The Initiation Procedure Within the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt:
Original Theosophy Challenges the Mausoleums-Dogma of the Egyptologists
Part I

Abhinyano

The old and worn out dogma of the technical and agnostic Egyptologists, namely that the Great Pyramid was primarily built to be the tomb for the mummy of a pharaoh, is being attacked today by many researchers as just too simplistic and as being a blind. Indeed, it was a blind when Herodotus, the Father of History, said in his Histories that the Great Pyramid was built by the pharaoh Cheops (Kufu), to be his mausoleum. As we are going to see, this Pyramid was already very ancient when Cheops was king in Egypt. Thus he could not have built it. H.P. Blavatsky offers the more esoteric explanation of the purpose of the Great Pyramid in Isis Unveiled:

But, Herodotus did not tell all, although he knew that the real purpose of the pyramid was very different from that which he assigns to it. [Herodotus was forbidden to say what he knew, because he had given the Sodalian Oath of Silence]. . . . Internally, [the Pyramid] was a majestic fane, in whose sombre recesses were performed the Mysteries, and whose walls had often witnessed the initiation-scenes of members of the royal family. The porphyry sarcophagus, which Professor Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal of Scotland, degrades into a corn-bin, was the baptismal font, upon emerging from which, the neophyte [the man of Sorrow] was "born again," and became an adept. (Vol.I, p.519)

In case HPB is for some not an authority, we Theosophists would point to the beautiful work The Phoenix by Manly P. Hall, in which the initiation procedure is also described, and the famous book, Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins; he devotes chapter XX to the Egyptian Mysteries and their initiations.

Actually, our own Original Literature, which includes Isis Unveiled, The Secret Doctrine, especially Volume III, The Mahatma Letters, The Voice of the Silence and Dr. Taimni's The Science of Yoga, based upon the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, offer the one and only key to the esoteric interpretation of the initiation- procedure, and also to the understanding of the famous Book of the Gates and the Book Am-Tuat with their mysterious illustrations, in which, indeed, the Egyptian Secret Doctrines of the "Path of liberation from the bonds of matter and the flesh" and the "sailing over the River of Samsara to the Other Shore" can be found.

The Book of the Gates has its equivalent in the Pratyeka-Yana—the "Path of Liberation for one alone"—works describing the gaining of Buddhahood for self alone, as the Pratyeka Buddhas do. The Am-Tuat book shows the path the Buddhas of Compassion prefer. In The Voice of the Silence it is called the "Amrita Yana", the "Secret Path". The Bodhisattvas and Arhats follow this path of self-sacrifice by renouncing Nirvana. They go back to the Living after they have reached the threshold of Nirvana because they wish to "contribute toward man's salvation by influencing them to follow the Good Law, i.e., lead them on the Path of Righteousness" (The Voice of The Silence, p.95). We have a beautiful but extremely serious example of such a self-sacrifice in the retreat of Master Kuthumi, which was actually his last trial of the Mysteries or Royal Yoga, taking place in an old tower near an old Lamasery "within whose bosom have gestated generations of Bodhisatwas" (The Mahatma Letters, p.219). After becoming himself a Bodhisattva, he came back to the Living, and he said:

My Brother—I have been on a long journey after supreme knowledge, I took a long time to rest. Then, upon coming back, I had to give all my time to duty, and all my thoughts to the Great Problem [of enlightening and helping mankind]. (Mahatma Letters, p.264)

This "last trial", in an Egyptian setting, shall now be explained in detail, as it was and is universal and international.

The illustrations of the Book of Gates and the Am-Tuat Book depict—in a very veiled way—the "travel" of a neophyte through the once famous initiation-schools of Abydos, Busiris, Denderah, Saqqara, Giza and Sais, in which he was being trained by priests in the discipline of Royal Yoga to achieve the following:

[The individuality of the neophyte, in order] to run successfully its seven-fold downward and upward course has to assimilate to itself the eternal life-power residing but in the seventh [principle: Atma; in Egypt: Atmu or Asar-Osiris] and then blend the three (fourth [Kama], fifth [Manas], and seventh [Atma]) into one—the sixth [Buddhi]. Those who succeed in doing so become Buddhs [Buddhas], Dyan-Chohans [Dhyani Buddhas, Dharmakayas, Jivanmuktas, Nirvanis; in Egypt: Khepe-Ras], etc. The chief object of our struggles and initiations is to achieve this union while yet on this earth. Those who will be successful have nothing to fear of during the fifth, sixth and seventh rounds. But this is a mystery. Our beloved K.H. [Kuthumi] is on his way to the goal—the highest of all beyond as on this sphere. (Mahatma Letters, p.78)

