A major formula that is examined in the book which was the subject of my last post can be further expanded upon since much more has accumulated since 1992 when that book was published. The formula is that of 210, or 'N.O.X.' (Nun=50, Ayin=70, Tzaddi=90). The author shows how 210 is a formula of reversion or absorption into the Unmanifest, the reduction of duality to a non-state of neither. 210 however, as Grant notes many times in his Typhonian Trilogies, is the value of the Hebrew word 'ChRB', 'a sword',which is the projective force of manifestation which precipitates the Tree of Life, as well as the value of 'ART', the creative function synonymous with Magick.
True Creativity arises from within the individual by their ability to relate to and reflect upon a certain source material and bring it to a further or hitherto unreached state, and as such is itself a product and function of evolution. As Gareth Hewitson-May states at the outset of Dark Doorway, the visionary image-retaining and relaying faculty of early man was one of the single most important factors in his cultural and intellectual development. The 'primitive' art of the ancients, or so we call it today, was really an elaborate language of emotive symbology which spans levels of thought and being that we today can hardly adequately fathom.
The symbolism of 210 would be then the 'double-edged sword' of manifestation and dissolution, or 'Solve et Coagula', the phrase inscribed on the forearms of Baphomet, the form of the Dual One - but also embodied in the Art card. In chapter 15, titled The Mark of the Beast, he also mentions the importance not just of 000 (as Ayin-70 x 3, a 'manifest' form of the Triple Veil of Nothingness or Ain-Ain Soph-Ain Soph Aur), but the first actualized number of the Grand Scale, 111 - the number of this year 2015 as the 111th year of the Aeon of Horus. 111 is the value of the first ray from Kether, Aleph in Hebrew, as well as the lightning BOLT of NDNZ (Nodens), whose symbol is that of the lightning bolt. I have already went deep into the connection between 111 and the Diamond iconography of Aleph/The Fool and Maat/Adjustment in The Diamond of Perfection, but it should be mentioned that the author's connection of 111 and 210 can be understood as the formula of MANIFESTATION for both come together in 321. Again, this appears to be a formula of reversion or condensation, but the expansion is outward, 1, 20, 300, an upraising of force around each level or cycle of the ring of power (0) (or conversely viewed as the 'Window of Perception' which can expand or contract in scope, the perception of MANIFESTATION, 321 being entirely dependent on the state and acuity of THE MIND, 123. 123 is itself the basic building blocks of manifestation as the Supernal Triad and it is also the value of the Hebrew אהה יהוה אלהים, a name of God implying Kether, Chokmah and Binah [with 3, 4, and 5 letters] translating as 'Oh Lord God!'.)
The Sword (ChRB, 210) and the Lightning BOLT (111) or RAY (Rho-100, Alpha-1, Iota-10 in Greek) are symbolic of the same force of emanation on the Qabalistic Tree of Life, and this is merely the electrical force itself, 'the Fire of Heaven' mythically given to man by Prometheus or the Serpent in the garden which now weaves its way through every aspect of our lives and binds us to MALKUTH (111) evermore (Note the similarity of 111 to prison bars, garden rows, or a two way road, all symbolic of the materialisation of Aleph, 'Air' into Tau, 'Earth', represented by the god of agriculture and hardship, Saturn and the dense metal lead.) 111 is itself THE WHITE LIGHT emanating from Kether which becomes 'sut' (a form of Set), blackened in the descent of the nigredo or darkening stage of the alchemical process in its descent from pure spirit to matter.When this pure cosmic force is contained and Willed into form with the ART or function of INTELLIGENCE, 210 it becomes a power of MANIFESTATION. The author of the book also suggests many times that it is first important however to get a firm understanding of the dynamics and mechanics of the thought-generating faculty and the nature of one's own trains of thought through deep introspection and analysis. This would be akin to breaking beyond the mundane exterior superficiality of Malkuth (the physical world) and traversing the sea of dreams and nightmarish illusions of the emotional center of Yesod to the level of Tiphareth which governs the 'Heart' or Will, one's uniquely personal drive underlying all transitory desires. When this region is accessed and aligned to in the lower centers the Will is more able to operate effectively as obfuscations and obstacles are removed, obsoleted or transcended.
Connecting in a rather unexpected way, I happened to come across a pair of books recently which connect to the wide range of ideas in Dark Doorway, and they are the books by the Theosophist author E.L. Gardner, The Web of the Universe (1936) and Play of Consciousness (1939). Both go into detail about the idea of form arising out of force and particularly the concept of the astral web, or etheric net underlying manifestation and their connections to both modern scientific understanding and the stanzas of Helena Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine (1888). On page 30 of The Web of the Universe, Gardner says that:
"The basic pattern of the Web is the six-armed Cross of the octahedron, infinitely repeated, and appears as a maze of exceedingly fine lines, interlaced in an infinitesimal rectangular texture, ablaze with tiny points of brilliance where the lines cross, filling, 'permeating' all space and serving as the foundational structure for all material - a vision of mystery and wonder."
