The Qabalah of my Name

by Frater Pyramidatus Copyright 2011 Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law My pen name is 'Frater Pyramidatus', or rather that is my motto in the Outer Order of Crowley's manifestation of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn system. Like most I have gone by pseudonyms, nick names, various titles, different offices and so on. However... 'Brian Adam Newman' is the name on my birth certificate, NI card, passport and so on. In civil law it is this term, and the bonds raised on my birth certificate, that give me the status as a Real Human Being [sic] under the Common Law, a Freeman of the Realm. If my name is spelt in only capital letters then they are referring to a corporation that shares, superficially, the birth name my parents gave me. However... It has been well known for many years that I am a Thelemite, and that I intend to found a Crowleyan Abbey of Thelema (pronounced 'tale-eh-ma'); yet it is very odd that the Qabalistic correspondences in my name, and the analysis of their letters, their positions to one another, their numberings, Gematria values in transposed Hebrew and so on would point me out in that direction, before I could began to speak or even tie my own shoelaces; almost as though the letters in my name formed a blueprint of my True Will. 1 Mister Brian Adam Newman This is my full title. If we take each initial letter and transpose it to Hebrew we get Maim, Beth, Aleph, Nun; these value to 40, two, one and 50 respectively. The resulting number is 93, which is the value in Greek of 'THELEMA', as in The Abbey of Thelema. 2 Oddly enough I go by my middle name of 'Adam'. This might make my initials M. A. B. N.. This is one version of a Freemasons' password, or rather MHBN, that Crowley altered to add up to 93, and it means 'where is my son?'. 3 My first name is Brian. The first two letters are 'B' and 'R'. These, by Yetzirah, correspond to Mercury and Sol respectively. On my birthday, the 18th October 1977, these two planets were in conjunction, and in cazimi. 4 The letter 'A' occurs four times in my name. 'A' in Hebrew is generally Aleph, which by Yetzirah corresponds to the Element of Air. In the Tarot deck Swords correspond to the Element of Air. Four 'A's would therefore correspond to The Four of Swords, or The Lord of Truce. Each Lesser Mystery of the Tarot corresponds to a decan of the Zodiac and The Four of Swords contains within its ten or so days my birthday, the 18th of October. 5 I was born on a Tuesday, the day of Mars. Mars on the Qabalistic Tree of Life is allotted to the Fifth Sephira; also in the Qabalah of Nine Chambers the Hebrew letter Nun is given the 'digital' value of five. We find the letter 'N' as the fifth, tenth and 15th letter of Brian Adam Newman. 6 The seventh letter of my name is 'D'. This corresponds to the Hebrew Daleth, which by Yetzirah corresponds to the seventh Sphere on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. The glyph of Venus, a circle supported by a cross, is the only planetary glyph that will encompass all the Spheres on the Tree of Life, except of course the pseudo Sephira of Daath. Daleth means 'door'. DO WHAT THOU WILT shall be the whole of Law.

