The Angelical Alphabet
e a f d g c b Characters therefore are nothing else than certain unknowable letters and writings, preserving the secrets of the gods, and names of the spirits from the use and reading of profane men, which the ancients called hieroglyphical, or sacred letters, because devoted to the secrets of the gods only. For they did account it unlawful to write the mysteries of the gods with those characters with which profane and vulgar things were were wrote. [-Three [-Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Philosophy, ook !!!, Chapter "#$
%uring the five brief years between of &'(" and &'() C*, the famous *li+abethan scholar and mystic %r. ohn %ee recorded a new a nd mysterious language in his private ournals. According to %ees records, this was the Tongue Tongue of Angels- as we see see mentioned by /t. 0aul in & Corinthians &12&. 3ith the help of a medium known as /ir *dward 4elley, %ee performed a series of evocations of Angelic intelligences who endeavored to teach the men their Celestial /peech. The result was a book entitled entitled Loagaeth 5the Loagaeth 5the 6/peech From 7od68 written in the enigmatic language, with very few very few words translated9 forty-eight poems written in the same language, with full translations9 and several words and phrases scattered throughout %ees ournals, some with translations and some without. %uring their very first meeting, %ee learned that 4elley had a knack for mediumship that he himself lacked. lacked. %ee performed an invocation to bring Angels into his mystical shewstone, and 4elley was able to see, hear and speak to the Angels with ease. Thereafter, the two men formed a years-long years-long partnership dedicated to a series of Angelic seances Angelic seances.. The seances The seances effectively effectively ended by &'(), and the two men went their separate ways by &'(# C*. The ournals have survived loss, fire and other perils for for four hundred years, waiting for us to discover the linguistic primers left by the Angels through %ee and 4elley. 4elley. :ot only did the Angels claim this was the native Tongue Tongue of Angels, it was was also the original language of *den, with which Adam named all things in e;istence. The Archangel 7abriel e;plains at length2
...whereby even as the mind of man is moved at an ordered speech, and is easily persuaded in things that are true, so are the creatures of 7od stirred up in themselves, when they hear the words wherewithal they were nursed and brought forth2 For nothing moveth, that is not persuaded2 neither can any thing be persuaded that is unknown. The Creatures of 7od understand you not, you are not of their Cities2 you are become enemies, because you are separated from him that 7overneth the City by ignorance.
[Adam$ in his Creation, being made an !nnocent, was also authori+ed and made partaker of the 0ower and /pirit of 7od2 whereby he not only did know all things under his Creation and spoke of them properly, properly, naming them as they were2 but also was partaker of our presence and society, yea a speaker of the mysteries of 7od9 yea, with 7od himself2 so that in innocency the power of his partakers with 7od, and us his good Angels, was e;alted, e;alted, and so became became holy in the sight sight of 7od until [Adam$ lost the 7arden of felicity, felicity, the udgment of his understanding. ut not utterly the favour of 7od, and was driven forth 5as your scriptures record8 unto the *arth which was covered with brambles.
