Thelema 418
[feel free to jump in and expand my point of view. I don't mind if people respectfully disagree, though I think we could expand this discussion, maybe others might add other layers of what 418 means]

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Bill:
Thanks for writing from Naropa, showing interest in Thelema.

Ah, you start out with the easy questions. LOL.
418 is the numerology for the House of God. This is the 16th Trump in the Tarot card, the Tower, which relates to the letter P. One could expand on the symbols of Psychopomp, Psychic, etc.

The Tower, to me, represents Chaos, and here we get into Chaos Theory in Quantum Theory and Chaos Magick.

Existentially speaking, we live in a world without meaning, chaotic, if you will. A person's meaning is found by what they intend, what they will. This is the key to magick. The number one in the number 418, can represent the Magus, the Magician in the 1st Trump. The Magician must learn to work their will, and magick is both a blessing and a curse. A disciplined Magician then becomes a Magus, and I believe the most important realization a Magus can make is that the Great Work requires much INTELLIGENCE. The magician must learn to be open to transformation themself, if they are going to transform reality. Brain change is a big part of magick.

18 is also the number of the Moon, the 18th trump in the Tarot, and there is a whole series of discussion we could have on Illusion, Glamour, and Time.

4 can symbolize the Emperor, the True Self.

4 + 1 + 8 = 13, and 13 is the Death card in the Tarot.

In fact we could see something about the Great Work in these five cards:
12 The Hanged Man
13 Death
14 Art
15 Devil
16 Tower

This is more of a shamanistic look.

Does any of this have meaning for you?

Anther aspect of God I thought of tonight, in a comment someone made about God exhalting the moral qualities that society should possess; wouldn't that make God a dictator?

I mean people make choices according to free will. Take that away and we just have a Soul Group that is no more than an insect hive. Free will and true will is important, that God/Goddess bestow on creation, so that we can freely choose to come together in a Group Mind, and with that diversity create a true House of God.

Another aspect of Chaos theory is Beauty Theory; that in all the randomness there is beauty and order of some kind.

Going back to the number 18, 1 + 8 = 9.
This is the Hermit, the seeker of the Philosopher's stone.
In the Book of the Law it says Thelema has only 3 grades, the Hermit, the Lover, the man of Earth.

I could go on and on. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I will post this on the forum at Thelema Meetup, in case other might be interested.

On a side note, a friend of mine, Foton Fonon, Mark created something called Dream::Star, which is related to Mayan Dreamspell, though it includes five green glyphs and 17 tones (instead of 13 tones as in Dreamspell). Dreamspell has 260 kin, Dream::Star has 425. Thus, there is a Kin 418, and it is Yellow Planetary Warrior (definitely speaks of things in chapter 3, of the Book of the Law, as does Krishna's discussion with Arjuna):
"I perfect in order to question
Producing fearlessness
I seal the input of intelligence
with the planetary tone of manifestation
I am guided by the power of flowering."

This is found in the Green Joy Star Wavespell. Joy and Ecstasy are a key to Thelema, since TBOTL states that this is the nature of existence, where the old Buddhaic idea was that Sorrow was the nature of existence. A definitely switch.
(as you might grok, this shows the power of synchronicity, in a chaotic universe, that patterns can be revealed from diverse sources; I believe this is the WHOLENESS that Thelema represents on an atomic level)


279,
Frater Sabaechit
Sunwolf
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Thanks for getting back to me. The question I had was about 418, the Great Work, how or what do you think it is or represents? I'd greatly appreciate your thoughts on the matter.
thanks again for your time,
Bill
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