92 OUTER caTEwAYS ateributable to ZAIN, wich aso equals 718, Ths is the One-Eyed ‘Sword “” mentioned in The Necronomicon. The above correspondences link irragibly the Neczonomican, Kame, and Thelemie currents showing che thees strands 83 comeing ual Laeac developnent, i both chroaelogical and a magical wens Teis unlikely that Lovecraft, who was a voracious reader, should hhave mised the works of William Reed** snd Marsal Gardner’? but fhe did, Lovecralt's At tke Mourtains of Masiness, and seat- tered reference co Eskimo lre in vatious oF his stories, ace evidence that he came nett pin-poiniag a hides eres. cutpost af the ‘Great Old Ones. “Tho Aments of the Fypeians identical withthe Aghacta ofthe Mongols. The laner with theie pee Buddhistic BB comple, and. shamanisic rites with tantric implicit, produced weird eombins- thon of savage groteequery and the profound metaphysical aadumbrations of the Sinyétavdda. The tranwaretic abnormality, [hac Tegoth is not depicted in maithune (in the Lovecraft ale" but is conser: is surely present, though invisible, Is daersfoce in the Eskimo-shamaniatic and the Bon impregnated Bacdhism of Tibet, Mongolia, Java and Suatatra, thatthe fundamental cencts of the Madhyemaka-as permeating the Nyingmapa and Deokpa Cults + are relevant ro the Necconomicon: Gnosis $e ZA The refrac to Se Ege te Serpe Pali ‘Sthanglrat eon, 16 {2 Phanto of he Pe Re 0A oun oe fa ate Ube Bacto othe Ved that ihe basso te Mayank See bape 5 a The Magical Significance of Yezidic Symbolism ® 1 ace now ina position wo evaluate cettan sgniicane inner ignments ofthe Cult of Yerid with the Typhonian Gnosis, “To beyin with, che stellar origin ofthe Cule is confirmed by the narure of its eof dein, Melee Ta'ys, te Peacock Angel described byits votaries as “one of dhe Seven Gods”. In Joseph Iya’ rerumé of the cult andits traditions che angel is said to be worsbspped in the shape of a cock, which connects the cule with the Ophiian Gnosis. We have here, 25 in the Mitheaie Ritsal discussed in apie 9, au example of the Double Current ~Terresteial and Exra-tectesvial - veiled beneath she image of the Bird and the Agel. The peacock is an emblem ofthe Order ofthe Silver Sear? whose presiding Angel, Aiweass, is the vehicle ofthe Sellar Curent rmaaifesting through Situs theologized as Ser oe Hoot paas Kreat) whose sinister he is? anphas is cognate type. N'amphar has the value of 133 which links ir the Choronzenie Gnosis centred in Daath, The meters of Yer may therefore be fashomet by using themethou of exegesis ‘employed in ehe analysis of the Mithrais ule of the Disk 4 “De ora y) Botan, 1919, Sec leer Croley & the Btdan God Gea) ci SALI? Asean.94 ourer 6; “The sacred book of the evil known a the Black Book, alludes te the scene of che God upon the Black Mountain, thereto reveal to Sheikh Adi- heHead of the Yeridi Order -"a book that is already syritten in heaven". The number of Adiis | Ssin the Tartic Texdition ‘Ata XV is ancribed 10 The Devil But fitces is also the momber of the Primal Goddess whose sg comprises te five tangle ymbolic fof the fiftecn anes, oF yons, from which flow the kalas of mati- festation. In the Theriense Tara, At XV exhibit the image of the Phallus or cock of Baphome, which is also the emblem of the Peacouk-Angel described by the Yevdi as the “chief of all", hence the ‘devil worship of the Cult. The “book chat i already weicen in heaven” is a reference co the book containing dactrine of ime and space, or the wellar grosis of cyelc aeonology. Is said that Ad's reecipt of the book would resin his rejecting Mohammedanism aad embracing the religion of che Sloean, che prtnal stella elt, ‘A myth associated with rhe Yeid ie reveling inthis connections it alludes to 2 quarrel beoween Adam and Bve concerning the origin ff the human eace. Ada claimed that it descended from him; Eve, from her. After incessac wrangling they agreed to deposit ina jae their nanural essenecs. The vessel were then hermecicsiy sealed aud ‘opened alter a period of nine months, In Adam's ar were found two children, while in Tve'sreceptcle rorten worms weithed and emited 2 foul stench." Adam then copulated with Bye and produced two more children The Yerid claimed descent rom Adam, who typified the vial cuctent which, ia conjunction with the substance of Eve, manifested the Twins Thesymbolism i clear, and ichighlights the difference beeween the formulae ofthe VII", IX", and XI? OT.0,. ‘The VIM and IX* comport manifestation of she Light, the XI? of the Darkess. It is however nuteworthy har to Eve's soirary emis sions wete ascribed the “origin of the Jews, che Chrttans, the Moslems and oer nations". Inthe words, Eves depicted asthe ssenetrx of harharous or ‘ain’ sects, This should be borne ia id, because although Melek Ta'us came down to earth for the Yer, the sed of toe