3rd chapter.
Three word sentence.
Six and nine both divisible by three.
Binah
Understanding.
The word '
success' only appears in chapter III. And it does so three times.
III:42 - Success is thy proof
III:46 - Success is your proof
III:69 - There is success.
Maybe 3 - 6 - 9 indicates Binah to Tiphareth to Yesod. Unlike the last verse that was short-circuited by the intellect (Hod), this one communicates directly with the subconscious. The Paths inbetween are intersting too. Zain and Samekh - The Lovers and Art, Solve et Coagula, the Great Work. Also Zain (7) + Samekh (60) = 67, BINH - Binah, Understanding.
This enigmatic verse doesn't give the intellect much to chew on. Maybe that's the point. Success just
IS. III:42 seems to warn against an overly intellectual approach. Don't argue, don't try to convert, don't yack on and on to another intellect. Someone is receptive or they aren't. It is no odds.
As closrapexa has pointed out there may be a connection to chapter
69 in
The Book of Lies.
Aleister Crowley said:
This Interchange, the Double Gift of Tongues, the Word of Double Power - ABRAHADABRA! - is the sign of the GREAT WORK, for the GREAT WORK is accomplished in Silence.
Silence, the virtue of Binah.
No wonder Choronzon doesn't like it.
While meditating on this verse I kept thinking there was a connection to the biblical verse, "Let there be light." At first I thought it was due to Crowley's comment about the lack of emphasis on the word '
there'. Then I noticed that III x 69 = 207.
Suggestive words with this value include:
AVR, Light.
AIN SVPh, Limitless.
GDR, walled or fenced. (Suggests Cheth?)
ZR, The Crown of the Ark. (Atop which the cherubim were said to join in sexual embrace. I doubt it was a 69
, but the symbolism of Union is interesting.)