Path: kudonet.com!kudo20!tyagi From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,talk.religion.misc Subject: AStromsvag: Liber Al Solution (II.76) Date: 10 Apr 1997 23:41:23 -0700 Organization: KudoNet On-Line Services Lines: 44 Sender: tyagi@bjt.net Message-ID: Reply-To: arild.stromsvag@ikk.uib.no NNTP-Posting-Host: kudo20.kudonet.com Xref: kudonet.com alt.magick.tyagi:8926 alt.magick:80363 talk.religion.misc:231552 [from thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org: Arild Stromsvag ] At 10:41 06.04.97 +1040, you wrote: >93 > >In a rather scathing review of Kenneth Grant's "Hecate's Fountain",Gerald >Suster mentions the "glaringly obvious" solution to the riddle Of AL II.76 >which was published by Fr. VAL in Chaos International.I haven't seen this >issue,and I may be simple-minded,but the solution doesn't seem "glaringly >obvious" to me.Can anybody shed light on this matter? >93 93/93 John Everall. > 93 VAL is Geral Suster, so to him it's fairly obvious - see point E below. It goes like this: "A) Turn to a copy of the MS of the Book of the Law, 1 p 16, III 47. It is the only page written on a grid, obviously for some purpose. "Then this line drawn is a key..." The line in question runs from C to 7 on the grid. B) Attribute the English Alphabet so that c=7, therefore b=6, d=8, w=1, etc. c) Using this key, change the letters of the Riddle into numbers and add up. D) The result is 419. "418 + 'one to follow thee'. also 419=Teth spelled in full = Serpent = Atu XI = Lust = Beast and Babalon conjoined = Eleven Pointed Star (one thinks of Abrahadabra) = Leo = lion/Serpent = Baphomet. E) The fact that, without thinking of the Book of the law, I took the magical Name VAL (Venio Ad Lucem) in 1974 is probably not especially relevant; nor is the fact that my Sun and Moon are conjoined at 9 degrees in Leo. F) Qabalistic analysis of key words in the Book according to the C=7 key yields fascinating results. G) The mystery has been explained. Big deal - and about time too. Now let's all get on with some work." Said Gerald S. with becoming modesty in Nuit Isis Vol.I no.6 1989. The clue, of course, is point E above, but our man was not the kind of guy to put himself forward. Assuming that the glaringly obvious has not become less so in the years following, this is probably what he's referring to in his review. 93 93/93 arild -- see http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi/nagasiva.html and call: 408/2-666-SLUG!!! ---- (emailed replies may be posted) ---- CC public replies to author ---- * * * Asphalta Cementia Metallica Polymera Coyote La Cucaracha Humana * * *