The octahedron is not only a form of the Diamond discussed extensively in this blog, but also a three-dimensionalized form of the idea of the 'Mark of the Beast' with its four directions, projected from above and through, as if moving through the corridors of the four directions. Also, the description calls to mind Frater Achad's qabalistic reckonings regarding the fractal nature of the Tree of Life as it infinitely expands in 'snowflake' form to create the all-encompassing dodecahedral matrix (See The Anatomy of the Body of God, 1925.) The astral web is not flat but deeply rooted in the micro- and macro- extensions of space-time, 'above and below', 'within and without' and the same idea has been expressed more recently by Rupert Sheldrake under the term 'Morphic' and 'Morphogenetic' Fields, the latter being referring to specifically in the case of biological formations while the former is for more general substances. The same idea in the sonic realm is known as 'Cymatics' and has been discussed in 'The O Gate'. It is the underlying model or skeleton upon which manifestation is built.
The skeleton would be an apt symbol for this wide range of ideas, and it has been mentioned before how the 'Skeleton Woman', Santa Muerte has many connections to the Egyptian goddess of Truth and Justice, Maat as well as the Whore of Babalon or the more ancient Kali. Each of them embody the idea of life and death, space and time, spirit and matter, and yet are relegated to the dark or 'negative' aspect belonging to the left pillar or path. The black skeleton however, as depicted in the Death, XIII card is a form of Osiris, god of the Dead who is resurrected in his son Horus with each sunrise or awakening. It is with the Tetragrammaton formula of Osiris, Isis, Horus, and Maat or Father, Mother, Son, Daughter that the mythical rendition is but an archetype of the marriage of Space, Time, Spirit and Matter in their eternal dance or play.
The double nature of Horus having both an internal and external nature (Horus and Set, or Heru-Ra-Ha as Ra-Hoor-Khuit and Hoor-par-Kraat) are balanced by Maat and the container or 'hold' of the matrix is impressed in the 6, the heart or secret centre of man which flows forth to create the CUBES of the Ruach or 6-fold 'Web' of MANIFESTATION. This formulation of phenomena arising according to an archetypal pattern is the basis of every major theological myth, it is not literal, however when viewed in its different formulations can better show and highlight different ideas of the processes involved. When the 6 is further transmuted into 7 via the alchemical process and crosses the abyss of self in 8 the gestation process of 9 will give way to a new vision of Malkuth in 10, 'I', and a new 'EGG', 11 will be left to birth a new cycle (12, the zodiac/hours) of the soul (13, AChD, the One whose union is in AHBH, 'Love').
13 is the number of the WEB itself, the center point of the wheel of the zodiac clock, the bearer of the serpent of manifestation. 14 is the זהב, 'Gold' of the 1 exalted over the 4 elements, THE AKASHA=GOLD, and the 15th stage is the Eye of the Dragon which is opened to the reflective and yet translucent and diamond-like nature of the True Self. The web of the 4x4 'mark of the beast' is expanded ad infinitum, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256..., etc. This of course, is the formula of A BAPHOMET'S CROSS used by Crowley as Baphomet, head of the O.T.O. (Liber AL.I.4: "Every number is infinite; there is no difference.") A CROSSED RING is the symbol of the Mark of the Beast itself and veils the DIRECTION of the gates or 'Watchtowers' of Space. It is the 4 primary directions that are emphasized in many basic magickal rituals which activate the trans-dimensional spirit principle through time. The directions are markers of the RTU'S, the Sanskrit term for 'appointed', or 'fixed time'. A ritual being a composition of exercises calculated to achieve a specific goal, largely through attuning the mind and focusing its forces. 666 being a number of the Sun, The Circle, The Ritual, The Light, The Soul, The Shadow, etc., it is a number of the central axle of the wheel of the Universe, Mount Meru at the center of Manifestation, the Heart of Tiphareth at the center of the Middle Pillar connecting through the Soul- Man with the Divine. Thus, through this supreme channel which has been called by some 'THE WRYM', is the Kundalini Fire-snake itself, Consciousness, or Electricity in its raw form is seen as the infinite energy placed within Man himself ready to be used, with Wisdom and Will. |
| Note the appearance of the 4 directions, the labyrinthine layout, the hourglass-cone at the center, etc. |
The old term for the ability to understand and communicate with the universe and the spirits of nature around you is 'the Language of the Birds', the ability to divine messages in the natural happenings of everyday life. George Hunt Williamson, a ufologist and researcher who wrote some interesting books in the 50's terms the language used by different races and entities from across the universe a symbolic language called 'Solex Mal', the language of the Sun (See Other Tongues, Other Flesh.) It would seem fitting and not too much of a stretch of the imagination that such a language would be the language of numbers, the most basic of symbols, for even A SOLEX MAL LANGUAGE has the same numerical quality as the Key which unlocks Hebrew, Greek, English, Sanskrit, and even Egyptian hieroglyphs I am coming to find which will be the subject of later posts.
Thus, when it is seen that all these seemingly disparate systems come together and can work together, when understood from a more informed point of view, and that with the great amount of over-lap and natural integration a direct source of power can be tapped straight from the fountain of manifestation. 666 as the FORCE OF THE ZERO and the ZERO POINT OF THE 'O' is the manifest Zero-Point Energy which is channeled via the Funnel Effect Vortex of Daath through the Ruach to the Ego-plane of Malkuth. 210 is the MAGICK CONE itself as it connects the unmanifest potential (0) to the 21st level that is The Universe in the Tarot system, the Air and the Earth, Kether and Malkuth, the Sword itself, THE MAGICK CONE OF POWER, or THE MAGICK CONE OF ☉ (360+1), the power of the Alpha and Omega which forms the Tree of Knowledge of Life and Death.
