Start with paragraph 1.
Why this work matters
That matters because the numogram's portability depends on exactly this movement between diagram, code, and public explanation.
Then and now
Why it matters now
With CCRU writings back in circulation through Urbanomic, this interview clarifies how one of their most cryptic procedures still works in practice [w5]. Gonçalves ties alphanumeric qabbala to the Numogram’s 36-fold logic and to a Pandemonium system reducible to zeros and ones [c3][c9]. He also marks the danger point: AQ can generate hype, shared coincidences, and hyperstitional feedback, rather than recover a hidden historical code [c11][c12].
How to read this
For Metalogos # 3 - Gematria, Hyperstition and Alphanumeric Qabbala w Luís Gonçalves, read for the operational examples first. The page becomes clearer when gematria is treated as procedure rather than atmosphere.
For Metalogos # 3 - Gematria, Hyperstition and Alphanumeric Qabbala w Luís Gonçalves, track where alphanumeric substitutions are made to carry causal or hyperstitional force. That is the decisive move.
Argument map
Primary claim
The page matters because it demonstrates that occult numeracy is also a discourse about writing systems, coding, and hyperstitional signal.
The work's mechanism
Conversation and interview form let difficult procedures be unpacked as practical operations rather than as sealed esoteric doctrine.
What this work claims
That matters because the numogram's portability depends on exactly this movement between diagram, code, and public explanation.
Style and mode
Essay / text work
Metalogos # 3 - Gematria, Hyperstition and Alphanumeric Qabbala w Luís Gonçalves works best when read as compressed scene-writing: argument, terminology, and style arrive together rather than in separate academic stages.
How this work reaches the archive
Posted on 1 February 2026, the interview captures Alphanumeric Qabbala in a late, networked phase. Blog serial form, cipher software, Internet Archive links, and a Tucker Carlson numogram screenshot fix that setting. Gonçalves calls AQ “residual” and experimental, yet notes that Nick Land and a few others still use it. [c13][c7][c4]
Key concepts and people
People
Concepts
Key passage
Best entry extract · paragraph 1
The ALW Cipher came into usage in the late 1970’s when British Thelemite James Lees posed it as the answer to several lines in Liber AL vel Legis which indicate that a new form of English Gematria would uncover the secrets of The Book of the Law and the mysteries of its aeons. By the time I was deep into my work with ALW, Luís was already moving on and studying other solutions. He seems to have settled, at least for now, on CCRU’s Alphanumeric Qabbala as the best choice.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
The ALW Cipher came into usage in the late 1970’s when British Thelemite James Lees posed it as the answer to several lines in Liber AL vel Legis which indicate that a new form of English Gematria would uncover the secrets of The Book of the Law and the mysteries of its aeons. By the time I was deep into my work with ALW, Luís was already moving on and studying other solutions. He seems to have settled, at least for now, on CCRU’s Alphanumeric Qabbala as the best choice.
Definition · paragraph 16
In this book, Crowley listed a series of correspondences for the sephiroth and the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, numbering the sephiroth from 1 to 10, and then the Hebrew letters from 11 to 32. If we adapt this system and make it an alphanumeric sequence (i.e. “the numbers & the words”, as it says in AL II:76), we will have 10 digits 0-9, and 26 letters A-Z, and that’s precisely what Alphanumeric Qabbala is.
History · paragraph 1
Metalogos # 3 - Gematria, Hyperstition and Alphanumeric Qabbala w/ Luís Gonçalves PHOEBUS_GLYKON FEB 01, 2026 1 Share Today we are continuing our Metempsychotic Metalogos series in written interview form with Luís Gonçalves, a gematria cipher lord of the web who has been studying occult numerological praxis and cryptography for over two decades.
Afterlife · paragraph 10
Can you tell us more about how this link between AQ and AL unfolded for you? Luís: When I was told about Alphanumeric Qabbala, with a link to “Qabbala 101” in the Hyperstition blog, I had already been using base36 notation as a cipher of Gematria for a week.
Method · paragraph 23
Groucho and myself of course argue (though from slightly different perspectives) that the power of gematria lay in some larger entity’s hands and that reality itself can be read as a kind of script and deciphered through alphanumeric codes, while Gonçalves seems to stop short of ALPHANUMERIC SYNCHROGENERATION AND A STEP BACK FROM THE BRINK