O I did this recently with almost every single Name in the pentacles of the Greater Key. A whole lot of these are garbled and appear to be retranscribed from English into Hebrew and thereby the meaning (and numerology) was lost.
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.
Claves
A good reminder there at the end: blame the abuser, not the technique. I freely allow I am at times struck by suggestive numbers that crop up unlooked for or after a little analysis. If the correspondences' calculations take me half a sheet of paper and three tries, I tend to be a little chary. And if I have to make things work by "add one for the One God," or "add 11 for Joseph's brothers, minus Joseph himself," I decide it's time to take a break.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
In magick, at least some folks have a moniker they don't give up lightly. There's birth certificate name, magick name for one's group, and one that's used in private workings with protections in place.
Crowley changing IAO to FIAOF and insisting it's pronounced the same
Was it him, Crowley, the horse's aerse who perpetrated the "ghoti" spells "fish" joke? Gh as in "laugh," "o" as in "women," and "ti" as in "action."
So...magick even if I forget names and nomenclature? Hey, I got it! Joe Biden is Atazoth, the Mad-Piping Monarch of the cosmos!
If that's how you can create the image you need for your working, it'll work. The whole point is that the name just makes it easy to form the image of the intended subject of your working. As long as you have a clear image in your mind, things like names and labels and titles are less relevant, and in some strange edge cases they can even be a detriment at times if the name of said target is in the public consciousness.
Denotatum: the Esoteric Problem With Names is one of the chapters in my cut 'n paste personal Quran. It covers a lot of essential points in a few pages. Roughly, we are all agreed.
Be without desire, in-order to to examine the subtle. Have a constant aim to examine the boundary.
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