The basic tool of August Barrow's 'Anglossic Qabbala' is the Alphanumeric Gematria.
Since this numerization of the Neo-Roman alphabet merely continues the procedure now familiar from Hexadecimal (A = 10 ... F = 15), it proved elusive to qabbalists expecting a traditional gematria.
As Reza has explained in his introductions to the Abjad, these traditional systems (whether Hebrew, Greek, Farsi or Arabic) have distinctive typical features:
(1) They substitute letters for numerical values, overcoding numerals where they exist.
(2) They code for discontinuous numerical values, typically 1-10, then 20, 30 ... chunked in decimally significant magnitudes.
In contrast, Barrow's Gematria is a continuous nonredundant system, supplementing the numerals 0-9 with numerized letters from A (= 10) to Z (= 35), treating the 0-Z alphanumeric sequence as a numeral succession, corresponding to the numerals of a modulus 36 notation.
While there are countless 'reasons' for adopting this convention for the numerical decoding of oecumenic messages, Aleister Crowley's system of Magick provides the best evidence of its supreme qabbalistic virtue in respect to the universe of Anglobal communications.
"Why did Crowley entitle his book of qabbalistic essays '777'?" asks Barrow-Scholar Peter Vysparov.
This question seems to point to the most astounding qabbalistic datum of modern times, the alphanumerically rigorous gematria equation:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law = 777
One remarkable feature of this equation is that neither Crowley not any of his followers explicitly recognized the exact qabbalistic identity of the Thelemic Law (as stated in The Book of the Law, Liber AL vel legis) to the numerical index of modern qabbalism (777 & Other Qabalistic [sic] Writings). This relates intriguingly to the topic of secrecy (of which more elsewhere).
Crowley says of The Book of the Law:
"'AL' is the true name of the Book, for these letters, and their number 31, form the Master Key to its Mysteries."
Crowley bases this equation on the Hebrew gematria, in which the letter Aleph and Lamed have the values '1' and '30' respectively.
'AL' truly earns its status as a key when it is noted that its Anglossic (alphanumeric) value also equals 31:
A (= 10) + L (= 21).
The TX expression of 31 - ((((:)))) - reveals it as the 4th mainline hyprime, the 11th prime (with the hyprime mainline numbers 2, 3, 5, 11, 31, and 127 ... all being of prominent importance within Thelemic Magick, although this system of connections - once again - seems nowhere to be explicitly emphasized. 31 is also a Mersenne number. In a strange Hyprime-mainline reflex it corresponds to alphanumeric 'V'.
127, the 31st prime, TX (((((:))))), = NUMBER = THELEMA = CRYPT.
Qabbalize and sum the names of the Sephirot (as Romanized by Crowley, and including DAATH, 11th Sephirot), total = 1270.
Vysparov even cruelly suggested that Crowley's entire magickal career was a cosmic joke whose sole purpose was the unwitting demonstration of the Barrow gematria.
As for Allala, Current 93, the Crowley Tarot, more on the Sephirot ... later.
Posted by at July 14, 2004 09:29 AMFantastic!
>>> In contrast, Barrow's Gematria is a continuous nonredundant system
IMHO, it’s not the matter of redundancy (in a negative sense) if ABJADs draw their consecutive progression on more overcoded systems and Anglossic Qabalah runs on a smoother sequential system (following its techno-commercial ingenuity). As we discussed both are exceptionally creative to autonomously diagram their ‘own’ geopolytical, chronogenous and strategic functionalities: each system internally associating with its own regional ‘hyperstitional vortices’.
WoTerror and its crypts, vocabularies and diagrams cannot be thoroughly exhumed from (A-)Now if we miss the indubitable fusion of the techno-commercial Anglossic K-abbalah and the sorcerous-occultural ABJAD (in WoTerror). A versatile line is needed to squirm between the two fronts (already contaminated by each other) and engineer machinic indices of these two systems whose job is to undermine (but not erase) all political, moral and technical inclinations which obstruct the pestilential diversities teeming out of WoTerror. On the other hand, in WoTerror, there are certain entities and threads that should be primarily diagramed through ABJADs and their hyperstitional grids since they are firmly bound to the sorcerous-occultural fronts of WoTerror (Islamic Apocalypticism?) and linked to ‘regional / local’ traits and cartographies (it is very hard and sometimes problematic to trust in techno-commercial Anglossic probe-heads when they are tracking such irreducibly foreign entities).
An instructive joke: Jay frequently reminds Col. West that Delta Force simply failed in its anti-Al-Qaeda operations because it never grasped what Al-Qaeda really is: It is not Al-Qaeda. It is Al-Ghaedeh, included a letter unknown to all Indo-European languages (Latin/German/Greek, etc) and is almost impossible to be pronounced correctly (let aside fluency) by Latin speakers; it is the pharyngeal letter ‘Qaf’ (i.e. Ghaaf) oversimplified as ‘Q’ in English.
Jay’s tip of the day: Don't forget to watch Al Jazeera TV.
ABJAD: Jay= 4; Al-Ghaedeh= 211, The letter Ghaaf = 100 (Dust to Dust or your suggested ‘rendered into nothingness’ if to Dust is to Kill)
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ref.
