Volumes, Books and Trips
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The Eye In The Pyramid
Book One: Verwirrung
The First Trip, or Kether 2-34 From Dealey Plaza To Watergate ...
The Second Trip, or Chokmah 34-54 Hopalong Horus Rides Again
The Third Trip, or Binah 54-85 No sub-head
Book Two: Zwietracht
The Fourth Trip or Chesed 85-133 Jesus Christ On A Bicycle
The Fifth Trip, or Geburah 133-188 Swift-Kick, Inc
The Golden Apple
The Golden Apple prologue
Book Three: Unordnung
The Sixth Trip, or Tipareth 188-224 (THE MAN WHO MURDERED GOD)
The Seventh Trip, or Netzach 224-274 (THE SNAFU PRINCIPLE)
Book Four: Beamtenherrschaft
The Eighth Trip, or Hod 274-320 (TELEMACHUS SNEEZED)
Leviathan
Leviathan prologue
Book Four: Beamtenherrschaft (continued)
The Ninth Trip, or Yesod 320-377 (WALPURGISNACHT ROCK)
Book Five: Grummet
The Tenth Trip, or Malkuth 377-426 (FAREWELL TO PLANET EARTH)
The Appendices
Appendix Aleph (1 Ox): George Washington's Hemp Crop 427-428
Appendix Beth (2 House): The Illuminati Cyphers, Codes, and Calendars 428-431
Appendix Gimmel (3 Camel): The Illuminati Theory of History 431-439
Appendix Daleth (4 Door): Hassan i Sabbah and Alamount Black 439-442
Appendix Tzaddi (18 Fishing Hook): 23 Skidoo 442-443
Appendix Vau (6 Nail): Flaxscrip and Hempscrip 444-445
Appendix Zain (7 Sword): Property and Privilege 445-446
Appendix Cheth (8 Enclosure): Hagbard's Abdication 446
Ref: page 250 when Hagbard hands over to Miss Portinari
Appendix Lamed (12 Ox-Goad): The Tactics of Magick 446-456
Appendix Yod (10 Hand): Operation Mindfuck 456-459
Appendix Kaph (11 Palm of Hand): The Rosy Double-Cross 459-460
Appendix Teth (9 Serpent): Hagbard's Booklet 460-464
Appendix Mem (13 Water): Certain Questions That May Still Trouble Some 465-466
Appendix Nun (14 Fish): Additional Information About Some of the Characters 466—
The Eye In The Pyramid
Book One: Verwirrung
The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies.
Ishmael Reed, Mumbo-Jumbo
Verwirrung = Season of Chaos January 1-March 14
(see Appendix Beth for Calendar, and Appendix Gimel for History Cycle)
Ends with word ‘point’ kether :: non-local quantum :: application
The Second Trip, or Chokmah 34-54 Hopalong Horus Rides Again
Ends with word ‘line’ chokmah :: morphogenetic (neurogenetic) :: session
The Third Trip, or Binah 54-85 No sub-head
Ends with word ‘plane’ binah :: metaprogrammatic :: presentation
Book Two: Zwietracht
"It must have a 'natural' cause."
"It must have a 'supernatural' cause."
Let these two asses be set to grind corn.
— Frater Perdurabo, O.T.O., "Chinese Music," The Book of Lies
Zwietracht = Season of Discord March 15-May 26
Ends with word ‘solid’ chesed :: neurosomatic :: transport (UDP)
e.g. Chesed "Mercy" - corresponds to Jupiter, Isis, the color blue (on the Queen Scale), Poseidon, Brahma, and amethysts.
The Fifth Trip, or Geburah 133-188 Swift-Kick, Inc
Ends with word ‘motion’ geburah :: socio-sexual :: transport (TCP)
The Golden Apple
In the three volume set (the original) the second and third books started with a Prologue (presumably in case you hadn't read the previous books, and allowed the volume to stand alone) which contained useful summaries of this sometimes confusing material, and also some stuff that doesn't even appear in the final cut.
Book Three: Unordnung
Believe not one word that is written in The Honest Book of Truth
by Lord Omar nor any that be in Principia Discordia by Malaclypse
the Younger; for all that is there contained are the most pernicious
and deceptive truths.
— "Epistle to the Episkopi," The Dishonest Book of Lies,
by Mordecai Malignatus, K.N.S.