Thus after many years of preparation and many tests in those Mystery schools (which we would call today: space-centers), the last , but also the most dangerous trial of the neophyte, called Afu-Ra, was about to take place within the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. In The Secret Doctrine we read:

In Egypt . . . with much pomp, the candidates [for initiation] were escorted to the Great Pyramid and passed thereinto out of sight. . . . In Egypt, the entranced neophyte [being in the Yoga-state of Dhyana] was placed in an empty sarcophagus [of the King's Chamber] in the Pyramid, where the initiatory rites took place. (SD III, p.272)

But before this last trial occurred, let us follow first the path the neophyte had to take through the passages and chambers of the Pyramid. After the decision was made by the hierophants that the candidate was ready to be initiated, he was led into the Pyramid. Down the "Descending Passage", he entered into the "Pit", cut into solid rock deep under this great temple of initiation. This "Pit" was in a very chaotic, uneven and unfinished state; it contained only vermin, debris, dust and bats. Symbolically, the "Pit" stood for the "infernal region", hell and Kama-dhatu (the physical world of this inferior planet of imperfect bodies, only interested in sensuous gratification and lusts, fun, and excitement, controlled by the Law of the Jungle, by selfishness, struggle for survival and eternal strife). As a result this hell was full of pain, suffering, misery, bestiality and death. It is the Karma of man to be incarnated into this "Pit" (or condition) many times, to go through the "circle of necessity" and this "Valley of Thorns and Tears", but, unfortunately, he has only earned for himself a vehicle, a very imperfect form, with an animal-sexual physiology, a desire and lust-principle (Kama) and a selfish, quite often destructive and malicious mind, which if not checked will lead him onto the "Left-hand Path", which often results in his own annihilation as a moral, ethical, responsible, mental and spiritual being.

This condition of things will last till man's spiritual [and mental] intuitions are fully opened, and this will not be until we fairly cast off our thick coats of Matter; until we begin acting from within, instead of ever following impulses from without, impulses produced by our [imperfect and limited] physical senses and gross selfish body. (SD I, p.706)

And the Buddha says:

"There exists . . . a ‘heroic effort' (viryam) in man; there exists the possibility of a ‘successful exertion' (utsaha) aimed at the disengaging of man from the [always painful] vortex of rebirths—providing he strives wholeheartedly for this end." (Philosophies of India, p.266)

And this is exactly what our neophyte, now in the "Pit" under the Pyramid, is trying to do.

First he must find the way out of this miserable state of pain, suffering, craving, attachment to physical things and bodies, and of ignorance and greed. He was determined to escape from that universal manifold of transient enticement, lust, malice and illusion. He stepped out of the "Pit", and his left hand found in the wall of the Descending Passage an opening to a very narrow tunnel, which the Egyptologists have named the "Wellshaft", but actually do not know what it is for. Of course, they offer some vague theories. This "Wellshaft"—also cut through solid rock—has very smooth walls and was steep. The neophyte must climb up and through this tunnel. He used his hands, knees, toes, elbows and hips to move up, but his heavy body dragged him down again and again. Soon his body was bleeding and aching. The air in the narrow tunnel was low in oxygen, and he breathed laboriously. This painful, agonizing ascent through this narrow passage was the reason that the Original Christians and Gnostics—who still knew about the initiation procedure within the Pyramid—formed the term "the suffering Chrestus", the "Man of Sorrow"—and we see this terrible struggle of the neophyte in the cross-carrying Jesus when he went through the via dolorosa (which is the equivalent of the "Wellshaft") suffering, bleeding, sweating, falling down due to the heaviness of the cross (which has in this case a Phallic meaning). The neophyte had to take himself off this phallic cross, otherwise he would not advance upon the "Path of Enlightenment" and towards the liberation from the bonds of matter and flesh. Thus the Golgotha story never took place in Jerusalem. Half way up the tunnel the ascent ceases to be as difficult, because the "Wellshaft" becomes less steep, and the neophyte can move ahead much faster. Finally, at the end of the tunnel, the passage was enclosed with rectangular stones, and the grooves offered him a hold for his fingers. At this point he saw a light coming from above. It was the torchlight of the hierophants trying to help him. A few more strong efforts and the neophyte emerged from the tunnel at the lowest point of the Great Gallery.

