R. Leo Gillis, fellow detroiter, and progenitor of Trigrammaton English Qabalah has given some insight into his research projects as presented on www.trigrammaton.net where some of the most astounding discoverys in contempoary occultism are published. R. Leo Gilles is a scholar, gentleman, and alchemist, and the insights he provides below are illuminating:
> Trigrammaton.net is the most comprehensive study of Liber XXVII on the internet. Can you describe your initial interest in the trigrams of Crowley?
I first read the Holy Books of Thelema in the mid 80’s when the Weiser reprint was published. At the time I didn’t understand the significance of the Trigrams. It wasn’t until ten years later that a couple chance comments led me to reexamine the Trigrams. At the time I was experimenting with a personal qabalah and gematria system, but was running into difficulties using the normal decimal system. Base 10 didn’t seem to satisfy certain mathematical requirements I thought should be met by a valid qabalah.
The epiphany came when I opened the Holy Books to Liber XXVII and immediately saw that since there are three symbols, these could be the digits of Base 3. Applying this idea showed that the 27 trigrams were actually all of the numbers from 0 to 26. This fact made it obvious that they could be used as the basis for a qabalah, and this has been the focus of my work for the past nine years.
Not long after my independent discoveries in Trigrammaton, I learned that the Base 3 nature of the Trigrams had been noticed by others in the early 80’s. This was hardly surprising since the idea is really quite obvious. I’m amazed that mathematicians like Norman Mudd and C.F. Russell did not notice this themselves, as they were looking for the mathematical ‘key of it all.’
My previous years of interest in qabalah stood me in good stead when presented with this new tool. I knew what I expected a qabalah to perform like, and was able to accomplish everything using the Trigrams. The work developed very rapidly as more and more of the system’s potentialities were exposed. It became increasingly obvious that this was indeed the key of it all as mentioned in the Book of the Law.
> How would you describe the trigrams to somebody for the first time?
The trigrams are numbers, pure and simple. But their beauty derives from the actual graphical elements used to represent those numbers. Where using numbers in Base 10 can show you HOW a number pattern can interact, using Base 3 can also show you WHY those interactions occur. This is easily demonstrated using the Cube of Space.
I would also say that the Trigrams represent the integration of the Tao principle with the binary flow of energy symbolized by the Yang and Yin. Each Trigram is a trinity symbolizing one of the main categories of the qabalistic universe.
In this sense, the simplest way to describe the Trigrams is to consider Crowley’s 777, with all the tables of correspondences. The 27 Trigrams should be considered as the very first column, to which all other columns should be aligned. This is what Crowley means when he calls Liber XXVII ‘the ultimate foundation of the highest theoretical qabalah.’ Whereas the Holy Qabalah uses the 32 paths of the Tree of Life as the framework for classification, the Trigrammaton Qabalah uses the 27 Trigrams for this purpose.
But beyond that, each Trigram is the distillation of the power attributed to it by qabalistic correspondence. In this way they act just like Hebrew letters. They are sigils of power that have an ultimately mathematical meaning. And it is this mathematical nature that allows them to be a solid foundation for a theoretical qabalah.
> If someone were to ask you if Kamea could be considered as a sort of astal programming, what would
you say to that?
The creation of the various kamea using the Trigrams and Hexagrams presents some revolutionary
possibilities. The key to this is that so many Kamea can be created which are ‘reversible’. This is unprecedented when using base 10 to create magic squares. By reversible, I mean that if a certain kamea is drawn with Hexagrams, one can turn the entire thing upside down, and the pattern of reversed digits that results is also a magic square. That is pretty remarkable in itself.
So you have this remarkable new property that adds depth to the traditional construction of kamea, combined with the ability to create kamea that are tailor made to specific energies, such as a 12 x 12 kamea of the zodiac signs that uses only the ‘zodiacal’ Trigrams. And the magic squares that result are that much more fertile than the traditional ones.
But in line with that tradition, these kamea can be used for the same purposes. Since the Trigrams and Hexagrams are also attributed to letters, each cell can be considered as a letter or letters, and the names of various entities can be drawn as sigils, connecting the cells associated with those letters. The resulting sigil can then be used in a magickal ritual or meditation.
