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04:45 pm
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Facebook
I just signed up for a facebook account, the first thing it showed me was a list of like 40 people who I consider to be friends. The only thing I had given was an email address. I'm not sure if that's cool or really scary.
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03:01 pm
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Great Tablet #2 - Sigil Worms
Now hovering over the Table, appear infinite sort of things like worms, sometimes going up and sometimes down; these seem somewhat brightish.
- Edward Kelly, June 25th 1584
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gahdiih73rw
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11:38 am
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Great Tablet #1 - Color Rotation
My latest project, highlighting the original layout of the great table. Variations to come. (Click the little HD button for better quality.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9wcSEIdI1k
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02:11 am
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333
X 17. We shall bring you to Absolute Truth, Absolute Light, Absolute Bliss.
A bsolute
T ruth
L ight
B liss
A T L B = 1 + 300 + 30 + 2 = 333
Triune Truth
Triune Light
Triune Bliss
The first stage of Magic is the trial of building up a world. This is done for the sake of the second stage, comprehension of all and that which resides apart from all. Taking all of the visions, realizing the sum of all the aethyrs about you, you are the god about which they revolve. You are the darkness that wears the mask, the black god of the sun, whose messenger is mercury.
PA RA OA NL = 333
The four groups of two left over letters on each of the tablets of enoch. The name which connects the four tablets.
PARAOAN is the 65th governour.
LXV 23. I am thou, and the Pillar is 'stablished in the void.
LXV 24. Also thou art beyond the stabilities of Being and of Consciousness and of Bliss; for I am thou, and the Pillar is 'stablished in the void.
LXV 25. Also thou shalt discourse of these things unto the man that writeth them, and he shall partake of them as a sacrament; for I who am thou am he, and the Pillar is 'stablished in the void.
LXV 26. From the Crown to the Abyss, so goeth it single and erect. Also the limitless sphere shall glow with the brilliance thereof.
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09:41 am
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36/120
We have explored before how the 6 letters of the Ring sum to 156, there are 156 squares in each of the four tablets and the call of the aethyrs has 156 words.
The two center letters of the ring sum to 36. The letters in the four corners sum to 120.
The central cross in each tablet has 36 squares, each of the four corners has 30, with a total of 120 squares in the corners.
We could also look at the 19th call, the first 36 words are seperated from the rest by the word IDOIGO, a name taken from one of the corners of one of the tablets. The first 36 words address the heavens, the ones that follow address the earth. IDOIGO is whom the magician identifies with.
This division is also seen in the words אהל מועד
Meaning "Tabernacle of the Congregation" from Leviticus 1:1.
אהל(Tabernacle) = 36
מועד(of the congregation) = 120
So in these symbols we have the tabernacle surrounded by the congregation.
36 is also the second mystic number of the Sun, being the number of squares in the magic square of the Sun.
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04:33 pm
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An Ideal Mass Setup
ד, ג, ס, ת
The Empress, The Priestess, Art and the Universe.
4 + 3 + 60 + 400 = 467 = גלגלתא (Golgatha)
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10:53 pm
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Fools that men adore
I invoke, I greet
Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
Unity uttermost showed!
I adore the might of Thy breath!
Just as Nuit is Gimel, the Uniting Intelligence, Hadit Beth, the Transparent Intelligence, so is Ra-Hoor-Khuit Aleph, the Fiery or Scintillating Intelligence. The divine fiery breath that roars throughout existence.
According to Crowley's Rota aleph is:
The hidden light - "the wisdom of God foolishness with men."
Him who is without fear or care beyond his own will which moves freely as the wind. The common men being weighed down by the ignorance of their own nature, call this foolish.
CCXX* III:17. Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk "folly!", nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms.
From "Ritual of Passing through the Tuat":
I who am nothing deny all that I was.
I who am nothing affirm all that I shall be.
I swear that as Nuit is about me, as Hadit is within me, so am I Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
ATU 0:
Know Naught!
All ways are lawful to Innocence.