If the neophyte had decided to be initiated into the "Lesser Mysteries"—he was taken into the (so called) Queen's Chamber (actually a misnomer). HPB explains the difference between the Lesser Mysteries and the GREATER MYSTERIES in The Secret Doctrine:

These belonged to the Lesser Mysteries, whose followers were called Mystai (the veiled), seeing that they were allowed to perceive things only through a mist, as it were "with the eyes closed"; while the Initiates or "Seers" of the Greater Mysteries were called Epoptai (those who see things unveiled). (SD III, p.448)

Elsewhere, HPB says more about the Lesser Mysteries and gives an exoteric description of the ritual:

The coffin, or sarcophagus, of Osiris [Ausar, Asar, Asar-hapi, Serapis], killed [symbolically] by Typhon [Apap, Mara, Apophis, Devil], was brought in and placed in the middle of the Hall of the Dead, with the Initiates all around it and the candidate nearby. The latter was asked whether he had participated [symbolically] in the murder, and notwithstanding his denial, and after sundry and very hard trials, the Initiator feigned to strike him on the head with a hatchet; he was thrown down, swathed in bandages like a mummy, and wept over. Then came lightning and thunder, the supposed corpse was surrounded with fire, and was finally raised. (SD III, p.285)

Let us follow now a candidate for the Greater Mysteries on his way to achieve the state of a Khepe-Ra, Dharmakaya, Planetary Spirit, and a Divine Astronaut. The candidate was either a member of the Royal family, a priest of the inner circle of the Hierophants (pronounced: hee-erophants), or a neophyte of an occult brotherhood and ascetic order.

The initiators and the candidate were still standing at the exit of the "Wellshaft" (via dolorosa) out of which the latter just had emerged. The way the company was taking now is entirely different. The neophyte noticed that the hierophants were using holes in the wall of the Great Gallery and grooves in the wall directly in front of them. They climbed up and over the wall and asked the candidate to do the same. The company was now actually in the Great Gallery proper and moved up in the same way as to climb a mountain. (Nota bene, the pyramid was always called a "mountain", leading to the gods in heaven, vide the Mount of Olives, the Calvary mountain in the New Testament).

At the summit of the steep Great Gallery, there existed a very large stone, called the "Great Step". The Initiator now asked the candidate to step upon this stone, stay there for a few minutes and wait. Why? It was known that this "Great Step" possessed a very occult and magical significance in such a way that a person who stood on it for a while was being subjected to some magic radiation, coming from an unknown direction. It has been documented that many sensitive tourists have felt these occult rays. When standing on this large stone to rest for a few minutes after the steep climb, a feeling that the heart is about to burst is not uncommon, despite the fact that the individual may be very fit. Tremors in the hands and arms like in Parkinson's disease have also been observed. In the case of our candidate these rays had the task of showing him any physical, moral and spiritual weaknesses, if such tendencies were still present in him. Only neophytes with iron nerves and high moral and spiritual qualities could succeed at this dangerous last trial.
One of the reasons for such secrecy may be the undoubtedly serious difficulties and hardships of chelaship, and the dangers attending Initiation. The modern candidate has, like his predecessor of old, to either conquer or die; when, which is still worse, he does not lose his reason. There is no danger to him who is true and sincere, and, especially, unselfish. For he is thus prepared beforehand to meet any temptation.

"He, who fully recognised the power of his immortal spirit, and never doubted for one moment its omnipotent protection, had naught to fear. But woe to the candidate in whom the slightest physical fear—sickly child of matter—made him lose sight and faith in his own invulnerability. He who was not wholly confident of his moral fitness to accept the burden of these tremendous secrets was doomed [to suffer the grand mal of epilepsy]." — Isis Unveiled, ii, p.119. (SD III, p.311)

The hierophants, knowing all this, waited patiently until the candidate made up his mind to go forward in the direction of the square opening into the antechamber and portcullis, leading to the King's Chamber, or, if he should feel some fear or moral weakness and wanted to turn back, then they would stoically accept his decision and the entire company would leave the pyramid—the initiation of this neophyte being over for the time being.

However, if the candidate felt strong enough to win the battle, the victory giving him enlightenment and liberation from the bonds of matter and the body—so that he could "successfully sail over the River of Samsara to the Other Shore," to the threshold of the "Watery Abyss," the Ocean of Immortality, Nirvana, Kaivalya, Moksha, SPACE—then he would go forward and enter the quadrangular hole in front of him. The priests had already opened the portcullis by means only known to them. This ingenious portcullis consisted of four granite-plugs, sealing the entrance to the King's Chamber. Thus the entire company of initiators and neophyte entered the great Sanctum Sanctorum, the most mysterious, occult and holiest adytum of initiation into the Mysteries of the entire Middle East—with its sarcophagus, in which the deification of the neophyte would take place, if he would be successful in this last and very dangerous trial.

