The Thelemic and Esoteric Corpus

6.1 Scope of this chapter

This chapter covers the primary texts of Thelema and of the esoteric traditions its writers cite most often. It sets out how a received text is attributed; how it is referenced by chapter and verse or by its own divisions; how its manuscript, printings, and versions are distinguished; and how each major work of the corpus is titled and cited. It also covers the presentation of Qabalistic argument and the citation of restricted material and oral instruction. The general forms of notes and bibliography entries are in chapter 5, and the quotation of received text is in 3.70. In the examples, as in chapter 5, N marks a full note, S a short note, B a bibliography entry, and R a reference-list entry.

6.2 What a received text is

A received text is one that its tradition presents as received by a person: dictated to that person, transmitted through them, or written under inspiration from a source other than themselves. Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX is the central case. The other Holy Books (see 6.10) and The Vision and the Voice are received texts in the same sense, and so is a text from outside Crowley’s work that its own tradition presents in the same way, such as Liber 49, which John Whiteside Parsons received in 1946. Treat a text as received where its own publication, or the published statement of the body that transmits it, presents it so. The classification follows that presentation, and the writer’s own view of the claim has no part in it.

6.3 No author for a received text

Cite a received text by its title, or in a reference by its siglum and division. Leave the author position empty in every form: notes, bibliography, text citations, and reference list alike. Do not name as author the person who received the text or wrote it down, the source the tradition credits, or Anonymous, and do not add attributed to or attrib. to the title. The person who received the text is named in the bibliography entry, in a sentence after the title (see 6.4).

6.4 Received texts in a bibliography

Begin the entry with the title, in the form 3.47 gives it. Follow the title with a sentence beginning Received by, which names the person who received the text and gives the place and date of reception where the edition used records them. Where someone else wrote the text down, the words written down by and that person’s name follow, after a semicolon. Then give the edition used, introduced by In, as for a document in a modern collection (see 5.36). The reception sentence reports the tradition’s account in those words and no others. It does not name the source the tradition credits, and it takes no quotation marks, qualifier, or [sic]. The entry files under its title. A reference-list entry is the bibliography entry with the year of the edition used moved to follow the title (see 5.57).

6.5 Stating the edition and sigla

A work that cites a received text by siglum states once which edition its references follow (see 6.6), and any lettering of clauses it uses (see 6.13), either in the list of abbreviations or in a note at the first reference. Where the work has a list of abbreviations, each siglum it uses appears there (see 8.5). After that statement the references stand in the text, in parentheses, with no further notes.

6.6 The controlling editions

Two editions control the text of the Holy Books. The preferred edition is Thelema: The Holy Books of Thelema (Conjoined Creation, 2015; ISBN 978-0-9905347-1-6). ΘΕΛΗΜΑ: The Holy Books of Thelema (Samuel Weiser, 1983), is equally authoritative. Neither prints the O.T.O.’s emendation of Liber AL (see 6.23). The titles of the Holy Books are the house forms given in 8.29, whatever either edition’s title pages print.

A work names one of the two where it states its edition (see 6.5). The edition named fixes the spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and verse numbering of the texts it contains, in quotation and in reference alike. The two print the same text apart from a few readings, and at those readings each work follows the edition it names.

Quote from the edition named unless the argument concerns another printing, the manuscript, or a version of the text; then quote from that source and name it (see 6.22). A work that follows OTOV quotes the emended reading at each verse the emendation changes, and names the printing it takes that reading from (see 6.23). For a received text neither edition contains, and for the other works of the corpus, name the edition used in the bibliography and keep to it through the work. Where several editions of one work are used, name the edition with each citation.

6.7 Writing about attribution

In prose, report a tradition’s account of a text’s origin as the tradition’s account, and say whose account it is. A writer may argue for or against that account at any length and with any evidence; the argument belongs in the prose. The citation is the same whatever the writer concludes. Do not signal a view of the text’s origin through the apparatus: supply no author, put no quotation marks around received, and add no so-called and no [sic] to a title or a reception sentence. An editor does not change a citation to reflect a view of a text’s origin (see 2.26). Whether a work in the practitioner voice may state the tradition’s account without attribution is settled in 2.32.

6.8 The Class designations

The A∴A∴ assigns each of its official publications to one of the five classes in the table.

Write a designation as Class followed by the capital letter, in roman, with no period. Never use the letter alone, except in a table column headed Class (see 8.6). Give a work’s class only where it bears on the argument, and then cite where the class is assigned: the work’s own publication or the order’s published syllabus of its instructions. Where a designation joins two classes, give both letters as the class is printed.

6.9 Class A and quotation

Quote a Class A text, like any received text, exactly as the edition used prints it, with none of the silent changes permitted in other quotation. What that requires is set out in 3.70. The class governs quotation. It does not change the form of a reference or a bibliography entry, which follow the kind of work (see 6.18).

