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28 cies of Mankind. A Mankind who will look back on these centuries as the truly dark ages of instinctual man: when men killed each other for illusory gain based upon the idea that it is possible to gain anything in a world in which we have no permanent home. It is as impossible to imagine Thelemic man as it would be impossible for an ape to imagine he could be us.” (“Thelemic” being from the Greek word for Will, thelema—that is, a humanity governed by Pure Will rather than idle whim.) So the matter, indeed, could not rest In 1974 a cipher solution consistent with all the clues in The Book of the Law was discovered. The solution produced immediate, es Seen. ae specific results. “A key has been left by Crowley, under the direction of Aiwass,” wrote Carol Smith in 1980, “in order that “Thou shalt obtain the Order and Value of the English Al- phabet’ (Ch.1 V.55) The instruction is in Ch.1II V.47 “This shall be translated into all tongues but always with the originals in the writing of the beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another; in these are mysteries no beast shall divine.”’ Aleister Crowley, in sardonic commentary on his fundamentalist Plym- outh Brethren upbringing, called himself “the Great Beast.” In Crowley's original Liber AL, Sheet 16 of Chapter III is a page containing the bal- ance of verse 47 written over a grid made with simple lines. An unexplained diagonal line crosses the page, and a circle with an X in it appears near the end of this line. Published v versions of the text that do not reproduce the original omit this peculiarity, oe --1f --. a which the text itself cautions against. Carol A. Smith continues: ‘There are letters along the top of the page, and it would seem to be obvious to continue with the alphabet in the manner indicated, but the clue is in the numbers down the side. A is written instead of 1 which suggests that B is 2, C 3 and so on. Fill in all the squares on the grid in this manner, repeating the alphabet when one gets to Z. To proceed to the next step the instruction is written on the page, for those who have eyes to see. “Then this line drawn is a key.’ The line drawn is a diagonal line across the page. If one reads any diagonal across the square one gets the order of the English alphabet to be used in the English Qaballa. Whichever diagonal is read the order of the letters is obtained. There is only one order which can be obtained and all 26 letters appear in this order. Crowley writes, “Then this line drawn is a key...and Abrahadabra.” “Abrahadabra” is an 11-fold word, and counting down 11 spaces and numbering the letters thus obtained in sequence gives one the “Value of the English Alphabet.” Thus we have both order and value, as mandated in Liber AL “The line drawn and the rose cross symbol bear a striking resemblance to the area where the key is revealed, “ notes Smith. But one cannot appreciate this without ~he original handwritten text at hand. As I have discovered the “rose cross” (which looks like a circle with a simple cross superimposed, or a gun site, or register mark) may contain other secrets. By following the line drawn down from the top of the page to its end at the “rose cross” one can find a method for obtaining both order and value in a single operation, after moving the block of four letters suggested by the “rose cross” to the page top at the upper end of the diagonal line. Order and value then no longer Allen H. Greenfield