First the candidate would be loosely bound to a Tau (or Ankh) cross. Why? Again it is The Secret Doctrine, where the researcher can find the esoteric meaning:

Now, the primordial system, the double glyph that underlies the idea of the cross, is not of "human invention," for Cosmic Ideation and the spiritual representation of the Divine Ego-man are at its basis. Later, it expanded into the beautiful idea adopted by, and represented in, the Mysteries, that of regenerated man, the mortal, who, by crucifying the man of flesh and his [sexual] passions on the Procrustean bed of torture, became reborn as an Immortal [emphasis mine]. Leaving the body, the animal-man, behind him, tied on the Cross of Initiation like an empty chrysalis, the Ego-Soul [Manas per se and Buddhi-Manas] became as free as a butterfly. (SD II, p.592)

This is the esoteric interpretation of the man nailed to the cross, where even the nails take on a phallic meaning, the cross being an ancient symbol. The "crucifixion" in the Golgatha-story of the New Testament had the same idea, as it was plagiarized from the Egyptian Mysteries (most of the teachings in the New Testament being taken from these Mysteries as the Alexandrian Library with its many exoteric and esoteric papyri existed close by, and thereby provided material for the "think tank" of the Secret Service of the Zealots). After this symbolical, but important procedure, by which the neophyte had to take himself off the cross, he was asked to step into the empty sarcophagus and lay down. Now the last trial proper began.

The neophyte was a master of the discipline of Royal Yoga, which he had learned at the Mystery schools of Abydos, Busiris, and Saqqara, and he promptly went into the state of Dhyana (contemplation). When he was at the fourth division of the "Realm of the Unconscious" (the autonomic brain and nerve system or as the Theosophists call it: the "Astral plane"):

[T]he Egyptian Hierophant [the Initiator] evoked and guided Chemnu, the "lovely spectre," the female Frankenstein-creation of old, raised for the torture and test of the soul-power of the candidate for initiation, simultaneously with the last agonising cry of his terrestrial [sexual] nature. (SD III, p.28)

Chemnu was tragically depicted as the sinister female "Dweller of the Threshold" in the famous work of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni, a book valued highly by learned Theosophists and Esotericists. Bulwer-Lytton "must have got the idea from some Eastern Initiate" (SD III, p.525). This "Dweller" forced the failing neophyte Glyndon into the state of the "Grand Mal" (mal comes from the Latin word malum — evil, bad) of Epilepsy.

But our neophyte had been tested many times during his stay in the Mystery schools by the priests who had ordered some lovely girls in their temple-service to try to tempt the candidate. Knowing that it would be the end of the initiation-training if he would fall to temptation, he resisted their advances. Thus the neophyte in trance rejected the "lovely spectre" Chemnu by his will and strong Yoga-concentration, and Chemnu faded away from his realm of the Unconscious (Astral plane), disappearing for good.

Next the initiator created lovely scenes of a harmonious family-life in front of the inner eye of the candidate, but the latter was not interested. Then he was tempted—if he was a son of the Pharaoh—on whether he would be able to decline the offer of the King to be a Co-Regent and the field marshal of an army. Furthermore, he noticed that the most beautiful women of Egypt desired to be his concubines. But by knowing the fact that all too often power was being misused to the detriment of the people, he refused the proposition.

He was then given the chance to become the main priest of a temple. During his studies at the Mystery-schools, he had learned that some priests turned to the Left Path and used black magic for selfish and evil purposes, i.e. for the acquisition of money and influence. He knew about the black-magic blood cults of past civilizations (Atlantis), where priests as selfish and wicked "Initiates of the Left Path" acquired unlawful knowledge of dealing with the spiriti elementorum et terrae and had made an alliance, a "covenant" with them. Some of these idols were the Priests' own "thought-creations." But in order to maintain this "covenant," these black magic-priests had to feed those idols with the blood of humans and animals, which were ritually slaughtered in a very cruel way without stunning. Horror-stricken the neophyte declined this proposal and all the other temptations which the initiator created in front of his "inner eye" on the Astral plane, in order to test his attachment to physical life and things and see if a "thirst for Life" (Tanha, Trishna, Abhinivesha) still existed in him.

These tests were relatively easy, and the candidate passed them without much difficulty. But the worst and most dangerous test was still to come. The initiator, as a hierophant of "WHITE MAGIC", would not do the following examination himself, but gave this dirty work to some Nubian black-magician in their service. Here is what Master Kuthumi says about this dangerous phase of the initiation-procedure:

[W]e—leave [the test] to our menials—the dugpas [Red Caps, Shammars] at our service, by giving them carte blanche for the time being, and with the sole object of drawing out the whole inner nature of the chela, most of the nooks and corners of which, would remain dark and concealed for ever, were not an opportunity afforded to test each of these corners in turn. Whether the chela wins or loses the prize—depends solely of himself. (Mahatma Letters, p.232)

This terrible test has been described exoterically and veiled in many old scriptures, even here in America, where it can be found in the famous Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Mayans. The Gilgamesh Epos has it; it can be read intuitively in the New Testament. Here are some paragraphs of the probation of Gautama Buddha during the yogic state of Dhyana, taken from The Gospel of Buddha by Paul Carus:

The Holy One directed his steps to that blessed Bodhi-tree beneath whose shade he was to accomplish his search. [Bodhi: Buddhi or Bodhicitta; Gautama is about to practice his daily Yoga-contemplation, going deep into the divisions of the Realm of the Unconscious or Astral plane]. . . .