6.10 The Holy Books and Class A

The term Holy Books names the received writings of Thelema, those gathered under that name in the controlling editions (see 6.6). Class A is a designation within the A∴A∴’s classification of its publications. The two categories overlap and are distinct. Use the term that is meant, and do not infer a text’s place in one category from its place in the other. When the term names this body of texts, set it in roman with capitals, the Holy Books; The Holy Books of Thelema, in italics, is the subtitle of both controlling editions.

6.11 Groupings of the Holy Books

Writers sometimes gather a selection of the Holy Books under a collective name of their own. A writer who uses such a name lists the books it covers at first use. A grouping is not a canon of Thelemic scripture, and references are not ordered by it.

6.12 Translations of a received text

A translation of a received text is the translator’s work. Name the translator in the bibliography entry after the reception sentence, and the translation’s own title where it has one; the received text still takes no author. Keep the verse numbering of the original in every reference, including references to a translation that numbers its verses differently. A claim about the wording of a received text, a variant, or a numerical value rests on the original in a named edition; a translation may be quoted beside the original. Where the writer has made the translation, say so (see 3.76).

6.13 The form of a verse reference

Write a reference to a received text divided into chapters and verses as the siglum, a space, the chapter number, a colon, and the verse number, with no other spaces. Both numbers are arabic, whatever numerals the edition prints. Use no unit abbreviations and no periods. Where a passage needs a closer locator than its verse, a lowercase letter may follow the verse number, closed up, to name a clause in a lettering the work names where it states its edition (see 6.5); a range of clauses takes an en dash. A reference to the whole verse is always correct, and no work is required to use letters. A source quoted in a work keeps its own form of reference inside the quotation.

6.14 Books without chapters or numbers

Cite a received text that has no chapters as a single chapter numbered 1, in the form given in 6.13. Supply the chapter number even though the edition prints none. Where a book numbers a verse 0, cite it as 0, and a verse 00 as 00, which precedes 0; never shift the numbering to begin at 1. Whether a book is divided into chapters is taken from the controlling editions (see 6.6). Unnumbered text that the edition prints after a verse, before the next verse or at the end of the book, belongs to that verse. A part of a book that its edition leaves unnumbered, such as a prologue, is cited by its name; a verse within it takes the part’s initial in place of the chapter number.

Where the edition prints no verse numbers at all, supply them only as 6.30 directs for Liber Trigrammaton. Cite any other such text by the divisions it prints, or as a whole, and point to a passage within it by quoting the passage’s opening words in the sentence.

6.15 Ranges

Join the two ends of a range with an en dash, without spaces, and give both numbers in full. A range that runs from one chapter into the next repeats the chapter number after the dash. Do not use f., ff., or et seq.; give the range.

6.16 Several references

Give the siglum once for several references to the same work. Within that work, separate verses of one chapter with commas and separate chapters with semicolons. Separate references to different works with semicolons, and repeat the siglum for each work. List references within a work in ascending order, and list different works in the order the argument uses them. In author-date text, a reference to a received text and an author-date citation may share one parenthesis, the received text first and the two separated by a semicolon.

6.17 References in running text

Place a reference to a received text in parentheses in the text, in both citation systems. A note may discuss a verse, but the reference stays in the running text. After a run-in quotation or at the end of a sentence, the parenthesis comes before the closing punctuation; after a block quotation it follows the final punctuation (see 3.68). In prose, name a work by its title. Use the siglum inside the parenthesis, and in the sentence itself only where a passage is examined closely and the reference is the subject under discussion. Do not begin a sentence with a siglum.

6.18 Divisions by kind of work

Every work of the corpus that has divisions of its own is cited by them. A received text is cited by its divisions alone. The other works of the Thelemic corpus are cited by page, with their divisions added as 6.19 directs, except the Comments on Liber AL (see 6.33). The texts of the adjacent corpora are cited as 6.47–6.56 direct. The table gives the unit for each kind of work and the form of a reference; the sections from 6.29 on give the details. In a parenthetical reference, a note, or a table, abbreviate the name of a unit as 8.18 lists it. In running text, write the unit in full: part 3, chapter 4.

6.19 Pages and divisions

Cite a work of the Thelemic corpus that is not a received text, such as those in 6.34–6.41 and 6.43, by the page of the edition named in the bibliography. Add the work’s own division where it locates a passage more closely than the page, as the column and row of Liber 777 do, or where it finds the passage in another edition, as the part and chapter of Liber ABA, a chapter of The Book of Lies, a section of Liber Aleph, the title of a letter of Magick Without Tears, and the date of a diary entry do. Give the division first and the page after it, with p. before the page, except after the volume and number of The Equinox (see 6.35). Where the edition has no pages, as an ebook without fixed pages has none (see 5.28), the division stands alone.

