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Therion[pronunciation?] (Greek: , beast) is a deity found in the mystical system of Thelema,

which was established in 1904 with Aleister Crowley's writing of The Book of the Law.
Therion's female counterpart is Babalon, another Thelemic deity. Therion, as a Thelemic
personage, evolved from that of "The Beast" from the Book of Revelation, whom Crowley
identified himself with since childhood, because his mother called him that name. [1][2] Indeed,
throughout his life he occasionally referred to himself as Master Therion or sometimes
The Beast 666. He wrote:
Before I touched my teens, I was already aware that I was THE BEAST whose number is
666. I did not understand in the least what that implied; it was a passionately ecstatic sense
of identity.[3]
The word "therion" is mentioned in several Thelemic rituals, such as The Star Ruby. In
total, there are five mentions of The Beast in Liber AL vel Legis, the first being in 1:15, and
the remaining four are all in the third chapterverses 14, 22, 34, and 47, respectively
although the word beast can be found elsewhere therein. Aleister Crowley believed that
the references to The Beast and the Scarlet Woman (Babalon) in the book do not denote
persons but are titles of office.[4] The first mention reads thus:
Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the
Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. [5]

The Number of Therion and the numerology thereof[edit]

The Number of the Beast is 666. The number is of prominent significance in the system of
Thelema. It is the sum of the numbers inside the 6-by-6 magic square, which is associated
with the sun by some Kabbalists, astrologists, and numerologists, who still use it today.
[6]
According to Crowley, it is a solar number.[7] The Stele of Revealing bore the catalogue
number 666 at the time when Crowley discovered it, which was one of the events that lead
to the writing of the Book of the Law.
It can be said that the Hebrew letter shin (), which is written at the beginning and end of
the Hebrew word for "sun" (shemesh[8]), conceals in itself the number of The Beast,
because its shape is like three vavs ( )conjoined together, whose gematrical value is 6. It
has been noted by some that the abbreviation W.W.W. may be interpreted as 666,[9][not in citation
given]
for the Latin letter W formed out of the Phoenician letter waw, whose value is 6. This
can be explained by saying that the rise of the internet is one of the events by which the
beginning of the Age of Aquarius has been marked,[10][need quotation to verify] which is strongly tied with
the concept of the Aeon of Horus in Thelema.[11] The following words and phrases have 666
for their gematrical value:

Greek for The Great Beast. Koine Greek is the Greek dialect
by which the books of the New Testament were written, including the Book of
Revelation, where the original mention of The Beast's number is recorded (13:17-18).

ThRYWN; a Hebrew spelling of / therion, Greek for beast.

ShMSh YHWH; shemesh Yahweh; Hebrew for sun of Yahweh. It is

the value of the tetragrammaton (26; 10+5+6+5) added to the value of the Hebrew
word for sun (640; 300+40+300).[12]

SWRTh; Sorath; the evil spirit of the sun.[13]

multiplied by 6 (111x6) NKYAL; Nachiel; the intelligence of the sun.[13]

NShYMYRWN; Nashimiron; the qliphoth of Pisces.[14]

PRY ShLWM; priy shalom; Hebrew for fruit of peace.

ALYSTYR QRWLY; a Hebrew spelling of the name Aleister

Crowley.

HShTN ShB; HaSatan shab; Hebrew for The Satan has returned.[12]

References[edit]
1. Jump up^ Booth, Martin (2000). A Magick Life: The Biography of Aleister Crowley.
London: Coronet Books. ISBN 978-0-340-71806-3; page 3
 2. Jump up^ Sutin, Lawrence (2000). Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley.
New York: St Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-25243-4; pages 18-21

3. Jump up^ Crowley, Aleister. Magick: Liber ABA, Book 4. Part III (Magick in Theory
and Practice). Definition and Theorems of Magick. York Beach, ME : S. Weiser. ISBN 0-
87728-919-0

4. Jump up^ Crowley, Aleister. The Law is for All. Commentary on III:15.

5. Jump up^ Liber AL vel Legis I:XV

6. Jump up^ Drury, Nevill (1992). Dictionary of Mysticism and the Esoteric Traditions.
Bridport, Dorset: Prism Press. ISBN 1-85327-075-X.

7. Jump up^ Crowley, Aleister. 777 and other Qabalistic writings of Aleister Crowley.
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1977. ISBN 0-87728-222-6.

8. Jump up^ A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible, entry 8121,
James Strong

9. Jump up^ Watkins, Terry (1999). "Is "www" in Hebrew equal to 666?". Dial-the-
Truth Ministries. Retrieved 22 June 2015.

10. Jump up^ Spencer, Neil (2000). True as the Stars Above: Adventures in Modern
Astrology. Victor Gollancz Limited. pp. 126127. ISBN 9780575067691.

11. Jump up^ DuQuette 2003. p. 14.

12. ^ Jump up to:a b http://asis.com/users/stag/itworks2.html

13. ^ Jump up to:a b Admon, Bashemeth; Mordekai, Admon; Morg, Eli. Spells,
Incantations and Sigils According to the Jewish Kabbalah. 2005 edition. p.111.

14. Jump up^ Crowley, Aleister. Sepher Sephirot. The gematria of 666.

Further reading[edit]
Crowley, Aleister. The Book of the Law. York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser.

Grant, Kenneth. Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God.

Grant, Kenneth. Cults of the Shadow.

Grant, Kenneth. Hecate's Fountain.

Grant, Kenneth. The Magical Revival.

Grant, Kenneth. Outside the Circles of Time.

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