Other comparable formulae

[Anibis]

I thought it would be good to point out that alot of the geometric structures in the work on this site do not actually require the word 'abrahadabra' specifically. Especially as regards the Twinstar, the real necessity is simply the beat pattern 4-3-4. Abra-had-Abra, Abra-kad-abra, both work. So does AHIH AShR AHIH (I am that I am: the name of the burning bush). Any such word can be fit onto the 11-fold triangular grid. All this being said, 418 is special, not the least of the reasons being that we find it in the Twinstar, in the 19 path and 22(2 full circuits) points. SO, all that being said not just any word will do. What about other words and formulae, however, which total to 418 AND follow the 4-3-4 pattern? Here's one:

MANU AChA AMOR

This one has the following funky feature: the two 'lobes' can be spelt out in a fourfold 'magic square':

MANU
AMUN
NUMA
UNAM

AChA

AMOR
MARO
ORAM
ROMA

There is no necessary order to this word. It oculd be Omar AChA Muna, or Mora ACha Namu, or whatever. The beauty of it is that fits the bill on both counts: 4-3-4, and 418, but it ends up having a feature that Abrahadabra does not: namely, that there is no one way to spell it, AND that each lobe or wing can be undergo an infinite fractal expansion.

So there you have it. Any thoughts?

-Ibisis-

[m1thr0s]

That's an extremely important point Ibisis, and one that I seem to forget to mention sometimes, probably because I have no doubts about this in my own mind, but also because it is all too easy to lose track of where others might be at with these ideas who are either completely new to them or else just not as versed in them as I might be.

Abrahadabra is an exemplary word...it is not the only word and in many cases may not even be the best word one can employ in ones own various magickal and/or meditation practices. It is simply a word that complies with a number of very important rules relative to the geometry is simulates. It is also a word that has good tradition behind it, has been around for a very long time and has been employed in the service of balancing and healing human energy fields for untold centuries that we know of. Under no circumstances is it the only word that one should attempt to work with and, in fact, it is perfectly possible to extrapolate from its example and go on to using all manner of alternate words, alternate phrases, alternate visualization keys and even numbers themselves.

As things unfold I will be addressing this in greater depth since there are a number of other methods I especially want and need to bring to the general attention of others, including various Sanskrit words, the Bija Mantras, the Alchemical Word of Perfection and others.

Thank you very much for bringing this to the forefront of people's attention right at the beginning here Ibisis...it speaks to your experience thus far that you would jump to this point so quickly. It's one of the most important things people need to understand coming into this whole methodology. Abrahadabra is not being touted as a word to end all words, or otherwise replace any words or phrases which anyone may happen to have good (or even greater) success with. It is simply an exemplary word which works very well as a rallying point around which to begin the knowledge and conversation of the Body of Light itself and the specialized technology embedded in its framework.

When you really understand this and begin to be comfortable with it, you will be approaching the entire matter correctly. None of this thesis is about shoving a single word down anybody's throat. Abrahadabra is about conscious reality creation, not some blind subservience to obscure and unqualified traditions...

m1thr0s

[Anibis]

I was reading through your grounding excercises, M1thr0s, and found a cool application for the above formula. You use the word AUMN to open the 'First Circle', correct? Well, try this out as a more advanced variation: You do the drawing down of energy from the crown, widdershins, except using AM for the two quadrants descending, and UN for the two ascending quadrants, making AMUN. Then you come to the centre and intone 'Aleph-Chetch-Aleph', pronouncing it 'Ah-Ha', then you go back to the top and complete a diosil circle using the word MORA. When that circle closes, you have two counter-rotational circles one atop the other so you visualise the circles rising upwards, and as they do, they become smaller along the arch of a semi-sphere. Thus each circle eventually becomes a point at the apex (or Nadir) of the dome. Since you are doing this with two circles, the two domes form a sphere with two counter-rotational halves. The top moving widdershins, the bottom, diosil. This is a nice way of opening the 'sphere'.

Keep in mind you don't have to use those two exact words. This is the cool thing about this formula. If you look above you will see that I just picked one varient of each of the two basic words. There are 2 basic words, one "MANU" (or MUNA, or ANUM, or whatever) totals to 97, and the other "OMAR" (ORAM, MARO, ROMA, etc...) totals 311. Use the varient of your choice for the first word, and the varient of your choice for the second. The only important thing is that one of them is the 97 word, and the other is the 311 word. That way, when you 'bond' them with the word 'AChA' (10), you get 97+10+311, which is 418.

