1. Had!  The Manifestation of Nuit.

had = 12 = manifestly / earth
{The manifestation of Nuit is earth; Nuit being the All-sphere.}
manifestation = 1070 = company(f) / manifold / not
{Shows the manifold expansion of the zero-point-sphere concept, as the “company [of heaven]” of verse 2.}

nuit = 770 = ON(f), the Sun-God / winged / perfect / sea
{Suggests Hadit, the winged sun-globe.  cf. I:45, “The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none!”  And it also has “sea”, suggesting Binah.}

3. Every man and every woman is a star.

star = 600 = union / world, universe / the godhead
{Kether (“union”, “godhead”) as the manifest universe – “Kether is in Malkuth,” etc.  Each star is an unique universe.}

4. Every number is infinite; there is no difference.

infinite = 460 = nu / gematria
{The verse states the doctrine of the point-sphere, that all numbers are essentially one with the infinite; but implies nevertheless “every number has its [gematric] value”.}

5. Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men!

{This verse unveils, as it were, the “secret word” of I:20, and the “secret name” of I:22:}24See Crowley’s Commentaries to these verses.

lord of thebes = 806 = BABALON(f)
children of men (f) = 418 = ABRAHADABRA / the not [etc., etc.]

{And:}
children – 1 = 225 = child

thebes = 517 = beast(f) / priest
{See notes to I:15.}

6. Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!

{The “warrior lord” being identified with Hadit, and with reference to II:25, “[Ye are] against the people, O my chosen!”, we have:}
hadit = 322 = against / people
warrior lord = 1193 = my chosen

hadit(f) = 330 = eight
{cf. II:15.}

{The three characteristics of Hadit are concealed in “secret centre”, which is evidently the descending triangle of spirit (the yoni):}
secret centre = 1076 = free; sacred
secret centre (f) = 1080 = threefold / the holy spirit / concealed

{And revealed in “tongue”:}
tongue = 841 = Alpha + Mu + Omega (beginning, middle, end) / one in three [or] three in one / praises

{Whilst “heart” resumes both the ideas of the power of speech (expressed by the tongue), and the inward or silent meditation on the highest (secret centre):}
heart = 413 = voice / the spell
heart(f) = 421 = to meditate

7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat.

aiwass = 1010 = the number of me
{A signature.  Also of course OIVZ = 93 and ΑΙFΑΣΣ = 418.}
minister = 734 = to bring forth
{The function of a minister or servant.  The antonym of “magister”.}

hoor-paar-kraat = 859 = house of ra / thrice-great / an offering
{It is not inconceivable that “paar” (elsewhere written “pa”) could in this instance be “per-Ra”, “the house of Ra”.  Compare this with “khabs” as the “house of Hadit” (II:2).  The epithet “thrice-great” is given to Hermes or Tahuti, the word-bearer; yet Hoor-paar-kraat is the Lord of Silence.  The only possible conclusion as yet is that Aiwass is “bringing forth” the Speech in the Silence (but see the notes to I:49).  The “offering” then refers to The Book of the Law itself.}

8. The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs.

khabs = 239 = coph nia (f) / iron
{The house is the boundary of one’s sphere, in a manner of speaking; and as a star builds up heavier and heavier elements by nuclear fusion, the formation of iron is the first reaction that is endothermic, and thus in a sense it marks the outer limit of the sphere of operation of Hadit, who is the “core of every star” (II:6).  It is conjectured that the core of the sun is iron.  There is a further suggestion linking “the double wand of power” (III:72) with the “rod of iron” (Rev. 2:27, from Psalm 2) – see the notes to III:72.}

khabs(f) = 252 = serpent’s den
{The house of the serpent hadit; cf. II:2.}
khu = 439 = exile, banishment / judges
{Unhelpful except as khabs + 200; suggesting that the Khu is the Khabs illumined by the Sun (Resh = 200 = Atu XIX).}

10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known.

few = 610 = secret(f) / closed, shut up / the sea
{“Shut up” and “the sea” indicate the type of “shutting up” of the Masters of the Temple;25See Sepher Sephiroth number 50: “shut up” and “the sea” are the same words but spelt with Mem final; that “shut up” is distinct from the number 89 version. cf. Liber 418, 7^th Ayre: “For they that sit encamped upon the sea in the city of the Pyramids are indeed shut up.  But they have given their blood, even to the last drop, to fill the cup of BABALON.”  The identity with “secret” is clear.  Note also secret = 608 = star(f).}

