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The full name of this Class B document by Aleister Crowley is Liber 777 Vel Prolegoma Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mysticae Viae Explicande, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicum Sanctissimorum Scientiae Summae. Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was a British occultist, mystic, writer, poet, astrologer, sexual revolutionary, drug addict, painter, mountain climber, and social critic. ...
It consists of roughly 200 columns, with each row corresponding to a specific Sephirah or path on the Tree of Life for a total of 35 rows. The columns cover Gematria, Mythical Gods and Goddesses, Colours, Animals, Plants, Spices, Astrology, etc. Sephirah, also Sefirah (Hebrew language סְפִירָה Enumeration); plural Sephiroth or Sefiroth סְפִירוֹת. ...
The Tree-of-Life is a fictional plant (the ancestor of yams, with similar appearance and taste) in Larry Nivens Known Space universe, for which all Hominids have an in-built genetic craving. ...
Gematria (גימטריה) is numerology of the Hebrew language and Hebrew alphabet. ...
The core of the material is a transcription from various initiation rituals and teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The rest came from his extensive study of the different religious and magical systems of the world. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, in Egyptian costume, performs a ritual of Isis (not a Rite of the Golden Dawn). ...
For Further Study - 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie (Editor), York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser: 1977: Fourth Printing
- Or a later edition. Prior Editions of that book were called The Qabalah of Aleister Crowley.
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