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King Sol Gold
these are not reasonable transliterations of the names
Duke Venus Copper
printed in 777.
President Mercury Mercury (hmm& )
Fire:
Marquis Luna Silver
Bishop: Toum.
In rendering the names of the demons into Hebrew,
Queen: Sati-Ashtoreth.
some suffixes like ion, ius, etc. have been
Knight: Ra.
dropped.
Castle: Anouke (possibly Ankhet, a title of Isis)
An alternative set of attributions and Hebrew
King: Kneph (Khnemu).
spellings can be found in The Sword and the Serpent
Water:
by Denning and Phillips, and Godwin s Cabalistic
Bishop: Hapimon (the Nile god)
Encyclopedia.
Queen: Thouerist (Ta-urt the hippopotamus
goddess)
Cols. CLXVII CLXXI. A completely different set
Knight: Sebek
of names for the dekans and the gods referred to
Castle: Shu
them may be found in Budge s Gods of the
King: Osiris
Egyptians, vol. ii pp 304-310. I am unaware of
Air:
Crowley s source for these attributions: generally the
Bishop: Shu
names seem at the very least somewhat Hellenized.
Queen: Knousou
Knight: Seb
Notes to Crowley s notes
Castle: Tharpesht (a G.D. amalgam of Bast and
1
Sekhet)
Because jk = Koch, Power, and hm is the secret
King: Socharis (Seker; an early god who became
name of Yetzirah (vide Col. LXIV).
identified with Ptah, and later with Osiris)
2
i.e., the Hebrew word for ten.
Earth:
3
The G.D. Qliphoth lecture as published by
Bishop: Aroueris
Zalewski, etc.) has }wdba, Abaddon; Crowley s
Queen: Isis
reading matches that in Kabbala Denudata (tom. i.
Knight: Hoori (Horus)
pars. iv. fig. xvi. (Y)); although this entity is there
Castle: Nephthys
described as innominatus, nameless or unnamed ;
King: Aeshoori (i.e. Osiris again)
unnamable would be innomindandus (cf. the
Pawns
magnum innominandum mentioned by H. P.
Knight s pawn: Kabexnuv (Qebhsennuf)
Lovecraft in The Whisperer in Darkness.)
Queen s Pawn: Tmoumathph (sic) (Tuamutef)
4
Possibly an error for hmun, Naamah or Nahemah.
Bishop s Pawn: Ahepi (Hapi)
The G.D. Qliphoth lecture as printed by Zalewski
Rook s Pawn: Ameshet (Mestha)
(1994) has Maamah which itself may be a
6
I cannot identify the first three of these names. I
misprint. Von Rosenroth (loc. cit.) which is the
believe the remaining four were intended to be G.D.
source for this as for so much else in 777 has hmun.
Coptic spellings of Hapi (Ahephi), Tuamutef
5
Rosicrucian Chess is also known as Enochian
(Toumathph), Mestha (Ameshett) and Qebhsennuf
Chess although its connection with Dee and Kelly s
(Kabexnuv), the Sons of Horus, and have corrected
magick is tenuous at best; it is a four-handed game
them accordingly.
also used as a system of divination, loosely based on
7
De. occ. phil. lib. I. cap xxiii. The following six
an ancient Indian game called Chaturanga, but with
chapters list various things said to be under the
pieces representing Egyptian Gods, played on an 8
power of the other six classical planets. See also
by 8 boards which supposedly represents one of the
cap. xxii which gives general attributions for the
four Watchtowers (with about half the squares
planets and the theory behind all this, and cap. xxxii,
omitted to get it the right size). It was probably
What things are under the Signs, the Fixed Stars,
created by W. Wynn Westcott. For a more detailed
and their images.
account see Zalewski, Enochian Chess of the Golden
8
Dawn (Llewellyn).
On typographic and chronological evidence this
line was an addition in 777 Revised.
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TRANSCRIBER S ENDNOTES
9
As noted above, this last is a fudge which was Appendix: the Yi King
probably made necessary by someone miscopying
Transliterations of Chinese names follow the system
the name of the Intelligence of the Intelligences of
used by Legge in Sacred Books of the East, which is
the Moon so it no longer added to 3321.
not in general current use. In particular, note that
10
The Golden Dawn lectures give a slightly different
consonants have different phonetic values when
attribution of the fingers, based on the points of the
italicised (K is thin (tenuis) modified guttural
Pentagram, thus: the thumb to Spirit, the index to
consonant , Kh aspirated thin modified guttural ).
Water, the medius to Fire, the third finger to Earth
b represents the neutral vowel sound. Where
and the little finger to Air.
Crowley has tz , Legge used a character something
11
like a stylised 3; but as far as I can tell from the table
In the Golden Dawn diagram (in turn derived from
of transliteration conventions, this is equivalent to
a figure in plate XVI in tom. i of von Rosenroth s
the Hebrew x (described helpfully as Spiritus
Kabbala Denudata) from which Col. CVI. was
asperrimus 2 under dental consonants).
derived, the seven Earths of Col. CIV. were also
enclosed by the four seas. Godwin refers the
While this may be a little awkward and confusing, I
Infernal Rivers to the Elements thus: Air, Cocytus;
would submit it is to be preferred to a transliteration
Water, Styx; Fire, Phlegethon; Earth, Acheron.
scheme which manages to give the same
12
heled, concealed, and never revealed. See the
transliteration for two different Chinese characters
Oath of an Entered Apprentice Freemason.
(vide the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching, s.v. Hexagram
13
63).
The names appear in a supplement to the Rituel de
Haute Magie as part of an explanation of the
The main traditional glosses to the trigrams are:
Nuctemeron of Apollonius of Tyana. In cap. XVII
Heaven, sky
7
of the Rituel Levi gives the names and characters of
another 24 Zodiacal genii, two for each sign. The Water (marsh or lake)
6
latter are here omitted.
Fire, sun, lightning
5
14
i.e., the author of the Heptameron (see note to
Thunder
4
Preface on this point). But much of the following
Wind and wood
3
derives from the Liber Juratus in any case.
Water (rain, clouds, springs), moon
15 2
I have reduced this into a single table to save
Hill or mountain
space, representing each day and Angel with the 1
corresponding planetary symbol.
Earth
16
The names here have been conformed to the
Additional traditional correspondences can be found
version of the Heptameron printed in the Lyons
in the Eighth Wing (Appendix V. in the Legge
edition of Agrippa s Opera. Crowley, possibly
edition, Shuo Kwa / Discussion of the Trigrams in
because he was working from a corrupted copy,
Part II of the Wilhelm-Baynes edition).
stated that none were given for Winter; although the
names he gave for the Sun and Moon in Autumn *** ***** ***
were those referred to Winter by pseudo-Abano.
17
Probably in his Oedipus Ægyptiacus. It is this
book (late 17th century) which as far as I am aware
contains the earliest known appearance of the
version of the Tree of Life used by the G.D. and
Crowley, and in fact most modern Western occultists
(the version printed by Kircher is not proportioned to
a 60° mesh as the modern version is; Stirling in The
Canon argues that Kircher s figure is rather
proportioned so a Vesica can be inscribed in it, the
points in Kether and Malkuth, and the sides touching
the left and right pillars). Other Tree of Life
arrangements are discussed by Aryeh Kaplan in his
translation of the Sepher Yetzirah, and in an CELEPHAÏ S PRESS
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