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  1. Verses are taken from text proofed against The Holy Books of Thelema, 1983 print edition except that the word "fill" has been replaced with “kill” per the instruction that can be found here.

  2. Justification may differ from the original.

  3. The pictorial manuscript of Liber Al, Liber XXXI, is not presented, neither are the pictorial charts of Liber Arcanorum (sub figura CCXXXI), nor the Hebrew pictorials of Liber Tau (sub figura CD) and Genii of the 22 Scales of the Serpent and Qlipoth from same.​

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A Note on Numbers

By Simon Willis

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Greek

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When in the company of Thelemites, it doesn’t take long to hear the number 93 being mentioned with significance. For those brave enough to inquire, and fortunate enough to find someone knowledgeable, they will discover that 93 is shorthand for "Love is the law, love under will." If the conversation continues, the curious will learn that this number is derived using a Greek method of rendering letters into numbers known as Isopsephy. The Greek words for Will and Love are Thelema and Agape.

 

Thelema (Θελημα) = 9 + 5 + 30 + 8 + 40 + 1 = 93

Agapé (Αγαπη) = 1 + 3 + 1 + 80 + 8 = 93

 

Before the adoption of Arabic numerals, letters were used to represent numbers. The Greeks developed a numbering system for their alphabet using base 10.  Alpha represented 1, Beta represented 2, and so on to Iota which was 10.  After Iota, the values increased in increments of 10 (20, 30, 40, etc.), reaching up to 90.  Beyond this, the system continued with one hundred, two hundred, and so forth.  To make this system work, you need 27 symbols, nine for single digits, nine for double digits and nine for hundreds. The traditional Greek alphabet today has only 24 letters. To complete the system, three additional letters were added: Stigma (6), Qoppa (90), and Sampi (900).

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Hebrew

 

In Hebrew, a similar process called Gematria is used. Words sharing a numerical value are thought to share properties or connections. This method is valuable for contemplation, meditation, and expanding ideas. It’s a useful reminder that the human brain is a network of connections.  For a more in-depth exploration of these ideas, consult Aleister Crowley's Liber 777, which is a comprehensive collection of these connections.

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English

 

"Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English alphabet;

thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto."

- Liber Al vel Legis 2:55

 

In the Windram copy of the book Thelema, you can see where Crowley had begun to assign letters of the English alphabet to the Trigrams of the I-Ching.  An updated version of these attributions can be found in Commentaries on the Holy Books.  These letters and their corresponding values are brought together in J. Daniel Gunther's The Angel and the Abyss, which has been the source document for this project.

 

When receiving our "Daily Holy Verse" email, you will see the sum of all the English letters in the verse.  They are offered without any special claim of validity, only as another way to engage with our Holy texts, to find new connections between verses.

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If the number of the randomly selected daily Holy Verse is the same as that of another verse, then the number will appear as a link which will take you to a page displaying all the verses that share this number.

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