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But many magicians, men of no fmall authority, will have the tables of this kind to be extended with Latin letters ; fp that by the fame tables alfo, out of the name of any office or effect, might be found out the name of any fpirit, as well good as evil, by the fame manner which is above delivered, by taking the name of the office or of the effefl in the column of letters, in their ■own line, under their own flar. And of this practice Lrifmegijius is a great author, who delivered this kind of calculation in Egyptian letters : not im- properly alfo may they be referred to the letters of other tongues, for the reafon affigned to the ligns ; for truly he only is extant of all men who have treated concerning the attaining to the names of fpirits.
Therefore the force, fecrecy, and power , in what manner the facred names of fpirits are truely and rightly found out, confifleth in the difpoling of vowels, which make the name of a fpirit, and wherewith is conflituted the true name and right word. Now this art is thus perfected and brought to pafs. Firfl, we are to take heed to placing the vowels of the letters, which are found by the calculation of the celeflial figure, to find the names of the fpirits of the fecond order, prefidents and governors : and this, in the good fpirits, is thus brought to effect, by confidering the Ears which do conflitute and make the letters, and by placing them according to their order. Firfl, let the degree of the eleventh houfe be fubtradled from the degree of that flar which is firfl in order, and that which remains thereof, let it be projected from the degree of the afcendant ; and where the number ends, there is part of the vowel of the firfb letter.
Begin therefore to calculate the vowels of thefe letters according to their number and order, and the vowel which falls in the place of the flar, which is the firfb in order, the fame vowel is attributed to the firfb letter ; then af- terwards thou ffialt find the part of the fecond letter, by fubtradling the degree of a flar, which is the fecond in order from . the firfl flar j and that which remains caft from the afcendant. And this is the part from which you ffiall begin the calculation of vowels ; and that vowel which falls upon the fecond flar the fame is the vowel of the fecond letter : and fo confequently thou mayefl fearch out the vowels of the following letters
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by always, fubtraCting the degree of the following flar from the degree of the Bar next preceding and going before. And, likewife, all calculations and nu- merations in the names of the good fpirits ought to be made according to the iucceffion of the figns. And whereas in calculating the names of the evil fpirits, the names of the good lpirits are taken from the degree of the eleventh houfej in thefe ought to be taken the degree of the twelfth houfe. And all nu- merations and calculations may be made with the fucceffion of the figns, by taking the beginning from the degree of the tenth houfe.
But in all extractions by tables, the vowels arc placed after another manner* In the firfl place, is taken the certain number of letters, making the name itfelf, and is thus numbered from the beginning of the column of the firfl letter, or w'hereupon the name is extracted ; and the letter on which this num- ber falleth is referred to the firfl letter of the name extracted, by taking the diftance of the one from the other, according to the order of the alphabet. But the number of that diftance is projected from the beginning of that column, and where it ends there is part of the firft vowel ; from thence thou fhalt calculate the vowels themfelves, in their own number and order in the fame column ; and the vowel which fhall fall upon the firft letter of a name, the fame fhall be attributed to that name.
Now thou fhalt find the following vowels, by taking the diftance from the preceding vowel to the following, and fo confequently according to the fuccef- fion of the alphabet ; and the number of that diftance is to be numbered from the beginning of his own column, and where he fhall ceafe, there is part of the vowel fought after. From thence therefore muft you calculate the vowels, as we have above faid, and thofe vowels which fhall fall upon your own letters, are to be attributed to them. If therefore any vowel fhould hap- pen to fall upon a vowel, the former muft give place to the latter : and this you are to underhand only of the good fpirits. In the evil fpirits likewife you may proceed in the fame way > except only that you make the numerations after a contrary and backward order, contrary to the fucceffion of the alphabet, and contrary to the order of the colums (that is to fay) afcending.
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The name of good angels, and of every man, which we have before"taught how to find out, according to that manner, is of no little authority, nor of a mean foundation. But now we will give thee fome other ways illuftrated with no vain reafons. One whereof is by taking in the nativity the five places of Hylech ; which being noted, the characters of the letters are projected in their order and number, beginning from Aries , and thofe letters which fall upon the degrees of the faid places, according to their order and dignity difpofed and afpeCted, make the name of an angel.
There is alfo another way wherein they take Almutel , which is the ruling and governing ftar over the aforefaid five places, and the projection is to be made from the degree of the afcendant; which is done by gathering together the letters falling upon Almutel, which being placed in order, according to their dignity, make the name of an angel. There is likewife another way ufed, and very much had in obfervation from the Egyptians, by making cal- culations from the degree of the afcendant, and by gathering together the let- ters according to the Almutel of the eleventh houfe ; which houfe they call a good demon ; which being placed according to their dignities, the names of the angels are conftitutedo -
Now the names of the evil angels are known after the like manner, except only that the projections muft be performed contrary to the courfe and order of the fucceflion of the figns ; fo that in feeking the names of good fpirits, we are to calculate from the beginning of Aries ; contrariwife, in attaining the names of evil, we ought to account from the beginning of Libra. And whereas, in the good fpirits, we number from the degree of the afcendant ; con-* trariety, in the evil, we muft calculate from the degree of the feventh houfe.
Bup according to the Egyptians, the name of this angel is collected accord- ing to the Almutel of the twelfth houfe, which they call an evil fpirit. Now all thofe rites, which are elfewhere already by us delivered in this Book, may be made by the characters of any language. In all which (as we have faid be- fore) there is a myftical and divine number, order and figure, from whence it comes to pafs, that the fame fpirit may be called by divers names j but others
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are difcovered from the name of the fpirit himfelf, of the good or evil, by tables formed to this purpofe.
Now thefe celeftial characters do confift of lines and heads. The heads are fix, according to the fix magnitudes of the liars, whereunto the planets likewife are reduced. The firft magnitude holds a ftar with the fun or a crofs ; the fecond, with Jupiter, a circular point ; the third, with Saturn, a femicircle, a triangle, either crooked, round, or acute ; the fourth, with a Mars, a little ftroke penetrating the line, either fquare, ftraight or oblique ; the fifth, with Venus and Mercury, a little ftroke or point with a tail afcending or defending ; the fixth, with the moon, a point made black, all which you may fee in the annexed Plate. The heads then being pofited according to the fite of the ftars of the figure of heaven, then the lines are to be drawn out according to the congruency or agreement of their natures. And this you are to underftand of the fixed ftars. But in the ereCting of the planets, the lines are drawn out, the heads being pofited according to their courfe and nature among themfelves. — See the Plate, No. i.
So when a character is to be found, of any celeftial image afcending in any degree or face of a fign, which confifts of ftars of the fame magnitude and nature, then the number of thefe ftars being pofited according to their place and order, the lines are drawn after the fimilitude of the image fignified, as copioufiy as the fame can be done.
But the characters which are extracted according to the name of a fpirit are compofed by the table following, by giving to every letter that name which agrees to him out of the table ; and although it may appear ealy to thofe that apprehend it, yet there is no fmall difficulty herein ; to wit, when the letter of a name falls upon the line of letters or figures, that we may know which figure or which letter is to be taken. And this may thus be known; if a letter falls upon the line of letters; confider of what number this letter may be in the order of the name, as the fecond or the third ; then how many letters that name contains, as five or feven ; and multiply thefe numbers one after another by themfelves, and treble the produCt ; then caft the whole (being
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