3here being dumb, and not able to speak, he began to learn of necessity the
Thus you see the :ecessity of this Tongue2 Tongue2 The *;cellency of it, and the Cause why it is preferred before that which which you call =ebrew2 =ebrew2 For it is written, *very lesser consenteth consenteth to his greater. greater. ! trust this is sufficient. [- A True True and Faithful Faithful Relation... Relation... p. #"-1$
At the time %ee lived, =ebrew was considered the primary /acred ld Testament, spoken by the 0rophets themselves, and it was thought to be the language spoken by Angels. 3hat 7abriel suggests above is that Angelical is the true 0rimordial Tongue, the original upon which =ebrew itself is based. y telling %ee that Angelical is preferred
before =ebrew, 7abriel is suggesting that Angelical is the true /acred
Hebrew and Angelical: Sacred Languages of the West The =ebrew alphabet consists of "" letters. These letters are actually transitional between hieroglyphs and letters as we know them. Therefore, each letter represents an entire word by itself, while also representing a phonetic sound. For e;ample, the =ebrew word Beth means ?=ouse@ 5or Tent, %welling, etc8, but it also stands for the letter ?.@ This tends to fascinate mystics, because it means any =ebrew word 5especially names of 7od and Angels8 can be viewed as an entire sentence, and such ?sentences@ can be analy+ed for mystical insight. The =ebrew alphabet also predates the use of numbers as we know them. ather than using an entirely different set of characters for numbers, the ancient !sraelites used the letters of their alphabet. The first letter 5 Aleph8 was assigned to one, the second letter 5 Beth8 was assigned to two, and so forth. Therefore, the same mystics who read the =ebrew names as sentences could also read them as mathematical eBuations. They discovered obscure relationships between numbers and sacred words- known today as Gematria or ?ible-codes.@ The "" letters of the =ebrew Alphabet are traditionally divided into groups of 1, ) and &". As outlined in the foundational abalistic te;t epher !et"irah 5the Book of Formation8, these groups are assigned astrological correspondences. The three ?Dother
letters in talismanic magick, they are encouraged to take great care in reproducing the letters e;actly. This was =ebrew as %ee would have seen it- through the eyes of a 3estern mystic. 7abriel suggested that Angelical was a superior replacement for =ebrew- and he likely meant for it to be used with the Agrippa-style occultism with which %ee was most familiar. !t should be used in the inscription of Talismans and magickal Tools 5as we can see throughout %ees ournals8. The Angel !llemese even echoes theepher !et"irah where it comes to inscribing the hieroglyph-like Angelical characters2
These letters represent the Creation of man, and therefore they must be in proportion. They represent the workmanship wherewithal the soul of man was made like unto his Creator. [- Five Books of #ystery, p. 1)1$
!n this light, let us take a look at the ?0erfected@ Angelical letters, as recorded by *dward 4elley at the end of the Book of Loagaeth. The following chart contains the letters, their Angelical names and their phonetic values in *nglish2
The Angelical Alphabet Graph
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f course, when we are writing the words in *nglish transliteration, it is common practice to write them from left to right. 5The same is done with transliterated =ebrew.8 !t is only when written in Angelical characters that the words must run in the older right to left direction.
Another trait Angelical shares with =ebrew is the fact that each letter has both a phonetic value and also stands as a word on its own. For instance, the letter ?%@ in =ebrew is called &aleth- but the word &aleth also translates as ?%oor.@ The letters of the Angelical alphabet work in a similar fashion- though with some key differences. For instance, the Angelical letter ?%@ is called Gal , and it is certain that Gal is a proper word with its own translation. 5This and several other letter-names appear in the te;t of Loagaeth as individual words.8 =owever, unfortunately, no translations for the Angelical letter-names were ever offered.
Deanwhile, unlike =ebrew letter-names, the word Gal does not begin with the phonetic value of ?%.@ 5As we can see in the previous chart of the alphabet, few of the Angelical letter-names reflect their phonetic values. Pa K ?@, Tal K ?D@, &ru' K ?:@, etc.8
!n this comparisoncontrasting between =ebrew and Angelical, ! must also mention the subect of ?Angelical Gematria.@ !t has long been assumed that Angelical letters possess numerical values similar to =ebrew letters. This is thanks, in part, to statements made about numbers by the Archangel 7abriel. These statements are most often taken out of conte;t by modern scholars. For e;ample, 7abriel says, ?The ne 5which were added together to create ?mystical sBuare roots@8. Those numbers are associated with the Tables of Loagaeth and the words of the 4eys, but not with the individual characters of the alphabet. Another hint toward an Angelical gematria rests in the 4eys themselves. /everal of the 4eys contain numbers that are represented by letters2
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As we can see in the above list, there are always as many letters in the Angelical as there are numbers in the translation. This suggests that these letters are not the
Angelical words for their numbers 5as the *nglish for ?11@ is ?ThirtyThree@8. !nstead, the letters would appear to share a one-to-one relationship with the numbers. For instance, in the letters )LA 5M'L8- the character ) could represent M, the L might represent ', and the A represent L. =owever, we find little consistency in this relationship between the letters and numbers. For e;ample, note how the letter ?>@ appears to represent &, ", ', L and ) at the same time. Also note P,RAL, which uses 0, and < to represent L. :o one to date has discovered the mystery behind this inconsistency. The bottom line is that the Angels never suggested the e;istence of an Angelical numerology or Gematria to %ee or 4elley. 3henever the men did employ such arts in the ournals, it was always of the type found in the abalah or the works of Trithemius and Agrippa- simply applied to the names and words revealed by the Angels. This does not mean that an Angelical gematria does not e;ist. 5!n fact, it would surprise me if Angelical letters did not also represent numbers, as this is a common trait of ancient languages.8 !t only means that such a system was never mentioned by the Angels nor 5as far as we know8 ever developed by %ee himself.
