Ars Theurgia/goetia - Hebrew Names, The divine names used in the outer circle Options

As far as I know there is no place online which has the Hebrew names used in the outer ring of the circle used in the modern Ars Theurgia and Ars Goetia written clearly. I‘ve come across a few posts on this forum where people have had to do the same thing I did, which was to dig up the Hebrew spellings elsewhere and use guesswork for the rest - this post will hopefully help others out who have had this same problem and to correct any mistakes I made (IMG:style_emoticons/default/secret.gif). The Crowley/Mathers edition of the Ars Goetia was my source for the English translation of the names.


This is the draft version, I'll include some better graphics for the maltese crosses and the planetary signs later on -

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The above has been scaled down for the forum, here’s a larger and clearer version.

I’m no expert on Hebrew but I noticed what to my eyes appeared to be mistakes in the Crowley/Mathers diagram of the circle and the spellings used in Regardie’s The Golden Dawn - these are outlined below along with other thoughts:

On the S.S.F./S.Z. line Raziel was spelt resh nun yod aleph lamed, this doesn’t sound right to me so Raziel is spelt resh tzaddi yod aleph lamed. On the same line Mazloth was spelt mem nun lamed vau tau, this didn’t sound right to me either so it is spelt mem samekh lamed vau tau in the above image.

On the S.M. line Madim was spelt mem daleth yod final-mem, but I have also seen it spelt mem aleph daleth yod final-mem, I choose the second spelling because it reflected the English translation better.

On the S.L. line I’m unsure if El Chai is supposed to be one word or two - as I’ve seen it written both ways, I have made them separate for the time being.

Lastly, the lone Elohim on the S.V. line looks out of place to me. Elohim is the name of Abba and Aima unified, shouldn’t it have a prefix or suffix or otherwise be coupled like Elohim Gibor is to give the name a Netzach flavor?

Please help correct any mistakes made!


I’m confident the rest is spelt fine, but the proper use of the final letters eludes me still in some cases - should Elohim Gibor for example have a final-mem, as even though Elohim is a standalone divine name it is coupled with Gibor, making me think that Elohim Gibor should be treated as one word in which case mem would be used instead. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused012.gif)

This post has been edited by Zugzwang: Jul 4 2007, 09:05 AM

Might as well post this here as it's connected to the Goetia:

The only other book of the lesser key mentioned in the Goetia is the Ars Nova, the version I found of it is the one published by Benjamin Rowe (I have no idea who he is either). He writes in his introduction to the book:

Most of the text of Ars Nova clearly relates to the first book of the Lemegeton,
the Goetia, and the “tools of the trade” described therein: the magickal circle and triangle,
the hexagrams within the circle and the pentagrams surrounding it. It lists the
divine names written in each of these, and adds a short prayer, with one line of
prayer per name. This list takes up the entire first page. I believe that the prayers
were to be spoken either while drawing the divine names and figures, or later while
consecrating the place of the work.

About the bit in bold - the Ars Goetia says of the Ars Nova between the oration of cloth and the first conjuration:

"After ye have so done, make prayers to God according to your worke, as Saloman hath commanded. The formes (of prayer?) that Saloman used for any perticular art is shewn in ye 5th part of this booke weh is called Artem Novam (Ars Nova), etc."

It seems clear to me that the prayers in the Ars Nova are supposed to be read sometime between the oration of the vestments and the first conjuration, probably when you first enter the circle before the work.

The next paragraph goes -

On the opposite side of the sheet, there are three sections. In the first, several
sets of Hebrew characters are shown with accompanying names in the Latin alphabet.
The latter do not appear to be transliterations of the Hebrew – which, in any
case, is only partly legible.

When I looked through the lettering more closely I could see that it did match up with the english, but it is heavily corrupted. Rowe is wrong!

Here's the piece of text Rowe is talking about, I placed the blue lines to group the hebrew with their english counterparts.

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These names are later used as part of a prayer if you choose to seal the spirits in a brazen vessel as Solomon supposedly did.

Some of the letters don't appear to be hebrew at all on first glance, but that's because they are written cursively. In the Roson Subbartha section the strange central letter is a cursive form of daleth, in the Hinmore section the backwards 3 is tzaddi etc.

Some examples -

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I'm guessing AIN became ZAAN which became ZADON. Roh Elihad became Rosen Emolack. Bah Ain became Baseh Zadon. The hebrew itself is probably corrupted too, so my restoration of those words is likely completely wrong.

Certain parts of psalms and proverbs are split up with a letter heading for each verse, so it goes 'aleph' "etc etc etc", 'beth' "etc etc etc", I'm guessing the letter shin before Jodgea has something to do with that.