7 My name is composed from nine different letters. The ninth Sphere on the Tree of Life is Yesod, which is Hebrew for 'foundation'. As in 'I will found a Crowleyan Abbey of Thelema'. The Mystic Number of nine, or 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9, is 45. 45 is the Hebrew value of ADM, the three letter Hebrew equivalent of the four lettered English name 'Adam', or the name I most often respond to. 8 My initials are B. A. N., this spells the word 'ban', which means to 'curse' or 'prohibit'. This is the opposite of 'do what thou wilt'. Identification through contradiction. 9 The letters 'B', 'R', 'I', 'A', & 'N', in Hebrew are Beth, Resh, Yod, Aleph and Nun. These have the value of 263, which is also that of the word GMTRIA, or Gematria, which means literally 'geometry'. It does not mean 'numerology', for which see The Canon, by William Stirling. If we take the final 'N' as a final Nun, it counts for 700 instead of 50, and we arrive at the number 913 which is the value of The First Word in the Old Testament, about which alone entire volumes have been written, BRAShITh. It would be presumptuous to attempt to give this sacred word a definition. I can only refer the seeker to Liber 2911. 10 My middle name is 'Adam'. If we convert this into Hebrew, yet we take the 'M' as a final value, we get 1 + 4 + 1 + 600. This is 606 and the value of the Hebrew word OTzMVTh, this means 'quintessentiality' or perhaps even 'spirit'. The Rule of the Abbey of Thelema is often abbreviated to Liber ATh. ATh means 'spirit'. OTzMVTh also has five letters, equating it with the pentagram which is the universal symbol of Spirit. 11 We convert my surname of 'Newman' into its Hebrew equivalents of Nun, Heh, Vav, Maim, Aleph and Nun and we get the values of either 152 or 802 depending on whether the final Nun is taken as 50 or 700. 152 is the value of NTzIB, which is the Hebrew word for 'residence' or 'station'; or maybe 'abbey'? 802 is the value of ATh, which means 'spirit', multiplied by two. Liber ATh is 'The Rule of the Abbey of Thelema'. 802 is also the value of IShIBH ShLM OLH which means 'The Assembly'. 12 'Brian Adam Newman', using small values for the letters only gives the value of 461, which is the value of the Hebrew word AThIN, which means, according to Liber 777, 'firm, strong, rigid, hard, rough, protruding'. Notice that it begins with the letters ATh, as in Liber ATh. These letters can also be a metathesis of the old English military expression T.I.N.A., or 'there is no alternative'. 13 If I was a Member of Parliament, and not merely a Real Human Being, my full title would be R. H. BRIAN ADAM NEWMAN, and then I would be a corporation whose value in Hebrew would be 666. 14 The twelfth letter of my name is 'W' which transliterated into Hebrew is Vav, this letter when spelt in full, or 'VV' (according to the Assiatic spelling), has the value of twelve. 15 The eleventh letter of my name is 'E', which adds up to five in Hebrew. 'Magick is the Art and Science of causing Change to Occur in Conformity with Will'. 'E' is Heh which has the value of five, 'W' is Vav and has the value of six. Magick is often expressed as 5 + 6 = 11. The first letter of my name if 'B' which corresponds to The Magus within the Greater Mysteries (Major Arcana) of the Tarot deck. 16 'BRIAN ADAM NEWMAN' is an anagram of 'I AM A BRAND NEW MAN'. 17 'Brian' is a Celtic name meaning 'hill'. 'HILL' is Hebrew for 'Lucifer', although it is pronounced 'hellal'.

18 I was born on Tuesday, October 18th 1977, which in the Catholic calender is the day of St. Luke. Also I was born in a place, now knocked down, called St. Luke's Hospital, in Guildford. The word 'Luke's' sounds very similar to the Latin word LVX, whereof the essential etymology of the word 'Lucifer', or 'The Light Bringer'. 1977 is The Year of Snake in the Chinese Zodiac. The snake get stepped on by all the other animals, but he is the only friend of the dragon. The snake is a symbol of Lucifer in the Book of Genesis, or the tempter to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good AND Evil. I was born with my eyes open. 19 If we use an Equidistant Letter Skip (E. L. S.) of two, on my name, we get BINDMEMN. From this we can get the two words 'bind me'. This refers to the The Rule of The Abbey of Thelema, or Liber ATh vel Via Vitae sub figura CCCCI. Remember that the word 'religion' comes from the Lation 'religio' which loosely means 'to bind together in one belief'; and the opposite of the Latin 'negligens'. Thelema is a religion, in my humble opinion; 'humble' being the operative word. 20 If we spell the word ADAM in full it is ALP DLTh ALP MIM, in Hebrew. This has the value of 111 + 434 + 111 + 90 = 746, respectively. This is the value of the Hebrew words MMVNIM, which means 'a civil officer'; MQVM which means 'a place'; and ShMVTh which means 'The Names'.

Love is the law, love under will