Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.pdf

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
On examining the number of points of which the sixteen (16) figures of Geomancy
are composed, it is at once evident that they vary from four (4) points the least to eight (8)
points the greatest number contained in one figure.
Only one figure contains eight (8) points -- that is plus -- the number of the letters of
the name YHVH ADNI.
Four figures consist each of 7 points, the number of the 28 Mansions of the Moon in
the Zodiac: Rubeus, Albus, Tristitia and Laetitia.
Six (6) figures contain six points each -- the number of the 36 Decans of the
Zodiac: Carcer, Conjunctio, Fortuna Major and Minor, Amissio and Acquisitio.
Four (4) figures consist of five (5) points each -- the number of the Sephiroth in
two aspects (positive and negative) and of the word YOD spelled out in full, thus: Y - 10, Vau -
6, Daleth - 4, making 20. Puer, Puella, Caput and Cauda Draconis.
Only one (1) figure consists of 4 points, Via, the number of the letters of the Name
--YHVH.
The total of all the points in all the figures, 8 + 28 + 36 + 20 + 4 equals 96. 8 x 12 equals
the name of 8 letters multiplied through the 12 divisions of the Zodiac. The number of the
classes of the figures according to their points, as above given, will be five (5), answering to
the points of the Pentagram.
Also, the total number 96 will further show 16 (times) 6 or the geomantic figures
multiplied in the Hexagram. This development of the figures according to the number of
the points may be classified and summed up in the annexed diagrams.
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