BABALON: This variant spelling of Babylon is first found in the Enochian works of John Dee and Edward Kelly.

The qaballistic value of Babalon spelled in Hebrew is 156, the number of squares in each of the four elemental tablets given to Dee and Kelly by the Enochian Angels.

If you use inverted cards in a Tarot spread, there are 156 card meanings.

Aleister Crowley (considered by some to be the reincarnation of Kelly), continued to explore the Enochian magickal system. Liber 418, "The Vision and the Voice", details his skrying of the Enochian Aethyrs.

Babalon and Babylon are both seven lettered words and their values in Hebrew can both be written with seven sevens:

In "An Essay Upon Numbers", Crowley has this to say about Babalon and the number 156:

"BABALON. This most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in Liber 418. Notice 12x13=156. This is not one of the a priori helpful numbers. It is rather a case of Qabalah illuminating St John's intentional obscurity."

And in "Magick in Theory and Practice" he has this to say:

"Thus, in low grades of initiation, dogmatic quarrels are inflamed by astral experience; as when Saint John distinguishes between the Whore Babalon and the Woman clothed with the Sun, between the Lamb that was slain and the Beast 666 whose deadly wound was healed; nor understands that Satan, the Old Serpent, in the Abyss, the Lake of Fire and Sulphur, is the Sun-Father, the vibration of Life, Lord of Infinite Space that flames with His Consuming Energy, and is also that throned Light whose Spirit is suffused through out the City of Jewels."

Woman clothed in the Sun = Babalon + Resh (spelled in full) = 156 + 510 = 666

Scarlet Woman = ShNI AShE = 360 + 306 = 666

666 and English Qabalah

A proof of the Thelemic nature of English Qabalah can be found in Roman Numerals. The key is a recursive formula analyzing the English Qabalah values of the letters forming a roman numeral.

First turn a number into a roman numeral. Then total the English Qabalah values of the letters forming the roman numeral.

The total is used as the starting number for the second pass thru the formula. Continue the process until a loop is formed by the second number repeating an earlier first number.

Any number you start with will fall into one of three closed loops:

69 = LXIX = 69.
58 = LVIII = 81 = LXXXI = 91 = XCI = 58.
68 = LXVIII = 103 = CIII = 82 = LXXXII = 114 = CXIV = 68.

The sum of the roman numerals forming any of the three closed loops is equal to the total English Qabalah value of the letters forming the loops roman numerals.

LXIX = 69
LVII + LXXXI + XCI = 230
LXVIII + CIII + LXXXII + CXIV = 367

The sum of the eight roman numerals forming the three closed loops is equal to the total value of their letters in English Qabalah.

LXIX + LVIII + LXXXI + XCI + LXVIII + CIII + LXXXII + CXIV = 666

The I-ching and 418

The 64 hexagrams of the I Ching are based on the interplay of yin and yang, expressed as broken and solid lines, derived from even and odd numbers.

In light of English Qabalah this is striking as:

Yin + Yang = 93 (eq)
Even + Odd = 93 (eq)

The progression of the formation of the 64 hexagrams is:

Yin and Yang = 2
The Four Images = 4
The Eight Trigrams = 8
The Sixty-four Hexagrams = 64

For a total of 78 symbols, the number of cards in a Tarot deck.

The number of lines used to form these 78 items are:

Yin and Yang = 2
The Four Images = 8
The Eight Trigrams = 24
The Sixty-four Hexagrams = 384

For a total of 418, a key Thelemic number.

204 and the Sun and Venus

Using the Hebrew Yetzeratic attributes for 204 we get:
200 = the Sun and 4 = Venus.

Could there be a better glyph of the Sun/Venus working?

Reading chapter 54 of the "Book of Lies" one finds the Freemasons "rediscovering" that the word is 111. But Crowley says that here lies their error; that the Word of the Law is Thelema (93).

"They have the half, Unite by thine art so that all disappear."

93 + 111 = 204

So not only is it the "Dual Word," but also a blueprint for the Sun/Venus work.

In this light Abra = 204 as the beginning of the "Word of the Aeon", Abrahadabra, points to a powerful ritual for the New English Cabalah Magician.

The first Abra points to an initiate that has successfully worked the Sun/Venus ritual. Working With another Magician also having the 204 initiation, they come together to do the "Had" working. H in Hebrew has the Thoth Card "The Emperor" assigned to it. The final D has the "The Empress" card assigned to it. The H and the D are fruit "the Emperor and the Empress of the couple's previous successful Sun/Venus working. The H and the D come together to form the A or Fool as a bud will. This spiritual "child" incarnate in the couple working the rite, becomes a manifestation of Ra Hoor Kuit, that will inform and protect those who have worked this rite.

-The Magus Love