A received text is cited by the divisions 6.13–6.14 and 6.30–6.31 give it, and never by page. The introduction, notes, and other apparatus of its edition are the editor’s work and are cited by page (see 6.27). The Comments on Liber AL are cited by the verse commented on, without a page (see 6.33).

6.20 Quoting across verses

Quote verses of a received text as 3.68 and 3.71 direct. Do not insert verse numbers, slashes, or other marks into a quotation to show where one verse ends and the next begins; the reference after the quotation carries the range. In a block quotation, reproduce the verse numbers the edition prints only where the discussion refers to the verses one by one.

6.21 Liber AL in manuscript and print

Liber AL exists as a manuscript, written by Crowley in Cairo in April 1904 and designated Liber XXXI, and as a printed text, Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX, which derives from the manuscript through a typescript. They are distinct documents and differ in places. The siglum ALM refers to the manuscript, and AL to the printed text. Cite ALM wherever a statement rests on the manuscript: its hand, its corrections, its layout, marks on the page, or a reading the printed text does not have. Cite AL for everything else. A statement about one is not supported by a reference to the other. Cite ALM by chapter and verse, as the printed text divides it, and a feature of the page (see 6.25) by its leaf, numbered as in the facsimile consulted (see 4.46). Name the facsimile in the bibliography (see 6.26).

6.22 Naming a printing or version

Name the manuscript, a particular printing, or a version of a text only where the argument turns on it. Everywhere else a reference means the text of the edition the work has stated (see 6.5). Where the argument concerns what a particular printing contains, list that printing in the bibliography and name it in the sentence or the note. Early printings title the book Liber L. vel Legis; an entry for one of them gives the title as that printing prints it.

6.23 TRV and OTOV

The siglum TRV (textus receptus version) denotes the text of Liber AL without the O.T.O.’s 2013 emendation, as both controlling editions print it (see 6.6). OTOV (Ordo Templi Orientis Version) denotes the emended version. Add one of them to a reference only where the verse cited reads differently in the two texts; at every other verse the two are the same text, and the reference stands alone. Place the siglum after the reference, separated by a space, with no other punctuation. A work that quotes a verse affected by the emendation says which text it follows, in the statement of its edition (see 6.5), and gives the other reading once, in a note at its first occurrence (see 6.24). Report the emendation as the act of the body that made it. Either text may be followed.

6.24 Variant readings and cruces

Where the witnesses or versions of a received text disagree, or a reading is disputed, quote the reading of the text the work follows. Give the competing reading once, in a note at its first occurrence, and name the witness or version that carries each reading. Never mark either reading with [sic]. A writer who prefers a reading other than that of the text the work follows says so in that note and names the authority for the reading. The merits of a reading are argued in prose where the argument needs it; the form of the reference does not change.

6.25 Features of the manuscript page

Some evidence in the manuscript of Liber AL is not text: a line drawn on a page, a figure, letters set out in an arrangement. The text itself refers to marks of this kind (AL 3:47). Describe such a feature in prose, reproduce it as an image where permission allows (see 2.18), and cite the manuscript and the facsimile consulted. Never transcribe a feature of the page into running text as though it were prose. The transcription of a manuscript’s text follows 4.42.

6.26 Archival documents and facsimiles

Cite a manuscript, typescript, or letter of the corpus by repository, collection, and shelfmark (see 5.43, 8.41). Describe the document as what it is: holograph, typescript, carbon typescript, printed proof, or photograph. Where a facsimile was consulted in place of the document, say so and cite the facsimile; a digital image published by the repository is a facsimile and is cited with the repository’s name. Never cite a document as seen when only a facsimile or a transcription was seen. A hand, a date, or an attribution taken from a catalog is attributed to the catalog.

6.27 An editor’s apparatus

An introduction, notes, commentary, or appendix supplied by a modern editor is the editor’s work. Cite it under the editor’s name, by page, in the edition named, never by the verse or division of the text it accompanies and never as though it were the text. An unsigned note in an edition’s apparatus is cited to the editor of the edition. An editor’s statement about a manuscript reports the editor’s reading of it; for a claim about the manuscript itself, cite the manuscript or a facsimile (see 6.26). The text an editor establishes, corrected readings included, is cited as the text of that edition. The rights in an editor’s apparatus are treated in 2.16.

6.28 Online transcriptions

Quote received texts and the other works of the corpus from a printed edition or a facsimile. An online transcription may help a writer find a passage. Check every word of a quotation found that way against the printed edition named in the bibliography, and cite that edition. Where the online text is itself the subject (its history, its readings, its use by a community), cite it as a website (see 5.46) and name the edition it claims to reproduce, if it names one.

6.29 Liber AL vel Legis

The full title is Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX. Short titles, such as Liber AL and the Book of the Law, follow 3.49. The English title is Book of the Law: the article before it is lowercase and roman, and is capitalized only at the start of a sentence. A printing published as The Book of the Law keeps that title in its own bibliography entry. The siglum is AL, and the manuscript is ALM (see 6.21).