Pure folly is the Key to Initiation.
Silence breaks into Rapture.
Be neither man nor woman, but both in one.
Be silent, Babe in the Egg of Blue, that thou mayest grow to bear the Lance and Graal!
Wander alone, and sing! In the King's Palace his daughter awaits thee.
- Secret Instructions of the Master
* Punctuation slightly modified
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02:28 pm
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Hadit - The Unknown that is Everywhere
1. Nu! the hiding of Hadit.
2. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I, Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House.
3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found.
4. Yet she shall be known & I never.
Take for a moment that Nuit Is Gimel and Hadit is Beth, according to the Sepher Yetzirah, Nuit would be the Uniting Intelligence and Hadit the Transparent Intelligence. Nuit being that which binds all together, the great circumference that circumscribes all. Hadit being that which is everywhere, but transparent and thus invisible to all.
| Gimel | Nuit | Uniting Intelligence |
| Beth | Hadit | Transparent Intelligence |
26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one.
Hadit is that which is between Nuit, the boundless infinite and her sister the world, the bound immediate. He is that which may partake of both, being everywhere connects him to the world, but being unknown prevents him from being bound and separated from Nuit. That which is not infinite may not know that which is infinite.
Hadit is the creative power in man that allows him to become more than matter, allows him to become God. More plainly spoken, he is the spark of awareness in man, that which knows or is aware, that which makes man more than an automaton or flesh-bound mind.
7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is I that go.
Secret Instructions of the Master
The True Self is the meaning of the True Will: know Thyself through Thy Way! Calculate well the Formula of Thy Way! Create freely; absorb joyously; divide intently; consolidate completely. Work thou, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, in and for Eternity.
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01:24 pm
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Nuit and the Gate of Her Sister
1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit.
2. The unveiling of the company of heaven.
5. Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men!
6. Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!
3. Now hath Nuit veiled herself, that she may open the gate of her sister. - Liber 231
Has Nuit veiled her self for the purpose of allowing herself to be unveiled? We know that Hadit is her heart and tounge. Who is her sister and what is the gate?
The only verses that contain the words "sister" and "gate" in LIBER CCXX:
CCXX I:51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine & rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he not sink? Amn. Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me.
CCXX I:53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me!
"the little world my sister, my heart & my tounge". Hadit is her heart and tounge as stated in verse 6, does this mean hadit is also "the little world" and Nuit's sister?
Edit:
After contemplating it for a while, I don't believe I was reading that verse correctly. Rephrased the correct meaning would look like this:
This [my heart & my tongue] shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, unto whom I send this kiss.
As if to say the message given by Nuit comprehended (heart) and given form in word (tongue) in Hadit is what shall regenerate the world, which is Nuit's little sister.
So what is the gate of the little world? The Gate of Nuit's sister? Is this perhaps a reference to Babalon, the Gate of God(s)? I think I tend to agree with Crowley that these gates are "Light, Life, Love, Liberty". The gate of Nuit's sister being that of Love.
See here Nuit throwing up her veil:
Gimel. Of the three goddess, gimel is the Virgin, of the powers gimel is "The Supreme Ecstasy of Purity." The Secret instruction of the master regarding gimel is "Purity is to live only to the Highest; and the Highest is All: be thou as Artemis to Pan! Read thou in the Book of the Law, and break through the veil of the Virgin!"
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01:14 pm
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Extreme Magic - 91 hour aethyr working
In Crowley's vision of the 18th Aethyr, ZEN, he receives a method of working the aethyrs, the text is under the cut.
Has here anybody actually worked this method? Or do you know of somebody who has?
If you are supposed to be locked in a room, what should you do as far as relieving yourself?
I have the 19th call memorized and I'm almost fluent with the words, do you still think writing out the call is worthwhile?
How would you write letters in "white flecked with red, blue, and yellow; the edges of the letters shall be green"?
Can the eggs be cooked? The idea of eating raw eggs seems like it could lead to complications.
( An excerpt from The Vision and the Voice, 18th Aethyr )
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12:23 pm
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Happy new year!
