I spent several months working with the Arbatel alone and also in a group working with 3 other people--all internationally based. My experiences are posted in several entries on my blog (see link in my profile). The Arbatel is supposed to be a much larger book. All we have in the introductory first chapter. People mostly focus on the section about the Olympic Spirits but I now believe that it also has a lot of angelic magic in it too, but it is not spelled out. The seal of secrets is a map of the spiritual cosmos --like a Cube of Space--and, like a yantra, the different geometric shapes correspond with the planetary Intelligences. The seal also refers to the mansions of the moon and we think that areas in the seal also refer to presiding angelic entities, too. I more or less know how the seal is supposed to work, practically speaking. It is kind of a like a calendar where you align the moon mansion with the day and season and the themes of those times and spiritual entities governing those times and ordering you day accordingly.
YOu can contact the Intelligence by simply following the simple guidelines in the Arbatel (no you don't ahve to go through some elaborate GD/Roscicrucian circle casting and evocation.
It seems to be influenced by Orphic, Roman, and early Hermetic mysticism (not Solomonic or Cabalist magick).
This post has been edited by SororZSD23: Jul 3 2011, 07:39 PM
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Leaving aside those principles of magic that play on the superstitious and that, whatever they be, are unworthy of the general public, we will direct our thoughts only to those things that contribute to wisdom and that can satisfy better minds . . . -from De Magia by Giordano Bruno (born 1548; burned at the stake February 16, 1600). My Webpage
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