November 30 (Nuit) Liber L., Cap. I, v. 46-48
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**46. Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen.
47. But they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear.
48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book?
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@Nui said
"46. Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen."
A recurring theme picked up is the inherent unity in the universe. One thing that is more properly called no-thing because it includes everything and thus gives us the concept of zero in all opposites cancelling out. This law flows with the force of will identified as love. 61 as the "Jews call it" may be a reference to the Tree of Life and various Jewish texts in the word AIN or "no-thing", one of the veils of existence beyond Kether. 8 has some words with some comparative meaning like "Love" and "Beloved" in Qabalah. 80 as well with "Union" and "Universal". 418 continues some of this by being the enumeration of the word of the Aeon (ABRAHADABRA) which Crowley worked out in various ways. One notable way within this verse, to me, is the union of the 6 constants and 5 vowels, the 5 and the 6, the microcosm and the macrocosm, the formula of the Pentagram and the formula of the Hexagram.
@Nui said
"47. But they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear."
"They" may refer to the "Jews" or Qabalah. The system is half of it. You have to work the system to truly unite with it and thus dissolution ensues when completed.
@Nui said
"48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book?"
One common, I think common, way to look at this is 111, Aleph which is the Ox, and none (0) in the Tarot (Book) corresponding with the Fool. The prophet is the fool. The formula, the system, worked out into its entirety then just works itself backwards until you realize you are where you began. This time with perhaps full consciousness. Like the Fool, leaping forward over dangerous straights is done with ease as the end is known from the beginning.