The number 100 is the gematria value of the Hebrew letter Qoph (ק), the nineteenth letter of the alphabet. In Hebrew, Qoph literally means “back of the head” or “monkey,” and its numerical value of 100 marks it as the first three-digit number in the standard gematria system, a threshold of completion and the beginning of a new order of magnitude.

Position on the Tree of Life

In Liber 777, the number 100 corresponds to the 29th path of the Tree of Life. This path is attributed to the letter Qoph and connects the sephirah Netzach (Victory, sphere of Venus) to Malkuth (Kingdom, the material world). As a path number, 100 signifies the descent of spiritual energy into the physical realm through the lens of dream, illusion, and the subconscious—themes inherent to Qoph’s astrological association.

Astrological and planetary correspondence

While the table cell for “Numerical Value of Col. CLXXV.” at step 29 gives only the number 100, the broader 777 system links this path to the zodiac sign Pisces and, by extension, to the planet Neptune (in modern attribution) or Jupiter (in traditional Hermetic Qabalah). The number 100 thus carries the fluid, mystical, and boundary-dissolving qualities of Pisces, reinforcing its role as a gateway between the finite and the infinite.

Historical context

The number 100 appears throughout Jewish mystical and scriptural tradition as a symbol of fullness and divine order. In the Torah, the patriarch Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born (Genesis 21:5), marking the birth of a covenant. The Hebrew letter Qoph itself is associated with the word קדוש (kadosh, “holy”), whose gematria is 410—but the initial Qoph already hints at sanctity. In the Sefer Yetzirah, Qoph is one of the “mother letters” (though some traditions classify it as a simple letter), and its numerical value of 100 is said to represent the hundred blessings a Jew should recite daily (Menachot 43b). In later Qabalistic texts, 100 is the number of the sephirah Kether when considered as the “Crown” of the Tree, but more commonly it is the value of the letter that governs dreams and the unconscious. The Renaissance magician Cornelius Agrippa, in his Three Books of Occult Philosophy, notes that the number 100 is “the number of the perfection of the world” and is sacred to the Moon (because the Moon’s cycle approximates 100 lunations in eight years). In the context of the 29th path, 100 thus synthesizes lunar cycles, Piscean fluidity, and the completion of a decade squared.

In Liber 777, the number 100 appears as the numerical value for the 29th path, the path of Qoph. It stands as a single entry in the column “Numerical Value of Col. CLXXV.”, a stark numeral that encapsulates the entire gematric weight of the letter and its correspondences. For the practitioner, this number is a key to the path’s essence: the sum of all that is hidden, the hundredfold return, and the threshold where the material meets the dream.