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

[dench]

But have you personally tested what Crowley wrote?  Is he a 'supreme
mystic' because of his real achievements or because of the attractively
mystical stuff he wrote?

Martin

On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Dan Clore wrote:

> dench wrote:
> >
> > The number 777 was regarded by the ancient Greeks as being the most
> > perfect number, 666 being the most imperfect number.  They used letters as
> > numbers in those days, so people's names could be significant!  The number
> > 666 in the Book of Revelations, by the way, does not refer to the Devil,
> > but to the name of a Roman governor who particularly persecuted Christians
> > during the reign of Nero in the Middle East.  Obviously all those
> > researchers for films like Omen did not do their homework properly!!!
> >
> > Martin
>
> 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
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