Because we take everything literally.
This project began as an investigation into the relationship of the "rpstoval" sequence, Liber AL and the Class "A" literature.
If the sequence encodes anything, it should be evident from the internal textual evidence of Liber AL and the Class "A" literature.
Note: the holograph Liber 31, being a handwritten document, is not included in this textual analysis, rather Liber 220 as key entered text of that document has been used.
Setting aside order for a moment, the obvious attribution of values for a 26 character alphabet would be the integers 1 through 26 inclusive. While there are other magnitudinal valuings, these are not considered here.
Using these 26 integers, the first thing to notice is their sum:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15
+ 16 + 17 + 18 + 19 + 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + 24 + 25 + 26 =
Incidentally, this total is not prime, presenting eight factors:
[1, 3, 9, 13, 27, 39, 117, 351]
Using the value of 0 for a character would make different strings of characters indistinguishable gematriacally. e.g.: if a = 0, b = 1, c = 3, etc., then the value of the sequence "abc" would equal the sequence "bc", "this" would not be the same as "ths", but "that" would be the same as "tht" and the "a"s would contribute no value to the string whatsoever. This is generally considered a Bad Thing.
Instead, punctuation and spaces with which we are not concerned, and so are not part of the gematria, when parsed, will yield a value 0. This is generally considered a Good Thing.
There are 25 basic, regular gematrias possible, or rather, there are an infinite number, but they repeat the first 25 ad infinitum.
By regular is meant that they are generated from the list of letters in alphabetical order by a rule denoted by G(i) where i is the offset between successive elements. An offset of 1 is the familiar "abc...", 2 yields "ace..." (every other letter) etc.
These gematria are related by a single generating rule differentiated only by an offset. This generalization allows a class of behaviors for such gematrias to be considered irrespective of the particular gematria chosen.
There are other modified or derived gematrias, such as Cipher-X, a transformation of one of these regular gematrias. These, and randomly generated or "shuffled" orderings are not considered here.
The gematrias under consideration will be basic, meaning that each will begin with 'a', which will have a value of 1. This provides a standardized (and somewhat traditional) starting point from which to count offsets. One may choose to use a different starting character or value, but these gematrias will be derivative of the basic, regular gematrias.
These are the gematrias G(i) for i of 1 through 25:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
(1, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")
(2, "acegikmoqsuwybdfhjlnprtvxz")
(3, "adgjmpsvybehknqtwzcfilorux")
(4, "aeimquycgkoswbfjnrvzdhlptx")
(5, "afkpuzejotydinsxchmrwbglqv")
(6, "agmsyekqwcioubhntzflrxdjpv")
(7, "ahovcjqxelszgnubipwdkryfmt")
(8, "aiqygowemucksbjrzhpxfnvdlt")
(9, "ajsbktcludmvenwfoxgpyhqzir")
(10, "akueoyiscmwgqblvfpzjtdnxhr")
(11, "alwhsdozkvgrcnyjufqbmxitep")
(12, "amykwiugseqcobnzlxjvhtfrdp")
(13, "anbocpdqerfsgthuivjwkxlymz")
(14, "aocqesguiwkymbpdrfthvjxlzn")
(15, "apetixmbqfujyncrgvkzodshwl")
(16, "aqgwmcsiyoeukbrhxndtjzpfvl")
(17, "arizqhypgxofwnevmdulctkbsj")
(18, "askcumewogyqibtldvnfxphzrj")
(19, "atmfyrkdwpibungzslexqjcvoh")
(20, "auoicwqkeysmgbvpjdxrlfztnh")
(21, "avqlgbwrmhcxsnidytojezupkf")
(22, "awsokgcyuqmiebxtplhdzvrnjf")
(23, "axurolifczwtqnkhebyvspmjgd")
(24, "aywusqomkigecbzxvtrpnljhfd")
(25, "azyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcb")
(26, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")
An offset of 26 yields the same as an offset of 1.
These can further be distinguished between even and odd gematrias. An odd offset will produce a single continuous sequence, whereas an even offset will produce multiple interleaved sequences, usually two. (In the even case: When one would otherwise be repeating a letter (a cycle) before all letters have been used, move right (wrapping) to the next unused letter, followed by the next with the given offset from that letter, etc.)
These sequences are then paired to a list of values. In the regular cases, the character 'a' is assigned a value of 1, and the next letter in the sequence is assigned 2, etc. This is equivalent to assigning 1 to a, counting [offset] and assigning 2 to that letter, etc.
In any of these 25 gematrias, the total value of characters is the total of the integers 1 through 26, or .
Using just the integers 1 to 26 and all possible orderings of twenty six letters, there are 26! [twenty six factorial, or 403291461126605635584000000] possible gematrias. Many of these are quite arbitrary, more or less a random shuffling of letters. While exhausting these many gematriatic possibilities is an exercise left to the reader, this work focuses only on the 25 basic, regular gematrias.
