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of the order of warriors ; fo of that verfe, “ thou Jhalt Jet over him the wicked , and Satan fhall Jiand at his right-hand out of Pfalm cix. with the He- brews, but with the Latins, cviii.
wo* pirn jmn vby ‘lpsn
is extracted the name of the evil fpirit Scbii, >y-w, which fignifies a fpirit that is a worker of engines. There is a certain text in Exodus contained in three verfes, whereof every one is written with feventy-two letters, be- ginning thus the hrft V ajifa, yon, the fecond Vajabo , ton, the third Vajot , o»i ; which are extended into one line, viz. the firft and the third from the left-hand to the right, but the middle in a contrary order, beginning from the right to the left, is terminated on the left-hand ; then each of the three letters being fubordinate the one to the other, make one name, which are feventy-two names, which the Hebrews call Schemhamphorce, to which if the divine name El bx or Jah nir be added, they produce feventy-two trifyllable names of angels, whereof every one carries the great name of God, as it is written, “ my angel fhall go before thee ; obferve him, for my name is in him.” And thefe are thofe that are fet over the feventy-two celeftial qui- naries, and fo many nations and tongues, and joints of man’s body, and co- operate with the feventy-two feniors of the fynagogue, and fo many difciples of Chrift : and their names, according to the extraction which the Cabalifts make, are manifeft in the following table, according to the manner which we have mentioned.
Now there are many other ways of making Schemhamphorce out of thofe verfes ; as when all three are written in a right order, one after the other, from the right to the left, belides thofe which are extracted by the tables of Ziruph, and the tables of commutations, of which we made mention of be- fore. Becaufe thefe tables ferve for all names, as divine, fo angelical, we fhall therefore fubjoin them to this chapter.
Thefe are the feventy-two angels, bearing the name of God, Schemham- phorce.
For the tables, &c. fee the annexed Plates, No, i, 2, 3, 4.
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OF FINDING OUT THE NAMES OF SPIRITS AND GENII, FROM THE DISPOSITION OP THS'
CELESTIAL BODIES.
THE ancient magicians taught an art of finding out the name of a fpirit to any defired effedt, drawing it from the difpofition of the heavens j as, for example, any celeftial harmony being propofed to thee, to make an image, or a ring, or any other Work to be done under any. conEellation, if thou wilt find out the fpirit that is the ruler of that work, the figure of the heaven, being eredted, caft forth letters in their number and order, from the degree of the afcendant, according to the fuccefiion of figns through each degree, by filling the whole circle of the heavens ; then thofe letters which fall into the places of the Ears, the aid of which you would ufe, being according to the number and power of thofe Ears, marked without into number and order,, make the name of a good fpirit. But if thou wilt do fo from the beginning of a degree falling againji the progrefs of the figns, the refulting fpirit fhall be evil. By this art feme of the Hebrews and Chaldean maEers teach that the nature and name of any genius maybe found out.; as for example, the degree of the afcendant of any one's nativity being known, and the other corners of the heaven being co-equated, then let that which had the moE dignities of planets in thofe four corners, which the Arabians call Almutez, be firE obferved among the reE ; and according to that in the fecond place, that which fhall be next to it in the number of dignities, and fo in order the reE of them, which obtain any dignity in the aforefaid corners; .
This order being ufed, you may know the true place . and degree of them in the heavens, beginning from the degree of the afcendant through each degree, according to the order of figns, to caE twenty-two of the letters of the He- brews ; then what letters fhall fall into the places of the aforefaid Ears, being marked and difpofed according to the order found out above in the Ears, and
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rightly joined together according to the rules of the Hebrew tongue, make the name of a genius ; to which, according to the cuEom, fome monofy liable name of Divine Omnipotence, viz. El or Jah, is fubjoined. But if the call- ing of the letters be made from an angle of the falling, and againfl the fuccef- Eon of the figns, and the letters which lhail fall in the Nadir (that is the oppofite point) of the aforefaid Ears be after that order, as are faid, joined together, fhall make the name of an evil genius.
But the Chaldeans proceed another way, for they take not the Almutez of the angles but the Almutez of the eleventh houfe, and do all things as has been faid. Now they find out an evil genius from the Almutez of the angle of the twelfth houfe, which they call an evil fpirit, calling from the degree of the falling againft the progrefs of the figns.
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Ot THE CALCULATING ART OF IUCH NAMES BY THE TRADITION OF CABAL1STS.
THERE is yet another art of thefe kind of names, which they call calcu-' latory ; and it is made by the following tables, by entering with fome facred, divine, or angelical name, in the column of letters defcending, by taking thofe letters which thou lhalt find in the common angles' under their Ears and figns, which being reduced into order, the name of a good fpirit is made of the nature of that Ear or fign under which thou didE enter ; but if thou lhalt enter in the column afcending, by taking the common angles above the Ears and lip-ns marked in the loweE line, the name of an evil fpirit is made. And thefe are the names of fpirits of any order of heaven miniEering, as of good, fo of bad, which yon may after this manner multiply into nine names of fo many orders ; inafmuchas you may, by entering with one name, draw forth another of a fpirit
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