The number 42 is the Great Number of the Curse. – Aleister Crowley, Liber CCCXXXIII, 1912.
7. A most evil number, whose perfection is impossible to attack. – Aleister Crowley, Liber 777, 1909.
77. OZ, the Goat, scil. of the Sabbath of the Adepts. The Baphomet of the Templars, the idol set up to defy and overthrow the false god–though it is understood that he himself is false, not an end, but a means. Note the 77 = 7 x 11, magical power in perfection. – Aleister Crowley, Liber 777, 1909.
333. ChVRVNZVN, see Liber 418, 10th Aethry. It is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. There is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possibly the evil of Matter summó. 333 = 37 x 9 the accurséd. – Aleister Crowley, Liber 777, 1909.
Twenty-five (2 + 5 = 7) days after the sale of the Ruby Slippers on December 7th, 2024, at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, and 77 days after the supermoon of October 17th 2024, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, whose name has a sum of 77 using Pythagorean reduction[1] and is also from Texas, killed and wounded many when he drove his truck through the French Quarter in New Orleans, transforming it into the magickal Land of Oz. Syncing with the theatrical release of the Russian film The Wizard of Emerald City on January 1st, 2025 (the moon is a waxing crescent in Capricorn, the leaping goat, i.e., the godhead), the attack occurred at the intersection of Bourbon and Iberville Streets, a block from the Old Absinthe House (Bourbon and Bienville Streets), Aleister Crowley’s (1874-1947) favorite haunt in the Crescent City (the Mississippi River’s bend around the French Quarter resembles a crescent moon hence the moniker) when he wasn’t busy writing Moonchild (1917), summoning Diana’s brightness 77 days earlier. Of course, a few blocks from the scene of the carnage are two Ruby Slipper cafes, and the closest movie theater is the Prytania at Canal Place, located on the third floor of 333 Canal Street, suggesting the demon Choronzon’s involvement. Currently, the theater is playing both Wicked and Wicked Sing-A-Long films. Rob knows more but is keeping quiet for now as this curse is highly active! Cinema Symbolism 4 and Cinema Symbolism OZ coming soon.
[1] S/1 + h/8 + a/1 + m/4 + s/1 + u/3 + d/4 = 22, D/4 + i/9 + n/5 = 18, B/2 + a/1 + h/8 + a/1 + r/9 = 21, J/1 + a/1 + b/2 + b/2 + a/1 + r/9 = 16; 22 + 18 + 21 + 16 = 77.
Robert W. Sullivan IV 