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An interesting solution Aeon418. It's curious that you have to use the final value for the Peh in the word Soph, when the normal value of the word is 146, which is suspiciously similar to the verse number, 1:46.
And I agree that this is one of those verses that lends itself to quite a variety of interpretations, which makes it all the more interesting to study.
I would like to add that later developments have shown the number 567 to actually be significant after all, although Crowley was not aware of it at the time.
In using the base 3 mathematics that informs Liber Trigrammaton, the decimal number 567 becomes, in base 3, the number 210000. This is a six-digit number, or hexagram, and is composed of the 21 trigram above the zero trigram.
Now when we reverse this hexagram, it becomes 000012, and is now the zero trigram over the 5 trigram. This is where the reference in verse 1:48 comes in, because the numbers 0 and 5 are the trump numbers for the Fool and Hierophant, and in AC's system, the Hierophant was attributed to Taurus, thus the Ox, while the Fool is obviously 'none' since it is numbered 0.
Now this relates to your analysis, which I think Fr. Achad also noticed, that the word Shur, or Ox in Hebrew, indicates the sign of Taurus and equals 506. With that being the case, then the referent for the word 'they' in verse 48 is not only, as you say, to 61 and 506 as none and ox, but is simultaneously referring to the 'one,one,one' which is indicating the spelling of the letter Alef as Alef-lamed-peh, with a value of 111, and this letter Alef not only means 'Ox', but is attributed to the Fool card, and thus 'none'.
Now all that is pretty straightforward qabalah, but at least one possibility of a hidden meaning in verse 48 is that the prophet is a fool with his spelling of Alef so that it equals 111, because he should spell it with a Peh final, so that it equals 831. Why is this important? Perhaps because it's pointing to the fact that the word Soph should ALSO be spelled with a Peh final, to make the term ain soph aur equal 1134, or twice the value of the numbers mentioned in verse 46.
And just to keep things complex, the letter peh that is chosen for the final value is also the letter of the Tower card, which is clearly a phallic symbol, while 831, the value of ALPh, is identical to the Greek gematria values of the words Pyramis and Phallus.
Indeed, it is difficult to parse this verse in isolation, and we still have not plumbed the full depths of it
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