English Qabalah  English Qabalah (alternatively English Cabala(h) or English Qaballa) refers to several different systems of mysticism related to Hermetic Qabalah that interpret the letters of the Roman script or English alphabet via an assigned set of numerological significances. While some writers make a distinction between a "qabalah" and a "gematria", in current usage the term "qabalah" may refer to either type of system. Most of the systems developed since the death of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) have been created with the intent of gaining a better understanding of the mysteries elaborated in his inspired works, especially those in "Liber AL vel Legis, the Book of the Law". According to Jake Stratton-Kent, a qabalah is specifically related to three factors: a language, a holy text or texts, and mathematical laws at work in these two. Emery More speculates that the Latin alphabet together with the Arabic numerals are the standardized scripting of the Aeon of Horus, potentially revealing new truths and natural orders hitherto unknown, and that they should therefore effectively replace the keys of past systems. Gematria, on the other hand, is a system in which letters are equated to number values. The letters comprising the word or name of person or object are then summed together. The number of this sum is termed the key of that particular word. Words sharing the same key are said to share properties. The letters are often tabulated along with their numerical equivalents. An example of the simplest serial gematria for English letters would be the following:   The first reference to an English Qabalah found in the literature was made by Willis F. Whitehead in 1899 in his book, "The Mystic Thesaurus", in which he describes a system he called "English Cabala." In 1904, Aleister Crowley wrote out the text of the foundational document of his world-view, known as "Liber AL vel Legis", "The Book of the Law". In this text was the injunction found at verse 2:55; "Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet, thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto" which was understood by Crowley as referring to an English Qabalah yet to be developed or revealed. In one of the "Holy Books of Thelema" written by Aleister Crowley in 1907, called "Liber Trigrammaton, sub figura XXVII -- Being the Book of the Mutations of the Tao with the Yin and the Yang", are 27 three-line diagrams known as 'trigrams', which are composed of a solid line for the Yang, a broken line for the Yin, and a point for the Tao.