The book has three chapters, of sixty-six, seventy-nine, and seventy-five verses, and is cited by chapter and verse. It is a received text (see 6.2–6.4), quoted from the controlling edition the work has stated (see 6.6) unless a printing or version is named (see 6.22–6.23). The short commentary printed at the end of many editions under the heading “The Comment” is a separate document, the Tunis Comment (see 6.33), and is never cited as part of the book.

6.30 The other Holy Books

Cite each of the other Holy Books by the siglum given for it in 8.29, by chapter and verse, with chapter 1 supplied where the book has no chapters (see 6.13–6.14). Give each title in full at first mention, in the form 8.29 gives it, keeping any Hebrew or Greek element and any ligature. Crowley’s commentaries on several of the Holy Books are his own works, separate from the texts. Cite each as commentary on the verse, by the page of the edition in which it was read (see 6.19).

Liber Trigrammaton is printed without numbers. Number its twenty-seven verses, each set beneath a trigram, from 0 in the order printed: Tri 1:0 is the verse beneath the trigram of three points, and Tri 1:26 the last. The small trigram that ends Tri 1:9 belongs to that verse. State this numbering where the work states its edition (see 6.5). Where a source numbers the verses another way, from 1 or by the value of a trigram read as a numeral, say so and convert in your own prose. Neither Crowley’s English letters for the trigrams nor a trigram’s value in any numerical system serves as a reference. Cite Liber Tau, a single plate, as a whole.

6.31 The Vision and the Voice

Liber XXX Ærum vel Sæculi sub figurâ CCCCXVIII, known as The Vision and the Voice, takes the siglum VV. It records visions of the thirty Aethyrs of the Enochian system and is cited by Aethyr. The Aethyrs are numbered from 1, LIL, to 30, TEX. Give the Aethyr’s number and, at its first mention, its name in capitals in parentheses; thereafter give the number alone. The number in a reference is always the Aethyr’s own (see 6.32). The visions were received in the reverse of that order, from the thirtieth Aethyr to the first, and the book prints them in the order received, so the eighth vision in the book is the twenty-third Aethyr.

Where the edition used numbers the paragraphs within an Aethyr, a paragraph number may follow a colon; name the edition at the first such reference. Paragraphs the edition leaves unnumbered are never counted (see 6.14). A commentary printed with the text is a separate work and is cited as commentary on the Aethyr, by the page of the edition that prints it.

6.32 The thirty Aethyrs

The table gives the number and name of each Aethyr as the list of the thirty Aethyrs in The Vision and the Voice prints them. Three of the visions are headed with another spelling: ZON for the third Aethyr, IKH for the eleventh, and UTI for the fourteenth. A reference uses the form in the table, and a quotation keeps the form it quotes.

6.33 The Comments on Liber AL

Four documents are known as comments on Liber AL. Crowley’s Old Comment (OC), New Comment (NC), and Djeridensis Comment (DjC) comment on the book verse by verse. The Tunis Comment (Tun) is a short statement printed at the end of many editions of the book under the heading “The Comment” and signed Ankh-f-n-khonsu. Never write the Comment without saying which is meant. Cite the Old, New, and Djeridensis Comments by the verse commented on, with on in roman between the siglum and the reference; cite the Tunis Comment as a whole. The three verse-by-verse Comments are Crowley’s works and take him as author in the bibliography, with the edition in which each was read; they are not received texts. The Tunis Comment is entered under the name it is signed with (see 5.16).

6.34 Liber ABA

Magick: Liber ABA, Book Four is in four parts, the third of which is Magick in Theory and Practice. Cite it by the page of the edition used, with the part and chapter, in arabic numerals, before the page (see 6.19). A chapter numbered 0, as in part 3, is cited as 0. Name the edition used; the second revised edition (Samuel Weiser, 1997) collects the four parts with an editor’s apparatus, which is the editor’s work (see 6.27). A part cited from an earlier separate publication, such as Magick in Theory and Practice (Paris: Lecram Press, 1929), is cited as that publication, by its own pages. A Liber printed within Liber ABA, as Liber Samekh is printed in its appendix 4, is cited by its own title, with its place in Liber ABA added where it helps the reader.

6.35 The Equinox: the form of reference

In a full citation write The Equinox, vol. 3, no. 10; as a siglum write Eq 3.10 (see 8.32). Give the volume and number in every citation of the periodical, whatever form the citation takes, and locate a passage by the page of that number.

Cite an article or a Liber printed in a number of The Equinox by its own title, with the volume and number as its location and the year alone, without place or publisher; the page follows the year after a colon. With the siglum, the page follows the number after a comma.