In the sense that the practitioner deliberately organizes certain energies along the mathematical patterns of the kamea, I think that could be considered as a sort of astral programming. My own work with the kamea has been more along the lines of creating Yantras based on verses from the Holy Books of Thelema.
> Do you think there is a relationship between Crowley’s statement in Liber 777 that "...Venus is the only planetary symbol which includes all ten Sephiroth,"and the Qaballah of the Trigrams? How so?
On the Tree of Life, the 10 spheres represent the basic building blocks of the Universe. The analogue in Trigrammaton is what I call the ‘Elemental’ Trigrams. These are the Trigrams that contain two Tao-lines in them. It is easy to show that all other Trigrams are simply combinations of these six fundamental building blocks.
But there comes a problem when one wants to make a kamea out of combinations of these 6 Trigrams with each other. It can’t be done, AFAIK. The solution is to include the Zero trigram, so that now we have 7 fundamental building blocks, and we can make a 7 x 7 kamea out of the 49 Hexagrams that are the combinations of all 7 Elemental Trigrams with each other.
This 7 x 7 kamea is reversible, and is directly related to the traditional kamea of Venus, since Venus occupies the 7th sphere on the Tree of Life. But where the traditional qabalah uses the Tree as a framework, the Tirgrammaton Qabalah uses the Cube or Octahedron.
On the Cube of space, the six sides are attributed to the 6 Elemental Trigrams, and the 7th point is the center of the Cube, where the Zero trigram resides. And we find that not only do these 6 Elemental Trigrams combine to make all the other Trigrams, but they must also be connected to each other via the Zero Trigram. And thus we have a kind of ‘sevenness’ that is the ultimate backbone of the Trigrams. And insofar as 7 is traditionally related to Venus, then one can say that Venus includes all the faces of the Cube, just as the symbol for Venus includes all the spheres of the Tree.
But it should be noted that the number 7 itself, in the TQ, has the attribution of Gemini, while Venus is
attributed to the 17 Trigram. The shape of the 17 Trigram is like a doorway; a Yang line over two Yin lines. In this sense, it is a glyph of Nuit bending over the world.
> Technical question: have there been any studies between TEQ and Lber CCXXXI?
My 14 x 14 Kamea of Ambergris could be used for the 196 letters of the names of the 22 genii of Liber CCXXXI. From this grid, one could create sigils for the names of Amprodias, etc., in order to use them in evocation. I have not personally been able to devote any time to the systematic exploration of those possibilities, and have no knowledge of anyone else doing so. It would be an interesting experiment to undertake.
> What are some traps to avoid when working with gematria?
One has to avoid placing too much emphasis on it. It is typical of the neophyte to be entranced with the associations of words that have the same value. But if this were the only use of gematria, it would be a poor one. If I want to contemplate how a fish and a mountain are related, I don’t need gematria to tell me that. It doesn’t matter what the names of these things add up to, I can still meditate on their connection. The whole universe is connected, after all.
That being said, when it comes to English gematria, the problems are much worse. There are so many
competing systems and variations, that one simply has to pick one and stick with it, because using gematria is definitely a type of programming. If you expect it to be of value you have to integrate it into your symbol set.
One pitfall in gematria is that its users can turn simple coincidences into some sort of ‘divine plan’. This is unrealistic. Any gematria system is going to create some correspondences between words that are entirely coincidental. One has to look through this to find the correspondences that are truly important. This is just as true with Hebrew as it is with an English gematria.
I’ve often referred to ‘the law of unintended consequences’ when it comes to gematria. Let’s say you want the words Sun and Moon to have specific, symbolic values. Well, the side-effect is that inevitably one arrives at other words whose value are the same, out of pure coincidence. And these may have nothing to do with the symbolism revealed in the wordsSun and Moon.
If you consider just a serial gematria, where the letters are valued from 1 to 26, there are more than a septililion possible gematrias. To select one from among these is to say that I want such and such to be equal to 111, or whatever. The sums of the rest of the words, for the most part, will just be coincidences. They come as part of the package. We simply cannot expect every instance of every word-value to be of significance.
