Footnotes:

^1: Liber AL, I:50.

^2: Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.

^3: Joscelyn Godwin, The Theosophical Enlightenment, SUNY Press, 1994.

^4: Trans, “Fortitude, burn by fire, living by water, of the earth.” Ed. Alex Sumner, The Rituals of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Global Grey Books, 2018. Also, http://www.stichtingargus.nl/vrijmetselarij/s/sria2005_r2.html. (Sources questionable.)

^5: Genesis 1:3, “ויאמר אלהים יהי אור ויהי־אור׃”, translated as, “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” In the Latin Vulgate, this is translated as, “Dixitque Deus : Fiat lux. Et facta est lux.”

^6: Greek Magical Papyri, PGM XIII, (pgs. 190-191), by Hans Dieter Betz. University of Chicago Press, .1996

^7: “ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας ἀμήν.”, and in Hebrew, "כי לך הממלכה והגבורה והתפארת לעולמי עולמים אמן", translated (by Google Translate) to “For to thee be the kingdom and the heroism and the glory of the worlds for ever and ever.”

8: In Hebrew (read top line from right-to-left, then bottom line right-to-left): לך יהוה הגדלה והגבורה והתפארת והנצח וההוד כי־כל”
“בשמים ובארץ לך יהוה הממלכה והמתנשא לכל ׀ לראש׃, translated in the King James Bible as “Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.”

9: See “Codex Washingtonianus,” circa 4th or 5th century.

10: In Hebrew: אנתה כ (אנת ק) מלכא מלך מלכיא די אלה שמיא”
“מלכותא חסנא ותקפא ויקרא יהב־לך׃. Translated in the King James bible as: “Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.”

11: The Ritual and Dogma of High Magic, by Eliphas Levi. Trans. Greer & Mikituk. Pg. 244.

12: “mend me this shoe that I may walk.” June 14th, 2020.

13: Genesis 3:24 - “So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”

14: “House of David” Restored in Moabite Inscription, by André Lemaire, Biblical Archaeology Society, 1994.

15: Initiates of I° OTO would benefit from researching this word.

16: Trans. Heb: “Praise ye the Lord.”

17: See also the last section of the last line of the Gnostic Creed, “...that was, and is, and is to come.” Liber XV, The Equinox 3(1). pg. 252.

18: See Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, 1909.

19: The Talmud, (Megillah 17b:8), states that the prayer was codified by Gamaliel, who died circa 50 C.E.

20: See Katelyn Mesler’s essay, The Latin Encounter with Hebrew Magic, The Routledge History of Medieval Magic, 2019.

21: See The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, Ed. Adele Berlin. Oxford University Press, 2011.

22: In Ben-Yehuda’s Dictionary, מי translates to “who, whoever.” –כ translates to “as, like.” אל (pronounced El), translates to “God, deity; strength, power.”

23: In Latin: “Quis ut Deus?” The response, Jeremiah 10:6 - “מאין כמוך יהוה”, “There is none like You, O Lord.”

24: Liber ABA, ed. Hymenaeus Beta, pg. 690. HB also notes: “These are not the Archangels of Assiah for the four sephiroth concerned (given in Liber 777, col. XCIX,) but the Archangels of the Four Quarters, (col. LIX.)”

25: Luke 1:31-38.

26: Gabriel has the same root as Geburah, גבר. The word גברי translates to “virile” (Google Translate.) Ben-Yehuda’s Dictionary has, “Man-like, manly.”

27: Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, by M. Mach. Brill, 1999.

28: Ben-Yehuda’s Pocket English-Hebrew Dictionary, Pocket Books New York, 1961. רפא is translated as“to heal, cure.”

29: Dictionary of Patron Saints' Names, Thomas W. Sheehan, p. 514, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2001.

30: This brings to mind the line from Liber Resh, “Tahuti standeth in his splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm.”

31: 2 Esdras, 4:10, 4:36, 5:20, 10:28.

32: See The Apocalypse of Peter, and The Life of Adam and Eve.

33: Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid, by George Johnston Allman. Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1889.

34: The History of the Pentagram, by Dustin Jon Scott, 2006.

35: Note that in Liber 777, Column LIII, The Greek Alphabet, φ corresponds to Geburah, the 5th sphere.

36: 15 Uncanny Examples of the Golden Ratio in Nature, by George Dvorsky, 2013.

37: Pythagoras; His Life and Teachings, by Thomas Stanley, ed. Wasserman & Gunther. Ibis Press, 2010. pg. 159.

38: Liber LXV, II:62.

39: Liber ABA, pg. 692.

Images Cited:

Fig. 1: Tetramorph, from a Fresco in Meteora. 16th century.

Fig. 2: Four Archangels, St John's Church, Warminster, Wiltshire. 1888.

Fig. 3: Crotona Pentagram Ring, from Crotona, Italy. Circa 525BCE.

Fig. 4: Seal of Jerusalem, circa 550BCE.

Fig. 5: Pentagram and the Human Body. From Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Libri Tres de Occulta Philosophia. 1533.

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