alien races was atibuted to the woman, Evahy chat nthe on hand sheng \Gomia¥Z| self be Doble rem on -heoste; an age of he QUphd a the WU of pts eel Renin the Ten The Magical Significance of Yesidée Symbolism 95 Is Jehowsly tae You being represented by Atw XV, The Devil 8 woman herself represen the ‘Goddess 15°7 nother significant legend allegories a more pcobable exigin of ‘the Yewid. After being poisoned by scorpions, Muvawryd, or Miu Aviva, knew his wife. Alvbough a woman of eighty years she appeared one moraing, y the power ofthe Great God, asa woman ‘of twenty-five: “Ske conceived and boze ous God, Yerk!”, The long-awaited prophet, Yer, yas thus born of a witch. and the ‘venom of cozpions. This symbolisn signifies trassformation via the Ophidian Current Yerid equals 31, whieh, apart from its Thelemie implicit, is the umber of hor star Bera, in the Perseus group, The denizens ofthis star were lcowen to the Arate as the ‘ghouls’ because they fed om the shades of the dead in the nether world. 31 i alo the number of Kia whose zootype is the suture that feeds upai the ‘Aekbu, the dead (Le. the spits). Another value of Yeridis 36, the hnumber ofthe jig, referred to in tue Necronomicon a5 tenanting the forbidden realm in which the votaries of the Dragon Cult worship the sar Draconis, ogether with the stars ofthe Dog” and the Sea-Goat ‘According to the Necronomicon, the ous of Set, Typhon, and Cthulhu ate cults of the Dead “for they are wershippers of the ‘Ancient Ones, and forever ryt let Them in, fo they havea formula of which itis unlawful to speak ..". Furthermore, "the eace of Draconis was ever powerful in ancien mes, wen the frst cemples \were builtin Mogan" and they drew down much strength From the The formala conports a use ofthe lunar cuctent,asis made clear by the injunction: "Remember to keep the Moon pure”, and in > Reece by he five angle yoni ti signa als that he Janene Godden of he Deep alo exh tho LS thertacedyebok end uch oh ‘Sf te fina Goof Obits aad the Deep Ons A Bh ie siiog bingo soniied oe, cde Ths siaing beings peibbly eto sllaseal shears ooh Capac ctu, ness, 1 Selengek ou scenvon, 920896 OUTER GaTEWAYs another place: *T have seen them tuen the Moon's ray into gu, ‘he whit they poured upon theieszones fora purpese I could not divine” Yeeid os comidered to be ane of the Seven Gods. Fle x seported as declaring: “Iwas, am now, and shall have no end, ‘hich compares with an alms identical uteranco made bythe Old (Ones recorded in the Necronomicon by cie-mad Arab, Al Haare “Anphay, which is ene less than 333, i aleemsaively vendeted as Angat which, as 255, equates t with Irem, the ‘City ofthe Pilla, thecule-cemreof Grest Cthulhy amid the pathlessdesersaf Arabia ‘The hurd appears again as che vehicle of the White Pea who “created 01 of his mas precious essenes". Our of hi neal! came the Great Old One accompanied by seven angels of which Taus [Mele is the chief of all The Whice Pear) exploded. Fromitesetreed chards were erated ‘thestars. From this esence of Adam provecded the complex knoven 4s Azauil i=Melek Taus) whose celex on eat isthe Cul of Yeri ‘Aaazil = $6 = Nu! iis equivalent to Oroaal, which is 77-7431 = 185637 x 5. The number 37 implies the manifestation to man of Truth (Maat); the nummer Sis the sumbes, par excellence, not ony ‘of Woman but also of the Ancient Ones.” 185 therefore signifies the manifestation of Nuit fr the Vou) m her Niatian phase. In yet ancther myth, God sends to Adam a bird which “pecked athisanus® and made an outlet. This contains a play upon the name ‘Adara which, es DM, denotes menscrual blood and the lft hand, or lunar path symbolised by the anus ox backward was. [ching at a ‘magical fortul ofthe XT familar to interes of the 0.1.0. Yerid i refered to-a3 “our god, the barbara. wh gives a sealed decision tobe god to come down”. According ta the same ‘eadition Christ is sad to have come down to earth after saking & a leone the meron of the Get Hg pom, ther f Drasnin 3c mine prshar tthe Deep One. iw Auarit ao Ne len Sue Later the Hlounsine of Manse The len he Oust One Nese aloo HDS Ianat corer Sy ls, AL. Bte13,the aight, ‘The Magical Significance of Yeridie Symboltem 97 sign. Thesign isthe sald dvsion, Adam was ursaled by the bid that ecke at ivan The Christ the anointed one’ ssmolised by the Palins which impregnate each? with it light’? The symbolism appears AL as "peck sche ees of Jess 3 he hangs {pon ti eos", the cose biz not ony the phallus but also the Place of Crossing (over the Abyss) i. Daith oa the Tree Cros of Life and Deat’s The Yeuidh worship Seven Gzeae Gods of which the chi is Lasfos, hich idence Tycfr asthe “chief ofall the Fallen Angels. Accordig to Massey” these were the sven primal Time. Keeper in Heaven assumed tothe seven star of ina Majo she Grea Bet They werelaww alas Melek Tas, who