A number published as a book with a title of its own is cited as that book, by its own pages, followed by The Equinox, its volume, and its number, in notes and bibliography alike. The Equinox is a periodical, not a series, and keeps its italics in such a citation; 5.37 does not apply to it.

6.36 The volumes of The Equinox

Volume 1 comprises ten numbers, issued from 1909 to 1913, each paginated from 1. Volume 2 was never published. Volume 3, number 1, the Blue Equinox, appeared in Detroit in 1919. The later numbers of volume 3, and volume 4, appeared over the following decades from several publishers, many of them after Crowley’s death. Cite each number by the volume and number its title page gives it, in the form set out in 6.35, and give a page in it with that volume and number. A publication that uses the title outside this sequence is cited by the volume and number its own title page gives it, in the same form, and is never renumbered to fit.

6.37 Liber 777 and correspondences

Liber 777 is a book of tables of correspondence; in references its siglum is 777, followed by a space and the locus (see 8.9, 8.34). Cite it by the page of the edition used, with the column and row before the page: the column by its number in arabic numerals, the row by its number and, at first mention, by the Sephirah or path it represents. Name the edition in the bibliography. Cite a correspondence stated in an argument to the table actually consulted. Other tables of correspondence, such as those in the Golden Dawn documents or in Agrippa’s De Occulta Philosophia, are cited by their own divisions. A table reproduced in a work carries a source line (see 2.9).

6.38 The Book of Lies

Cite The Book of Lies by the page of the edition used, with the chapter before the page. Give the chapter number in arabic numerals, whatever numerals the edition prints; the first edition numbers its chapters in Greek, as ΚΕ (25). Give the chapter’s title in quotation marks at its first mention. Keep the book’s own numbering; never renumber its chapters or spell their numbers out. Later editions print a commentary by Crowley on each chapter; cite it as commentary on the chapter, by the page of the edition that prints it.

6.39 Liber Aleph

Liber Aleph vel CXI, known as The Book of Wisdom or Folly, consists of short numbered sections, each with a heading of its own. Cite it by the page of the edition used, with the section number before the page, and give the section’s heading at first mention. Give the number in arabic numerals, whatever numerals the edition prints. Where an edition prints each section on a page of the same number, give both numbers. Translate a Latin heading in the prose, never inside the reference.

6.40 Magick Without Tears

Magick Without Tears is a collection of Crowley’s letters to students. Cite it by the page of the edition used, with the number the edition gives the letter before the page, and give the letter’s title at first mention. Name the edition, and do not assume that a letter’s number in one edition identifies the same letter in another; its title does.

6.41 Magical diaries and records

Cite a published diary or magical record by the page of the edition used, with the date of the entry, as day, month, and year, before the page, and name the edition in the bibliography. Where an entry is dated astrologically and the dating bears on the argument, give it as the source gives it (see 3.65).

Cite an unpublished record as an archival document (see 6.26), by the date of the entry. A writer may cite their own unpublished record as evidence of their own practice. Cite it by date of entry, and say in the note that it is unpublished and cannot be consulted (see 2.14).

6.42 The Stèle of Revealing

The house form of the name is the Stèle of Revealing, capitalized and in roman; quoted matter keeps its source’s form, as AL 3:10 keeps stélé. Several things go under this name, and a writer says which is meant. The object is the funerary stele of Ankhefenkhonsu, a priest of Montu at Thebes. It bore the catalog number 666 in the Boulaq Museum, Cairo; give that number in writing of the stele’s history, and cite the object itself by the museum that now holds it and the number that museum gives it.

Cite the inscriptions by line in a named published edition. Cite the translation made for Crowley in 1904 by an assistant curator of the museum in Cairo as the museum’s translation, and any other translation, such as that of Alan Gardiner and Battiscombe Gunn (1912), by its translator. Crowley’s verse Paraphrase of the inscriptions is cited by the page of a named printing, with the line before the page; Liber AL quotes it (AL 1:14; 3:37–38). Use the conventional form of the priest’s name for the historical person and the received form, Ankh-af-na-khonsu, for the figure of the Thelemic texts (see 3.36, 4.26).

6.43 Rituals

Cite a ritual by the page of the edition used, with its named part before the page (see 6.19). Give the name of a part as the text prints it, shortened to its distinctive words, in roman with capitals and without quotation marks; where a named part has named subdivisions, give both. Where the passage lies in no named part, quote its opening words. Never impose line, section, or verse numbers that the ritual does not print. Where a ritual exists in more than one form, as a revised text or a printing that changes it, name the printing. The quotation of rubrics and speeches is treated in 3.77.

6.44 Practice sigla

The sigla LBRP and LIRP name the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and the Lesser Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram as practices; expand each at first use (see 8.33). A practice siglum names a procedure and does not cite a text. Where the wording of the ritual matters, cite the printed text it is taken from, such as Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae sub figurâ VI, by its own title.