Jay: http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003465.html
Dust to Dust: http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003354.html
WoTerror: http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003348.html
Reza - agree that the difference between Barrow gematria and traditional qabalistic systems opens a positive opportunity for productive 'abysm' - IMHO that's why it would have been very disappointing if the effective qabalization of Anglobal messages turned out to be nothing more than a neo-roman version of Hebrew gematria / Abjad etc.
Barrrow gematria is so disruptive of traditionalist hermetic expectations that it cannot substitute for prior systems, but only 'overcode' - better 'transcode' - them.
Every historical alphabet with named letters, e.g Hebrew, Greek ... 'feeds' an Anglossic qabalization by producing new (and decoded) vocabulary as material (e.g. Theta = 99, a fantastic example).
Roman numbers are also thought- (and more importantly experiment-)provoking in this respect.
PS. Unfortunately not sure if I can get Al-Jazeera - suggestive items from AJ would make great germs for posts here.
Posted by: Nick at July 15, 2004 04:41 AM>>> PS. Unfortunately not sure if I can get Al-Jazeera - suggestive items from AJ would make great germs for posts here.
it was just a training tip for Col. West: Watching AJ helps West to finally learn how to pronounce the letter Ghaaf and the word Al-Ghaedeh. ;)
PS. Nick it would be great if you would initiate some discussions (case studies) on Islamic Apocalypticism / Techno-capitalism Omega (running on the Anglossic Qabalah and the abjad) as you did on the Cold-Me board. just trigger it and i'll join in.
Posted by: Reza at July 15, 2004 09:31 AMReza - agree on the potential interest, but think pacing quite crucial. If too much new stuff flows in too quickly things get lost (when things hit a lull, we can add some stim). Seems to me some of the precursor discussion to the Technocapital/Islam Apocalypse/Qabbala topic is just beginning now - IMHO be best to let it stew for a little while before cranking it up a level
On letter Ghaaf - do you think there is now a full standardized system of Neoroman nominations for Arabic / Farsi letters?
Also, Ghaaf issue reminds me of a bizarre episode when Condi Rice and Powell began talking about "Gutter" rather than "Cararrh" when referring to Qatar - just triggered media snickers at the time, but guess it was exactly the same translational nexus you're pointing to here
PS, Al Jaz. must be a key reference point for Intersection of hyperstition with the contemporary world disorder (what CNN was for Baurdrillard and pomo fuzz-death of the Oddubbian universe back in the 90's)
Posted by: Nick at July 16, 2004 03:18 AM>>> Reza - agree on the potential interest, but think pacing quite crucial. If too much new stuff flows in too quickly things get lost (when things hit a lull, we can add some stim).
lol ... Ok.
>>> do you think there is now a full standardized system of Neoroman nominations for Arabic / Farsi letters?
I don’t think so ... although there might be a standardized system of Neoroman corresponding to Arabic/Farsi letters but the process of nominating is not that easy since following contemporary Arabic / Farsi languages, each letter have deliriously taken so many cultural / religious / political identities which cannot not be found or simulated in Neoroman systems. These identities are peculiar to Near and Middle Eastern cultures / politics / economies, etc.
+ As far as I know I can’t find “a full standardized system of Neoroman nominations for Arabic / Farsi letters” (even if we take the simplest translational aspects)
>>> Also, Ghaaf issue reminds me of a bizarre episode when Condi Rice and Powell began talking about "Gutter" rather than "Cararrh" when referring to Qatar - just triggered media snickers at the time, but guess it was exactly the same translational nexus you're pointing to here
Excellent! (Once again, you probed right into the core) ... yes, it is. Qatar also is another symptom of the Ghaaf (or Qaaf?)-Complex
>>> PS, Al Jaz. must be a key reference point for Intersection of hyperstition with the contemporary world disorder (what CNN was for Baurdrillard and pomo fuzz-death of the Oddubbian universe back in the 90’s
Yes of course ... although your remark here about Al-Jazeera / CNN greatly offends certain divisions of the pomo legion but what I’m going to suggest right now must be over the limit for them: at the other pole of hyperstition in WoTerror and the New Pest (dis-)Order, ‘Fox News’ is also a key and highly recommended. This is of course not for the pomo peace-makers (“Knitters for Peace, Wool is not a petroleum product” [1]) who are afraid of watching Fox News (even as a funny entertainment) or call the entire panorama banal.
Jay’s tip of the day to Col. West (to continue the Polytics of the Zoroastrian cult of Druj- and the Z-Crowd): There is no banality but the banality of one’s vision. When it comes to darkness, one must think strategically (drujih) or according to your suggestions ‘Pestilentially Creative’.
[1] see DUST: http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003348.html
There are only three oecumenic letters that digitally reduce to '6' in the alphanumeric series: F (15 = 6), O (21 = 6), and X (33 = 6) - uh oh.
"FOX is the goddamn Antichrist! Whaddya mean, watch it?"
6 = LETTER WAW (or VAAV) which individually means AND: and ... and ... and ... and ... and ... (the Warp region)
also letter Seen (= 60) and letter Kha (= 600) directly return to 6; their total abjad value at the Warp region of the numogram is 666 ... their ABJAD order: 6 + 15 + 24 = 45 which is another Kaprekar number in the numogram: 45 x 45 = 2025: 20 + 25 = 45
If FOX is the Antichrist, then what is Saudi’s channel 1? Don’t forget that the AntiChrist is Dajjal ;)