The TQ gematria claims to decode the Book of the Law. But that doesn’t mean that it extends to the meaning of the letters in your name, or the preamble to the constitution, or even any of the other Holy Books of Thelema. It has its own sphere of operation, specific to a certain text, and must be considered in that light.
One must avoid the tendency to universalize from particular experience. A gematria may work wonderfully for you, but that doesn’t make it true for everyone else. This is not a problem with traditional languages, whose letter-values are fixed by tradition. But in the world of various English gematrias, it is a temptation that must be avoided.
> The Babalon graphic on your website closely resembles rune rows. Do you have any runic interests?
Very much so. The letter-shapes used in the Babalon logo have very specific functions. These were part of
my original, personal qabalistic experiments. I was trying to implement the instruction ‘thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.’ The ‘new symbols’ were my rune-like drawings of the English letters. These letters were all drawn using triangular graph paper, so that each letter-form could be counted as a certain number of triangles that needed to be colored in.
In the case of Babalon, the seven letters are drawn so as to require 156 triangles to be colored. Thus I can identify the basic graphical building blocks with the value of the name that I am spelling.
As for the runes and Trigrammaton, I have on my site a diagram that arranges the three aettir on a geometric grid, with accompanying numerical values that identify the 24 runes with 24 of the Trigrams, (all the Trigrams except the axis of (0 – 9 – 18). Thus each rune is given a number that reduces to the digit of the rune’s position in its aett. This system still begs for further exploration by an experienced rune caster.
> For a fun question, if you were to list the zodiac signs according to qualities beneficial to studying qabballah, what would they be, and why?
Cancer for a sense of Roots
Pisces for the influence of Inspiration.
Virgo for the ability to Organize.
Sagittarius for seeing the Big Picture
Libra for Balance in all things.
Without a home, there is no place to study
Without inspiration, we simply regurgitate
Without organization, our thoughts rule us
Without a philosophy, one is a dilettante
Without balance, one is restricted by the Idea.
> In the same spirit as the above question, are there any questions that can't be answered with qaballah?
If there are, I haven’t asked them yet ;)
> What would you like to share about yourself?
I live in Detroit’s only residential geodesic dome, built by my wife and me and a couple friends. When not studying qabalah, I play Chinese Checkers with my 11-year old son, who wins with unnerving regularity.
Besides being the author of the Book of Mutations, I’m also a musician, and my brother and I have recorded spoken-word versions of Libri LXV, VII, and DCCCXIII by Crowley, under the name Seven Ravens. These recordings will be re-released later this year, as time permits.
My continuing development of the Trigrammaton Qabalah is being chronicled on my Livejournal under the name threefold31. All entries are related to the TQ, so the inquisitive mind can go through the archives looking for topics of interest, or else start with the earliest entries and get a step-by-step introduction to the field.
The Book of Mutations has been on the web in one form or another since 1998. One of my goals is to someday team up with a website designer who can help to present this important material in the manner which it deserves. At present my site is rather rudimentary, being mostly essays on the topic with very little graphical content, since I’m not a designer.
> Final comments?
My study of Trigrammaton has been partly a crusade to present and defend the English Qabalah left to us by Aleister Crowley, as well as an attempt to see how much further this qabalah can be taken. While many others have claimed to discover the Key of the Book of the Law, I have attempted to show that this Key was found by Crowley himself, just as the Book prophesied, and that its time to just admit that fact and move on toward implementing the qabalah he left us. It’s already been almost a century since Liber XXVII was written, and it’s about time more people started working with this system.
The use of the base 3 values of the Trigrams as the value of the English letters, (attributed by Crowley to those Trigrams), has resulted in the decoding of Liber AL to a degree of precision unmatched by any other variety of English gematria. And yet, why should this surprise anyone? Crowley was the only one with access to the author of the Book, and it should be expected that the author would hide the Key of one Holy Book in the text of another.
Crowley said in the Equinox that the prophesy of Liber AL verse 2:55 was fulfilled by Liber Trigrammaton. I believe he was right, and I have done all I can to amass the data that prove it.
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