Collected Works (Vol. I)

266 APPENDIX when identical with, or a Multiple or Subniultiple of, or a Metathesis of. that of another Word. (6) The Method of finding the Least Number of a Word, by adding (and re-adding) the Digits of its total Number, and taking the corresponding Key of the Taro as a Key to the Meaning of the Word. (c) The Method of Analogies drawn from the Shape of the Letters. (2) The Method of Deductions drawn from the Meanings and Correspondences of the Letters. (¢) The Method of Acrostics drawn from the Letters. ‘This Mode is only valid for Adepts of the highest Grades, and then under quite exceptional and rare Conditions. (f) The Method of Transpositions and Transmutations of the Letters, which suggest Analogies, even when they fail to explain in direct Fashion. All these and their Varieties and Combinations, with some other more abstruse or less important Methods, may be used to unlock the Secret of a Word. Of course with Powers so wide it is easy for the Partisan to find his favourite Meaning in any Word. Even the formal Proofo=1=2=3=4=5=....... =n is possible. But the Adept who worked out this Theorem, with the very Intent to discredit the Qabalistic Mode of Research, was suddenly dumbfounded by the Fact that he had actually stumbled upon the Qabalistic Proof of Pantheism or Monism. What really happens is that the Adept sits down and performs many useless Tricks with the Figures, without Result. Suddenly the Lux dawns, and the Problem is solved. The Rationalist explains this by Inspiration, the superstitious Man by Mathe- matics. I give an Example of the Way in which one works. Let us take IAO, one of the ‘‘ Barbarous Names of Evocation,” of which those who have wished to conceal their own Glory by adopting the Authority of Zarathustra have said that in the holy Ceremonies it has an ineffable Power. But what Kind of Power? By the Qabalah we can find out the Force of the Name IAQ. We can spell it in Hebrew 18° or YN’. The Qabalah will even tell us which is the true Way. Let us however suppose that it is spelt 18°. This adds up to 17. But first of all it strikes us that I, A, and O are the three Letters associated with the three Letters in the great Name of Six Letters, M17°NS8, which combines AN and 1M’, Macroprosopus and Microprosopus. Now these feminine Letters 1 conceal the ‘‘ Three Mothers” of the Alphabet, &, ©, and &. Replace these, and we get NID°WN, which adds up to 358, the Number alike of YM3, the Serpent of - Genesis, and the Messiah. We thus look for redeeming Power in IAQ, and for the Masculine Aspect of that Power. Now we will see how that Power works. We have a curious Dictionary, which was made by a very learned Man, in which the Numbers from I to 10,000 fill the left hand Column, in Order, and opposite them are written all the sacred or important Words which add up to each Number. We take this Book, and look at 17. We find that 17 is the number of Squares in the Swastika, which is the Whirling Disc or Thunderbolt. Also there