Once you have done this there are other things, of course. Take the phrase "AMUN AChA AMOR", Which could loosely reflect 'Love Under Will'. By 'flexing' the energy of AMUN, you can enlarge it exponentially:

AMUN
MANU
UNAM
NUMA

Likewise you could do the same with:

AMOR
MARO
ORAM
ROMA

further in four quadrantsas follows:

12
34

AMUN MANU
MANU AMUN
UNAM NUMA
NUMA UNAM

UNAM NUMA
NUMA UNAM
AMUN MANU
MANU AMUN


These four quadrants can be placed one atop the other as a cube, and the words can be spelt any which way across them. That cube can be multiplied by eight to produce a larger cube and so on. There is no limit to it. One thought which occured to me was that since we are essentially doing this to both 'lobes' of the word "OMAR AChA NUMA" (Or whatever), There is produced a 'double cube', often considered as the ideal form of the Altar. Just a thought.

"AChA" as the bonding word is interesting too. If you as you pronounce it, you visualize it being constructed vertically, the each 'A' is a centre point for one of the two circles on the perimeter. Thus as you 'raise' those two circles to their respective poles, you are esentially pushing the two 'A's away from the center up to the poles, where essentially they merge with the circles.

This leaves the Cheth in the Centre. As some of you Know "Ch" can be spelled in full as "Ch I Th" (8+1+400), giving us 418 in the centre point as well, in such a way that we could imaging the entire operation occuring again at that point, and so on into infinity.

I have known this forumula for a while, but not what exactly to do with it, but the grounding excercise seems very suitable. It is not I think terrible beautiful or succinct phonetically, but as you see, the structures it can generate are quite remarkable. I shall call this the 'Altar' word (I was taught that the Altar itself is a battery, and this would seem appropos to this word, since I see it as having a very fine capacity to build up and store energy).

Lastly, note that the key phonemes in the 'double-lobed' word do break down into: NU, MA, OM, and RA. All of which are sacred sylables. The first two are feminine the second two Masculine.

Any thoughts. I know its difficult and if I can illustrate it I will...
-Ibisis-

[m1thr0s]

Cool stuff. Thanks for bringing this up Ibisis. As a matter of form, and to reach as many people as possible with as little confusion as possible, I will probably adhere fairly closely to essentials in my own presentations. But it is very useful I think that people understand that words in themselves are alchemical amalgamates that can be blended in many kinds of ways. The word AVMN shares many things in common with the 3 Four-Fold Words (of God) contained within the Word of Perfect (AHIHVH), all of which break down into 12 Banners at the level of their letters and 24 Banners at the level of Elements.

How we combine these in different ways and the effect that this constitutes will tend to vary based upon one's knowledge and experience, since these are all ultimately mantra/yantra (sound/light) variants on one or another grand cosmological themes. Since they are inherently perfect in themselves, there is really no way to combine these words that is not also equally as perfect. As a matter of form, we tend to settle on standardized pronunciations that roughly simulate an alpha-to-omega chronology with the more open letters at the beginning and the more closed letters at the end. But it is ultimately possible to take words apart and recombine them in all kinds of different ways, depending upon our specific objectives in the moment.

Very useful example and one I will need to revisit a few times to really get a better idea of what all is going on with this.

m1thr0s

[Anibis]

I went away thinking about all this, and have a couple reflections on this sort of spell design. I hope you don't mind that I air out these thoughts here, since while I know you have your own method of working which you understandably are emphasizing, I find myself burgeoning with various little ditties that really have no better home at the moment than here, where at least they are likely to be seen and discussed by folks who have the background to understand them (I hope they will also be found challenging).

In any account, I was reflecting on the above formula, as well as a few others we have discussed and I have noticed that I often employ a certain technique which I had not really identified before. Of course, we all recognize that Qabalah and Gematria are not the be all and end all magickal system; we would not be here if we thought this, HOWEVER, I have aquired over the years a facility with aspects of it, and in conjunction with geometries external to the system, this skill is very usefull.

The particular technique has to do with designing spells or formulae which carry a sleeper effect. This may be a spell that has one vibration on the outset, but then when engaged in in a certain way becomes something different, or a spell that through some kind of letter manipulation engages itself in an infinite fractal expansion, or a word that can 'ping' another word and set it into motion without actually intoning the other word.

