This is the special number of Horus; it is [the gematria of] the Hebrew blood, and the multiplication of the 4 by the 11, the number of Magick, explains 4 in its finest sense....

The word "Phoenix" may be taken as including the idea of "Pelican", the bird which is fabled to feed its young from the blood of its own breast....

ALEISTER CROWLEY
Liber CCCXXXIII:  The Book of Lies
Cap. XLIV:  The Mass of the Phoenix

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