Message #31371

[fisherking1111]

I remember reading in "the Emerald Tablets of Thoth" (or perhaps some new age book which presumed to be a channel of such an impossibly verifiable "ancient text of the Spiritual King of Atlantis)

In it, Thoth said 6 is the number of "physical completion", 7 is "Spiritual completion" (or actual completion)

the inclusion of 3 numbers "666" refers to the the subcategorization of Man as being physical, emotional and mental.

Crowley used this number to not just scare off Fundamentalist Christians (due to "Daddy issues", his father being a famous British Evangelist)... he referred to himself as 666 The Great Beast

The Great Beast embraces ALL of the Physical domain as the Spiritual Domain, which is an inverted/upside-down view of The World

Crowley's Path was to feed the "beast" of the physical body and its desires endlessly... Knowing that eventually, continuously He the Soul would have to acknowledge the problem with this and Surrender to God, which He did over and over, in a cycle that ended with him dying penniless in the throes of heroin addiction, despite the "great impact" the "great beast 666" had on the world...

666 is sacred if this is seen as something to honor and let go of... 

As Steve says, 6x3=18 and numerologically 18=1+8=9.... so 666=9... If one encompasses "the full materiality" of the physical, emotional and mental aspects of One Self... All of that "great beast" stuff of the Body-mind, becomes reduced to the Supremely Spiritual Number of 9... which leads back to 1...

Crowley also said "All numbers are Infinite"... so 666 is also sorta arbitrary... but basically represents an "endpoint" for a "journey of Human materialism" as I conceive of it...

6 to 9, 69... the material becomes the mirror to the Spiritual... 9 is Abundance, Happiness, Gain... but beyond the point of excess... at the point at which all must return to the Self... to the Simple... to the Spiritual... 9 is the Hermit in Tarot's major arcana series...  The Hermit is guided by Inner Light to return to God, Self through Intuition (having acquired great Strength from the World, or witnessed it's endless Strength... the Hermit prepares to prepare to "spin the wheel of fortune" once again, with Faith in Self or God... Having learned there is no end to the concepts and "ups and downs" of the appearing and disappearing world...).