In addition to these English gematrias, we will use the standard Greek [G(g)] and Hebrew [G(h)] numerations for the few instances where these letters occur in the analysis.
Hebrew autiot including final forms (right-to-left):
and Greek with some archaic forms (left-to-right):
Such gematrias are independent of the various "English Alphabet" gematrias, as the alphabets used are disjunct. These gematrias can be used in a combined fashion for purposes, but will produce an ambiguous (one to many) situation in the direction. For example: while , , and each will unambiguously yield the value ; the value will yield the ambiguous set . While the Greek alphabet occurs once in Liber 220 (θελημα [=93]), the Hebrew alphabet (autiot) is also found in a larger Class "A" context. Usually, in this context, this is not a problem in that the instances of the Greek or Hebrew letters are rare enough to be obvious.
Where a text contains a number, that number is used itself in the sense that the string "220" evaluates to "two hundred twenty" rather than as the sum of digits "two", "two" and "zero" (2+2+0), or "4". Numbers separated by spaces are evaluated as separte numbers (e.g.: "4 6 3 8" = (4+6+3+8), or 21; "24 89" yields (24+89), or 113).
Consider the following "rpstoval" phrase, a string of characters and numbers:
Applying the preceding 25 gematrias in order to this sequence yields the following total values:
[395, 391, 387, 400, 401, 377, 381, 385, 367, 369, , 380, 378, 373, 389, 384, 373, 368, 359, 376, 339, 353, 353, 362, 345]
Of these, there is one that equals the total value of the English alphabet, and that is offset 11 [G(11): alw...].
This specific gematria cipher may be referred to as EQ11 (eq 11, eq-11, etc.). Sometimes this gematria has also been called NAEQ (for "New Aeon English Qabala")
In other words, in EQ11, the value of the English alphabet is encoded in the value of the "rpstoval" phrase: !
The phrase is also designed to holographically compress key sequences in the book in which it is embedded, along with key parts of the Class "A" literature.
From the commentaries (see ), Liber 220 (AL vel Legis) is a book (liber) that presents a Law (θελημα). That Law can be summarized as "Light, Life, Love, Liberty."
One could minimally say:
Using this same gematria, the total value of this summary phrase is: !
Thus, the "rpstoval" phrase encodes both the value of the English alphabet and a concise summary of the book in which it is embeded.
Beyond this, each segment of the "rpstoval" phrase encodes information from the set of Class "A" publications. These create a sparse set of phrases indexed by (some of the) integers from 1 to
The sub-phrase evaluates to 180, which is also the value of the phrase,
The sub-phrase evaluates to 129, the value of
The summary of these sub-phrase encodings is Here.
Some different sub-phrases evaluate to the same value, thereby reiterating that concept.
There are a number of multiple equivalent encodings matching a single value:
Number of encodings count 5 1 4 8 3 35 2 53 1 150 ---------------------------- total 247
The values with multiple encodings (in order of number of occurrences) are:
18: 3 Y
18: 4 A L G
18: 6 3 8 A
18: K 2 4 A L
18: O V A
Values with 4 encodings:
9: 2 4 A L
9: 6 3
9: 8 A
9: K
11: 3 8
11: G
11: K 2
11: V A
29: 8 A B
29: B K
29: K 2 4 A L G
29: S T
38: 6 3 8 A B
38: 8 A B K
38: B K 2 4 A L
38: R P
41: 2 4 A L G M
41: 3 8 A B K
41: L G M O
41: T O V
47: 3 8 A B K 2 4
47: 6 3 8 A B K
47: 8 A B K 2 4 A L
47: S T O V A
58: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A
58: 4 A L G M O R
58: 8 A B K 2 4 A L G
58: M O R 3 Y
280: 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T
280: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P
280: L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O
280: M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L
Values with 3 encodings:
7: 2 4 A
7: 4 A L
7: O
13: 4 6 3
13: L G
13: V A L
15: K 2 4
15: R 3
15: Y
20: 2 4 A L G
20: B
20: O V A L
21: 4 6 3 8
21: A B
21: M
22: 4 6 3 8 A
22: O R 3
22: X
32: 3 8 A B
32: A B K 2
32: G M
36: A B K 2 4
36: B K 2 4 A
36: S T O
37: A B K 2 4 A
37: O R 3 Y
37: Y X
39: 4 A L G M
39: A B K 2 4 A L
39: G M O
40: 3 Y X
40: 8 A B K 2
40: M O R
42: 4 6 3 8 A B
42: A L G M O
42: T O V A
43: 3 8 A B K 2
43: M O R 3
43: R P S
46: 4 A L G M O
46: S T O V
46: X 24
49: 6 3 8 A B K 2
49: B K 2 4 A L G
49: S T O V A L
50: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L
50: A B K 2 4 A L G
50: K 2 4 A L G M
53: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2
53: 6 3 8 A B K 2 4
53: L G M O R
54: 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A
54: A L G M O R
54: G M O R 3
57: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4
57: A L G M O R 3
57: K 2 4 A L G M O
61: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G
61: 4 A L G M O R 3
61: Y X 24
71: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G
71: A B K 2 4 A L G M
71: L G M O R 3 Y
72: A L G M O R 3 Y
72: K 2 4 A L G M O R 3
72: P S T O V
89: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O
89: 89
89: B K 2 4 A L G M O R
101: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R
101: 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3
101: 89 R
165: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24
165: 3 Y X 24 89 R
165: R 3 Y X 24 89
249: 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P
249: L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S
249: R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V
254: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89
254: 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S
254: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R
260: 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89
260: K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P
260: M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T
278: 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T
278: G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O
278: M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A
289: 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P
289: G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A
289: K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T
291: A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V
291: G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L
291: L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A
298: 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A
298: 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L
298: 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P
327: 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T
327: A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V