Finally, Angelical differs from =ebrew in its mystical division of letters. As there are only "& Angelical characters, they can not be divided into 1, ) and &" like =ebrew. !nstead, they were divided by the Angels into three eBual sets of seven. >f this three-fold division aphael says, ?The number of perfection, one in three.@ This is likely one of many references within %ees system to the =oly Trinity, reflected in the multiplication of the perfect numbers seven 5the %ays of Creation8 and three 5the Trinity !tself8. ! also assume this 1;) division is intended to reflect both the ook of Loagaeth and the /eptarchic system- which are both based upon a seven-fold scheme. The "" letters of the =ebrew alphabet would not mathematically ?fit@ the Angelic system revealed to %ee and 4elley. Hnfortunately, the Angels never provided astrological 5or any8 correspondences to each Angelical letter, as we have for =ebrew in the epher !et"irah. 3e might note that the Alphabet begins with the letter 66 5 Pa8- which may be taken to indicate 6eginning6 or the =ebrew Berashith 5!n the eginning8. Berashith and the /even %ays of Creation 5i.e., the first chapter of 7enesis8 do play a vital role throughout %ees magickal system. 5:ote the Pa inscribed at each corner of the =oly Table, likely representing the four
=orns of the Altar in /olomons Temple.8 3e may also take note that the final letter of the Alphabet is 6T6 0Gisg 8mimicking the final letter of the =ebrew Alphabet- Tau. Tau indicates the Cross, and %ee used the symbol of the Cross as an end-mark upon his version of the /eal of Truth. =owever, these are strictly speculations on my part, and were n ot mentioned by the Angels or %ee in his ournals.
“Before That Which You Call Hebrew” Angelical and Agrippas !ccult "hilosoph# %ee was a student of Agrippas occult philosophy, and it had a profound impact upon his Angelic magick. For e;ample, consider this e;cerpt from AgrippasThird Book , chapter "1 5?>f the Tongue of Angels...@8- which likely inspired %ee in his work2
3e might doubt whether AngelsN, since they be pure spirits, use any vocal speech, or tongue amongst themselves, or to us9 but that 0aul in some place saith, ?!f ! speak with the tongue of men, or angels.@ ut what their speech or tongue is, is much doubted by many. For many think that if they use any !diom, it is =ebrew, because that was the first of all, and came from heaven, and was before the confusion of languages in abylon, in which the racles were given to the 0rophets by the =oly 7host2 and seeing all tongues have, and do undergo various mutations, and corruptions, this alone doth always continue inviolated. Doreover an evident sign of this opinion is, that though each %emon, and !ntelligence do use the speech of those nations, with whom they do inhabit, yet to them that understand it, they never speak in any !diom, but in this alone.