s porteyed by his worshipper in the form of «cook The Arabs adoved a god kaoom as Nasr who appeared oder the form ofan eagle. fn Faype the Neb oc Nab was the Black Eagle or ‘Vaiture emblematic of she Black ole) adored by the sboceéd Nib Nora = S112 which inal the numb of Laneroy, has ‘auating the eagie andthe peacock inthe sinale concep, Ler Ta the Yerid myth, Lasifron eld in bis hand a Great White Pcl with whic he played and eventually tossed nto the see. The world Wwascreated by this act he wodld was bos ofthe peal The sacred image ofthe Peacock Angel was reer toby the Yess a Saya, 2 Turkish woedl denoting “panne ty umber 132 equates wich the Babylonisn Mion, he God af Chaon ee the nuke of Bion? the basic nit of living manee 132 abo «83 + 39, he the 98 Carrentborse along bythe affimation ofthe Aspiring Sou i rl ant DML The cla hai cure of ston, 1 Bee Maus, The Natta Genes, As Msey as show, che seren Gree Gs the even som of deste the Gres Bare, "Termamse ofthe dub place Kym th tse rum rcs 's ko 3 murer of he lao he Deep Ou ad of Rha “The Head St S418. 3, sent the scomplbres ofthe Great Wonk bi ean of te Opstdan Caren MCL the VI"O°70. Ananalogou Ppa eisectded inthe Pte of Net An See The Mae! Rome 55's comed by Wiel Rech who ote hue patches Betweoy be tre ‘hat twinkle sod chanate hgh CL. Crowley sarpone tan Se Conor one Ceomie98 ouren Gateways “Two elements in she above equation compost the notion of the Priqal Curse: 132 is the number of LQB, Ad Maledicondtm, and 39 = LT, te cursed, Both have lunar implicts which indicate the formula ofthe XI’, According to more chan one tradition the Great God created the Yeuidi asa “peculiar penple of Azavl”. Zan « 55; Avaril~ 563.55 is the aumber of KLH, the bride’, KL signs ‘Al’, ic, PaniGod. ‘The addition ofthe feminine lee, HY, reveals KLH (hala) as Kali, sordess ofthe kala, 55 6 also the nurier ofthe Nagas, which are described as human secpenrs' especially associeed withthe worship ‘of dragoas, i. the Ophidian Caerent, The Nagas ncacnsted a the ‘emi: furgoid,semi-crustaceous entities known in Tiberan lore as the Mi-Go, They were inimical ro the Great Od Ones and differed from ‘Them in material cansticion, coming, a8 they dl ftom rexioter ‘lls of conic space ‘According to Mohammedan tradition Azavil was the original nam of che Devil and the Amerindian tadicions refer vo « People ‘of the Bat, their Great Devil Zotr as the Zot. As Rohmer noted, the bac was a primal symbol of the ‘uncleen iss of Voodoo.* The symbol hes heen explored in Cute of the Shadow in connection withthe fortavia of viparita miténna, of “upside down’ sextel congress. The peaccek, che eagle, the vulaue, the bat are key ~zoitypes inthe various reeesions ofthe Typhonian Gnosis, ‘Another valte of the name Melek Ta'us is 100 + 707 = 807, altcnative values being 176, 46, $67. Considored in combination with 55/56 these eumbers constitute a comprehensive suey of the Ophidian’ Mysteries. 807 combines Daath (474) and Choronzon (G33). It is also a number of ANNWN, ‘Hacka! or “Tactaruy, Furshermore, Daath is the Desere ofthe Abyss, tte Mauve Zone, ‘ad Shogal is the deser-fox or jackal that is its 200rype, the Hound of Hell. 176 isa uraber of amine, th porfome associated with death and 416 enumerates he Eagan der Der Tommasi, ‘ho is said co hear a siciking resemblance ro certain hideowe bas-reliefs depicting the Gteat Old Ones. H.PLovecratt clive % Baring, Sax Rohe Fsncln 333, 2 The Homer the ecw ea ‘The Magical Significance of Yeridic Symboliem 99 ‘The number 67 denotes the "Bock Wing the evi spirit 416 among his ‘special ausers. black ecom, Morvan, ential wi Sad of Cec mythology. The ovgia ofthe Yeni has abo heen abated to a nagical foemula which calls chat of Austin Sparc ‘Earthenware Vin’ as shown above in connection wih te ess used y Adam and Eve Iyer another wadition the pod Yes is aden’ wih Melek Taw, Ball angel, half man, an extratresrial combined with an hoor the Yeridi Being bora ofthe offing of tcansmognitied witch The spawer were known as Shut parssts, dev or Satua-worshipoes. The abloguy attached t0 the Yerii a5 dvi ‘worshipers arose fvom the sion of congress beween human and onchoman eatites the angelic Being isthe issue of a hideous ‘arcage. In a story peegnane with similar magia) explicit, Macher dese an ae tous remorial tet "To the great tod Nelns the god af he Grea Deep ae Abs). om account of the mariage which he saw bencath the shade” = ‘Among te Patsis these Vee Ferfer designated che atcdant ofthe Evil piri, and the grimoite of Goeic Magic translated by MacGregor Mathers contains spi named Fkur who “wil ake pon himself he Fora ofa Arg, Being biden he speaketh with ‘hoarse voice, Also he will ingly urge Love heneeen Man and ‘Woman, He can raise Liahcings and Thsnders."