It can also be entertaining if one takes the view that this is a formula or equation of the "non-rational", a term I have heard being used in the academic sphere, and which I like. I translate this more in to the "mythic", but really when it is pitted against rational logic it's a matter of "take it or leave it". Annoying or batshit crazy or not, it's a formula on a chalkboard which can have real world consequences as the message delineates its influence.
Lol, I would say
more than a few, but his writings were a deliberate magical operation. I would even share the term "insufferable", especially as he starts to integrate UFO's (as in the shape of the Graal indicates that the original Typhonians were from Ursa Major, or whatever). But he even steps aside from his rambles from time to time and reminds the reader these are
formulae, that you do with it whatever your insight can develop from it - obviously at your own risk.
Not on my radar until now, but this is nothing new in the history of the occult. I had briefly studied some medieval Muslim innovators who played in that sandbox, but my knowledge there is a bit vague, hope to get back there in my ROTA.
I think the real "risk" is that names and numbers, whether alone or combination = destiny. "It must be!"
How much history that we are responsible is shaped by that reasoning?
(a-hem MISS BLAVATSKY!!!!)
As to names having or
creating power, think Pico della Mirandola going down a winding path of "theses" to finally present to his now bored and probably suspicious audience that the most powerful Name of all is to take YHVH and add the letter Shin, so you can get
Jesus.
He didn't win any awards for that despite his "legacy", BTW, and I can only imagine the expression on his face as he watched his buddy Savonarola's bonfires. He was probably thinking, "Good. Fuck all y'all."
IMO it doesn't make the process or technique bullshit - it is what it is, and it
can be very useful. Perhaps we should be concerned with "finding things that aren't there" - but this is...
the occult, right?
Claves