When he sat down the heavens resounded with joy and all living beings were filled with good cheer.

Mara [Apap, Apophis, Devil] alone, lord of the five desires, bringer of death and enemy of truth, was grieved and rejoiced not. With his three daughters, Tanha [thirst for life in physical bodies, ignorance, craving for things and bodies and sensual contact with them, spiritual blindness], Raga [lust, desire, addiction, fun, excitement, clinging to a life of festivities, parties, desiring a political, military, business, science or church-career] and Arati [hatred, revenge, vendetta, fanaticism, persecution of others, war, killing], the tempters, and with his host of evil demons, he went to the place [in the Realm of the Unconscious, Astral plane], where the great samana sat. But Sakyamuni heeded him not.

Mara uttered fear-inspiring threats. . . . But the Blessed One under the Bodhi-tree remained calm and feared not. The Enlightened One knew that no harm could befall him.

The three daughters of Mara tempted the Bodhisatta, but he paid no attention to them, and when Mara saw that he could kindle no desire in the heart of the victorious samana, he ordered all the evil spirits at his command to attack him and overawe the great muni. [Mara wanted to throw Gautama into the state of the ‘Grand Mal of Epilepsy'].

But the Blessed One watched them as one would watch the harmless games of children. All the fierce hatred of the evil spirits was of no avail. The flames of hell became wholesome breezes of perfume, and the angry thunderbolts were changed into lotus-blossoms.

When Mara saw this, he fled away with his army from the Bodhi-tree. . . .

"As the rays of the sun drown the darkness of the world, so he who perseveres in his search will find the truth and the truth will enlighten him." (The Gospel of Buddha, pp.36-39)

One can see, that such a victory can only be achieved by mastering the discipline of Royal Yoga. The inner concentration of the Higher Consciousness (Buddhi, Prajna, Bodhicitta, the Horus, Krishna and Christos-consciousness) in the state of Dhyana creates such a powerful accumulation of solar energy (nuclear energy, Fohat, Daiviprakriti, Phlogiston, Akasha) that it acts as an impenetrable fortress. Thus the army of Mara (Apap), the spectres, evil Khus, elementaries, buthas, and pisachas could not defeat Gautama, who then passed this terrible last trial and became a Buddha.

