Liber 777 (revised) - Holy Order of the Golden Dawn Canada

170 Pages·2004·0.85 MB·English

by  Aleister Crowley

777 REVISED
777 first published London and Felling-on-Tyne,
The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1909.
Reprinted with much additional matter,
London: The Neptune Press,
1955
This electronic text issued by Celepha(cid:239)s Press from
somewhere beyond the Tanarian Hills, and
manifested in the waking world in
Leeds, Yorkshire, England
2003 E.V.
Last revised and corrected 05.08.2004

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777 REVISED
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A REPRINT OF 777
WITH MUCH ADDITIONAL MATTER
BY THE LATE
ALEISTER CROWLEY

Celepha(cid:239)s Press
Ulthar - Sarkomand - Inquanok (cid:150) Leeds
2004
LIBER DCCLXXVII. A COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF THE
CORRESPONDENCES OF ALL MAGICAL ELEMENTS, re-
printed with extensive additions, making it the only
standard comprehensive book of reference ever published.
It is to the language of Occultism what Webster or Murray
is to the English language.
(cid:147)Pr(cid:230)monstrance of A∴A∴,(cid:148) Equinox III (1).
CONTENTS

* EDITORIAL PREFACE (to 777 Revised) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
INTRODUCTION (from the first edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
THE TREE OF LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
TABLES OF CORRESPONDENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
TABLE I: The whole scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
TABLE II: The Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
TABLE III: The Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
TABLE IV: The Sephiroth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
TABLE V: The Zodiac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
TABLE VI: The Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
* VARIOUS ARRANGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
NOTES TO TABLES OF CORRESPONDENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
APPENDIX: THE YI KING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
* EXPLANATIONS OF THE ATTRIBUTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
* THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MAGICAL ALPHABET 124
* BRIEF MEANINGS OF THE PRIMES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
* WHAT IS QABALAH? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
* WHAT IS A (cid:147)NUMBER(cid:148) OR (cid:147)SYMBOL(cid:148)? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
EDITORIAL PREFACE*
777 is a qabalistic dictionary of ceremonial magic, oriental
mysticism, comparative religion, and symbology. It is also a
handbook for ceremonial invocation and for checking the validity
of dreams and visions. It is indispendisble to those who wish to
correlate these apparently diverse studies. It was published
privately by Aleister Crowley in 1909, has long been out of print
and is now practically unprocurable.
Crowley, who had a phenomenal memory, wrote it at
Bournemouth in a week without reference books(cid:151)or so he
claimed in an unpublished section of his (cid:147)Confessions.(cid:148)(cid:134) It is
not, however, entirely original. Ninety per cent of the Hebrew,
the four colour scales, and the order and attribution of the Tarot
trumps are as taught in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
with its inner circle of the Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold
(R.R. et A.C.)
This Order is still in existence, though it has changed its name
and is dormant, for it no longer accepts probationers.(cid:135) It was the

* [This preface appeared in the 1955 first edition of 777 Revised and is believed
to be by Gerald Yorke (Frater V.I.) who edited the revised edition. (cid:151) T.S.]
(cid:134) [Published in a slightly abridged form as The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, London, Jonathan Cape, 1969;
reprinted Harmandsworth, Penguin Arkana, 1989. The passage in question
appears at the end of chapter 59 of this edition (p. 533). (cid:151) T.S.]
(cid:135) [Yorke may have been alluding to the Alpha et Omega, which was the name
adopted by that part of the G.D. which remained loyal to Mathers shortly after
the split. It went into dormancy after the G.D. rituals and Knowledge Lectures
were published in 1937-40 by F.I. Regardie, an expelled former member of the
Stella Matutina (the other main group to emerge from the split). At the time of
writing a number of groups claiming to be or claiming derivation from the
Golden Dawn are in existence, some recruiting more or less openly (one has
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EDITORIAL PREFACE vii
fountain head from which Crowley and W.B. Yeats drank in their
twenties. In this school they learned the traditional Western
symbolism which coloured so much of their poetry and their
thought. In it they were taught ceremonial magic, how to skry,
and the technique for exploring the subtler realms of the mind on
the so-called (cid:147)astral plane.(cid:148)
Crowley, however, was not content with the traditional
qabalistic teaching of this Western Heremetic Order with its stress
on magic and demonology. He travelled eastwards, becoming a
fair Arabic scholar and studying the Mahommedan secret
tradition under a qualified teacher in Cairo. Going on to India he
learned the elements of Shaivite Yoga at the feet of Sri
Parananda, who was Solicitor-General of Ceylon before he
became a sadhu. In Southern India he studied Vedanta and Raja
Yoga with (cid:147)the Mahatma Jnana Guru Yogi Sabhapaty Swami.(cid:148)
He was thus qualified to equate the Hindu and Qabalistic systems.
Allan Bennett, his friend and teacher in the Golden Dawn, had
become the Burmese Buddhist bhikkhu Ananda Metteya.
Crowley studied under him both in Ceylon and Burmah, and so
was able to add the Hinayana* Buddhist columns to 777.
Although he walked eastwards into China he never found a
qualified teacher of Taoism or the Yi King. His attributions of the
trigrams to the Tree of Life and his explanation of the hexagrams
in Appendix I to 777 were based on Legge(cid:146)s translation.
Crowley was 32 when he wrote 777. Later as his knowledge
and experience widened he became increasingly dissatisfied with
it. He planned an enlarged edition which would correct a few
errors, incorporate much new material, and bring the whole into
line with The Book of the Law. He worked on this in the nineteen

even gone to the lengths of trademarking the name and emblems of the order).
I will not here comment on such claims. (cid:151) T.S.]
* [More normally known as Therevada. Hinayana ((cid:147)lesser path(cid:148)) is an abusive
epiphet used by followers of the (cid:147)Mahayana(cid:148) school for those who do not
accept their elaborations and admixtures. (cid:151) T.S.]
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twenties, but never completed it. What he did finish is published
here(cid:151)most of it for the first time. The task of editing has been
restricted for the most part to the omission of incomplete notes.
The new material, which is marked with an asterisk in the
Table of Contents, consists of an essay on the magical alphabet, a
short note on Qabalah and a new theory on number. Then the
more important columns in Table I are explained. These
explanations include a few corrections and a number of important
additions to the original Table. Those who wish to work with
these Tables should extract the additions from the text, and add
them to the appropriate lines of the column concerned.* Finally
some new columns and (cid:147)arrangements(cid:148) have been included,
partly from The Book of Thoth, and partly from holograph notes
in Crowley’s own 777. The editor has assumed that Crowley
intended to incorporate these in the new edition. For the few
interested in Gematria the numerical values of the Greek and
Arabic alphabets have been added.(cid:134)
Crowley never completed 777 Revised, but he left enough
material to justify its posthumous publication.
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* [This has already been done in the re-set version of the Tables which follow.
These additions are distinguished by being in double square brackets [[like
this]]. Further, the additional columns from 777 Revised have been integrated
into the main table. See my notes at the end for a more detailed discussion of
this treatment. (cid:151) T.S.]
(cid:134) [In the re-set Tables following, numeration of Coptic has also been added.]
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IMPRIMATUR
V.V.V.V.V. 8(cid:176)=38 Pro Collegio Summo.
D.D.S. 7(cid:176)=48 }
Pro Collegio Interno.
O.M. 7(cid:176)=48
V.N. 5(cid:176)=68 }
P.A. 5(cid:176)=68 Pro Collegio Externo.
P. 4(cid:176)=78