Also consider the following e;cerpt, taken from the Third Book , chapter "M 5?>f the :ames of /pirits and Their Iarious !mposition...@82
ut the masters of the =ebrews think that the names of angels were imposed upon them by Adam, according to that which is written, the
The above is Buite harmonious with the mythology %ees Angels e;pounded in relation to the Celestial /peech. Adam imposed names upon all things 5supposedly using the Angelical Tongue8, and therefore those who have obtained a certain ?sacred authority@ are likewise able to impose names upon spiritual creatures. Agrippa dedicates several chapters in his work to the generation of %ivine names and characters. 5/ee the Third Book of Occult Philosophy, chapters "1-1O.8 >f course, he utili+es =ebrew to illustrate his methods. =owever, he also affirms that ?the letters of every tongue have in their number, order, and figure a celestial and divine original.? Therefore, one might also use ?Chaldean, and Arabic, *gyptian, 7reek, f course, where Agrippa uses =ebrew in his work, ! will use Angelical characters below2
!f $inding !ut of the %a&es of Spirits and 'eniuses fro& the (isposition of Celestial Bodies
5Adapted from Agrippas Third Book , Ch. "L8 A vitally important aspect of renaissance-era magick was the observance of astrological forces. !n fact, a large portion of classical occult literature is devoted to magickal timing based upon the results of horary chart interpretations. ust as ohn %ee used this art to schedule a time for ueen *li+abeths inauguration ceremony, so too would he have cast horoscopes to determine the best times for his magickal operations. !n this way, strict magickal timing was observed. The astral forces active at a given time determined what work could be accomplished. >r, conversely, a given set of astrological reBuirements would determine what time the work could be accomplished. !t
is from these practices that we hear of spirits ruling for limited periods of time, and te;ts that suggest spirits can only be contacted when the stars are under certain arrangements. 3e can see an e;ample of this in Agrippas Book T1o 5chapters 1'-M)8, wherein he e;plains how to fashion magickal images. !n many cases, specific magickal timing is reBuired2
From the operations of the /un, they made an image at the our of the /un, the first face of
From the operations of Dercury, they made an image at the hour of Dercury, Dercury ascending in 7emini, the form of which was... [Three Books of Occult Philsophy, ook !!, Chapter M1$
eturning again to Book Three, chapter "), Agrippa e;plains that it is possible to use these very same astrological indications to create a horoscope and 6decipher6 the name of an Angel from the stars. That Angel- also called an !ntelligence- will be the particular governor of the magickal work that will take place at that time- be it a magickal image, talisman, evocation, etc. At the same time, Agrippa suggests we might use this techniBue for any magickal operation. !t does not matter whether the astrological conditions are prescribed by a spell, or calculated by the individual practitioner. !t only matters that one takes the time to draw up a +odiacal chart, making sure that it is well-aspected toward the goal of the work. 5Thus, if one is working with Angels of Dercury, one must make sure Dercury is strong and well-aspected in the chart. *tc.8 !f the chart turns out unfortunate, then it must be scraped, a new time chosen, and a new chart created. >nce the time and horoscope are satisfactory, Agrippa outlines several processes for 6decoding6 the name of the ruling !ntelligence. *ach process is more involved than the last, and his descriptions of the advanced techniBues are unfortunately very obscure. =owever, the first and simplest method is easy to understand, and is likely the best place for us to start. !t is first necessary to calculate the degree of the ascendant. The heavens compose a circle of 1LO degrees, and the ascendant is the first degree of the first astrological =ouse- resting directly upon the line of the eastern hori+on. !n that ascending degree, place the first Angelical letter 5 Pa8. Then, continue to
write the alphabet in proper order all the way counterclock1ise around the chart. *ach degree is assigned a single letter, and the direction follows the na tural course of the twelve +odiacal signs. 3hen the final letter 5Gisg 8 is reached, simply begin again with Pa and continue until degree 1LO has been assigned a letter. From there one only needs to interpret the chart as normal, making distinctions between the 0lanets with strong and fortunate dignities and those with weak and unfortunate dignities. The concept is to focus on the specific 0lanetary forces one needs for the work at hand. >ne can simply ignore the weaker and negative aspects of the chart and 6compile6 those forces that are necessary to the magickal goal. *ach degree that contains a desired 0lanetary aspect now has a letter assigned to it, and these letters are gathered together to formulate the name. !t is here that Agrippa offers several methods, some of which are hard to comprehend. The simplest is to start at the ascendant and move around the chart counter-clockwise. The first desired aspect one reaches becomes the first letter of the !ntelligences name. Then, moving onward counter-clockwise, the ne;t reBuired aspect becomes the second letter- and so on throughout the chart. A slightly more advanced method seems to involve gathering the letters according to the strength of the 0lanetary aspects. Though uncertain, ! recently received the suggestion that the strongest 