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Decimal Numogram
Pandemonium is the complete system of Lemurian demonism and time sorcery. It
consists of two principal components: Numogram (time-map) and Matrix (listing the
names, numbers and attributes of the demons).
The system is constructed according to immanent criteria latent in decimal numeracy,
and involves only basic arithmetical operations (assembled from additions and
subtractions).
The Numogram, or Decimal Labyrinth, is composed of ten zones (numbered 0-9) and
their interconnections. These zones are grouped into five pairs (syzygies) by nine-sum
twinning [zygonovism]. The arithmetical difference of each syzygy defines a current
(or connection to a tractor zone). Currents constitute the primary flows of the
numogram.
Each zone number when digitally cumulated defines the value of a gate, whose
reduction sets the course of a corresponding channel. Channels constitute the
secondary flows, time-holes, or secret interconnections of the numogram.
The arrangement of currents divides the Maze into three basic time-systems. Firstly,
the currents of the three central syzygies mutually compose a cycle, rotating in
anticlockwise steps. Lemurian sorcery calls this inner loop the Time-Circuit. Secondly,
and thirdly, in both the Upper and the Lower syzygies the currents produced fold back
into (a half of) themselves, constituting autonomous loops: the Warp (upper), and Plex
(lower). Warp and Plex circuitries are of an intrinsically cryptic nature, which is
compounded by the enigmas of their interconnection. They are variously considered to
be Outside- or Outer-time.
The gates and their channels knit the Maze together, providing connections between
otherwise incompatible time-systems. They open and close the ways of sorcerous
traffic. Although each gate deranges time in its own way, their operations vary with a
certain regional consistency.
1. Numogram and Otz Chaiim.
To those familiar with the Western Magical Tradition, it is likely that the Numogram
will initially evoke the Qabbalistic Tree of Life. Both are constructed as decimal
diagrams, involving webs of connectivity between ten basic zones, mysteriously
twisted into a cryptic ultra-cycle (that links upper and lower regions). Both treat
names as numbers, and numerize by digital reduction and cumulation. Both include
passages across abysmal waters and through infernal regions. Both map zones onto
spinal levels.
Despite these manifold interlinkages, there are compelling reasons to consider the
Tree of Life a scrambled variant of the Numogram, rather than a parallel system.
During its long passage through Atlantean and post-Atlantean hermetic traditions the
systematic distortions of the Numogram (introduced to confuse the uninitiated)
gradually hardened into erroneous doctrines, and a dogmatic image of the Tree.
Most evidently, a vulgar distribution of the numbers - in their exoteric counting-order was substituted (redundantly) for the now esoteric numogrammatical distribution,
which proceeds in accordance with immanent criteria (the web emerging
qabbalisitically from the zone-numbers themselves). More devastatingly, the orginal
consistency of numeracy and language seems to have been fractured at an early stage,
introducing a division between the number of the Sephiroth (10) and that of the
Hebrew alphabet (22). The result was a break between the nodes of the tree and the
interconnecting paths, ruining all prospect of decipherment. The Sephiroth -segmented
over-aganist their connections - become static and structural, whilst the paths lose any
rigorous principle of allocation. A strictly analogous outcome is evident in the
segmentation of the Tarot into Major and Minor Arcana. Increasingly desperate,
arbitrary, and mystifying attempts to re-unite the numbers and their linkages seems to
have bedevilled all succeeding occult traditions.
2. Numogram and I Ching.
There is considerable evidence, both immanent and historical, that the chinese I Ching
and the Nma numogram share a hypercultural matrix. Both are associated with
intricate zygonomies, or double-numbering systems, and process abstract
problematics involving subdivisions of decimal arrays (as suggested by the Ten Wings
of traditional I Ching commentary). Digital reduction of binary powers stabilizes in a
six-step cycle (with the values 1, 2, 4, 8, 7, 5). These steps correspond to the lines of
the hexagram, and to the time-circuit zones of the Numogram, producing a
binodecimal 6-Cycle (which is also
generated in reverse by quintuplicative numbering). In both cases a supplementary
rule of pairing is followed, according to a zygonovic criterion (9-twinning of reduced
values: 8:1, 7:2, 5:4, mapping the hexagram line pairs).
The numogram time-circuit, or I Ching hexagam, implictly associates zero with the set
of excluded triadic values. It is intriguing in this respect that numerous indications
point to an early struggle between triadic and binary numbering practices in ancient
chinese culture, suggesting that the binary domination of decimal numeracy
systematically produces a triadic residue consistent with nullity. The hexagram itself
exhibits obvious tension in this respect, since it reinserts a triadic hyperfactor into the
reduced binodigital set (compounded by its summation to twenty-seven, or the third
power of three).
An ancient binotriadic parallel to the I Ching, called the T'ai Hsuan Ching (or Book of
the Great Dark) consisted of eighty-one tetragrams, reversing the relation of
foregrounded and implicit numerical values. The division of Lao Tse's Tao Te Ching into
eighty-one sections suggests that this numerical conflict was an animating factor in
the early history of Taoism.
3. Ethnography of the Nma.
Nma culture cannot be decoded without the key provided by the Lemurian Time-Maze.
The influence of a hyper triadic criterion of time is evident in the relics of Nma kinship
organization, calendrics, and associated rituals. Prior to the calamity of 1883, the Nma
consisted of true tribes (tripartite macrosocial divisions). They were distributed in a
basic tridentity (interlocking large-scale groupings into Tak- Mu- and Dib-Nma),
supported by a triangular patrilocal marriage-cycle. Each marriage identified a woman
with a numogram current, or time-passage. (Tak-Nma women marrying into the MuNma, Mu-Nma ditto Dib-Nma, Dib-Nma ditto Tak-Nma). The common calendar of all
three tribes was based upon a zygotriadic system (using 6 digits to divide a doubleyear period of 729 days into fractional powers of three). The Mu-Nma still employ such
a calendar today. (The current Mu-Nma calendar is adjusted by regular intercalations
of three additional days every second cycle, or four years. The earlier practice of
intercalations is not easily recoverable).
In the rituals of the Nma the time-circuit is concretized as a hydro-cycle: a division and
recombination of the waters. The three stages of this recurrent transmutation are, 1)
the undivided waters (oceanic), 2) cloud-building (evaporation), and 3) down-pour
(precipitation, river-flow). These are associated with the great sea-beast (Mur Mur),
the lurker of steaming swamps (Oddubb), and that which hunts amongst the raging
storms (Katak). The cycle is closed by a return to the abysmal waters, intrinsically
linking the order of time, and its recurrence, to an ultimate cataclysm (prior to any
opposition of cyclic and apocalyptic time). It is in this context that the transcultural
deluge-mythos can be restored to its aboriginal sense (which also corresponds to the
Hindu Trimurti, with its three stages of creation, preservation and destruction).
4. The Numogram Zones
The Zones. Zone Zero. Zone One. Zone Two. Zone Three. Zone Four. Zone Five. Zone
Six. Zone Seven. Zone Eight. Zone Nine.