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 -

(IMG:http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l37/Corporeal/24950240.png)

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

<bump>

Still looking for the 'finalized' version of the document...

-Theodor

Bees writes:

<<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).
>>

Benjamin Rowe died in the early 1990's and his work was kept around online where it was popular for a few years. He was, to my knowledge, operating independently out of Ohio, and his work doesn't represent any major occult fraternity. He developed the Enochian system by making it compatible with Golden Dawn ritual formats, but I believe he was trying to make Enochian more user-friendly and not to embellish Golden Dawn work.

It was his desire to create a Book of Seniors to tablulate the 24 Enochian Seniors, their powers, and all the occult detail one could extract through performance of Enochian rituals. He did this with the Seniors of the Earth Watchtower, wherein he was told to alter his medication specifically. He refused to do this, as he notes in the book, and soon after died from cancer. He left a full copy for the Earth tablet, but the other three were left unexplored.