> ‘Yezii myths signet vars of origins foe dh acts 20m Yerid ten Ma Awiya front anocthem colony rom tie maga practons ‘of Adam and Eve and soon. The nae Mu Aviva cvokes cba the Mu-Aivas Cucten Familie to adept of the Nation Gnas Aceonlingro Arsh sources the Yeni wee Sabean follower of Sabi 2 ie goes no ron but it pole Fat the au as conse i is mind with Oster Ons lis ereuig tote th 4162 le an 418, ‘hesumberof Ase and te Ge Work. 2s she momber ache Miser bt Lovosafe dosnt axop thr se, Oces pea? numbees canal Op Kar nd 381 lof which mer te 156 33,223 nd 30} gp se bebe aus ince Theonke Goat OC Had, Hai 1 Spare aque delinete sma syclite etn. "The Grea Ga Pan acer Spin muber 3, Sex The Goat of Soloman th ing YX sl colaasprosably net eres aor.100 oureR caveways. the Son of Seth and dhe grandson of Adam, Sabi = 313, whic i the number of formula connected withthe iner city atthe magnetic poles of che Earth.” Ie i also the nursber of SHDDAD (Cf. Hadad), who buile the City of Pillars, lem, a cule centre of Chul now Ihre heneathehedesere ot Arabis Petras. Sabi ales equals 193, the ruber of the Crowned Babe, Mabya, which isconnectd inthe stor Mysteries wth the Masonic word ofthe Templars MABN, 93, Sabi isa generic name indicating both the Teaba (T2BA=93), or Stellar ‘Ourrent, and the Sei o¢ Farch complex, hinting yer again at the commingling oF alien and terest seed “The son of Set ypiies the star-seod, and Adam (DM) is the earth thus, star and blood, fize and watec The Saheans eontinued the primordial sellar gnosis. They sere said to “worship the staes secretly, fue. in an occult sense, involving the statice of Kalas ‘which they shed because ar that era the Solar Cul had superseded the more ancent worship ofthe stars which was then blitzed ‘The Aabia of the Sahcans was orientated towards the South ‘izom whence the wind bles... ", again an indication ofthe tori [bana and the Cult of Set, and incidentally emphasing the northern background of the Sabeans and the realm of the Beas. ‘They were “worshippers of angels, worshippers of stars”. They ‘were “those who departed from Judaists and Christianity and ‘worshipped angels”, ic. exteaterreteals. They were, infact, the foreruauiers of the cintemporary sets dedicated ta the reuen of the Chnter Ges, ‘The orginal sect followed Seth and their cue acivtes included) the worship of birds, a bcbef in sacred wells and fountains, holy reees and sacred stones, The Vedi kiced the stones and made vows totem” They sulfeed obloguy for “vsolating the laws of morality ‘ducing thie festivals", immoralitis practised alsin che mosque at Mecea, According to Huggronje, the practice in question "may be 4 survival of he instiution of Kaueshes"; a peokably distorted or Se The Dinas Horr Loot 3s Nowe that om i he tle of Mai oF Mary, die Holy Whore of te Renate le Cia Mtr, See Woed, Ges 57h che nneton ssn O heen", See ch quoted by Joxh, Deol Worse The Magical Significance of Vexidie Symboltem 101 variant form of the original XI° formula which had ity parallel in the Agapé ofthe Gnosis.” ‘The Yeridi adored a deny of the “ist degree", God, and a deity of the second degree comprising three persons: Melek Ta’, Adi, aad Yesid- of, in Qubslatic terme: 07 « 15 = $1 = 853. 853 isa ‘number of Tiamat, or Ti-Maat, she of whom itis written in che Necronomicon, that when Cihulla *;cins wth the Abominations fof the Sky*® Tiamae will once more rule tho Earth". ler other umber 71, ig the nsmiser of Lam, aad of she Kainy a same ‘bestowed in aicent Japan upon the Old Ones whor the Erpians famed the Sammi. Ie alo the number of Anatta, the supreme formula of self-denial thar vests ar the eat of Buddkism,Aleersare rumerations are 222, and 462. 222 cmumerats the woed ‘fever’ which, che presen cone, mggeststhe vere from AT. previews sectioned: * Another proper shall arise, and bring Fresh fever fin the shies Another oman shall awake the lst & worship of the Sule nother soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globed priests “another serifceshallstainthe orb; anoher king shal eign ad byessng wo longer be poured tothe Hawle-Readed mpsical Lond! ‘The numberof this verse, 34, is dhe number of Aditi whichis efined by Blavatsky ‘n The Seeret Doctrine asthe “Mother Space ‘co val with Darkest. ‘The ‘Abominations ofthe Sk” seems vo ly closer especially when ‘cjeelive that 222 in also a nomber af Tenggorhua, desc bed a The Necronomicon asa fogslke abwormality which together with Yog-Setkoth, “who shall bring his globes", and other Old Ones, “sll take possesion of Eaeth ad allehings that live upon it" The Gaostes Masui c8. “0 Abomination ofthe Ss" sug the “th eve fom the aie which “onater prop” shall bing atthe" of the Gest Haus Here = ponblerelerence 1 UFO, See ALIL34), exc £2 The number ofthe Spr, Faro So owe 33, {217i Larter at he These (ov caieD th ch.102 ODTER GATEWAYS. Thesecond number, 462s that of Sa, ‘the serpent, whieh lke “Tsaggothna "dwelt in the uttermost parts of the earth? Si rypitis the Ophidian Corre in its most material forms an inner terrestrial analogue of Cthulhu. It is “the Snake that givech Knowledge & Delight and bright elory",*! and it i to he wor- shipped with ‘steange drugs, of which Asrar (462) i one!