Ah, the number 3... The holy trinity, the triangle, the trigonometry, the pyramid, the square, the cube... Dah metatron's cube nigga...! https://poal.co/s/Religion/634507 https://poal.co/s/Occult/654154/1d0667ac-9e00-4d62-aa9a-fa3d569bb4e5 "Éliphas Lévi" aka "abbé constant" comes to mind https://www.atramenta.net/lire/oeuvre11102-chapitre-2.html @Theodore_Kent _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PREFACE The work of Eliphas Lévi on the science of the ancient magi will form a complete course divided into **three parts**: The first part contains the Dogma and the Ritual of high magic; the second, the History of Magic; the third, the Key to the Great Mysteries, which will be published later. Each of these parts, studied separately, gives a complete teaching and seems to contain the whole science. But to have a full understanding of one, it will be essential to carefully study the other two. **This ternary division of our work was given to us by science itself; because our discovery of the great mysteries of this science rests entirely on the meaning that the ancient hierophants attached to numbers. Three was for them the generating number, and in the teaching of any doctrine they considered first the theory, then the realization, then the adaptation to all possible uses. This is how dogmas, whether philosophical or religious, were formed. Thus the dogmatic synthesis of Christianity, heir to the Magi, imposes on our faith three persons in God and three mysteries in the universal religion.** We have followed, in the division of our two works already published, and we will follow in the division of the third the plan traced by the Kabbalah; that is to say by the purest tradition of occultism. Our Dogma and our Ritual are each divided into twenty-two chapters marked by the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. We have put at the head of each chapter the letter relating to it with the Latin words which, according to the best authors, indicate its hieroglyphic meaning. So, at the top of the first chapter, for example, we read: 1? HAS THE RECIPIENT, Discipline, Ensoph, Keter. Which means that the letter aleph, whose equivalent in Latin and French is A, the numeral value 1 signifies the recipient, the man called to initiation, the skillful individual (the tarot trickster), that it also signifies the dogmatic syllepsis (disciplina), being in its general and first conception (Ensoph); finally the first and obscure idea of divinity expressed by keter (the crown) in Kabbalistic theology. The chapter is the development of the title and the title hieroglyphically contains the entire chapter. The entire book is composed following this combination. The History of Magic which comes next and which, after the general theory of science given by the Dogma and the Ritual, recounts and explains the achievements of this science throughout the ages, is combined according to the septenary number, as we we explain in our Introduction. The septenary number is that of the creative week and divine realization. The Key to the great mysteries will be established on the number four which is that of the enigmatic forms of the sphinx and the elementary manifestations. It is also the number of the square and of force, and in this book we will establish certainty on unshakeable foundations. We will fully explain the enigma of the sphinx and we will give our readers this key to things hidden since the beginning of the world, which the scholar Postel had only dared to appear in one of his most obscure books in an entirely enigmatic and without giving a satisfactory explanation. The History of Magic explains the assertions contained in the Dogma and the Ritual; The Key to the Great Mysteries will complete and explain the history of magic. So that, for the attentive reader, nothing will be missing, we hope, from our revelation, of the secrets of the Kabbalah of the Hebrews and of the high magic, either of Zoroaster or of Hermes. The author of these books willingly gives lessons to serious and educated people who ask for them, but he must once and for all warn his readers that he does not tell fortunes, does not teach divination, does not make predictions. , does not make philters, does not lend itself to any spell or evocation. He is a man of science and not a man of prestige. He energetically condemns everything that religion reproves, and consequently he must not be confused with men who can be bothered without fear by proposing to make dangerous or illicit use of their science. He seeks sincere criticism, but he does not understand certain hostilities. Serious study and conscientious work are above all attacks; and the first goods that they provide to those who know how to appreciate them are profound peace and universal benevolence. ELIPHAS LEVI. September 1, 1859. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_et_Rituel_de_la_Haute_Magie >>Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (English: "Dogma and Ritual of High Magic") is the title of Éliphas Lévi's first published treatise on ritual magic, which appeared in two volumes between 1854 (Dogme) and 1856 (Rituel). Each volume is structured into 22 chapters, which parallel the tarot.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liphas_L%C3%A9vi >>Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant (8 February 1810 – 31 May 1875), was a French esotericist, poet, and writer. Initially pursuing an ecclesiastical career in the Catholic Church, he abandoned the priesthood in his mid-twenties and became a ceremonial magician. At the age of 40, he began professing knowledge of the occult.[1] He wrote over 20 books on magic, Kabbalah, alchemical studies, and occultism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liphas_L%C3%A9vi#Theory_of_magic >>**In the preface to The History of Magic (translator, A. E. Waite), enumerates (what he believed to be) the nine key tenets of magic as codified in Levi's earlier work, Doctrine and Ritual of Transcendental Magic. They are: (1) There is a potent and real Magic, popular exaggerations of which are actually below the truth. (2) There is a formidable secret which constitutes the fatal science of good and evil. (3) It confers on many powers apparently super-human. (4) It is the traditional science of the secrets of Nature which has been transmitted to us from the Magi. (5) Initiation therein gives empire over souls to the sage and full capacity for ruling human wills. (6). Arising apparently from this science, there is one infallible, indefectible and truly catholic religion which has always existed in the world, but it is unadapted for the multitude. (7) For this reason there has come into being the exoteric religion of apologue [parable], fable and wonder-stories, which is all that is possible for the profane : it has undergone various transformations, and it is represented at this day by Latin Christianity under the obedience of Rome. (8) Its veils are valid in their symbolism, and it may be called valid for the crowd, but the doctrine of initiates is tantamount to a negation of any literal truth therein. (9) It is Magic alone which imparts true science.[21] The three chief components of Levi's magical thesis were: Astral Light, the Will and the Imagination. Levi did not originate any of these as occult concepts.** [...] https://archive.org/details/dogmeetrituelde00lvgoog English version https://archive.org/details/transcendentalma00leviuoft ... I'm dah white ninja, bich! https://youtu.be/NXcmCcA5OL4?t=42

I have absolutely no recollection of ever writing that.