Exegesis of LIBER AL (Note: Qabalistic Numerations are denoted by words & phrases printed in all UPPER CASE.) Using the given values for the letters of the English alphabet, and applying the rules of Qabalah where the values of the letters comprising words and phrases are added to derive their Numerations, we find some interesting results. The number 23 is a glyph of life, and of the Great Work.  Listed for 23 in our Book of Numbers we find the word ABIDE, one meaning of which is "to live". We also find ANKH, the Egyptian hieroglyph that represents the "sandal strap" which is symbolic of the "power of going" of the gods. The ANKH, symbol of life, is also the "Crux Ansata", another symbol of the Great Work. The permutations of 23 are interesting: 23 x 2 = 46, which is the number of MU, the cry of the Vulture of Maat, by English Qabalah™ (E.Q.™). The following words also add to 46: IPSOS, an important mantram of Maatian Magick described by Nema SAME MOUTH MAAT/NUIT AL ShDI ~ "The Lord Initiating"   23 x 3 = 69, where we find listed 23rd PATH, which is the Path of Ipsos: THE DAUGHTER BY THE SAME MOUTH NEW-AEONIC OBEAH THE HIEROPHANT THE ENTRANCE UNIVERSE 'B'   23 x 4 = 92, the number of MANIFESTATION by E.Q. SHAITAN-AIWASS THE EATER OF FILTH THE BRIDE OF CHAOS THE BACK OF THE TREE THE MASKS OF MAAT THE ELEVEN TOWERS THE COLD WASTE THE VEIL OF THE VOID THE UNUTTERABLE THE BACKWARD WAY THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN NEITHER-NEITHER   23 x 5 = 115 ~ Here the active feminine energy of 5 is multiplied by 23, number of the Great Work. Within the number 115 we find the means, energy, and activity by which we may acquire the "power of going" reserved for those who would be gods. This completes the cycle of fives: THE KEY OF THE RITUALS THE BOOK OF THE SPIDER THE MANIFESTED WORD THE COVENANT OF SET THE CIRCLES OF TIME THE SOUL OF NU-ISIS GREAT MAGICK POWER BLOOD ESSENCES FORBIDDEN WISDOM THE DOUBLE CURRENT THE PLACE OF PLEASURE THE SCARLET WOMAN THE TEMPLE OF THE BEAST THE PLACE OF THE CROSS THE PLACE OF THE ABYSS GATE FOR THE AEON OF MAAT DOOR TO THE UNKNOWN SETHIAN TUNNELS.   Applying E.Q. values to the text of Liber AL I.24: "I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty." NUIT adds to 27 as does HADIT, her reflection/ complement. I AM NUIT totals 37, the number of manifestation of the magical current of Set-Shaitan. 37 is 111 divided by 3, signifying that Nuit is one aspect of the three-fold manifestation of the highest principle of the soul ~ 111 ~ symbolized by the "thousand petalled lotus", Kether, the first Sephira of the Tree of Life. I AM A GOD, DARK, DOUBLE, BRIDE, NAKED, NIGHT, SEVEKH, AMRITA, THE GATE all add to 37, suggesting that the Dark Twin of the Sun belongs to the realm of the Feminine. 37 also IS A KEY. MY WORD IS SIX AND FIFTY adds to 148 ~ 37 x 4 ~ Nuit in manifestation. Here we find listed BABALON THE GATE OF THE GOD ON, THE EVOLVING COSMIC NET, THE FORMULA OF THE LEAPERS, THE GATEWAY AT THE BACK OF THE TREE. One of its permutations, 418, lists ABRAHADABRA, THE ORACLE THAT ISSUES FROM SPACE BY THE GATEWAY AT THE BACK OF THE TREE. SIX AND FIFTY adds to 92, where we find CONTINUOUS ONE, IN MY NAME HIDDEN, IS A SECRET KEY, A FEAST FOR TAHUTI, FORCE AND FIRE, THE WORK OF THE WAND, PURE WHITENESS, GLITTERING GOLD, KISSES OF NU, and others, suggesting that in this expansion of 23 into the four elements lies clues to the rituals which will open consciousness to Universe B. SIX + FIFTY = 66 ~ the sum of the numbers 1 through 11, which is the mystic number of the Great Work. Sixty-six also equals eleven multiplied by the solar six of Tiphareth, the sphere of the formula of the Rose Cross, a glyph of the Great Work. Here also is KNOWLEDGE, MAGICK POWER, ANTI-LIGHT, SACRIFICE, SERPENT, YOG-SOTHOTH. 56 = 7 x 8: mind and emotion, the masculine and feminine in explosive union. Listed here is THE KEY OF IT, A SECRET, OF THE KHABS, THE STAR, NU-ISIS, THE SHADOW, REVEAL IT, RISE UP & AWAKE. The total Numeration of the verse I AM NUIT AND MY WORD IS SIX AND FIFTY is 217, where we find listed: THE SCARLET WOMAN IS ALL POWER GIVEN, THE HEAVENS REFLECTED INTO THE HELLS ~ referring to a type of New Aeon tantra.   