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Abrahadabra is a word that appears in '' The Book Of The Law '', and is described by Aleister Crowley as the "Word of the Aeon " and that it “represents the Great Work complete, and it is therefore an archetype of all lesser magical operations” (Crowley, 1997). It is not to be confused with the Word of the Law of the Aeon, which is Thelema . Aleister Crowley explains in his essay Gematria that he discovered the word (with this spelling) by kabbalistic methods. He appears to say that this happened before his January 1901 meeting with Oscar Eckenstein, one of his teachers. (At this meeting, Eckenstein ordered him to put aside magick for the moment and practice meditation or concentration. In ''Gematria'', Crowley refers to someone ordering him to "abandon the study of magic and the Qabalah".) The Word Abrahadabra appears repeatedly in the 1904 invocation of Horus that preceded the writing of Liber AL and led to the founding of Thelema. (''The Equinox I,'' no. 7. 1912) It also appears in a 1901 diary that Crowley published in The Equinox. The essay Gematria gives Hindu, Christian, and "Unsectarian" versions of the problem that Crowley intended this magick word to answer. He also gives a kabbalistic equivalent for each phrasing, and a brief symbolic answer for each. The unsectarian version reads, "I am the finite square; I wish to be one with the infinite circle." Its equivalent refers to "the Cross of Extension" and "the infinite Rose." Crowley's numerological explanation of ABRAHADABRA focuses mainly on this last formulation and the answer to it. Abrahadabra is also referred to as the Word of Double Power. More specifically, it represents the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm—represented by the Pentagram and the Hexagram , the Rose And The Cross , the circle and the square, the 5 and the 6, etc.—also called the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of one's Holy Guardian Angel . In ''Commentaries'' (1996), Crowley says that the word is a symbol of the “establishment of the pillar or phallus of the Macrocosm...in the void of the Microcosm.” The sexual analogy here is obvious. GEMATRIA
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