12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!

come forth = 609 = star / wanderer / triad / the summit
{This is star (f) + 1, i.e. “under the stars”.  The concept of love is numerically equivalent to addition (or conversely subtraction – see the notes to I:57).  This is further expressed by love = 614 = number.  The identities here with “triad” and “summit” are Kether and the Supernals as “under” the Not-Trinity.}

14.  Above, the gemmèd azure is
         The naked splendour of Nuit;
       She bends in ecstasy to kiss
         The secret ardours of Hadit.
       The wingèd globe,the starry blue,
         Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

{The formula of love being addition, we see that principle applied here, the process being poetically termed “bending in ecstasy”:}
naked splendour = 1054 = unknown
{But:}
naked splendour + 1 = 1055 = prophet & his bride
{i.e., now wedded to Hadit.}

naked splendour (f) + 1 = 1063 = splendour
{Therefore the splendour is in a sense “veiled” more and more in the expansion of the complexity of number.}

secret ardours (f) + 1 = 1492 = paths of the Lord
{i.e., the paths of the serpent NChSh.}

{The formula is contained within the word “kiss”:}
kiss = 440 = the temple / everywhere / a showing forth / great dragon / perfect [etc.]
{i.e., “the naked splendour of Nuit”, where Nuit is identified with the “great dragon” (Draco), and as the “perfect” of I:45.  Furthermore, the great key-number 441 shows how she may be wedded to Hadit: 441 = truth / triumphant, beautiful / courage / consort, wife.}

ankh-af-na-khonsu-T = 967 = to prophesy
{I have added the terminal letter Teth, as used in the Hebrew spelling of ANK-AP-NA-KONSV-T = 418.  To “prophesy” is evidently his function.}

{If possible I would like to slip in:}
prince-priest (f) = 950 = ankh-af-na-khonsu (f)
{Which is enough to make one wince, when it is noted that only two of the three A=8 values have been used in a-a-f-k (those of “af-na”, I suggest).}

15. Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given.  They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.

beast = 504 = sought for / half, middle; midnight [etc.]
{This seems to express the use of the “zero values” (cf. aleister = 658 & 666) as showing half of the equation; that of the midnight silence.  The other half is beast(f) = 517 = thebes / priest.}

scarlet woman = 1424 = the woman of whoredom / holy of holies

16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight.

sun = 660 = fire, flame / child [etc.]
{The sun = the son (cf. III:74), and obviously alive with fire.}

moon = 250 = lamp / outside / he, she, it falls
{Corresponds with Gimel, Atu II, the Moon, as the Lamp of the Abyss; and altogether suggestive of “stooping starlight”.}

winged secret flame (f) = 1402 = priest / satan
{As “beast”.}
secret(f) = 610 = winged
secret flame = 708 = winged
{Clear.}
secret flame (f) = 718
{Suggests the stélé, presumably as showing the winged globe.}

18. Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!

splendrous serpent = 1905 = the twelve single letters [of Hebrew]
{The zodiacal serpent of Liber LXV I:28.}

serpent = 748 = war-engine (Gk.) / image; concealed
{This seems to suggest that the serpent Hadit is the war-engine; but see III:21, where the “war-engine” is furthermore identified with the “image especial”.}

20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him.

key = 834 = three ordeals / to receive (Gk.) / paths
{“Receive” suggests the Hebrew word QBL, whence QBLH, “Qabalah”.  There is furthermore an identification of the [Qabalistic] Paths with the three ordeals.  In the context of this verse, the key of the rituals expresses the passage through the Paths by ordeal.  This key-word is of course ABRAHADABRA, which may be written in a triform manner as ABRA-HAD-ABRA.}

secret word (f) = 1383 = three
{Suggests then the Qabalah of the triform-zero herein described.26And note 3 = Gimel = GML = 73 = Chokmah.  Also there is an evident concordance with key = three ordeals, suggesting again that the rituals induce the ordeals, and that the correct method is the formula of ABRAHADABRA.}

{Note also:}
1383 ÷ 3 = 461 = the fault, sin
{i.e. that which is to be worked through.}
ABRAHADABRA = 418 = the saving grace [etc.]