® ‘The Yevdi have a tradition that on New Yeas Day God sts upon bis zone calls the gods unto him and deliver Power into the hands fof the god™ wha isto descand tothe earth. The Yeas have ‘anacendental conception af deny. In the Kurdish tongue god is called Khuda," of Giids, an obvious form oF the woed ‘godt. He manifests in three forms: as aa Old One (Sheik Adi), asa bued”” ‘Melek Tatas), aud a8 a Child |Yexid-Ra-Hooe Khu) ‘Melek s"us appearsin ALas the Kingly Man or Angel (Alwass) “Mach ofthe parantomasa toe foundin ALental not only phonetic similarities bur aso isopsepicisms. Ta'w/Aiwass is a case of the Former Crossley’ insistence on the face that his work continues the Sumerian Tradition," and his idensifying himself as an avatar of ‘Yend, point, as 1 have suggested in the introduction to the AL Comments, fo Liber AL being the *book irom erenicy” referred to inthe Yer Back Book. The book feom eternity i the hook from ‘he Stat, a literary device connoring the Cuctent from Outside ‘Another Yes legend represents thee chief angel as Azaeil also {nthe form af a pescock. The author af Devil Worship explains the hoc of bird being due to the banishinent, ofall to earth of Adam tnd Eve, sho had eaten the forbidden scheat in Eden, Eve was cast upon Arafat, snd Adam was banished to Ceylon, which is etme Egan ook ofthe Dead Satu ‘8h elon of ecacedinry per metic ty Mathes in The Ht of Dreams p24, and ia The Set Cloryip. 217 tar te Yes {8G he Keyan Khor, Ks Las of Ligh dd Tatas 225 ae mote ha Senn, ‘bindmer’ of he Oranie ph gelen 1'see aie @ Phuompbuel Commentaries on He Soak of he base crower. The Magical Significance of Yostdic Symbolism 103. preéminendy the land of the peacock, The eruh, as we knox, is far simpler: the peacock became the teem of the Cult oeause of the symbolism of rhe Tail and the Eye. The ail eypitied the Khepsb fo Hauaca Constellation (Ursa Major) and the Bye was the Eye in the Triangle he means af the phall we, which i why the cock wat typical of Yer ‘The T isthe Phallus, the Cros of Set; and Melek TAU isthe ‘Angel Aivass. Melee Ta'us is declared ro'be one of the Seven Gods ‘who rales the weld for 2 period of 10,000 years, which i» more likely to bea measure of he eng of the aeons implicit in AL chan the periods assigned to them by Crowley. The doorways of Yeridi temples were adorned with figures ofa lion and a sake, an axe, a man, and a comb. According to all authorities to cate the magic signiicance artached by the Yeaidi to these emblems remains unlenown. eis quite possible however to ‘ead their meaning inthe light ofthe Tyolioniaa Gnosis. The lon ard snake form the lin-serpent, Teth, emblematic ofthe Ophidian Currents the axe isthe sigs of Never dhe neuer-one oe child god ‘who cleaves open his mother The symbolism of che mar is consid- cecedbelowsthe comb denotes the vrlefoceethacties the hair which symbolizes the Fecundity ofthe Geddes. ‘Ac the altar of Adi, 360 lamps were ignited every evening, 360 denotes the fll ice, cycle, o¢ perfect acon, Tes also the number fof HMSHIF, ‘the Messith’, snc) of ShIN, 9 later form of she Atlantean Zin, a name of Typhon and of the Moon. Of the name Sy, Geonge t.Clair® ells us that it compors “a certain forcible and impeding check, opposition, « euraing, upside daw”, which ‘mmedisely suggests ALL1: “The word of Sin”, and the formula fof Karezza in cosjunction with that of vparita moithuns - al of ‘which cones point tothe secret gnosis ofthe cle ‘360 added to 15 1Adit yields 375, which denotes Sehr, the ‘lace in wich magica] operations are performed upon the spirits of the dezd. Sekher alse denotes the power of resuctecton, of rising 2850 Te MaelRevd ra The Ta te anomie ofthe Tove Wi Shall be he whole fe Law Sea ears ot. "Chet Record Cl 7, th of Do-what han on104 OUTER GATEWAYS ina subtlebody of ight which has boen typified by theerectle power ‘ofthe phils. 