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1 777 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 s Press from somewhere beyond the Tanarian Hills, and manifested in the waking world in Leeds, Yorkshire, England 2003 Last Revised and corrected (c) Ordo Templi Orientis JAF Box 7666 New York NY 10116 777 Revised VEL PROLEGOMENA SYMBOLICA AD SYSTEMAM SCEPTICO-MYSTIC VI EXPLICAND , FVNDAMENTVM HIEROGLYPHICVM SANCTISSI- MORVM SCIENTI SVMM \yyj \yhla jwr tja A REPRINT OF 777 WITH MUCH ADDITIONAL MATTER BY THE LATE ALEISTER CROWLEY Celepha s Press Ulthar - Sarkomand - Inquanok Leeds 2004 LIBER DCCLXXVII.

2 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. Pr monstrance of A A , 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.

3 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 ALPHABET124* BRIEF MEANINGS OF THE PRIMES..132* WHAT IS QABALAH? ..133* WHAT IS A NUMBER OR SYMBOL ? .. 134 vi 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.

4 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Crowley, who had a phenomenal memory, wrote it at Bournemouth in a week without reference books or so he claimed in an unpublished section of his Confessions. 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 ( et ) This Order is still in existence, though it has changed its name and is dormant, for it no longer accepts probationers.

5 It was the * [This preface appeared in the 1955 first edition of 777 Revised and is believed to be by Gerald Yorke (Frater ) who edited the Revised edition. ] [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). ] [Yorke may have been alluding to the Alpha et Omega, which was the name adopted by that part of the which remained loyal to Mathers shortly after the split.]

6 It went into dormancy after the rituals and Knowledge Lectures were published in 1937-40 by 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 EDITORIAL PREFACE viifountain head from which Crowley and Yeats drank in their twenties. In this school they learned the traditional Western symbolism which coloured so much of their poetry and their thought.)

7 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 astral plane. 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.

8 In Southern India he studied Vedanta and Raja Yoga with the Mahatma Jnana Guru Yogi Sabhapaty Swami. 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 s translation.

9 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).

10 I will not here comment on such claims. ] * [More normally known as Therevada. Hinayana ( lesser path ) is an abusive epiphet used by followers of the Mahayana school for those who do not accept their elaborations and admixtures. ] 777 Revised viiitwenties, but never completed it. What he did finish is published here 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.