327: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A
338: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V
338: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O
338: 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L
Values with 2 encodings:
2: 2 2: L 3: 3 3: A L 5: 4 A 5: S 6: 2 4 6: 6 10: 4 6 10: V 12: 3 8 A 12: R 17: 6 3 8 17: O V 24: 24 24: T 30: A B K 30: R 3 Y 35: A L G M 35: B K 2 4 44: 8 A B K 2 4 44: T O V A L 48: 2 4 A L G M O 48: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A 51: 4 6 3 8 A B K 51: G M O R 56: 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L 56: L G M O R 3 60: 2 4 A L G M O R 60: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L 67: 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G 67: R P S T 69: G M O R 3 Y 69: K 2 4 A L G M O R 76: 4 A L G M O R 3 Y 76: R 3 Y X 24 78: 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y 78: A B K 2 4 A L G M O 87: K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y 87: R P S T O V A L 92: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M 92: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 93: A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 93: L G M O R 3 Y X 98: 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 98: 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 104: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 104: M O R 3 Y X 24 107: 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 107: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y 125: 24 89 R 125: 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y 129: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y 129: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 147: 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 147: X 24 89 R 151: 24 89 R P 151: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 153: 3 Y X 24 89 153: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 156: 24 89 R P S 156: 89 R P S T 162: 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 162: Y X 24 89 R 173: 89 R P S T O V 173: X 24 89 R P 193: M O R 3 Y X 24 89 193: Y X 24 89 R P S 219: A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R 219: X 24 89 R P S T O V 220: 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T 220: X 24 89 R P S T O V A 222: K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 222: X 24 89 R P S T O V A L 234: K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R 234: Y X 24 89 R P S T O V 237: 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V 237: Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L 239: O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T 239: R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O 242: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 242: G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P 250: A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S 250: R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A 251: 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P 251: 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 256: 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S 256: O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V 281: A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P 281: A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O 285: 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O 285: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S 292: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P 292: A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A 294: 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S 294: A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L 296: 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A 296: K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O 297: 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V 297: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S 307: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S 307: K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A 309: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T 309: K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L 328: 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O 328: A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A Remaining sequences are singular.
Looking up phrases that sum to one of those values (see list), such as 280, which had 4 matched sub-phrases:
280: 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T 280: B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P 280: L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O 280: M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L
yields:
280:
Also Asar was hidden in Amennti;
Where I am these are not.
O all ye toads and cats, rejoice!
On all sides Pan to the eye,
Be done with speech, O God!
It shall be given to none,
the cloak upon these slaves. etc.
Reading the text, it can be useful to begin with the simplest encoding:
1: A
1
A
א
and proceed through the list, as letters evolve to words, then to phrases and verses.
The final lines of the text are the attributions for the complete phrase:
351: 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L AL I,39: The word of the Law is θελημα Also he shall slay a young child upon the altar and beneath the lamp shall be an altar and my heart is the blood of His body let me die before the hour unable to come up with thee take your fill and will of love as ye will that God of subtlety and laughter That pallid God with face averted there is none to behold Thee To me only the distant flute
Note: While the prefix "AL I,39:" and others like it showing chapter and verse are not entirely a part of the text under consideration, the phrases thus indicated show up when selecting for the number indicated as well as in some sense harmonize with the sequence of phrases with which they appear. They are preserved in the summary. They may be retained, ignored, or removed at will.
This is a work of scholarship, enlightened and earnest. Any errors or omissions are the fault of the author. There may be errors in the transcription of the works used in this analysis, and possibly omissions of critical texts, but overall, effort has been made to make this analysis reasonably complete relative to the Class "A" corpus.
Warm thanks, Ebony, for key entry. * (Frater 137, Magister) *
Also to Jake Stratton-Kent, Io Pan! *
O solitary prophet, EQ is the ALW! *
Letters solve the word values. Aum. Ha. *
Words solve the letter values. Aum. Ha. *
The wisdom revealed and concealed. *
* Phrases marked by an asterisk "*" indicate a phrase which, when evaluated by the (eq11+hebrew+greek) gematria equals... wait for it... !
(Is weird AL gnosis creeping in?) *