21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit.

god = 80 = all
{i.e., “with the [All]... I am [the] nothing”.}

adorer = 277 = to deny / to sow; semen
{Seems to imply that to affirm one thing is to affirm its own opposite; which is creative act.}

adorer(f) = 285 = godless / a spell
{This is perfected as a spell if one recognizes the formula.  To adore (i.e., identify with) a god implies one lacks the god.}

god + adorer = 357
{357 + 61 = 418.  Thus this brings in the “I am nothing” in this verse, to equate the adoration of a God with the ritual formula “ABRAHADABRA”.  See the notes to I:46.  For “heaven”, see the next verse.}

{Now with reference to I:46 (the 61 & 8, 80, 418 verse), and knowing that Hadit is eight (as A = 8, and since hadit(f) = eight), we see that “God” (= 80), which in this verse is “no other ... than me and my lord Hadit”, shows that the 80 of “eight, eighty, four hundred and eighteen” represents Nuit + Hadit:

There is the suggestion in III:1 that 418 is the reward for “the winners of the ordeal x”, written in III:22 (Nuit and Hadit); and cf. III:1.}

22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.

secret name = 722 = sword
secret name (f) = 732 = cup
{We see that to name a thing is to affirm a kind of division (the sword, weapon of discrimination or division) between that thing and everything else.  Yet it is also a means to expand one’s understanding of the universe (the cup).  We know of course that this secret name is Babalon (i.e., the Lady of the Cup of Abominations).}

babalon = 170 = concubine / wand / cup
babalon(f) = 196 = the sea of wisdom
{We now see the cup joined with the wand, the method of whoredom.  The sea of wisdom is of course Binah.}

bind nothing = 589 = kiss / first splendour (title of Kether)
{This is to affirm that nothing is conceived as one in the binding of the three forms of nothing.  There is a reference to the formula of the “kiss”, discussed in I:14.  Furthermore, we see that nothing = 516.  Now this is superficially unhelpful, because Nuit’s word is “six and fifty” (= 56 = NV; or as 506 = 8 + 80 + 418).  Yet there is something in there if one cares to look.  Since She says “I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven...” in the previous verse, and we see that the “I” which is “Nothing” equals 10 in English, and is the difference between 506 and 516, there is really no problem for the experienced gematricist!  What’s more, if we add the other “half” of the Jews, AIN=61, we get 577 = heaven!  Also 577 = The Concealed of the Concealed, which is perhaps significant, with reference to the 0=2 Equation (see Berashith, Magick Without Tears, etc.), since not = 430 = Concealed (but see the notes to II:15).
“The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none!”

Also nuit = 770, which is 10 different from the Greek spelling:
nuit = 770 = ON(f), the Sun-God / winged / perfect / sea
νυιτ = 760 = wings / secret, unseen, occult / song

And also “nu”:
νυ = 450 = the ecstasy / the sea / a song at a banquet
nu = 460 = infinite / gematria

The common identities are of the wings [of Hadit], songs [of joy] and the sea [of wisdom].

Also νυιτ – nu = 300, which is 6 × 50 (as also 718 – 418), as in I:24.  The difference in spelling, “it”, is 310 in English, and so we have that 10 again, which is HAD in Hebrew, and Malkuth, “the manifestation of Nuit”.  Furthermore:

310 = Why? / Any one; every one / to bind / ship, vessel
Of course 310 = 31 × 10, or LA, “the Not”, manifest through Malkuth (= 10 = HAD).  This shows that the binding of nothing (by any number one) is as it were to sail on the sea (770/450) of Nu or Nuit.  Also this unites the various spellings of Ra-Hoor-Khu, Ra-Hoor-Khut (+300) and Ra-Hoor-Khuit (+310), as well as Had and Hadit.  Note especially the unique spelling “Ra-Hoor-Khu-it” in I:36.}

23. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!
24. I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty.
25. Divide, add, multiply, and understand.

