kaos

KAOS-BABALON 156 gematria
It is worth pointing out exactly how the 156 correspondence is derived. I originally
changed chaos to kaos in 1987 as a result of channelled information rather than Hebrew
gematria, although it is indeed corroborated by the change of the Hebrew letter Cheth
to Kaph. It is interesting to note the end of Crowley’s skrying of the 3 rd Æthyr in The
Vision and the Voice: “…chaos, that is the four-fold word that is equal to her seven-fold
word”. In Hebrew Chaos rendered as a four-fold word is sw(k. Remembering that
Hebrew is written right to left, k (Kaph) = 20, ( (Ayin) = 70, w (Vau) = 6, s (Samech) =
60. Total 156. The seven-fold word is of course babalon.
The origin of the spelling babalon (as opposed to the Biblical Babylon) is dealt
with in detail further on. In Hebrew babalon is }(l)b)b. This breaks down as follows:
b (Beth) = 2, ) (Aleph) = 1, b = 2, ) = 1, l (Lamed) = 30, ( (Ayin) = 70, } (Nun) = 50.
Total 156 (Nun final, though shown in the Hebrew
type, is not used in the gematria, but rather given
the same value of 50 that it has when appearing in
the middle of a word, when Nun is written n). Note
that w (Vau) is used for “O” in Chaos (as it is in
Crowley’s 333 spelling of Choronzon), but ( (Ayin)
is used for “O” in Babalon, and that Ayin is used
for “A” in Chaos but Aleph is used in Babalon.
Aleister Crowley’s cult of Thelema, or 93
current, emerged from The Book of the Law in 1904,
Chapter I, verse 39 reading: “The word of the Law
is qelhma.” The “93 current” is so-called because
the Greek word “thelema” (qelhma), meaning
“will”, adds up to 93 by Greek gematria, as does
“agape” (agaph), “love”, hence the Thelemic formula “love under will”. In the Thelemic
edifice, 93 is also the gematrical summation of “Aiwaz”, an alternative spelling of
“Aiwass”, the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat who proclaimed himself to be the transmitter
of The Book of the Law. The 156 current, the occult formula of kaos-babalon, emerged
out of Crowley’s skrying of the Enochian Æthyrs in Algeria in 1909, as recorded in The
Vision and the Voice, and prior to this via the operations of John Dee and Edward Kelly.
It is the contention of KAOS that the 93 current and the 156 current are not separate
currents but points in a process. The 93 current is effectively dead now, with Thelemic
orthodoxy clinging to its empty shell, 156 carries forward the reformulated current.
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