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777 REVISED
6
I cannot identify the first three of these names.
I believe the remaining four were intended to be
G.D. Coptic spellings of Hapi (Ahephi),
Tuamutef (Toumathph), Mestha (Ameshett) and
Qebhsennuf (Kabexnuv), the Sons of Horus, and
have corrected them accordingly.
7
De. occ. phil. lib. I. cap xxiii. The following six
chapters list various things said to be under the
power of the other six classical planets. See also
cap. xxii which gives general attributions for the
planets and the theory behind all this, and cap.
xxxii, “What things are under the Signs, the
Fixed Stars, and their images.”
8
On typographic and chronological evidence this
line was an addition in 777 Revised.
9 As noted above, this last is a fudge which was
made necessary by someone miscopying the
name of the Intelligence of the Intelligences of
the Moon so it no longer added to 3321.
10
The Golden Dawn lectures give a slightly
different attribution of the fingers, based on the
points of the Pentagram, thus: the thumb to Spirit,
the index to Water, the medius to Fire, the third
finger to Earth and the little finger to Air.
11
In the Golden Dawn diagram (in turn derived
from a figure in plate XVI in tom. i of von
Rosenroth’s Kabbala Denudata) from which Col.
CVI. was derived, the seven Earths of Col. CIV.
were also enclosed by the four seas. Godwin
refers the Infernal Rivers to the Elements thus:
Air, Cocytus; Water, Styx; Fire, Phlegethon;
Earth, Acheron.
12
“heled, concealed, and never revealed.” See
the Oath of an Entered Apprentice Freemason.
13
The names appear in a supplement to the Rituel
de Haute Magie as part of an “explanation” of the
“Nuctemeron of Apollonius of Tyana.” In cap.
XVII of the Rituel Levi gives the names and
characters of another 24 Zodiacal genii, two for
each sign. The latter are here omitted.
14
i.e., the author of the Heptameron (see note to
Preface on this point). But much of the following
derives from the Liber Juratus in any case.
15 I have reduced this into a single table to save
space, representing each day and Angel with the
corresponding planetary symbol.
16 The names here have been conformed to the
version of the Heptameron printed in the Lyons
edition of Agrippa’s Opera. Crowley, possibly
because he was working from a corrupted copy,
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.
Appendix: the Yi King
Transliterations of Chinese names follow the
system used by Legge in Sacred Books of the
East, which is not in general current use. In
particular, note that consonants have different
phonetic values when italicised (K is “thin
(tenuis) modified guttural consonant”, Kh
“aspirated thin modified guttural”). b represents
the ‘neutral’ vowel sound. Where Crowley has
‘tz’, Legge used a character something like a
stylised 3; but as far as I can tell from the table of
transliteration conventions, this is equivalent to
the Hebrew x (described helpfully as “Spiritus
asperrimus 2” under dental consonants).
While this may be a little awkward and
confusing, I would submit it is to be preferred to
a transliteration scheme which manages to give
the same transliteration for two different Chinese
characters (vide the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching, s.v.
Hexagram 63).
The main traditional glosses to the trigrams are:
7 Heaven, sky
6 Water (marsh or lake)
5 Fire, sun, lightning
4 Thunder
3 Wind and wood
2 Water (rain, clouds, springs), moon
1 Hill or mountain
0 Earth
Additional traditional correspondences can be
found in the “Eighth Wing” (Appendix V. in the
Legge edition, “Shuo Kwa / Discussion of the
Trigrams” in Part II of the Wilhelm-Baynes
edition).
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