I.25: "Divide, add, multiply, and understand." This sentence may apply to the qabalistic process itself: first "divide" each word into its component letters, then "add" the values of the letters to derive the numerations of the words, "multiply" these words into phrases and sentences, and finally come to "understand". The Numeration of this sentence is 247, where we find listed: OBTAIN THE ORDER & VALUE OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET, THAT TEMPLE IS ALREADY ARIGHT DISPOSED.   I.45: "The perfect and the perfect are one perfect and not two; nay, are none!" PERFECT equals 54, which is also NOTHING. So, by the Doctrine of Sympathies, NOTHING is PERFECT. NUIT + HADIT also adds to 54, where we find BLISS, OF THE EARTH. THE PERfECT adds to 67 ~ a prime, or "perfect" number which is indivisible by any integer other than 1. Here we find that THE PERFECT are: BLESSED, INVISIBLE, MIGHTIER, NOT KNOWN, OF HER LIGHT, THELEMITES. ARE ONE equals 37 ~ another prime, the number of the full manifestation of the magickal current of Set, which also lists: TRUTH, DOUBLE, THE GATE, AMRITA. 73, the qabalistic reversal of 37, and a number of Chokmah, lists: ONE PERFECT, A SECRET KEY, IS THE CROWN, MY ECSTASY, NONE...AND TWO.  ARE ONE PERFECT equals 91, another "perfect" (prime) number, where we find listed: WE ARE ONE: WE ARE NONE, THE ONE IS KETHER, THE SUPREME KALA, THE WATER OF LIFE. THE PERFECT AND THE PERFECT add to 160, which is also the number of ARE ONE PERFECT AND NOT TWO. The total numeration of these two half-phrases is 320, which is the number of the following sentence: SELF-GENERATIVE AND COMPLETE AS ARE THE HIGHEST GODS, TRANSCENDING THE DUAL POLARITIES OF EXISTENCE, THE MANIFESTATION OF NON-MANIFESTATION OF UNIVERSE B.   I.46: "Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-One the Jews call it. I call it eight, eighty, four-hundred & eighteen. But they have the half. Unite by thine art so that all disappear." NOTHING IS, and A SECRET KEY each add to 73, the number of Chokmah, and of THE HOUSE OF GOD, THE RITUALS, THE VULTURE. "Sixty-One the Jews call it....But they have the half". Sixty-one is the number of Ain in Hebrew Qabalah ~ nothing. If "they have the half" then perhaps we have the other half. Adding the numeration of "nothing", Ain, to that of NOTHING by E.Q. we have: 61 + 54 = 115. A SECRET KEY OF THIS adds to 115, which is also the number of: THERE ARE FOUR GATES, IN THE SECRET WORD, FORBIDDEN WISDOM, WORSHIP THEN THE KHABS, ALWAYS IN THE LOVE OF ME, SHALL YE COME TO MY JOY. Mathematically, "nothing" as it exists in Universe A is described in this way: (+1) +(-1) = 0. Qabalistically, "nothing" is described as: L.V.X. (+1) + N.O.X. (-1) = 61 = Ain = nothing = zero. We know that zero in Universe A can be described mathematically as 0/1; while zero in Universe B is described as its inverse, the irrational number: 1/0. "Unite by thine art so that all disappear": 0/1 + 1/0 equals Infinity ~ nothing ~ resulting from the dynamic union of opposites. Next, consider the words themselves: EIGHT adds to 26, number of GOD, HEAVEN, DEATH, and NU + HAD. EIGHTY adds to 32, number of ALIL, Hebrew "nothing". Eighty is the sum of the Tetragrammaton: NU + HAD + NUIT + HADIT, and also the Numeration of THE FOUR GATES, and THE GREAT WORK. FOUR-HUNDRED & EIGHTEEN adds to 124 ~ 31 + 31 + 31 + 31 ~ the formula of N.O.X. in the regenerative current of the New Aeon. The light and dark twins, HERU-PA-KRAATH and RA-HOOR-KHUIT each add to 124, where we also count THE STAR BROTHERS, THE DOUBLE-WANDED ONE, THE STAR OF NU-ISIS, JOY OF DISSOLUTION, THE DESOLATE PLACES, THE GATE OF INGRESS, THE NIGHTSIDE OF EDEN. 26 + 418 = 444, number of TzPRDO, the frog, and of SUPREME AND TERRIBLE GOD WHO MAKEST THE GODS AND DEATH TO TREMBLE BEFORE THEE!   