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420 Kabbalah

Feb 22 - May 18

Dude, like, Aleister Crowley said you could learn the Holy Kabbalah, in, like, two ways. You could memorize all those tables of correspondences, OR you could tackle one Kabbalistic problem and focus all your attention on it. Well, a few years ago I noticed that the Hebrew word for “smoke” adds up to 420, which I found an interesting coincidence. Man, that sounds like a Kabbalistic problem. This class will explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah through the number 420. I think this will provide a wonderful entryway into the thought of Aleister Crowley and a playful approach to the Golden Dawn material which so greatly influenced Crowley, Israel Regadie, Robert Anton Wilson and many others. Along the way we will discuss the history of the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, the relationship between the Kabbalah and the Western occult tradition, and the interrationships between the Jewish, Christian and Sufi traditions. Please join us on this Kabbalistic voyage.

Text: 777 by Aleister Crowley

Week One - 1 x 420
Album of the Week: Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
Movie of the Week: The Breakfast Club
Reading in 777: This book contains a number of shorter works, and it has weird pagination. Book One starts off with an unnumbered Introduction, then it has a numbered section. Book Two has an Editorial Preface with Roman numbers and starts off again with page 1. Book Three has an Editorial Note and some unnumbered pages, and then it begins again with page 1 yet again.

This week please read the Introduction to Book One and look at the list of words that add up to 420 on page 44, Book Three.1

Week Two - 2 x 210
Album of the Week: Rubber Soul, The Beatles
Movie of the Week: Dazed and Confused
Reading: Read the essay “Gematria,” pg . 1 – 26, Book One, read about 210 on page 45, Book One, and look at the list of words that add up to 210 on page 26, Book Three.

Week Three - 3 x 140
Album of the Week: Dick’s Picks #8, The Grateful Dead
Movie of the Week: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Reading: Please read “An Essay Upon Number,” pg. 27 – 50, Book One, and look at the word that adds up to 140 on page 20, Book Three.

Week Four - 4 x 105
Album of the Week: Wingspan, Paul McCartney
Movie of the Week: Spirited Away
Reading: Pg. i – xxvii, Book Two, and look at the words that add up to 105 on page 16, Book Three.

Week Five - 5 x 84, 20 x 21
Album of the Week: The Superman Curse, The Ominous Seapods
Movie of the Week: The Birds
Reading: Pg. 1 – 44, Book Two, look at the comments on 20 and 21 on page 29, on 84 on page 31, and on 21 on page 43, all in Book One, and look at the words that add up to 20 and 21 on page 3 and the words that up to 84 on page 13 in Book Three.

Week Six - 6 x 70, 15 x 28
Album of the Week: Legend, Bob Marley
Movie of the Week: F for Fake
Reading: Pg. 45 – 85, Book Two, and read the comment on 70 on page 31 and on 28 on page 44, both in Book Two, and look at the words that add up to 28 on page 4 and 70 on page 11 of Book Three.

Week Seven - 7 x 60, 14 x 30
Album of the Week: The Chronic, Dr. Dre
Movie of the Week: The Wizard of Oz
Reading: Pg. 86 – 124, Book, read about 60 on page 31 and 30 and 60 on page 44 in Book Two, and look at the words that add up to 30 on page 4 and 60 on pages 9 & 10 of Book Three.

Week Eight - 10 x 42 (ten answers), 12 x 35
Album of the Week: Hempilation, Various Artists
Movie of the Week: Up in Smoke
TV Show of the Week: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Reading: Pg. 125 – 137, Book Two, read about 35 and 42 on page 30, Book One, and look at the words that add up to 35 on page 5 and 42 on page 6 of Book Three.


- Eric Wagner BIO

Born in 1962 in Washington, D.C. to two former NSA computer programmers. Eric and his family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in November, 1967 C.E. In 1982 C.E. he began reading Robert Anton Wilson's books, and in 1986 the two began corresponding. In the years since Eric began reading Wilson, he has traveled from Ingolstadt, Bavaria, to Aswan, Egypt, from Country Kerry, Ireland, to Honolulu, Hawaii, attempting to understand the ideas behind Wilson's works. Eric has worked as a computer programmer, operator and microcoder, a musician, a poet, a technical writer, a dancer, a film historian and a teacher, etc. His first book, An Insider’s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson, came out in 1985 C.E.

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