chief of all = 185 = cloak / master
{i.e., a Secret Chief.}
chief of all (f) = 195 = empty
{Figurative of the grade of Master of the Temple.}

all = 80 = god
all (f) = 88 = Niké, conquest.
{It is a conquest of existence itself.  Also, chief(f) = 31 and all = 80; making 111.  Furthermore, there is a possible (if dubious) use of the formula for adoring Nuit, given in I:21:}
80 + 61 = 141 = womb
88 + 61 = 149 = temple / word / perfection
{i.e. impregnation of the womb, the creation of a Magister Templi.}

34. But she said: the ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the Law is for all.

ordeal = 217 = isa / suffering / strife (of the Lord) / temple
{Clear; but see also I:49.}
ordeal (f) = 225 = action
{Cognate with “passion” or “passivity”, the concept of suffering.  It suggests that one must “play up, play up, and play the game!”}

ritual = 850 = the serpent / my god!
{Suggestive of Hadit; cf. II:8, “I am the worshipper.”}
ritual (f) = 858 = half / initiation / pathetic appeals
{i.e., half revealed; as prayer, distinct from those of the Hermits of Hadit.}

half known = 875 = sword
{Concealing the “work of the wand”, v.37.}
half concealed (f) = 256 = for all
{i.e. “the law”, suggesting the Will, the work of the wand.}

law is for all = 1419 = ra-hoor-khuit (f) / the giving of the law

35. This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law.

book of law = 886 = judgment
{i.e. the law of divine justice.}
book of law (f) = 899 = the not, the nothing
{Suggests the threefold “not”.  Note that AL = 31 = LA, “Not” (and AL also means “not”).}

law = 640 = watcher, guardian
{I can only suggest that “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance”.}
law (f) = 648 = reveal / initiation, celebration; mysteries / the house of truth
{Suggests “The Book of Mysteries”.  The word “initiation” is connected with Enoch (=ChNVK, “consecration”) through the Arabic.27J.M. Rodwell, The Koran, p.121.}

36. My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khu-it.

ra-hoor-khu-it = 1098 = top, summit; crown of the head
{Ra-Hoor-Khuit is really Kether, though concealed in Hoor-paar-Kraat as 000.  This is the sahasrara chakra.  Note the hyphenated “it” in “khu-it”, where it is usually spelled simply “khuit”; and cf. the notes to I:22.}

ra-hoor-khu-it (f) = 1106 = two great lights / the giving of the law
{“Two lights” is perhaps figurative of the two horizons, since Ra-Hoor-Khuit means “Horus of the [dual] Horizons”.}

37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach.

{There are many identities for “mantra(s)” and “spell(s)”, which will be examined quite loosely.  These refer to the passage from the grade of Man of Earth to that of Lover.}

mantra = 510 = orison / drug / feast / asar + isa / will / anyone, everyone / door, threshold / song / Resh: the head (☉)
mantras = 710 = drugs / feasts / willingness, desire / holy spirit / tried by fire
mantras(f) = 726 = unutterable / V.I.T.R.I.O.L. / secret
{Silent mantra.}
{Mantra is the door into devotional work, which may be practiced by anyone who wills to, simply in one’s head, without anyone else knowing about it.  It is a kind of orison in song.  The other identities suggest a novel method of worship.  “Asar + Isa” are the states [of mind] correspondent with the grade of man of earth.  The man of earth ordeal is here represented as the “trial by fire” of I:50.  The “full value” gematria of “mantras” suggests the interior worship, and the method for the passage to the Lover grade, by “visiting the interior of the earth”.}

spell = 364 = ink + paper / Satan / demons / opposition, resistance (cognate with “Satan”) / the hidden light (Kether) / hermaphrodite
{“Spell”, i.e., spelling with ink & paper.  Ritual work is necessary to break down resistance, etc.  Satan is clearly Jesus, God, Devil or Man; being anything which has an identity, therefore “opposing”, in a sense, the universe.  The hidden light is the “light so strenuous that it is not perceived as light.”  “Hermaphrodite” refers to the passage to the grade of Lover, the key to alchemy.}