5or most desired8 aspect of the c hart should become the first letter of the name, and the second-strongest the second letter, etc. Thus, if one desired to create a talisman in the hour of Dercury, Dercury ascending in 7emini, one could take the letter assigned to the degree of Dercury as the first letter of the name. Agrippa does not say one should consider only positive aspects in this method. =owever, it may be implied, as gathering letters for all aspects of the chart might make for some unwieldy names. Agrippa goes on to describe the -a2alistic practice of appending the gathered letters with one of the names of 7od ,l or !ah to create an angelic name. =owever, as we are using the Angelical alphabet rather than =ebrew, there should be no need for this convention. The Angels who are uniBue to %ees ournals most often lack these suffi;essuch as (alvage, #adimi, Bornogo3 Befafes, +llemese, #apsama, etc. Finally, the name of an 6evil Angel6- who opposes the work at hand- can also be derived using a similar process. !t is merely an inverse of the previous instructions, using the same horoscope used to find the good Angel. =owever, in this case one must
calculate the degree of the descendant - that is, the degree in direct opposition to the ascendant 5degree &(O, which is the first degree of the seventh =ouse8, found on the line of the western hori+on. The first letter 0Pa4 is placed there, and the alphabet is written around the chart clock1ise- now going against the natural order of the +odiac. To find the letters of the evil Angels name, one begins with the same 0lanetary aspects used for the good Angel. Then, find the degrees on the chart indirect opposition to those aspects. The letters assigned to those degrees of opposition will form the name of the evil Angel. The letters may be gathered beginning at the descendant and moving clockwise around the chart. >r, gather them according to strength of dignity, beginning with the opposing degree of the strongest dignity and progressing to the weakest. ! originally wanted to show you an illustration of a +odiacal chart with the Angelical alphabet written around it for both 7ood and *vil Angels. =owever, for all )"O letters to be visible, the graphic would have been too massive to fit even across two facing pages. Therefore, ! have settled for the following tables, which you can use to look up the letters for each degree of the +odiac2
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5Adapted from Agrippas Third Book , Ch. ")8 The very ne;t chapter of Agrippas work gives us another method of working with the names generated above. !t involves permuting the name of the !ntelligence to discover an entire hierarchy of Angels who rule above himself. ! suspect that %ee was more than familiar with the ?%ionysian@ Celestial =ierarchy- often called the :ine Angelic Choirs. This was the standard Christian model of the heavens during his life, and is presented in Agrippas Book T1o, chapter &", ?>f the :umber :ine, and the /cale Thereof.@ These Choirs are arranged into nine concentric circles. The outermost consists of the Angels closest to the material realm, who are generally charged with directing events on *arth and are depicted as the most anthropomorphic. The inner circle consists of the most fiery and terrible Angels, who protect and attend upon the %ivine Throne !tself. The reader may recogni+e the names of the Choirs, from lowest to highest2 Angels, Archangels and 0rincipalities9 Iirtues, 0owers and %ominations9 Thrones, )heru2im and eraphim.
The name of an !ntelligence generated from a horoscope would classify as an ?Angel@ by the above model- an !ntelligence directly concerned with material or human events. eturning to Agrippas chapter "), he suggests that the Angels name can yield eight further names- beginning with an Archangel, then a 0rincipality and eventually all the way to a eraph. !n practice, however, ! would assume that one would rarely need anything more than the Angel and Archangel who directs him.
!n order to understand the method Agrippa describes, we must think from the standpoint of sacred mathematics. Any two numbers can be multiplied together, and the resulting product will be an ?occult number@ associated with them both. Dost often, this is done with a single number multiplied by itself- such as ) ; ) K M#. 5=ence the mystery surrounding sBuare roots.8 The number M# can then represent a magickal sBuare of M# cells- seven column and seven rows. !n fact, Agrippa shows us this very magick sBuare in his Book T1o, chapter "", ?>f the Tables of the 0lanets...@- where it is sacred to the 0lanet Ienus. !t is less common, but still valid, to multiply two differing numbers. For e;ample, if we wish to work with 0lanetary forces via the Angelical alphabet, then we might find it useful to multiply ) 5number of 0lanets8 by "& 5number of Angelical letters8 for a product of &M)- the number of cells in a magickal sBuare sacred to both numbers. This sBuare can
become a magickal word-sBuare by writing the Angelical alphabet within it- from right to left- a total of seven times. The following table consists of the &M)-cell word-sBuare, surrounded by a border of two outer columns and an upper and lower row. The upper row and right-hand column combine to form The ,ntrance of the Good Angels. !t includes the seven 0lanets across the top and the Angelical alphabet written in order from top to bottom. The lower row and left-hand column combine to form The ,ntrance of the ,vil Angels, This includes the seven 0lanets written in reverse order and Angelical alphabet written from bottom to top.
