Thelemistas QBL | An Interactive Qabalah

Welcome to our little Qabalistic corner of the Web. These are Nitnorth's notes about Qabalah: things he's read, and things he's thought about those things. Some of it is gibberish, some the ravings of a lunatic, some just plain lies; and in it perhaps you'll find the occasional grain of truth ... much like life.[1] Use at your own risk. Contains material that some viewers might find unsuitable. May contain nuts.

If you know nothing at all about Qabalah, you can read my introduction, or what Wikipedia has to say about it. Otherwise, over on your left the world is at your fingertips -- have at it!

Usage notes:

The main image tries to cram everything it can all into one place. It's a stew of rollovers that will produce images and links. Whatever you're looking for probably is there, but you may need to hunt for it a little bit. Hover your mouse over the image; in most places where you place it, some other image will pop up. Pay particular attention at the sides of the image (worlds and triads) and at the top (pillars).
Wherever you see Hebrew text in the essays, try hovering your mouse over it. It will show you the English transliterations of the words, along with their enumeration. Try it here: יהוה. Because some Hebrew letters have a "final" form, used at the ends of words, the transliteration will indicate that when it happens. For example, in אין, "AYN-f" means "Alef, Yod, Nun-final". Here's a transliteration chart showing how these pages represent the Hebrew alphabet in transliterations.
Most pages have blocks of navigation arrows at the top. These will take you through related groups of pages in order; and where there is related information about the group, you'll also see one or more up or down arrows.

Other notes:

I drew this and did the programming and typing for it. Like any proud daddy, I want you to like it and I want it to be a useful tool. If you like it, please feel free to copy it and use it at your own site, but please credit me, Nitnorth. (There are a lot of involved files and images.)

For this work, I owe quite a lot to Lon Milo DuQuette's Chicken Qabalah (a wonderful book, possibly the only work on Qabalah you'll ever need!), to John Bonner's Qabalah: A Primer and to Breck Outland's clickable Qabalah[2], all of whose research and expertise I relied on. I also referred to various works by one Mr. Aleister Crowley — not surprising, since I count myself a Thelemite — particularly his Book of Thoth. Much of the research on these pages is theirs, though there are many additions[3] from other sources. The musings and mistakes are, of course, entirely mine.

Crowley's systems of Qabalah and Tarot differ from classical systems in ways little and big. Where I know anything about the difference, I've tried to present at least a little of alternate points of view.

The background star images are extractions from the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) calendar — an amazing online resource. The other pictures available here are things I drew myself, or (in the case of the Tarot cards) scans from Crowley's Thoth tarot deck.