Abrahadabra
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Thanks for comments.
Crowley wrote regarding it: “On this word alone a complete volume could, and should, be written”. However I presume the fact that he did not do so was because of Liber Al 3:47: “Let him not seek after it; for thereby alone can he fall from it”. After posting my question, it took considerable research on my part to realize why his volume on the Word was absent.
So I’ll summarize my thoughts by this familiar line from Wordsworth:
“The Child is Father of the Man”
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In the book 777, Crowley translates Abrahadabra as "the voice of the Chief Seer."
His Qabalistic treatment of the word (also in 777) is an enlightening reference as to its nature, I might add. The word is, in all respects, a glyph of ultimate attainment.
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Some time ago I saw an interesting "translation" (well, partial translation) of the term Abrahadabra.
If you write it like AB-RA-HAD-AB-RA, it could mean:
"Father" (Ab) + "Sun" (Ra) + "HAD" (possibly Horus Behdet?) + "Father" (Ab) + "Sun" (Ra).As a curiosity, note that Crowley translated the reformulation of the name Baphomet, BAFOMIThR (=729), as meaning "Father Mithras", and Mithras was as you know the persian god of Light and the Sun.
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It's also rather fruitful as a mantra...
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Personally, I think its main elements are that it consists of 11 letters; that these are distributed as 5 As and 6 other letters; and that it totals to 418.
There are subtleties beyond that, but these features speak pretty much everything needed most of the time.
PS - The "Father Ra - Had - Father Ra" was AFAIK my discovery c. 1979 EV. That is, I couldn't anyone else to admit they'd ever thought of it.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"Personally, I think its main elements are that it consists of 11 letters; that these are distributed as 5 As and 6 other letters; and that it totals to 418."
So what makes that "the key of the rituals"?
@Jim Eshelman said
"PS - The "Father Ra - Had - Father Ra" was AFAIK my discovery c. 1979 EV."
I always thought that was pretty obvious.
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@gmugmble said
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@Jim Eshelman said
"Personally, I think its main elements are that it consists of 11 letters; that these are distributed as 5 As and 6 other letters; and that it totals to 418."So what makes that "the key of the rituals"?"
Abrahadabra is equivalent to the Rosy Cross, and is specifically a token of the completion of the Great Work in the 5=6 formula. It is this completion, the inner union of the Rose and the Cross, or the 5 and the 6 (ssame thing), which is the key to the rituals.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"PS - The "Father Ra - Had - Father Ra" was AFAIK my discovery c. 1979 EV."I always thought that was pretty obvious."
I did too. But I spent about a year walking around asking others about it and it hadn't occurred to anyone. - Does seem obvious, though. (My job in life is to state the obvious
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I know it became obvious for me once I started using it as a mantra.
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Sigh... everything seems so obvious to other people... I guess it's probably good for me to feel dumb every so often...
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Abrahadabra contains 11 letters (Liber AL II:16, I:60) and refers to the “war engine” (III:7) and Atu VII The Chariot.
There are deeper levels to it, contained in the five letters [A]s, that hint the Old Aeon will be vindicated by the New Aeon.