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& :ote that the following Table of the 0lanets has been altered from Agrippas design, in that the 0lanets follow %ees order for the /eptarchia 5Ienus to
Hsing this table is fairly simple. First, consider the initial letter of the Angels name, and the 0lanet from the horoscope found in that letters degree. Find that letter in the right-hand column of the ,ntrance of the Good Angels, then scan leftward through that row to the column beneath the letters 0lanet. For e;ample, if the Angels name began with D 5Tal 8, and its 0lanetary aspect from the horoscope were /ol, one would begin in the right-hand column with Tal 5m8 and scan leftward to the column of /ol, where the letter Gon 5y8 is found. Therefore, the letter !G 5Gon8 becomes the first letter of the Archangels name. The process is repeated for each letter of the name- always scanning leftward from the letter in the right-hand column to the column beneath the letters associated 0lanet. 5emember, you will not use the same 0lanet twiceP8 !n order to find the name of the 0rincipality, one would input the name of the Archangel in the same manner described above. The resulting 0rincipality name can be input to generate the name of the Iirtue, and so forth until a eraph is produced. >f course, the same thing can be done with the name of the *vil Angel. /imply input his name from the left-hand column, and scan rightward to the column above the reverse-ordered 0lanets at the bottom of the table.
Agrippa also outlines several alternative uses for Tables like the above. For instance, any :ame of 7od can be input to find an Angel that will answer to it. !n such a case, one would have to first decide upon which 0lanet to work with, and then take all of the letters from the column beneath that 0lanet. 5!f the :ame is already associated with a 0lanet, so much the better. =owever, one could input the same :ame of 7od seven times- each time taking the letters from a different 0lanetary column- to find seven 0lanetary Angels that answer to it.8 A persons name converted to Angelical characters, and the 0lanet or /tar that governs him being determined 5via a natal chart8, the name of yet another 7uardian 7enius can be discovered. /imply input the letters from the right-hand column and take all the letters from the column beneath his ruling /tar. Finally, any Angelical word can be input into the table. Thus, if one can reduce a magickal goal to a single word and find an Angelical translation for that word, it can be used with the table to find an !ntelligence set over the thing or concept. >nce again, it would be necessary to first determine or choose a 0lanet most in harmony with the
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>f course, when using the above techniBues, we should not be limited to the /even 0lanets alone. There are also the twelve forces of the Eodiac to consider. The numbers &" and "& are multiplied for a product of "'". y forming this into a &";"& magick sBuare, we can fill the cells with the Angelical alphabet e;actly twelve times. Agrippa offers this word-sBuare in his chapter "), also surrounded b y a border of the ,ntrances of the Good and ,vil Angels. The table is used e;actly as described immediately above, e;cept that it allows one to work with Eodiacal forces rather than 0lanetary2
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" :ote that the following Table of the the Eodiac has been altered from Agrippas design. Agrippas table consists of the =ebrew alphabet written from right to left on every other line 5twelve times8 and written from left to right on every other remaining line 5also twelve times8. ecause both &" and "" are even numbers, this was possible in his table. =owever, Angelical is an odd-numbered "& letters long, so ! had to follow the same pattern as used for the Angelical Table of the 0lanets.
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5Adapted from Agrippas Third Book , Ch. 1O8 >nce we know the name of our angelic !ntelligence, it would also be helpful to have its sigil for use in talismanic magick. Agrippa gives several methods of generating sigils from the letters of an entitys name. Dost of them depend upon the =ebrew alphabet, but he ends the chapter with a very simple method that can be used with any alphabet whatsoever. /imply take the letters of the Angels name, and blend them together to form a single hieroglyphic figure- called a ?/igil@ 5or /ignature8. For e;ample, let us consider possible /igils for the Angels (alvage and Galvah2
Agrippa stresses that these types of /igils are not as powerful as those received directly from the Angels. Get, they are e;tremely useful for typical magickal purposes, as well as gaining initial contact with the Angels in Buestion.