spells = 564 = second ordeal (f) / mites / Enoch / the breaker of foundations (the sphere of the elements) / the cap-stone / and the Adam was formed into a living Nephesch [etc.]
{Principally, “Enoch” shows the Enochian system, being the “spells” of this Aeon (cf. Liber 418, 6^th Ayre).  This number is the same as that of “mites”, being the portion of “Thelemites” which refers to the Man of Earth grade, and it has the same number as “second ordeal”, showing that the second ordeal (of III:65, distinct from those of I:50), of ritual work, etc., passes the Man of Earth to the grade of Lover (gold, Tiphareth).  This suggests that the first ordeal (of III:64), for the “fool”, passes to Man of Earth.}

obeah = 83 = consecration / mundane work
{Karma yoga.  Pertains to the Man of Earth grade.}

wanga = 667 = the scarlet woman
wanga (f) = 683 = intercourse
{The Lover grade.}

39. The word of the Law is θελημα.

θελημα = 93 = love / will / Aiwass

40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

{Note first but close – thelemites = 93 and the word – but close (f) = 61.}

three grades = 725 = Το Fεπος, “the word”28An older form of “το επος” given in Liber 1264 (see Liddell-Scott).
{Therefore there are “three grades” in “the word”.  Το Fεπος can also mean “the verse” (giving “look but close into the verse”).}

three grades (f) = 739 = way, path
{See the notes to I:20, re: three ordeals = paths.}

thelemite = 721 = star / the heavenly man
thelemites = 921 = insight, perception / the whole / rod; law
{i.e. one needs insight to “look ... close into the word”; where is “the whole law”.}

{Using the same method as in the Old Comment, splitting “Thelemites” into 3 separate words, “the-le-mites”:}

the = 313 = island / secret, unknown
{The Hermit Grade.  The island is that “Oe” of Shivadarshana.}

le = 44 = drops / blood / sand; horror / sorrow / flame / piercing [etc.]
{The Lover Grade, shown as merely on the way to Binah, Sorrow, which requires the giving of every drop of blood – inevitable once the grade of Lover is attained.  Note that Crowley gives θελ = 44 as the Hermit grade (= 31 + 13).  Both attributions are possible.}

mites = 564 = spells / second ordeal(f) / the sphere of the elements / and the Adam was formed into a living Nephesch / Enoch
{This is the Man of Earth Grade, the sphere of the elements (Malkuth), and of the Nephesch or animal man.  Enoch means “to dedicate, train, consecrate”; or perhaps “to initiate” (see the notes to I:35).}

{The word θελημιτης means Thelemite (singular):}29Distinct from Crowley’s plural transliteration “θελημιτες”.
θελημιτης = 610 = few / secret(f)
{i.e., “my servants” (I:10).}

hermit = 473 = the three persons (AThH: HVA: ANI) combined / Golgotha / genesis; origin; birth
{i.e. the three grades attained in one.  Golgotha is symbolic of the Supernals in the Zohar.  The “birth” is that of the Magister Templi – see Liber Tau.}

lover = 714 = dagger / congregation / DIN, justice (Geburah) / fiery furnace
{Dagger, the weapon of the Ruach; the congregation is that of the New Aeon, being exalted by the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.  Justice is Atu VIII, the satisfied woman; thus implying “lover”.  The “fiery furnace” shows clearly that the “passage through fire” (I:50) is now recognised truly in the light of the flame of the athanor.}

man of earth = 599 = heart of man (anagrammatic)
{“Man of Earth” gives nothing valuable in either form; but there is some help from the “concealed unity” here, and in the names of the other two grades:}

man of earth + 1 = 600 = a veil / Samekh
man of earth (f) + 1 = 616 = swords / avenging [or redeeming] angel
{Thus the “concealed unity” unveils the work of that grade, the treading of the path of Samekh through the veil of Paroketh, and unto the Ruach (swords) where is the avenging, or guardian, angel.}

lover + 1 = 715 = exceed / shameless(f) / means and means (f) / secret / to have intercourse (with) / woman / ineffable
{And here again the work of that grade.}

hermit + 1 = 474 = DOTh, knowledge (i.e., the Abyss) / the testimony (within the Ark) / to sacrifice / two
{This is not entirely clear to me, but there is surely a connection with Daath in some sense – the N.O.X.?  There is also perhaps a hint of the 0 = 2 equation – cf. I:58, “nor do I demand aught in sacrifice”, and note that, as well as its usual meaning of “anything”, “aught” used to mean “nothing” at (was it?) Cambridge.}