My resolution is to call to each one of the 91 governors during the period of four days that it governs.
the faithful witnesses are the Universe, the Year and Man.
- Sepher Yetzirah
( My Ritual Schedule For IV:xvii )
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02:41 pm
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Gnostic Mass
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) babalonyieh and I celebrated our first [public] Gnostic Mass together this past weekend. Thank you to everyone who was involved, it was my first time performing the role of priest and it went wonderfully. Thanks to the brethren down in Tacoma for inviting and hosting us. Thanks to sebastian_lvx for a flawless deacon performance, and Brother N and Sister D for their excellent child service. A special thanks to matertiamat for sewing my robe, it worked out perfectly. Also I'd like to thank my Brothers and Sisters in Minneapolis for getting me started with the Gnostic Mass and for the many years that we performed mass together, helping me to get to this point.
Starting in April, we will be performing the Gnostic Mass at Horizon Oasis every third saturday at 8pm. These will be slightly different from our normal masses out here, in that all the lights will be off and we are requiring all in attendance to wear white robes.
The reason that we are requiring people to wear robes is that we'd like to allow the congregation to feel more invested and connected to the ritual. By making the mass more intimate it is our hope that it will be easier to get into the sort of head space that allows one to perfect the realization of "There is no part of me that is not of the gods."
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07:02 pm
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Fuckin Tusken
So for the past month or so I've been getting phone calls from Somalia. I'll receive the calls in groups of 2-5 calls at various times during the day. The person on the other side either says something in what is Somali or Arabic, or repeats "hello" after I say, or just hangs up. It's pretty annoying, the phone company says they can't block numbers, but they can give me a new phone number, which is total bullshit.
I really don't want to change my number, but I don't really see another option. Anybody have any bright ideas? Or can think of any reason why somebody would do this? The numbers that the caller ID reports are:
1 252 9070 8667
+ 252 9070-8667
Here is a link to somebody complaining about the same situation, different number, that person had over 40 calls in one day.
Anybody know some insults I can answer the phone with? Like your father was a pig?
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01:25 pm
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Three Grades
AL I,40: "Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
θε, the Hermit, י invisible, yet illuminating. The A.'. A.'.
λη, the Lover, ז visible as is the lightning flash. The College of Adepts.
μα, The Man of Earth, פ, the Blasted Tower.
θε = 14, the Pentagram, rule of Spirit over ordered Matter.
Strength and Authority ( ט and ה ) and secretly 1 + 4 = 5, the Hierophant, ו, V. Also Leo and Aries, the Lion and the Ram. Cf. Isaiah. It is a "millennial" state.
λη = 38, the word Abrahadabra, 418, divided by the number of its letters, 11.
Justice or Balance and the Charioteer of Mastery. A state of progress; the church militant.
μα = 41, the Inverted Pentagram, matter dominating spirit.
The Hanged Man and the Fool, the condition of those who are not adepts.
- Old Comment
See the entry on cheth for more on the combination of the two pentagrams.
ε, Mercury
η, Venus
α, Luna
ε + η + α = 14
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02:13 am
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Resh Reminder - Beta Online!
Resh Reminder is now online and ready for beta testing. Click here to setup an account, let me know what you think, suggestions, questions, bugs, etc.
Resh Reminder is a service that sends email/sms reminders at the four daily adorations specified in LIBER RESH VEL HELIOS.
The message times and content can be personalized to your particular practice.
This service is currently free, requires only a minute of setup and can be disabled at any time.
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02:26 pm
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On the Positioning of the four tablets in the Great Table
Here is a paper I've been working on the last couple of days. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
Click here for this post in a word document.
In this post we will examine the positioning of the tablets in the great table based on the diagrams in found in Sloane 3191. This information is important for several reasons. First we would like to know to correctly draw the great table. Second we would like to know in which quarter each tablet should be placed, its position on the great table might indicate this. Third, the quarter the tablet is placed in will indicate its color, as several visions that Kelly received were specific about the colors of the directions.