975 sthe number of a*City of Edom’ ssnciated wt the Kings of the Qliphott; and of OSH, meaning ‘all forme of ‘beginning’, particularly in relation co SHOT ialo 375), a measuse ‘ofsime’ The Faypvian sha was the clepsyda, thusstrengthening the Tinks of this mumbee with the Lunat Cutten. ‘The ceremonies performed before she altar were accompanied by ‘utes an pipes, wind instruments associated with cites evocative of the Outer Ones (Space Air), whici is sinificanc because another ‘equivalent of the simber 360 isthe Greek gems, “MPOBOAH™ , meaning ‘spatial projcetion’ “The Yeas comxemsocsted the Shah Adi on the 15-20th April five day celebration uf che Goddes 15 initiated atthe Full Moon, ‘The five days cepresent the lonar eclipse, or days hides fom the sun, here the 360 lamps in the shrine of Adi (15). On entering the shrine the votaries kis the serpent depicted om the ll tothe right of tho temple door. The torah of the sheikh is conccaled by 8 ‘cover of sxeen sping renewal oc resucrecion from che earth 'A point f snteeae concerns the Yeridi Qabalah, As swith the Kurds, the Yeu somedimes “change the Arabic Alto Ain”, and in some localities the ain is pronounced aif, just as the Kaf is hanged 9 af. Iris noted by Badger chat chese usages are not ‘confined tothe Kurds, sich changes Being made also by Arabic and Syriac speaking peoples. Let us therefore consider the magical Limplicatons of identifying Aleph with Ais and with Kf. Aleph is the leer attributed ro Ait or Space, and Ai is boch the Void and ‘Ayr, an Bye. The eves it the tl of the peacock, oF the meatus in the phallus of Yerid are equally connoted, and are resuned inthe lyn ofthe Eye in the Triangle which forms part ofthe emblem af the Q.1L0, Kapi signifies both the pli (of te bad, and the Ray ‘ape, which zypifed among, other things the open eye of the expaced eats ofthe circumsed penis in a state of erection, thus dering the ever wakefal ane, Its said hat "circumcision, eheeuchasist aad baprsm are the thvee religious rites adminiscered by the follossers of Yea” SS g he solar ce of 365 daw CR aages quoted by lose, Ded Worship 168 ‘The Magical Significance of Yoxidic Symbolism 105 ‘Ai, te ey, ed kaph ve palo) tgaher equal 9, che sumer of Ted, the leer attend to the Deep Ones, be addition of “leh yiekls 91, the imber of man’ other than hich there ie no fod.” The eye ad ch hand are magia inserts used by man In the eefcation of dee in the sevice of his will” Also, she Necronomicon declares: “The Power of Man isthe Power of dhe Ancint Ones. And this isthe Covenant”. 91 ia number of AM, the Typhonian goddess stvo “giveth poteton”. Ste manifest in the form ofan hippopotamus, a primal otem ofthe Deep Ones aad steillumines the oces of Space vith he Seven Stars. Main rele fecomes NAM, which in the Chaldess tongee team ‘speech ‘orale’ ‘uterane’, ‘prope’. Ie isthe Primal Word she *chun ssith the Loed”, and it-denves from the Egyptian Num, with precisely the same mesnings" ein signeant tha the rame of peckoman hinguage, Nazeal, aio has the value of 1. Another ‘jisslencia ko the moon goa, worshipped in someplace ler the name of Sin. But, abore all, 91 i che numberof AMN, the Hidllen God of Ament, and of MLKA, she ‘daughter virgin’, ‘or "biden the phraseology of occult, the unawakened or entranced riescess “The doers of Yerdic temples ste adocned with wild scarlet anemones and ros emphashing the lnae coriponent ofthe tes celebrated within. "The ly or ltus together with the rose fs typical ofthe cele ofthe Geis, the cl ofthe 360 alas ac the biden five 36D i the number of ShNL ‘cle’ a colour symbolic ofthe red eacth of reieation associated with Woman. The Ophidian Cucreot implied in the symbolisa and ts agin underlined in ehevarinnt form Yer, *Ari che nome whi, 22yis de nue of the Sales ofthe Serpent ofthe Qliphoth. “The Yen interted hes dead with ace eased toad the Noch Star confirming the predominance inthe cle of che worship ofthe Outer Ones aed the Deep Ones, andthe cule esentally stellar provenance Toei 0 god bt man” Liber Os vel LXXVIF, (Crom ‘sge tse meal ym 705, The Bonk of Pasar re oS lin. (acy oe Kore (oor word ame, uumber) the Eggs mane a mdottie aby106 ours caTeways Five principal geographic zones are associated wich the Yeridi, the most peominest of which is Sehan (Persian), the pal of Sil ‘or Sheikh, o, a8 we shoul say the Old Ones hence the Seis ci, Seiban, ‘Phe> ofthe Old Ones’, es nonh-esst of Mosul. Shan isthe Palestine of ce euke, and its Mecca, Llish, contains he shrine of Adi, Lash = 371, a numbee of high significance, Pretmisently, Shaitan « 371, and Nui (75) + Isis (140) + Bebalon (155) = 371. It also indicates the Cefv- Hand Path, being the number of ShMAL. {note the rslex of LAND, sini 371 6 413, i. Shaan and the Great Work, or the Great Work of Shatan = 789, which is the value oF TISOS + ALALLAS" 371 also connotes LASATAL and SPR AL Sepier AL, the Book ofthe Law. Also charged with high significance isthe name of another of the five cule zoue, that of Weran Saht, o¢ Goran Sah, meaning the ‘sunken city’, which eecals che sunken city of Rive whete Great ‘Cell watts dreaming. Note also chat 371 = 300 (Fir, Sirine) = 71 glam). ‘We are now in «positon co appreciae Crovey's claim to have costinued, a and tirough Thelema, the major teact of the Yesidie cal. [eas mentioned in foomote $3 tha the Taw Cross of Shaitan appears as thou in che Thelemic precept in AL, the tex of whic ‘Crosley may have