- Author
- George T. Mortimer
- Published
- 1996, with a foreword added in 2016
- Kind
- Self-published occult monograph on letter-number ciphers, in PDF
- Original
- www.media-underground.net/ebooks/The_Key_Of_It_All.pdf
- Subject
- Occult, myth and religion
What it is
A short book by the founder of Media Underground, released as a free PDF. It follows attempts to solve verse II:76 of Liber AL vel Legis. It then offers the author's own keys, a reading of Crowley's diary and a table.
What it says
- Mortimer argues that Suster's C=7 key solved only half of the Liber AL II:76 cipher.
- A D=7 key gives 400, and both keys combined give 676, or 26 squared.
- Mortimer reads the diary entry pfly2bz as 61, the Hebrew word AIN.
- Mortimer ties Crowley's cryptic diary entries to an omitted banishing after invoking Horus.
- Appendix B tabulates word values, such as 666 for one Thelema phrase.
- The 2016 foreword floats the idea that the cipher may only change how solvers think.
- The 2016 foreword says the author now stays sceptical and calls the findings intriguing.
What evidence it gives
The book gives key tables, sums and quotations from Crowley, Regardie and Suster. A reader can check the arithmetic. Appendix B lists dozens of word totals. The book does not test how often such matches arise by chance.
Interests and limits
The author published this on a personal site. Later, the author treats the result with sceptical openness. The foreword also allows that the cipher may mean nothing at all. The matches are numerological and rest on the author's judgment. The foreword calls the work intriguing only.