Finding Spirit Names From Your Natal Chart?, A question about a method in Agrippa's Occult Philosophy Book III Options

In Book III, of Agrippa's Books of Occult Philosophy, in Chapter 26-27, there is a method to discover (supposedly) the name of a good, and a bad spirit, that has been "assigned" to you at birth.

I'm trying to do this, but I can't quite make sense of it, I'm going to be buying another translation before Christmas, and hopefully that will help clear it up, but I thought I'd try here first.

From what I can understand (which may be all wrong), the method in Chapter 26, is to take your birth chart, and starting at your Ascendant, assign in order the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, and wherever a planet rests, that letter is part of the Spirit name. But how do you order the letters to get the name? I've figured out my seven letters, but from there, I don't know how to arrange them to find the name.

I've also read two different explanations on getting the name of the bad spirit, one is you label the letters backwards from the Ascendant, the other is you use the letters (degrees) opposite of wherever a planet rests in your chart.

Can anyone clear this up for me?

As for chapter 27, I'm just lost, so any help there would be much appreciated.

Wouldn't it be easier to evoke an entity who'd know and ask it directly? Is it possible to communicate with either of your geniuses to get their names, with what information you already have? How about contacting Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa himself?
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There's also some English versions in the public domain:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/De_Occulta_Philosophia/Book_3
http://www.esotericarchives.com/agrippa/agrippa3.htm

This post has been edited by SeekerVI: Dec 16 2007, 12:20 PM