Tenant of Apt. 418
-
What is the foursquare, mystic, wonderful name, whose house is 418?
R.E.D.
-
The context seems to me to evince that it is: 666.
-
@Jim Eshelman said
"The context seems to me to evince that it is: 666."
I don't understand how 666 can be seen as foursquare...can you explain?
R.E.D.
-
@Red Eagle of Death said
"
@Jim Eshelman said
"The context seems to me to evince that it is: 666."I don't understand how 666 can be seen as foursquare...can you explain?"
There are a couple of ways.
First, the word is just archaic enough to have a meaning obscure to most people. It has a variety of meanings that boil down to, "solid, the real thing," etc. For example, American Heritage gives, as the second meaning, "Marked by firm, unwavering conviction or expression; forthright," with the example: a foursquare refusal to yield.
But if you want something geometric - 666 is specifically derivable from the magick square (Kamea) of the Sun. It is the sum of all numbers on a 6 x 6 square having all the numbers from 1 through 36 on it.
-
@Jim Eshelman said
"The context seems to me to evince that it is: 666."
One would think you would know this reference:
"Worship the name _______*, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, and the name of His House 418.
(This Name to be communicated to those worthy of that Initiation.)" -Heart of the MasterIAO131
-
Yes. The words, "The Beast" go in that blank.
As I said, 666.
-
@Jim Eshelman said
"Yes. The words, "The Beast" go in that blank.
As I said, 666."
Really? Why would he leave it blank? It doesnt have to do with a 'fourfold' word one gets in a degree of OTO perhaps? ...
IAO131
-
That passage, where he left it blank, was from The Heart of the Master. I'll have to dig out my notes - I used his annotations and other notes in editing the Temple of Thelema's version of Heart almost 20 years ago, and we simply filled in the blank.
I'm not sure why he left it blank. Heart was received during an era he was doing a bunch of outreach to other religious and occult groups as a World Messenger and, ironically, perhaps he was being demure? (I'm only guessing.)
"It doesnt have to do with a 'fourfold' word one gets in a degree of OTO perhaps?"
I've lost track of fine points of the current generation of O.T.O. rituals (not at all a bad thing, since I resigned from membership 16 years ago), but, under Crowley, there were no degree Words that were fourfold. (OK, there's one that has four letters - and even that is pronounced on three syllables. Lotsa threes
- And that one word's composition by Crowley came many years after Liber L. so I have no reason to believe that it was what the book meant.)In terms of the verse under discussion in this thread, it is perhaps worth mentioning that the Hebrew for "his house" is BYThV = 418.