In sloane 3191 there are two diagrams of the great table with letters, found on pages 53b-54a (Image I) and 56b-57a (Image III). On page 57a (above Image III) there is a small note about positioning (Image V). While not a proper diagram, we must take it into consideration. The note says "so they must be placed." A third grid on pages 55b-56a details how the sigils of the governours are drawn (Image II).
The drawing on pages 57b-58a (Image IV) seems to depict four squares surrounded by a circle which has three flags in each quarter. While these squares do not have the grids or letters, it is a good assumption that they represent the tablets. We can make a guess at the identity of the identity of each tablet based on the names shown in the three flags drawn in that tablets quarter. The four sets of names are derived from the 7th row of each of the tablets. While it is possible that the order of the flags is not related to the tablets, for the purposes of this post we will assume that this is not the case.
( Images behind the cut )
For convenience the tablets will be referenced by the letters in their upper left corners and by the order of the aethyrs to which the governours that appear on them belong. These are: 1T, 2d, 3r, 4b.
The following table shows how the tablets are laid out in each of the Images:
| I | II | III | V | IV |
| Upper Left | 3r | 3r | 3r | 3r | 3r |
| Upper Right | 1T | 4b | 4b | 1T | 4b |
| Lower Left | 4b | 2d | 2d | 4b | 1T |
| Lower Right | 2d | 1T | 1T | 2d | 2d |
| Layout | A | B | B | A | C |
Image I agrees with image V (the note), this we will call layout A. Image II agrees with image III, this we will call layout B. Image VI is different than all the rest, we will call it layout C.
The differences between the layouts become more apparent when the path one takes following the governours up through the aethyrs is highlighted, shown in image VI. From a purely aesthetic point of view, we believe that layout B is the most appealing when it comes to flow as the tablets move in a circle rather than jumping about.
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| Image VI |
Looking back into the diaries of the workings we find that layout A is the reformed version of the table given April 20th 1587. Layout B shows the order supposedly given June 25th 1584, but a close reading of the text does reveals some flaws in this idea. First it should be noted that Dee never included the full great table in his diaries until the reformed table was received, so we can only assume that the order in layout B is that given in 1584. This order is seems to based on the order that the four seals were given, which is Upper Left, Upper Right, Lower Right and Lower Left. The letters of the four tablets were then given in the order 3r, 4b, 2d, 1T. However, there is a note given the next day as the angel is instructing upon the use of the black cross, it implies that 3r is in the upper right:
.... As, in the first of the black crosses thou hast, e.
D. So it is.
In the first square of the right side thou hast r. beginning the name of the Angel Urzla: put e to ie, and it changeth the sound, into Erzla.
This is problematic as it does not agree with any of the three layouts. We are of the opinion that either the note was poorly worded and "the right side" is meant to note the fact that the letter e is to the right of the r or that the circumstances surrounding that note probably involved a visual que or gesture to a diagram that was not included in the diaries.
Later this order would be unmistakeably corrected while receiving the reformed table:
D. Note: When E.K. had shewed me this Note, we by and by brought forth my book of Enoch his Tables, and found the four letters r T b d to be the four first letters of the four principal squares standing about the black Cross: and that here they were to be placed otherwise than as I had set them. And in the first placing of them together, I remember that I had doubt how to join them; for they were given apart each by themselves.
So, if one were to believe that this reception of the reformed table is legitimate, as the members of the Golden Dawn so believed, there is no question as to the order and composition of the tables. However due to the errors present upon this new table, most apparent being the 8th row of 4b, we believe magicians should take pause for consideration before using it in their work.
| 141 | May 21st | 1584 | First 42 Governours Received, OCCODON through OOANAMB |
| 148 | May 22nd | 1584 | Last 49 Governours Received, TAHANDO through DOZINAL |
| 168 | June 20th | 1584 | Vision of the 4 Houses, which are the 4 Angels of the Earth, the 4 Overseers and Watch-Towers of God |
| 172 | June 25th | 1584 | Seals & Great Table |
| 180 | June 26th | 1584 | Black Cross (Great Central Cross) |
| 15 | April 20th | 1587 | Reformed Table |
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05:58 pm
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Mercury
I did a Mercury invocation today, one of my first ever times working with the ensigns of creation. All I found is that there are exactly 300 four letter words that sum to 93, doesn't seem particularly useful.