{“Do what thou wilt” (2711) gives no identities; but the capitalised “Do” gives:}
do = 73 = wisdom (Chokmah) [etc.]
{The root of Will.}

45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none!

perfect(f) = 496 = Sum[1–31], and also the next “perfect” number after 6 and 28 / Malkuth
{A perfect number is one which is equal to the sum of its factors, thus 6 = 1 + 2 + 3, and 496 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 31 + 62 + 124 + 248.  Also being the sum of the numbers 1–31 inclusive (AL), and the number of Malkuth (= HAD), this number is in every way representative of the Not-function as the manifestation of Nuit.  As Sum[1–21] = 231 is the sum of the Atus O-XXI, Sum[1–31] is the sum of the Paths and the Sephiroth.  There is nothing useful for the “other” perfect = 494.}

perfect(f) + perfect(f) = 992 = enjoyment (Gk.) / the joy of the whole earth (Hb.)
{Thus two forms of “joy”, shown in the one Malkuth.}

48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book?

{Now 111 is of course Aleph, “an ox”, and Atu O, by the Book of Thoth, which is “The Fool”.  This comes up again several times in the notes to Chapter III.}

ox = 770 = nuit / ON(f) / perfect [etc.]
{Since the “ox” is “none”, which “none” is both Nuit and Hadit taken separately or together (I:27, 45; II:15), we are reminded (by ox = perfect; cf. I:45) that the one implies the other; and here is the key to the word “ON”, concerning which I am obliged to remain silent.}

book = black ink
{i.e. the comment is to be printed in red, and the verses in black ink (see III:39).}
book(f) = 175 = to be within one
{But this “one” is “none” by the book:}
book – 1 = 174 = book (Gk.)

fool = 186 = love + will (93 × 2) / to speak the truth
{Merely suggestive.}

49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating.

{Asar (Osiris) and Isa (Jesus in Arabic; an anagram of Asi, “Isis”) firstly give us two key numbers:}
asar = 300 = light in extension / the spirit of god / separation / armour, weapon [etc.]
isa = 210 = no god / N.O.X. [etc.]
{This is a little obscure.  The “full values” give:}

asar(f) = 316 = death / to worship / sun (Helios); east
{Clearly Osiris is the God of the Dead; identified with the Dying-and-Reborn Sun by “worship” or adoration, since he is not actually the Sun God Ra.}

isa(f) = 218 = Jesus (abbr. ΙΗΣ)30This is connected with Asi (by Luna and Atu II) in Liber 418, 19^th Ayre.  There is a further possible connection with the Coptic Hice, “Isis”; however I do not have the correct Coptic spelling to hand. / vengeance / equilibrium / Briah / the moon
{There are clear identities with both Isa and Asi (Luna); the “vengeance” identity would seem out of place, but for the “equilibrium”, which suggests that the suffering is paid back in full on some level.  This would be a revelation of the concept of suffering in the “outer”; which is expressed in the “inner” by the following:}

isa(f) – 1 = 217 = ordeal / suffering / strife [of the Lord] / secret / bright, shining / HVVR, “Hoor”
{Now this gives us a “secret” and “shining” name of Hoor;31Note also the “secret name Hoori”, given in the Invocation of Horus, is HVVRI = 227 = star / male [sacred phallus]. together with the concept of suffering and ordeal which is the work of Isa.  Now as asar(f) – 1 is Hadit (see below), and this isa – 1 which is Hoor, is also asi – 1.  If Asi conceals Nuit, as Asar does Hadit, then there is an identification of Hoor with both Isis and Nuit – suggesting that the secret name of Hoor is actually that of his mother, as it were.  Of course the tradition in Egypt was that the royal blood passed through the maternal line.}

asar(f) – 1 = 315 = hadit (Gk.) / dove / strife (Eris)
{Now we have a definite identification of Osiris with Hadit.  Also we have the symbol of Nuit, the dove (see I:57); supportive of the notes to “asi – 1”.  Moreover, it is again “strife”, in a feminine sense.  Asar and Isa are both undergoing the “tribulation of ordeal”.}