accepted as the “book thar i already writen in Incaven" and awaited by che Yezii. The metaphysics ofthe Tau est Cn the ine meaning ofthis precept for theres in the consciousness of maa but a single vill the True Will. But ithas an apparent and iscoted reflection which is miszaken for it by the unenlightens “Thece are aoe two wills, 2 “ower” and a ‘higher’ forever in coalict and cequiig reconciliation, but a shadowy reflsction that has bbe recognized for what tis. Tas resognition is also its disolution. Samet lore Adi denote ancien ‘origin’ ‘ou’ ee adie, them oe BcSon ‘\Cheatophe Jonson ror he sigaican fat hat SNSTR, witout wee 1g oa Tea 471 the marser a Shen Sue Once tb Ciel of Tne (Gra, 550 Mad (Crows) 09473 es. CALLAO, hese water “Do sre rhom mil th whole the La The Magical Significance of Yestdic Symboliam 107 ‘The teams Wil, Dest, Fy are fterchanpesble, The Te Wil, ‘oc the oer hand, being not-phevometal, remain independ of the individual, who is composed eatiely of illusory elements. hn ‘whee wands, che Trae Wil is owe the range of the eo epparen sphere of activity Tho datincions suggest the rlatioeship that his becween the ale sel andthe tee elf” although te analogy isnot quite precise were beter to compareit withthe elatsonship hesneen shiva and Shake es symbols of the True Wl and of the apparent wil, Shake denotes the elnent of sovesat™ which harsteriss she seeming ative of he prendo ar phenomena wil. “Thee is thas no real division tthe Will, the one tue, he wcber non-eiset except in 9 phenomenal sens and eit part of penomens, cannot in any way aff contol or eet ‘When itis elie thatthe Truc Wil alone exits, ancl that we ate igs couerput will be underwood athe phanom i: and we Sal ccase wo density with As wit a fail relleeion iw aero ce face oly isinvolved 9 withthe reflection of he True Wl in the micor ofthe phenomenal or apparent universe. But although the image illusory itis the flection of something at exists The refleation f not amenity, its realty exits only Inthe face that projects Suva and shaksi ay be considered in a sine manne ‘Tae only way of discovering the we narre ofthe cect by srasig ito itssourethevwner ofthe ce. Thiscannot Be achieved from the vantage point ofthe mircor oe the isiage celesed frst icmay beacheved onl by the conseousnes ofthe tue identity of the being refered. The method of engity known a atnavnhara or engury ns the els therefore the ony method tha reveals he real naoee ofthe Self and ofthe Teue Wil, Teles The‘oemulaotaimavicherainexplitin AL*” Tae relevant vere gave Crowley quite headache because when he beard Aiwass Cictareit ic was 50 incomprehensible wo hit tat is mind refused co acexpt it Alwass therefore zoo hin t0 alter, aod the alterations comported implications some of which have already tee examined sncoanecion wih eertaincoments ade by Fatt oa and Aman, ‘Ste yeouthson thong and he ilsion of movenenr, chs S36308 ovte carsways ‘Achad.® The number ofthe vers in question, is. 26,5 the sum of the letees oF tee “Lost” or “Unutterable™ Naete, THVH, and the summation of the aurnbers of ce Sephiroth wich fecm the trunk ‘of the Tree of Life eis also the nuinber af the true name af Satan Which is said co be IRVH seversed, and which is a manner of ‘expressing the process of reversion which opens the pat othe back of the Tre: Bur the Word is lost unl to the phenomenal universe, for sx noe itself phenomenal. Teste negative or nowenal source ofthe world of eppearances. 26 (HVE) i the numberof Aud, “Black Wings, tae evil spirit associated with Yoggoth.”" 26, by the ‘Taro, i the path denoted by the Javer Apin, an Eye, and the Winged Pye is emblematic of Ii, I it alo aecibed tothe pats 3 zobiype of Shub Niggurath the “Black Goat ofthe Woods wich 4 ‘Thousand Young”. In the tarotic system she bears the tile ‘Lox ‘of the Gates of Maer, Maver and anti Mate etcnall akeenate in the Gnosis of Nut. ‘The’? and the Eye’ are resumad inthe symbolism ofthe watcher cor witners (sakshi, The sumber 26 is the number ef CLEVE, “ght, vision”. Tae quest “Who am [therefore involves the ser and the stn, ie vision a such; for Nuit decares™ that the sign shall be... the conecionsness ofthe continuity ofexistence, the omnipres: enceot mybody”, i.e. matter Buc bore thelast five words ie. "the ‘omnipresence of my body"), she hod declared that she was the “unfragmencary won-atomic fac of my universality". This concept the scribe (Crowley) woe enjoined to pit “in whiter words", the swords shih appeiced inthe final version ofthe verse, as printed in AL, White is the coloue of Kether, che cutermos: Gate of the knows universe (acter) “As nthe case ofthe Troe Will andthe false, the Self and the ogo, there prevals a the preset ime a vendency to confuse the creative tnd the reproductive systems, which pertain eo planes as diatince at 78Sue Cota he