Unordnung = Season of Confusion May 27-August 7
The Sixth Trip, or Tipareth 188-224 (THE MAN WHO MURDERED GOD)
tiphareth :: semantic time-binding :: network (IP)
The Seventh Trip, or Netzach 224-274 (THE SNAFU PRINCIPLE)
netzach :: right-brain/intuitive side of 3rd circuit :: network (local/emergent routing algorithms)
Book Four: Beamtenherrschaft
Well, Hoover performed. He would have fought. That was the point.
He would have defied a few people. He would have scared them to death.
He has a file on everybody. — Richard Milhous Nixon
Beamtenherrschaft = Season of Bureacracy August 8-October 19
The Eighth Trip, or Hod 274-320 (TELEMACHUS SNEEZED)
hod :: left-brain/analytical side of 3rd circuit :: network (global/hierarchical routing algorithms)
Leviathan
In the three volume set (the original) the second and third books started with a Prologue (presumably in case you hadn't read the previous books, and allowed the volume to stand alone) which contained useful summaries of this sometimes confusing material, and also some stuff that doesn't even appear in the final cut.
Book Four: Beamtenherrschaft (continued)
The Ninth Trip, or Yesod 320-377 (WALPURGISNACHT ROCK)
yesod :: emotional-territorial :: link)
Book Five: Grummet
The bursts to the moon and to the planets are also not historic events.
They are the major evolutionary breakthroughs . . . Today when we speak
of immortality and of going to another world we no longer mean these in
a theological or metaphysical sense. People are now striving for physical
immortality. People are now traveling to other worlds. Transcendence is
no longer a metaphysical concept. It has become reality.
— F. M. ESFANDIARY, Upwingers
Grummet = Season of Aftermath October 20-Decermber 31
The Tenth Trip, or Malkuth 377-426 (FAREWELL TO PLANET EARTH)
malkuth :: bio-survival :: physical
The Appendices
Appendix Aleph (1 Ox): George Washington's Hemp Crop 427-428
Appendix Beth (2 House): The Illuminati Cyphers, Codes, and Calendars 428-431
Appendix Gimmel (3 Camel): The Illuminati Theory of History 431-439
Appendix Daleth (4 Door): Hassan i Sabbah and Alamount Black 439-442
Appendix Tzaddi (18 Fishing Hook): 23 Skidoo 442-443
Appendix Vau (6 Nail): Flaxscrip and Hempscrip 444-445
Appendix Zain (7 Sword): Property and Privilege 445-446
Appendix Cheth (8 Enclosure): Hagbard's Abdication 446
Ref: page 250 when Hagbard hands over to Miss Portinari
Appendix Lamed (12 Ox-Goad): The Tactics of Magick 446-456
Appendix Yod (10 Hand): Operation Mindfuck 456-459
Appendix Kaph (11 Palm of Hand): The Rosy Double-Cross 459-460
Appendix Teth (9 Serpent): Hagbard's Booklet 460-464
Appendix Mem (13 Water): Certain Questions That May Still Trouble Some 465-466
Appendix Nun (14 Fish): Additional Information About Some of the Characters 466—
The missing appendices (if they ever existed) would presumably have the numbers He (5 Window); Samekh (15 Support);
Ayin (16 Eye); Pe (17 Mouth); Qoph (19 Back of the Head); Res (20 Head); Shin (21 Tooth); Tau (22 Sign of the Cross)
NB: for the time being, with so many editions around, these page numbers relate to an ebook copy (for research only) which used to be on the excellent RAWilsonFans website.
[Will look for another, 1 April 2020 The Mgt.]
The references to Cabala, Kabbalah, Q'abala (whatever) seem fairly important.
Here's RAW in an interview:
" I don’t think the reader needs to be particularly erudite to appreciate most of the humor in Illuminatus! I’ve received lots of fan letters from teen-agers, and nobody is particularly erudite at that age (although I thought I was). There are lots of “in” jokes that will only be appreciated by mathematicians, or physicists, or Joyce scholars, or acid-heads, or Cabalists or other special interest groups, but that’s just the icing on the cake. Some traps are deliberate, of course; as Josiah Warren said, “It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.” I have tried to shield my readers from that danger. Besides, a book should last and not get worn-out. I’ve been reading Finnegans Wake for 27 years now and I still find loads of new jokes and subtleties every time I get into it. I hope Illuminatus! might last that way for its real aficionados. There’s lots of fun, for instance, in store for anybody who starts relating the contents of the ten chapters to the Sephiroth on the Cabalistic Tree of life after which the chapters are named."