6.45 Tarot

Cite a tarot card by its number and its title as the deck prints them, and name the deck at first mention; where a work uses one deck throughout, say so once. Write trump numbers in roman numerals, with Atu before the number in a Thelemic context and trump elsewhere. Decks differ, and a number alone does not identify a card across them. The Thoth deck numbers Adjustment VIII and Lust XI, where the Rider–Waite–Smith deck numbers Strength VIII and Justice XI. The court cards of the Thoth deck are Knight, Queen, Prince, and Princess; those of the Rider–Waite–Smith deck are King, Queen, Knight, and Page. Suits take the deck’s names, Disks or Pentacles.

A deck is a published work: where the images are the evidence, cite its designer, artist, publisher, and the printing used. Crowley’s Book of Thoth (Eq 3.5) is a work separate from the deck and is cited as a book (see 6.35). Permission to reproduce a card is treated in 2.17.

6.46 Paths and their attributions

Number the paths of the Tree of Life from 11 to 32, after the ten Sephiroth. Where a source numbers them from 1 to 22, say so and convert in your own prose. Identify a path at its first mention by at least two of its number, its Hebrew letter, and its tarot trump. Name the system of attribution, Golden Dawn or Thelemic, wherever the two differ. The Thelemic attribution, following Crowley’s reading of AL 1:57, exchanges the trumps of the fifteenth and twenty-eighth paths, so that Heh takes the Star and Tzaddi the Emperor. The trumps of the nineteenth and twenty-second paths, Teth and Lamed, are the same cards in both systems, numbered and titled differently (see 6.45).

6.47 Scripture and classical works

For the Bible, give book, chapter, and verse, never a page. Name the version at the first reference, and with each reference where a work cites more than one version. A letter for part of a verse follows 6.13: it is optional, and the version or edition whose division it follows is named at the first reference. Abbreviate the names of biblical books as 8.35 directs. Cite Greek and Latin works, and medieval works cited in the same manner, as 8.36 directs; for what it does not cover, follow CMS 14.143 and 14.152. For other sacred works, follow CMS 14.141 and name the version or the translator. The setting of the names of scriptures and revered works is treated in 3.44.

6.48 The Golden Dawn

Cite a Golden Dawn document by its own designation, with its title at first mention where it has one: a Flying Roll by its number as printed, a Z document by its letter and number, a knowledge lecture by its grade, and a grade ritual by its grade name and notation. Then cite the publication in which the document was read. Always name the edition of Israel Regardie’s Golden Dawn. Where a document is published elsewhere, or survives in manuscript, cite that source and say so. Keep the bodies distinct: the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, its Second Order, the Stella Matutina, and the Alpha et Omega (see 2.42).

6.49 The Hermetica

Cite the Corpus Hermeticum as CH, with treatise and section in arabic numerals joined by a period. Cite the Asclepius by section, and the Hermetic excerpts preserved by Stobaeus by excerpt and section in the edition used. Name the edition or translation at the first citation, such as the edition of A. D. Nock and A.-J. Festugière or the translation of Brian P. Copenhaver. The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of separate treatises and takes no author. Where a writer met the Hermetica through an intermediary, such as a Renaissance Latin version or a Theosophical or Golden Dawn paraphrase, cite the intermediary as what it is.

6.50 Alchemy

Cite an alchemical work by its own divisions (book, chapter, emblem, or plate) in a named edition, and a manuscript by repository and shelfmark. A work that circulated under a borrowed name is cited under that name, with pseudo- before it where scholarship distinguishes the later author. Reproduce a Deckname, a cover name such as “the green lion,” exactly as the source gives it, in quotation and in close paraphrase alike. A reading of what it denotes belongs in the prose or a note, as the writer’s reading, with its evidence. Set an alchemical symbol as a character where Unicode encodes it, and as an image where it does not (see 4.41).

6.51 Grimoires and the Picatrix

A grimoire’s title names a family of manuscripts and editions. Cite a manuscript by repository and shelfmark, or a named edition, and never the title alone. Where an edition combines manuscripts, say so at the first citation and name the manuscripts if the editor names them. The parts of the Lemegeton (the Ars Goetia, the Theurgia-Goetia, the Ars Paulina, the Ars Almadel, and the Ars Notoria) are separate works and are cited separately. Cite a spirit of the Goetia by number and name together. The Arabic Ghāyat al-ḥakīm and the Latin Picatrix are distinct texts; say which is meant, and cite book and chapter in the named edition. Cite the Arbatel by aphorism. Mathers’s English Abramelin (1898), translated from a French manuscript, and the later translations from German manuscripts are different texts and are not cited for one another.