Shad, ch CE a wings ot ac ei o: vs, pil ofthe OM Oe, The Whaypererm Dares hove). “Ngee 3. oats The Magical Siguifteanee of Yesidic Symbolism 109 those of prema and karma.” This false identification bedevil the ‘whole subject ofthe True Will and of che magick which isthe means ofits expression ‘The ereative power has ts terrseie) chakra, of centre nf emis- sion, in the human cerebellam, Whee the power descends, or is brought down intentionally ito the centre atthe base ofthe spine, ie undergoes sexualistion and is thereby teansformed into cep ductive enersy. The mystic endosvours to avoid this pencess because he is concerned with eveepising the centre atthe erown ofthe lea, ‘he locus ot teu beng (realty royelry). The magician, onthe othee hand, satent on reproducing in oncrste form his magical univese, This proses is not Mentical with, although i is analogous 70, that ofthe reproduction ofthe humaa image, Between the spheres ofthe mystic and the non-initiae exists che entire range of phenossena ‘comprehencled by the ten magical’ fo they areessenialy illusory. The True Will ss rooted im the Impersonal which transcends the fantasies of magick, Nevertheless, we speak loosely of ‘ereatve cents’ meaning thereby repredocton, not ofthe human but of the magical child, whichis a mencaly as the former ie 2 physical, produce. Yer they both exist within the sphere of illusion, and it bch cases the creative ene:ay has been aivated by oveusnder wil, ‘The foregoing notwithstanding, there is a very special magical operation whic; manifests a child of an altogether diferent order of existence. This is the child, “crowned and conquering”, cele- bated in AL. Icis dhe Magical Child par excollece, the image of Light"* barn not of the union of opposites and complementary polastes, but of die nagoion of both. The designation ‘crowed’ indicates the rue royale, the realty that nterpenetztes che hua, lle-wave only at he highest centre (crown). This trenscendentel shaken atthe Kether Sphere is he ea of Enghteument in Man, the Seat co which Isis has given he na *S Prana a caipnttn raraccaing ie praal, Kat pit atom sated ojete Te nai cones, Appeal Evora’ lores ond Le, Coassousness. The Lar boen a the Nas. ? Ses leter Cry he Hida Grd 10110 OUTER GATEWAYS ‘When the magician exclaims: "Do what thou wile shall be che whole ofthe Law", he is exhorting Set iwtase sacred sign isthe Tau), synonymous with the “thigh” (Seac) of Isis, vo shed its Light upon him, Qahalstcally, hath ThV (Tau) and ATHEL (Thow) = 406, As previovsly explained, the ference hetwcen the Tree Will and io illusory and cemporary counterparc is somewhat analogous tb that Rerwzen prema and yma, or Puce (ue. objecless} love, ad desire (possessive love), Prana is frequently rendered as “divine love®, Kamas lust", or sexual love. Prom isdesrelessin the ease that it has no desire to possess for there ace foe Proma, no objects. ‘Kama desires possession, and this desir is hased pon an exeoneoss belie inthe cealicy of objeos, and of a subjece who desires them, Prema isthe basis of mysticism, Karna of mapie. As one de possess only shar which one imagines one lacks, che magician by his use of kama” admits his inadequacy. The mystic knows no elec, fr hes one withthe roal Current, the Tene ox Coxmic Wil, “Thus ies that mapick is ra sige epon the way to misticsm Love, ax kama is love limited to objaers iti therefore impecies, demands satisfaction, lives to take. Prensa i love without a limi beeing nothing to take, giving ecerally, a che sun shines repardless of any objets Bur the willed citecion of ove, a implied bythe maxim “love the lav, love unde wil” also implies impertestion, focloveis made suhsersient to will. A state of duality is evoked, Pret is nots dlisided. Only if the wills the Will of Se (Do wat 1 wilt is the resting “child” crowned and conquering. Yet, again, the notion of ‘onguering, being « postive and therefore a magical concep, is wch only from the magician’ view-point, o from the view point from the one abiding in duality, The Lesser Magick s iezefore of Kama, acquisitive, inadequate; the Greater Magic is that of “love undet wil”, when chat will has no object, foc the Ipsssimus™ is said u Ihave no wills any direction, and that isa description of the fully 8 Nore thot 46. orl of Mast a denne he eyo the le: Set remris om tis bedi ehet $B en caret, Rematta of him Fora fal explanation ofthe ste Magck KP a, p30, The Magical Significance of Yazidie Symboléem 111 enlightened mystic. This will lone isthe True Will, for itis not exercised by a pector. The magical oc eve Wills stricly imper- toma}, a uiversal manifestation of Thaw or Tam i. Se)" yeu Ahad expend interning ight ino thin equi, Tho To feud & Unofical Comespantence Concern the Neon of Mea rah wae. 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