I.60: "My number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us." NUMBER and ELEVEN, the number of magick, both add to 41, where we find BEAUTEOUS, JOY & BEAUTY, LUST, SNAKE, YOUR JOY, which call to mind Atu XI ~ Lust, a glyph of Magick; and the words WISDOM, CROWN, DIVINE, KTEIS. MY NUMBER IS 11 adds to 83, the number of THE HIDING OF HADIT, THE WORSHIP OF NU, THE NIGHTSIDE, THE SPACE BETWEEN, THE CITY OF SET, THE NIGHT OF PAN, THE MASS OF MAAT, THE MASK OF DEATH. MY NUMBER IS 11 AS ALL THEIR NUMBERS equals 217, the number of THE SERVANTS OF THE STAR & THE SNAKE, THE HEAVENS REFLECTED INTO THE HELLS. ALL THEIR NUMBERS WHO ARE OF US adds to 167, the number of ELEVEN AS MY BRIDE IS ELEVEN. AS ALL THEIR NUMBERS WHO ARE OF US adds to 184 ~ the Dyad multiplied by 92 of MANIFESTATION. By Least Number method, 92 = 9 + 2 = 11, bringing us back to the number 11. THE DIAMOND STAR-STONE OF MAAT, adds to 184, which is 23 x 8 ~ a glyph of the Great Work multiplied by Hadit's sacred number. MY NUMBER IS 11 AS ALL THEIR NUMBERS WHO ARE OF US adds to 261, a number of Besqul which also find: BUT WITH THE JUST I AM EIGHT AND ONE IN EIGHT: WHICH IS VITAL. Also listed are THE UWWINKING EYE WHICH EMITS INVISIBLE RAYS, TRANSMITTING INFERNAL INFLUENCES, THUS ARE THE HEAVENS REFLECTED INTO THE HELLS.   II.15: For I am perfect, being not; and my number is 9 by the fools, but with the just I am eight, and one in eight. Which is vital, for I am none indeed. AM PERFECT adds to 61, as does BEING NOT, for perfection lies in the dissolution perceived as Nothing.ONE IN EIGHT also equals 61. MY NUMBER IS 9 equals 81, the square of 9, where we find THE HIDDEN GOD, A TWO-HEADED GOD, THE FULL MOON, THE PLACE BELOW, THE LUNAR HONEY, REFLECTION, BEYOND KETHER. WITH THE JUST I AM EIGHT adds to 96 ~ i.e. 8 multiplied by a zodiacal cycle of 12, for "the just" comprise all 12 astrological types, all classes of humanity. Also listed here are FOURFOLD WORD, HIS SECRET NAME, THE EATER OF DUNG, THE PLACE OF POWER.   II.15,16: "The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret. I am the Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven." EMPRESS + KING add to 99, number of THE KEY OF THE ABYSS, THE CROSSING, THE CYNOCEPHALUS, THE SON OF TYPHON. By the Least Number method, 99 = 9 + 9 = 18 = 1 + 8 = 9. THE EMPRESS & THE HIEROPHANT adds to 146, the number of THIS IS THE CITY OF BABALON, THE PLACE OF THE SECRET-ION, THE ZODIACAL QLIPHOTH. 146 = 1 + 4 + 6 = 11, "Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven." THUS ELEVEN adds to 38 = 3 + 8 = 11. Listed here we find LIGHT, THE WANGA, MAGICK, POWER, MAGUS, THELEMA ~ all descriptive of the powers of 11. EMPRESS + HIEROPHANT equals 120 ~ the sum of the numbers 1 through 15. 120 also equals 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5, which is a formula of the Rose Cross in the 5o = 6o ritual of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. For 120 we find SUPREME DOOR OF DAATH, POWER-ZONE OF SET, THE GREAT PLACE BELOW, THE NEW MANIFESTATION, THE KEYS OF NEW-AEONIC OBEAH, THE DARK SCIENCES, 11 GATEWAYS OF THE VOID, THE SECRET HIDDEN EYE, STAR-STONE OF MAAT, WISH-FULFILLING GEM, OPENER OF THE PORTAL, THE MOUTH OF THE DAUGHTER, THE DAUGHTER IS THE GATE. EMPRESS equals 64, which is the number of UNIVERSE, and of the Aztec avatar of Tonantzin, the goddess JEWELED ROBE. HIEROPHANT adds to 56 which is PRECIOUS, OF THE KHABS, THE STAR, RADIANCE, THE CHARIOT, THE AEON OF NU. 56 = 5 + 6 = 11: the magickal formula of the Hierophant. I AM THE EMPRESS & THE HIEROPHANT adds to 156, the number of Babalon, the Scarlet Woman, and number of the City of the Pyramids shrouded in the Night of Time; and their respective paths on the Tree of Life each cross the Abyss to Chokmah. For 156 we find these cognate concepts: THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, THE GATE OF THE EVENING STAR, THE ORIGINAL LIGHT IN HEAVEN, THE SERPENT-TAILED WOMAN, A SERPENT-HAIRED GORGON, A PRIMORDIAL IMAGE OF TYPHON, THE CULT OF THE BLACK SNAKE, THE DARK DOCTRINE OF DAATH, SPIRITUAL ANNIHILATION, THE TRANSFORMING FIRE.   II. 75, 76: "Aye! listen to the numbers & the words: 4 6 3 8 ABK 2 4 ALGMOR 3 YX 24 89 RPSTOVAL." "The numbers & the words" 4 6 3 B ABK 2 4 ALGMOR 3 YX 2 4 8 9 RPSTOVAL equals 211, the number of HRU, Great Angel of the Tarot, Angel of the current Aeon, where we find listed MAKE THE CROSSING INTO NON-BEING; EARTH THE DOUBLE CURRENT Of THE TOWER; CHORONZON THE BEAST OF THE ABYSS; THE WESTERN LAND OF THE QLIPHOTH; THE BEST BLOOD IS OF THE MOON, MONTHLY; THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK LUNAR CURRENT; THE STELLAR REPRESENTATIVE; THE NEURONAUT HIMSELF IS BLASTED; UNITE IN AN EXPLOSION OF ECSTASY.