hoor = 249 = tomb / fear, terror / us
{This is only useful in that “tomb” suggests concealment; and “fear”, which is “overcome”, as it were, by hoor – 1 = no dread.  Furthermore, “us” suggests Nuit and Hadit (see I:60), concealed in Isis and Osiris; but it is not very helpful.  However, “Ra-Hoor”, which is useful in Hebrew (RA-HVVR = 418), gives:}

ra-hoor (f) = 357 = god + adorer
{i.e., it combines Isa (god) and Asar (adorant).  The God Jesus is really Baphomet, the God of the Christian Templars, who is Mithras, the bull & cat headed God whose myth is identical in every respect with (and pre-dates) that of Jesus.32One may cite the fact of his virgin birth on the 25^th of December, with shepherds bearing gifts to him in a lowly cave, his rites of baptism, his morality and celibacy, his bread (marked with a cross) and wine (blood), his 12 followers, his death and resurrection after three days, and his ascension.  Furthermore the staff, hooked sword, ring and mitre, and the use of such terms as “brother” and “father” for the devotees and their priests all correspond with the Christian tradition.  This is all well known; but the connection with the Persian Sufi tradition… [See footnote below.]}

{“and let Asar be with Isa”:}
asar + isa = 510 = mine, of me / dragon / song / the Goddess Night / RISh, The Head (Atu XIX) [etc.]
{i.e., “they are not, of me” (with the stops as I will).  By “dragon”, we may read both Babalon and the Beast (cf. Liber 111, Cap. “De Natura”; and Liber 418 passim); also “they are one” in the symbol of the Sun, Atu XIX, point and circle.}

asar(f) + isa(f) = 534 = one in eight / none, nothing
{Here we see a direct reference to Hadit (one) and Nuit (8, infinity, ∞), united, which together are “none” (I:66, etc.).}

asar + isa + hoor = 759 = hoor-pa-kraat
asar + isa + ra-hoor = 859 = hoor-paar-kraat = thrice-great
{The threefold nothing, which shows itself as Nuit-Hadit-Ra-Hoor-Khuit, here concealed in Asar-Hoor-Asi.  The initials of these three A-H-A are the same as the initials of the simple triform ABRA-HAD-ABRA (cf. the notes to I:20).  Thus Asar and Isa are indeed “one”.  Taking the cue from II:49, with four of the “A”s in abrahadabra as 8, and one as zero, we get:}

abrahadabra = 244 = to be insensible; in deep sleep, in trance
{cf. I:33.}

51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine & rose, and the emblems of death.  Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on the floor of the palace.  Will he not sink?  Amn.  Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink?  But there are means and means.  Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam!  Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will!  But always unto me.

amn ho = 189 = secret rites; rituals.

54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein.
55. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them.

he = 13 = AChD, “unity”
{Presumably this “he” was Frater Achad, who discovered the “AL-LA” key.  Note the “behold! thou ... shalt not behold”, re: LA, “Not”.}

57. Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God.  All these old letters of my Book are aright; but is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise.

love = 614 = number
{Presumably “love and love” is +1 (dove) and –1 (serpent, Paths).}

law = 690 = the perfect
{Merely suggestive.}

dove = 577 = heaven
{See I:22.  For “serpent”, see I:18.}

{Now there is that letter which Crowley heard as “Tzaddi”:

and which would be enough to shame any Hebraist by its orthography – it looks less like Tzaddi (צ), and more like the compound letter Lam-Alif (LA) in Arabic:

Now that is of course “not” (in Arabic and Hebrew); so it is indeed “not, the Star”, which is Nuit, Atu XVII.  If it doesn’t look exactly like Lam-Alif, that’s because it isn’t, it’s Tzaddi; but it’s so close, and the correspondence so apt, that it must be noted.  However, there is of course the trouble that nobody in Thelema will take one’s word seriously unless one is a prophet.  It should not come as a surprise, then, that there are so many prophets about.  I suppose the only ones who will listen to me will be “the wise”.33This does not mean that I think I am Aleister Crowley!  Furthermore:}

fortress = 980 = strength / six and fifty (Gk.)
{This suggests NV =56, the “refuge” of III:17.}
reveal = 648 = law(f) / the house of truth
{Suggestive.}
wise = 814 = the divine wisdom (Sophia) / the word of power
{Implies Binah receiving the word of Chokmah.}

