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Well - ultimately the Word is ineffable in the silence of our souls.
But Crowley definitely thought he was onto something. He certainly cracked the Zohar. The question really is - was Ben Moses de Leon for real? Is the Zohar a forgery or does it contain something hidden from the 1st Century that records the Lost name of the God of the Temple of Solomon? Well - there is some circumstantial evidence... the Christian ceiling design in the Catacombs of Priscilla give a design that is extremely close to the 7 sephirothed Temple. And also, Abracadabra was in circulation at that time.
We *may* *perhaps* *don't get your hopes up* also find the Name in the Tel Dan Stele from recent archaeological excavations in Ain Dara.
If you reread Crowley's Confessions then you'll find he gave the 'Jesus saves' thing an example of his deductive processes rather than claiming that word was THE Word. He was also illustrating how words are changed over time.
He believed Abrahadabra to be a cypher of the lost word. It has all the same letters but of different frequencies to the word he found in 1900, and the reason why he thought it was the word, was because it fit on a seven sephiroth arrangement of the heavenly Temple.
If you read the Zohar's midrash on Genesis then we find that God created the world in 7 days and on the 6th day he created Adam on the site of the Temple. After the story of the creation which is also illustrated by the design of the 7 sephirothed 'Temple' then Genesis launches into the story of the fall and the Tree of Life & Good and Evil. It's from the fall that we get the 10 sephiroth arrangement of the Tree of Life.
But the Tree of life has 32 paths and only 22 letters. The holy name does not appear on the sephiroth. We have to work a bit to correct that. If we read the Zohar there are instructions to 'institute the union of the holy name', to 'bind the links of truth' (paths), and to 'derive the supernals {plural} into the position {singular} required'. So the first thing the Kabbalist does in deriving the Temple from the Tree is combine Kether, Binah, and Chokmah into one head sephiroth and place the first letter of creation upon it - Bet
We can see how Crowley developed his 0=2 formula from that.
In the Zohar God calls to Aleph saying "Aleph, Aleph" - and says that he will not express himself except through her. There is also the old rabbanic saying that "Aleph is never less than Bet." Or 2. So we take the Aleph and assign it to either side of the Bet.
Resh stays at the center. The double D is informed by the biblical descriptions of the double and sequential doors in the tower like portico at the entrance to the Temple on Earth. And lastly the H from the Ha is given to the bottom sephiroth which is a combination of Yesod and Malkuth. The paths Tzaddi, Qoph, Shin and Tau and placed on the right hand path between the D and H, for reasons explained in the Zohar midrash on Genesis.
Well... I could go on (and on) explaining how to derive the Temple from the Tree and what Crowley did with it, but it's more the subject for a book than a simple post here. The real proof of the pudding would be a 10th C. BCE inscription that contains the words BRAHDD - 'He created Hadad'. (aka. Adad, Ba'al, and even Be'elzebub). That would be proof that the word enciphered in the Zohar and the 7 sephirothed arrangement of the Temple was the Lost Word.
I agree. But as attention seeking and flawed as he was, he was still a damn good cryptographer and that's all I'm interested in now. My apologies for the length of this post, but it's a subject I am quite keen on. It's become something of a hobby horse.
I never heard that Crowley/Hippy thing before.