11 sets of unique letters.
3 sets where one of the letters is duplicated.
There are 24 unique permutations for each of the unique sets and 12 permutations for each of the sets with the duplicate.
11 x 24 + 3 x 12 = 264 + 36 = 300 = Shin
A text file with all the names.
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09:07 pm
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CAOSGA
1. CAOSGA is the 42nd word of the 19th call, it means "the earth". In this call it is used interchangably with "her" which is sometimes given as TILB. It is the first word in a short discourse describing what God said "in the beginning".
The 1st word of this call is "Heavens", the 42nd word is "The Earth".
2. In qaballah, the 42-fold name of God is sometimes said to be the first 42 letters of Genesis, from the bet of berashit (In the Beginning) to the bet in bohu (void). In the Zohar these are called "the forty-two holy letters of the holy name, by which heaven and earth were created." King James version gives it as "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The earth was formless and void".
There is also the teaching that berashit means "created six", refering to the six supernal days (chesed to yesod), to the six letters of the word berashit and also to six other letters that are said to create heaven and earth IHVH and HI.
3. In Greek the word Χάος (Chaos) means "the primal emptiness, space". Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, described Chaos as "rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named". According to Hesiod Chaos was the 'vast and dark' void from which the first deity, Gaia, emerged. The first four letters of CAOSGA could refer to Χάος and the next two could be the first two letters of Γαια.
4. A possible greek spelling of CAOSGA is Καωσγα which gives 1025 =
δαιμονων, demons
Seen in rev 18:2 And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.
Which brings to mind "Because She Is The Bed Of An Harlot And The Dwelling Place Of Him That Is Fallen."
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01:03 pm
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Note on the understanding of symbols
As occultists it is important to recognize that the meaning of the symbols we possess will change as they are passed on. Our colleagues and students will each have their own small nuances of evolutionary understanding to bring to the table.
It is also important to remember that these changes do not invalidate the old meanings. While these changes in meaning can be considered progress, the goal remains ever the same distance away. These changes merely represent a shift in perspective, the eternal light is always in view of its earnest and true seeker.
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02:07 pm
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Enochian Call Attributions - The 17th, Aries
O Thou Third Flame
Whose Wings Are Thorns To Stir Up Vexation
And Hast 7336 Living Lamps Going Before Thee
Whose God Is Wrath In Anger
Gird Up Thy Loins And Harken
Whose God Is Wrath In Anger
Aries being the most wrathful and angry sign.
Agrippa lists Pallas, the spear-bearing goddess of warfare, as the deity associated with this sign.
Whose Wings Are Thorns To Stir Up Vexation
Agrippa lists Malchidiel as the angel that rules over Aries. Enoch 1, Chapter 82 says this about this angel:
15. In the commencement of the year Melkejâl rises first and rules, he
who is called Tamaânî and sun, and all the days of his government that he rules are
ninety-one days.
16. And these are the signs of the days which are seen on the earth in the
days of his government: sweat and heat and anxiety, and all the trees producing fruit, and the
leaves appearing on all the trees, and the harvest of wheat, and the blooming of roses, and
all the flowers blooming in the fields, but the trees of winter become withered.
"sweat and heat and anxiety" fulfilling the office of vexation.
And Hast 7336 Living Lamps Going Before Thee
Agrippa lists the Seraphim as the angelic choir associated with Aries. Seraphim means "burning ones" or sometimes "fiery serpents". These are the living lamps going before god, as they surround his throne as seen in this passage from Issah:
"... I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and His train filled the Hekhal (sanctuary). Above Him stood the Seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew."
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