59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity.

wood = 743 = immortal, divine
{“Trees of eternity”?}

{There is a possible “revealed unity”:}
eternity = 1578
{Infinite time.}
eternity – 1 = 1577 = AIN SVP(f), “limitless”
{Infinite space.}

60. My number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have asecret glory for them that love me.

{We know that NV is 11, as 56 = 5 + 6.  (cf. 506 = 50 + 6, etc.)}

circle = 154 = time; day; fate
circle(f) = 158 = eternal / balances
{Suggests the “eternal circle” of time.  See the various occurences of “circle” in the notes to Chapter II.  The word “circle” is the only one of that phrase giving any good identities, except perhaps:}

red = 107 = the star of david (hexagram) / an egg / nothing
{Thus the circle suggests the Hexagram in its equilibration with the Pentagram.  Therefore we have 5 + 6 = 11, the number of Nuit.}

64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

sunset = 1164 = Nephthys
{Nephthys is perhaps the daughter of sunset, since her realm is the darkness of night.}

65. To me! To me!

{“το μη” (= 418) means “the not”; but it is phonetically “to me”.}

66. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.

at an end (f) = 443 = Virgo (Malkuth) / the House of God (cf. I:57) / the Logos / manifest / sun-bright; pure
{We might infer from the phrasing used that “at an end” equates with “the manifestation of Nuit”.  All the identities are concordant.}

end = 67 = Binah, the Understanding (etc.) / the ship / certainly (“ywis!”)
{Babalon; Beast (as Nemo) implicit.}

24 See Crowley’s Commentaries to these verses.

25 See Sepher Sephiroth number 50: “shut up” and “the sea” are the same words but spelt with Mem final; that “shut up” is distinct from the number 89 version.

26 And note 3 = Gimel = GML = 73 = Chokmah.

27 J.M. Rodwell, The Koran, p.121.

28 An older form of “το επος” given in Liber 1264 (see Liddell-Scott).

29 Distinct from Crowley’s plural transliteration “θελημιτες”.

30 This is connected with Asi (by Luna and Atu II) in Liber 418, 19^th Ayre.  There is a further possible connection with the Coptic Hice, “Isis”; however I do not have the correct Coptic spelling to hand.

31 Note also the “secret name Hoori”, given in the Invocation of Horus, is HVVRI = 227 = star / male [sacred phallus].

32 One may cite the fact of his virgin birth on the 25^th of December, with shepherds bearing gifts to him in a lowly cave, his rites of baptism, his morality and celibacy, his bread (marked with a cross) and wine (blood), his 12 followers, his death and resurrection after three days, and his ascension.  Furthermore the staff, hooked sword, ring and mitre, and the use of such terms as “brother” and “father” for the devotees and their priests all correspond with the Christian tradition.  This is all well known; but the connection with the Persian Sufi tradition and the Baphomet of the Templars is less well known.  “Abufihamet” is the title of a Sufi Master, in this case Jesus (who has always been accepted as a prophet by the “infidels”); and this word is “Bufihimat” in Moorish Spanish (see Idries Shah, The Sufis).  The Templars knew who they were worshipping, and were adamant it was Jesus.  The fact that the witnesses against them said it had either (something like) the head of an ass (bull – i.e. horned), and also on occasion the head of a cat (lion), and that they worshipped in a cave, proves it to be Mithras.  Compare Lévi’s depiction of Baphomet sitting with crossed legs on a globe, with the Barberini cave painting of a man-bull on a globe encircled with crossed lines, and note that the worshippers of Mithras sat cross-legged.  (This is to do with the Zodiac and the precession of the Equinoxes – but see Ulansey’s book.)  Also note that the Fool of the Tarot is evidently Mithras, right down to the peaked cap, the animals, cloak, staff & bag (the universe), etc.  Atus V, IX & XV also bear strong resemblances – all Earthy signs of the Zodiac.  It is certain that the Tarot originated with the Magi, and passed through Sufism with the Moors, and ended up as part of the Western Qabalah movement.

33 This does not mean that I think I am Aleister Crowley!