BOC: 777 was: Re: BOC, tBS: (Imaginos) Overture, sevens...

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> The name Jesus, in Greek, adds up to 888.  The fact is, the number 777
> also has a very significant meaning in occultism.  Aleister Crowley (The
> Great Beast in Greek = 666) compiled a dictionary of numbers and their
> meanings (mostly Hebrew, a little Greek) and titled it _777_.  Why?  Two
> phrases add up to 777; this is supposed to prove that they mean or refer
> to the same thing.  They are: "The Spirit of the Elohim of Lives" and
> "The World of Shells".  The first is a name for God; the second refers
> to the Qlippoth, the shells or excrements of which this (illusory) world
> is composed.  In other words, it's a joke that God is shit, *and* (this
> is how Crowley thought) a supreme mystic truth.
> --
> Dan Clore

I never knew Scrabble scoring was *that* significant :-)


Tim