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Still resolved to discover further answers, James Lees decided to study Kabbalah and the Tree of Life. From here, he experimented with invocations from the Key of Solomon. Satisfied with the results, he moved to perform the 18-month work described in The Book of Abramelin employing the Bornless Ritual. Claiming to have successfully invoked his Holy Guardian Angel, he turned his attention to ascending the 'Middle Pillar' of the Tree of Life, culminating with an experience known as crossing the abyss. Then, in November 1976, James Lees constructed the "order & value of the English Alphabet." Following this, Lees founded the O∴A∴A∴ to assist others in pursuing their own spiritual paths. The first public report of the system known as English Qaballa (EQ) was published in 1979 by Ray Sherwin in an editorial in the final issue of his journal, The New Equinox. Lees subsequently assumed the role of publisher of The New Equinox and, starting in 1981, published additional material about the EQ system for five issues of the journal, extending into 1982. In 1904, Aleister Crowley wrote the foundational document of his worldview, Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law. In this text, the injunction found in verse 2:55 states, "Thou shalt obtain the order and value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto." Crowley understood this to refer to an English qabalah yet to be developed or revealed. The "order & value" constructed by James Lees lays the letters out on the grid superimposed on the page of the manuscript of Liber AL on which this verse (Ch. III, v. 47) appears (sheet 16 of Chapter III). Also appearing on this page are a diagonal line and a circled cross. The Book of the Law states that the book should only be printed with Crowley's hand-written version included, suggesting that there are mysteries in the "chance shape of the letters and their position to one another" of Crowley's handwriting. Whichever top-left to bottom-right diagonal is read the magickal order of the letters is obtained. Little further material on English Qaballa was published until the appearance of Jake Stratton-Kent's book, The Serpent Tongue: Liber 187, in 2011. This was followed in 2016 by Cath Thompson's The Magickal Language of the Book of the Law: An English Qaballa Primer. Thompson details the creation, exploration, and continuing research and development of the system up to 2010 by James Lees and members of his group in England in her 2018 book, All This and a Book.
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