English translation of tables of correspondences in 777
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For those who cannot read Hebrew, is there an online source of English translations of the Divine Names, Archangels, Choir of Angels, Angels for the various paths and sephiroths listed in 777?
Also, what was the source material Crowley used in compiling these tables? For example when he associates the Egyptian principle of Ra at Tiphareth, what is the basis for his assertion? The fact Ra is a cosmic-solar principle and hence his belief that Tiphareth is the closest approximation? Has anyone found any correspondences in 777 that seem incorrect?
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@he atlas itch said
"For those who cannot read Hebrew,"
Well, first of all... learning to read unpointed Hebrew is kinda basic to this work. (Especially if you're going to work with the Hebrew pantheon.) The letters are more important than the names themselves.
"is there an online source of English translations of the Divine Names, Archangels, Choir of Angels, Angels for the various paths and sephiroths listed in 777?"
Plenty. Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah will give you most of that. There are more. (My 776 1/2, if you can find a copy, also gives English transliterations of all of those.)
"Also, what was the source material Crowley used in compiling these tables?"
Multiple. Very diverse. And much of it was original work as well.
"For example when he associates the Egyptian principle of Ra at Tiphareth, what is the basis for his assertion?"
Ra is the Sun. Tiphereth is the Sun. There is a correspondence.
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Correspondences are not always 100% correlated. You may be able to fit one symbol in more than one place.
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Thanks for the title recommendations.
@Jim Eshelman said
"Well, first of all... learning to read unpointed Hebrew is kinda basic to this work. (Especially if you're going to work with the Hebrew pantheon.) The letters are more important than the names themselves."
OK, but how do you reconcile the above with the fact Crowley, as the author of 777, was illiterate in Hebrew according to Regardie?
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@he atlas itch said
"OK, but how do you reconcile the above with the fact Crowley, as the author of 777, was illiterate in Hebrew according to Regardie?"
We're talking about two things.
I'm sure Crowley couldn't sit down with a Hebrew manuscript (say, a random passage out of the Torah) and read it.
But he was utterly equipped with the foundation I'm talking about: He knew the Hebrew alphabet and the lisguistic characteristics of the letters, and also the occult significance of them. He could look at the letters Resh Peh Aleph Lamed, recognize them as those letters, and know that this was the name Raphael; and he then also knew the magical significance of that Resh, that Peh, etc.
As a minor but decisive proof that he had this level of knowledge: Without being able to read Hebrew characters etc., he wouldn't have gotten past even the 0=0 grade of the Golden Dawn. In fact, he successfully tested within days, was on to the 1=10 grade the next month, and moved through the First Order at the fastest pace allowed. Every one of those steps required that he memorize, and be able to write, a variety of Qabalistic terms in the Hebrew alphabet.