Examples of all three possibilities follow. In the case of the first, I was thinking of the following spell which is pronounced "Om Ha!", and makes an excellent 'go' word, (as m1thr0s has put it). The first Intonation generates the following:

O
H
M

From top to bottom. This totals a not incredibly impressive 115 (70+5+40). The next intonation however is going to transform this word by focusing on the central 'H'. You will notice the technique of 'expanding' on letters; that is spelling them in full as per the Hebrew transformation rules. Once OHM has been intoned there should be a low level 'buzz' like that of gathering energy. As you pronounce 'Ha!', what you are doing is focusing on the central "H", and splitting it by spelling it in full as 'HAH' (5+1+5). This should cause the sensation of a bright flash, like a magnesium burst. The formula now looks like this (ignore the .'s, they are just there to make teh graphis representation work, since spacemarks are automatically formatted out by the bb program):

..O
HAH
..M

The second word does not simply 'add' to the total of the first, but actually changes its elemental constitution. This is, I think a genuine example of a 'chemical reaction' occuring on the semantic level. Note that the sound "OHM", and the sound "OAM" (70+1+40) are still the same sound, but the numbers are different. NOW, 'Om' Adds up to 111, while 'HAH' of course totals 11. So now with minimum effort we have this 'starburst' with 111 running vertically and 11 horizontally. Since the only letter the two words now share is the 'A' at the centre, and that a totals '1', we have a very neat illustration of the 'Aleph Principle' of:

..1
.11
111

That's it, I think for now. I will come back and post the other two examples later.
-ibisis-

[m1thr0s]

It's interesting, I think, in this kind of discussion, to try to figure out where the mind itself weighs into the overall alchemy at play. We tend to assert things in relation to their physical properties...we say the sound variables do such and such or the light moves from here to there. Much of this may be true of matter in itself, while other things are more a matter of mental matrixes and the subtle shiftings that occur in the mind itself as a result of tweaking our various internal mental grids.

You are obviously very keen on numerical relationships. Some of your assertions may have to do with independant sound/light mechanics independant of any particular thought constructs but it also seems to me that others are sort of context-dependant to a certain extent. That doesn't make any of it less real or anything but I think it's a factor we always have to be looking at in general. It might mean for instance that in order for certain things to work, other things have to taken on to begin with or the end result will not be the same as it has no supporting framework to build upon...

Just an aside...looking at where the mind itself enters into things is a fascination I can never avoid personally...

m1thr0s

[Anibis]

Well said M1thr0s. In fact all of the above formulae in order to be properly wielded require first and foremost, the context of the Hermetic Qabalah. I would go as far as to suggest that the spells probably would do nothing if they were just read off the page by someone at random, or perhaps they would work some weird energy without adequate avenues of expression. In these cases I am presenting some fairly 'fine tuned' expressions of an already existing system. In other cases, however, such as the 'Abrahadabra Key', which I pointed out in another article, I have detailed a formula which is independent of linguistic context; it works directly on the numbers. Naturally this sort of thing, like your geometric work has a higher level of priority ontologically than the operations which proceed partially or totally in terms of Hermetic Qabalah. Further, purely mathematical 'meta-operations' can bridge terms in a different way than making a transformation purely within the system. If I take the Letter 'Aleph' equalling '1', and go to derive '111' by spelling it out it full: Aleph(1) Lamed(30) Peh(80), this is a very different (and 'weaker') move than if I derive 111 from 36 by showing that the sum of all numbers from 1-36 is 666, and that if I arrange all 36 of those numbers on a square (http://www.geocities.com/thelemic_resources/images/sun_kamea.gif) where they all add up to the same number vertically, diagnolly, and horizontally, that that number is 111!

Still, once you 'get' this difference, all sorts of moves become available, some within a given magickal construct, some outside of the construct, and some bridging the construct with others. I might wish to go from '1' to '111' via the language, and then dip down to 666 via the math, then move from there to 36, and then 8 (by way of the fact that the sum of 1-8 is 36). Then I might wish to expand 8 into 418 using the fact that the Hebrew letter corresponding to 8 is 'Cheth', which when spelled in full is 418. Generally the more convoluted the move, the less of a 'proof' it is. I find it to be a versitile way of proceeding, but as you say m1thr0s, its important to be aware of context such that one does not 'confuse the planes' so to speak. There is nothing more annoying than a 'proof' that ignores this. It's like a grammatical sentence that says nothing: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"... If you make a transformation of one energy into another you have to KNOW what system is enabling you to do so. It's okay to use a speciallized method, but it's DEFINITELY best to ultimately appeal (ie ground all one's methods in) to the most universal system available. Pure Geometries and Number dynamics are much closer to that universality. Very glad you brought this up M1thr0s.
-Ibisis-
P.S.All this being said I sometimes wonder what awaits us all once we begin to venture outside base-10 mathematics...