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5Adapted from pseudo-Agrippas Fourth Book , >f Dagical Ceremonies8 Agrippas Three Books did not include any practical instruction for magick- likely as a protection against the !nBuisition. !t was not until thirty years after his death that a ? Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy5 was published, the actual title being Of #agical
)eremonies. There were many writings by Agrippa that appeared only posthumously, so the debate continues to this very day over whether or not he is the true author of this one. 5=ence the name ?pseudo-Agrippa.@8 egardless of its authorship, Of #agical )eremonies has had a profound impact on western occultism- not the least of which is its instructions for turning /igils like the above into full-fledged talismans. !n the following, ! will outline these instructions2
First, surround the /igil with a double-circle. This creates a border- or circumference- within which can be written the names of forces in control of the Angel. For instance, the name of the Archangel generated from the tables in the previous section would be a prime choice. >ne might also include a name of 7od in sympathy with the Angels nature. For e;ample, a talisman aimed at military conBuest might display the :ame #ad"ilodarp 57od of /tretch Forth and ConBuer8. >utside of the 4eys, %ee also recorded a large number of %ivine :ames in his many magickal sBuares and tables, which can be referenced for a :ame appropriate to the Angel. !n truth, any Angelical word would serve the same purpose- so that an ything from 3rath, urn or *arthBuake to Dercy, Comfort or 0leasure 5depending on the magickal goal8 might be translated into Angelical and written within the circumference as a 3ord of 0ower. 5/ee the *nglish to Angelical section of the Le'icon.8 As a final option, the Fourth Book suggests writing a versicle from /cripture within the circumference. 3e see this in several of the talismans from the 6ey of olomon the 6ing . A passage- usually from the 0salms- that relates in some way to the magickal goal is written in =ebrew or 7reek around the circumference of the talisman. !n the case of an Angelical talisman, ! would suggest adopting appropriate verses from the 4eys. 5For e;ample, a talisman intended to e;orcise spirits would benefit from the first line of 4ey >ne- ?! reign over you, sayeth the 7od of ustice@- written in Angelical characters. !f one wishes to summon and Buestion an entity, then perhaps one of the final lines- ?Dove, therefore, and appear, >pen the mysteries of your creation.@8 The name of the talismans Angel can be inscribed around the central /igil. 0seudo-Agrippa suggests first drawing the lineal figure of the Angels 0lanet or /tar around the /igil, depending on the proper number. 5Agrippasecond Book , Chs M-&', outlines the astrological correspondences for every number from one to twelve.8 The
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For e;ample, a Ienus talisman would display a =eptagram, or seven-pointed star, around the Angels /igil. A Dartian talisman would display a 0entagram or five-pointed star. The letters of the Angels name are then placed within the angles, or at the points, of the lineal figure. ne might use metal appropriate to the 0lanet. >r fresh 5bees-8wa; mi;ed with appropriate herbs, spices 5incenses8 and color dyes. >r, finally, one can use fresh paper 5or virgin parchment8 with appropriately colored ink or paints. !ts shape may be circular, or it may be multi-sided according to the number associated with the Angels /tar. 5/uch as a seven-sided lamen for an Angel of Ienus. Five-sided for Dars. *tc.8 Finally, the talisman should be fashioned during a wa;ing moon when the Angels /tar is well-aspected in the heavens. As an e;ample of this kind of lamen, ! have created a simple talisman of :alvage. !ts central /igil is fashioned from the combined letters of :alvages name. ecause :alvage told %ee that he is under the authority of the Archangel 7abriel, ! have chosen to place that name into the circumference. Along with it, ! have written the Angelical verse ?Dightier is Thy Ioice than the Danifold 3inds@ 5adapted from 4ey Two8 because :alvage was the one who delivered the Angelical 4eys.