6.52 Dee and Enochian sources

Cite John Dee’s manuscripts by repository and shelfmark, with the folio, and name any printed or digital facsimile used. The later records of Dee’s sessions were printed by Meric Casaubon in 1659 from Cotton Appendix XLVI; cite Casaubon as a printed edition, with its own readings, and the manuscript where it was consulted. Enochian words take different forms in Dee’s manuscripts, in Casaubon, in the Golden Dawn papers, and in Crowley. At first use, say from which of them a form is taken (see 4.35). Cite a Call by its number, naming the numbering followed, and the Call of the Thirty Aethyrs with the Aethyr named. A modern edition’s readings are the text of that edition, and its commentary is its editor’s (see 6.27).

6.53 Freemasonry

Cite a lodge by its name, its number, and the jurisdiction under which it works. Cite a lodge’s published transactions as a journal (see 5.38, 8.39). Name a degree at its first mention, with its notation thereafter (see 3.34), and name the rite wherever rites number their degrees differently. Where Masonic, O.T.O., and A∴A∴ degrees or grades are in view together, qualify each by its body. Masonic ritual is cited as other ritual is (see 6.43), and material a body restricts is cited as 6.68–6.74 direct.

6.54 Kabbalistic primary sources

Cite the Zohar by volume and folio of the Mantua edition, with the side, and name the translation quoted. Cite Sefer Yetzirah by chapter and mishnah, and name the recension (short, long, Saadyan, or the version of the Vilna Gaon). A claim about Jewish Kabbalah is cited to its texts and to the scholarship on them. An occult intermediary, such as Mathers’s Kabbalah Unveiled (1887), is cited as itself and never as the Zohar (see 2.44). The spellings Qabalah and Kabbalah are distinguished in 3.5.

6.55 Egyptian texts

The Book of the Dead is a body of spells copied in many papyri. Cite it by spell number, and name the papyrus and the translation quoted. Cite the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts by number in a named edition or translation. Where a nineteenth- or early twentieth-century translation is quoted, name it and its date. A claim about ancient Egyptian religion is cited to current Egyptological scholarship. A claim about what Crowley or the Golden Dawn understood may cite the translation they used, identified as their source. Cite an inscription by its published edition and an object by its museum and number (see 6.42). Where an argument depends on the date of an Egyptian reign, dynasty, or object, name the chronology followed. Egyptian names are treated in 3.36 and 4.26, and their romanization in 4.27.

6.56 The Greek Magical Papyri

Cite the Greek Magical Papyri as PGM, with the number of the papyrus in roman numerals, as the standard edition numbers it, and the lines in arabic. Name the translation quoted. The rite on which Liber Samekh is based is PGM V.96–172; cite the papyrus for the ancient text and Liber Samekh for Crowley’s.

6.57 Living initiatory traditions

Cite a claim about a living initiatory tradition outside Thelema to that tradition’s own sources and to the scholarship on it, never to a Thelemic secondary source alone. Name the community whose usage a work follows, and follow its current orthography (see 3.87). A comparison between that tradition and Thelema is the writer’s argument and is presented as one. Instruction received within the tradition is cited as 6.73 directs, with the consent the tradition requires, and its restricted material as 6.68–6.72 direct. The obligations of writing about such a tradition are set out in 2.44–2.45.

6.58 Naming the system

A work states the system of every numerical value it gives: Hebrew gematria, Greek isopsephy, or a named English system (see 6.63). Name the system at the first value, and with every value where the work uses more than one system. An editor queries a value given without its system.

6.59 The word in its script

Show a word whose value is given in its own script, with a romanization or the English form beside it (see 4.8). The value belongs to the spelling in the script. Where a word has more than one spelling in its script, show the spelling valued.

6.60 The display convention

Give a value in this form: the word in its script, its romanization or English form in parentheses, an equals sign with a space on each side, and the value, with the system named in the sentence or at the end. Where the sum itself is under discussion, or the spelling is unusual, set the working on a line of its own beneath: each letter with its value, in the order of the word, joined by plus signs with a space on each side, and the total after an equals sign. In the working for a right-to-left script the letters may be given by name. In a table, the same elements form the columns, in the same order.

6.61 Final letters

Five Hebrew letters (Kaph, Mem, Nun, Peh, and Tzaddi) have final forms. State whether final letters are counted at their ordinary values or at the extended values of 500 to 900 (final Kaph 500, Mem 600, Nun 700, Peh 800, Tzaddi 900). Say it once for the work, and again at any value where a different treatment is used. Where a cited authority counts final letters differently from the writer, say so at the citation. Where the choice changes a sum the argument relies on, give both values.

6.62 The equals sign

An equals sign between a word and a number states the word’s value. Never set an equals sign, an arrow, or any other mark between two words to assert that they are the same; that is a claim, and it is written as a claim and attributed to whoever makes it. That two words share a value is a premise, and what follows from it is argued in prose. An editor neither adds nor removes such a mark (see 2.22).

