Editing The Book of the Law (section)

===Via Hermetic Qabalah===
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Crowley employed [[Hermetic Qabalah]], particularly its numerological method of [[gematria]], to interpret the obscurities of ''Liber AL vel Legis''. He explained that the text contains numerous instances of double entendre, paronomasia in one language or another, numerical-literal puzzles, and even connections of letters across various lines. Crowley detailed these interpretations in the Qabalistic section of his Commentary.{{sfnp|Crowley|1991|loc=ch. 7}}

In ''[[Magick Without Tears]]'', Crowley elaborated on his insights, stating that the "Author of the Book" (Aiwass) demonstrated profound knowledge of Qabalah. Initially, Crowley was assured that Aiwass knew at least as much Qabalah as he did. Over time, further study convinced him that Aiwass possessed a much higher level of Qabalistic knowledge, leading Crowley to regard Aiwass as the supreme Qabalist of all time.{{sfnp|Crowley|1973|loc=ch. 4}}

In one of the ''[[Holy Books of Thelema]]'' (1907), called ''Liber Trigrammaton, sub figura XXVII -- Being the Book of the Mutations of the Tao with the Yin and the Yang'',{{sfnp|Crowley|1983}} Crowley correlated the 26 Roman script letters to trigrams composed of a solid line for the Yang, a broken line for the Yin, and a point for the Tao. In doing so, Crowley felt that he had fulfilled the book's injunction to "obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet", as noted in his 'Old Comment' to ''The Book of the Law''.{{sfnp|Crowley|1974}} However, he also wrote that "The attribution in ''Liber Trigrammaton'' is good theoretically; but no Qabalah of merit has risen therefrom."<ref>Crowley quoted in {{harvnb|Grant|1973|p=59}}.</ref>