Transcendental Magic — Éliphas Lévi

p. 208forms are not dest ABRACADABRA Do we not still se* ABRACADABR though now he is a ABEACADAB believe to be effact ABRACADA blotted out, for a i ABRACAD recall them. But a ABRACA we have already sai< ABRAC mits them to our br, ABRA system.

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N& punity, and no one can saf calculable forces. It is * and will ever lead, us | those who would see r the unity of the first principle, we reply to them in active agent. A united to B eminent Englishman • ,he duad by the monad. R is " You are perfectly wiu ',e it represents hieroglyphicfor our own part, it will ^ ults from the union of the less convinced.

To those wn H, which is that of the have scrupulously and boldly fu the unity of the initiate there has been no result, we M, and the number 66, the should stay their hand, as it is pc kabbalistically forms the who will not lend herself for them^ of the triad, and consebut if they persist in their curiosit the circle. We may reafresh. of the Apocalypse, that The triad, being the foundation rposed the number of the 2p. 211beast, that is to say, of idolatry, by adding a 6 to the double senary of ABRAC AD ABEA, which gives 1 8 kabbalistically, the number attributed in the Tarot to the hieroglyphic sign of night and of the profane — the moon, together with the towers, dog, wolf, and crab — a mysterious and obscure number, the kabbalistic key of which is 9, the number of initiation.

On this subject the sacred kabbalist says expressly : " He that hath understanding (that is, the key of kabbalistic numbers), let him count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and the number of him is 666.

It is, in fact, the decade of Pythagoras multiplied by itself and added to the sum of the triangular Pantacle of Abracadabra ; it is thus the sum of all magic of the ancient world, the entire programme of human genius which the divine genius of the Gospel sought to absorb or transplant.

These hieroglyphical combinations of letters and numbers belong to the practical part of the kabbalah, which, from this point of view, is divided into Gematriah and Temurah. Such calculations, which now seem to us arbitrary or devoid of interest, then belonged to the philosophical symbolism of the East, and were of the highest importance in the teaching of holy things emanating from the occult sciences.

The absolute kabbalistic alphabet, which connected primitive ideas with allegories, allegories with letters, and letters with numbers, was then called the keys of Solomon.

We have already stated that these keys, preserved to our own day, but wholly misconstrued, are nothing else than the game of Tarot, the antique allegories of which were remarked and appreciated for the first time in the modern world by the learned archaeologist, Court de Gebelin. The double triangle of Solomon is explained by St John in a remarkable manner.

He says, " There are three which give testimony in heaven — the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit ; and there are three which give testimony on earth — the spirit, the water, and the blood. Thus, St John agrees with the masters of Hermetic philosophy, who attri-