Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

Irue Word of the Néophyte, where existence is taken to import that phase of the whole which is the finite resolution of the Qabalistic Zéro. Finally, the total numération of the Word AUMGN is ioo, which, as initiâtes of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis of the O.T.O. are taught, expresses the unity under the form of complété mani¬ festation by the symbolism of pure number, being Kether by Aiq Bkr 1 2 ; also Malkuth multiplied by itself ~, and thus estab- lished in the phénoménal universe. But, moreover, this number IOO mysteriously indicates the Magical formula of the Universe as a reverberatory engine for the extension of Nothingness through the device of equilibrated opposites.3 It is moreover the value of the letter Qoph, which means “the back of the head”, the cerebellum, where the créative or repro¬ ductive force is primarily situated. Qoph in the Tarot is “the Moon”, a card suggesting illusion, yet shewing counterpartal forces operating in darkness, and the Winged Beetle or Midnight Sun in his Bark travelling through the Nadir. Its Yetziratic attribution is Pisces, symbolic of the positive and négative currents of fluidic energy, the male Ichthus or “Pesce” and the female Vesica, seeking respectively the anode and kathode. The number ioo is therefore a synthetic glyph of the subtle energies employed in creating the Illusion, or Reflection of Reality, which we call manifested existence. The above are the principal considérations in the matter of AUMGN. They should suffice to illustrate to the student the methods employed in the construction of the hieroglyphics of Magick, and to arm him with a mantra of terrifie power by virtue whereof he may apprehend the Universe, and control in himself its Karmic conséquences. i. A method of exegesis in which i — io = 100, 2 — 20 — 200, etc. 2. I0“= 100. 3. rp = IOO (‘20 -f* 80). 3 = X = Notarigon). s] — = <ï>a)Ao; (by 49 —