6.63 English Qabalahs

Several systems assign numerical values to the letters of the English alphabet, and several of them are offered by their proponents as the system AL 2:55 calls for. They give different values for the same word. Never write the English Qabalah without naming the system meant. Name it at first use, and cite the publication that defines its order and values wherever a reader could not otherwise reproduce them. The English Qaballa (EQ) is the name of one such system and keeps its own spelling (see 3.5). Where a work uses more than one English system, name the system with every value. Show the English word in the spelling valued.

6.64 Values from a lexicon or table

Cite a value taken from a published lexicon of values, such as Crowley’s Sepher Sephiroth, or from a table of correspondences, to the work it was taken from (see 6.37). Where the writer’s value differs from the one a cited lexicon gives, or rests on a spelling the lexicon does not record, give the spelling in its script, show the working (see 6.60), and cite any authority for the spelling.

6.65 Path attributions in argument

An argument that turns on the attribution of a letter or a trump to a path states, before the claim, which system is in force (see 6.46). Where a work makes such arguments throughout, state the system once at the start and again wherever it changes. An argument about the Thelemic attribution itself cites AL 1:57 and the text in which the exchange is set out.

6.66 Confusable characters

Some characters look alike and carry different values. Greek final sigma (ς, 200) and stigma (ϛ, 6) are the commonest such pair. A Hebrew final form keyed as the ordinary letter, or the reverse, changes a sum wherever final letters are valued separately. A Latin letter typed for a Greek or Hebrew one of similar shape shows no difference on the page and defeats any electronic check of the sum. Check each displayed computation against the characters actually set. The characters and their code points are given in 4.51.

6.67 Notariqon and temurah

Name any operation other than the adding of values at its first use: notariqon; temurah, with its cipher named (Atbash, Albam, or Aiq Bekar); or a modern method, by its name. Show the working: the source in its script, the operation, and the result in its script. State any adjustment to a sum, such as adding 1 for the word as a whole, where it is made. A modern or personal method is named as its author’s and cited where it is published, and it is not presented as traditional without evidence.

6.68 Three kinds of material

Before citing a restricted document, decide which of the three kinds set out in 2.34–2.36 it is: published, privately circulated, or oath-bound. An editor checks the decision.

6.69 Published material

Cite material that the issuing body has published as any other publication, with the body as publisher where it is the publisher. No note about its kind is needed. Where the body has published a partial or revised text, cite the text it published and say that it is partial or revised.

6.70 Privately circulated material

Cite a privately circulated document as an unpublished document: the issuing body or author, where they can be named without disclosing what the body restricts; the title or a description; the date; and a statement that the document is privately circulated and not publicly available. Quote from it no more than the argument needs (see 3.81). Give no shelfmark, address, link, or other route by which a reader could obtain a copy (see 6.74). A living person who holds or transmitted the document is named only with their consent (see 2.37).

6.71 Documents a reader cannot obtain

Some documents are out of a reader’s reach for reasons other than restriction: a letter in private hands, a record in an archive closed to readers, a document since lost. Cite what was consulted, as fully as its holder permits, and say where it is held and that it is not open to readers. Where the writer worked from a copy or a transcription, say whose. State in the note that the reader cannot check the source (see 2.14). Such a citation supports a description of the document; where the argument asks the reader to accept the document’s contents on the writer’s word, the sentence says so.

6.72 Oath-bound material

Identify an oath-bound document by the body that issued it, the kind of document, the grade or degree to which it belongs, and the period in which it was in use, and by nothing else. Give no title, quotation, paraphrase, summary, shelfmark, location, link, page or section number, or name of anyone who transmitted it. Where naming the body would itself disclose what the obligation protects, describe the body as the restriction permits. State in the citation that the document is oath-bound and is not further identified. In a bibliography and an index it is entered under the issuing body and takes no title entry. Such a citation supports a statement that the document exists, and a statement of its general character and its place in the body’s structure. It cannot support a claim about its content.

6.73 Oral and initiatory instruction

Cite instruction received orally in a note, or in author-date in the text (see 5.55); never list it in a bibliography or reference list. Describe the occasion by its kind, as 2.40 distinguishes them (oral instruction, lodge instruction, initiatory transmission, or private teaching), and give its date and setting as far as the material’s kind permits. Name the person who gave it only with that person’s consent to be named for this use, and say that the citation is made with permission; otherwise describe without identifying. Disclose its content only as far as its kind allows (see 6.68–6.72). State that the reader cannot check the source. Attribute nothing to a dead teacher that cannot be evidenced (see 2.41).

6.74 What is never permitted

Never quote oath-bound material, in whole or in part. Never disclose its content by paraphrase, summary, or allusion, or by a hint addressed to readers who share the obligation. Never link to a copy of restricted material, or describe how one may be obtained, however it came to be available. Never use a citation to suggest access the writer does not have; where an editor doubts the access, the editor asks (see 2.26). An argument that cannot be made within the forms in 6.68–6.73 is not published.