Briah are all multiples of 9, but Assiah is not. Why?"
That's a coincidence. It isn't the basis of this. And, in particular, the spelling in Assiah is a standard spelling of the letters (the others being esoteric variants).
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Thanks!
Looks like my version (from hermetic.com) has lots of typos.
(my tetragrammoton in briah is yod h' v'v h' (the same as yetzirah)
Thanks for the explanation!
Which version of 777 do you have?
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@AvshalomBinyamin said
"Which version of 777 do you have?"
Quite a few, though they're all reproductions off the same originals. Technically, all but one are 777 Revised. At the moment, I have open in front of me a hard-cover copy of Germer's original private printing.
All of these are physical books BTW <vbg>.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"All of these are physical books BTW <vbg>."
And I promise to take very good care of them when you're gone...