Transcendental Magic — Éliphas Lévi
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p. 32111. Strength. Birth of Noah. Visions on this day are deceitful, but it is one of health and long life for children born on it. 12. The Victim, or Hanged Man. Birth of Samuel. Prophetic and kabbalistic day, favourable to the fulfilment of the great work. 13. Death. Birthday of Canaan, the accursed son of Cham. Baleful day and fatal number. 14. The Angel of Temperance. Blessing of Noah on the fourteenth day of the moon.
This day is governed by the angel Cassiel of the hierarchy of Uriel. 15. Typhon, or the Devil. Birth of Ishmael. Day of reprobation and exile. 16. The Masted Tower. Birthday of Jacob and Esau ; the day also of Jacob's predestination, to Esau's ruin. 17. The Glittering Star. Fire from heaven burns Sodom and Gomorrah. Day of salvation for the good, and ruin for the wicked ; on a Saturday dangerous. It is under the dominion of the >rpion. 18.
The Moon. Birth of Isaac. Wife's triumph. Day of conjugal ion and good hope. 19. The Sun. Birth of Pharaoh. A beneficent or fatal day for the jat of earth, according to the different merits of the great. x
p. 32220. The Judgment. Birth of Jonas, the instrument of God's judgment. Propitious for divine revelations. 21. The World. Birth of Saul, material royalty. Danger to mind and reason. 22. Influence of Saturn. Birth of Job. Day of trial and suffering. 23. Influence of Venus. Birth of Benjamin. Day of preference and tenderness. 24. Influence of Jupiter. Birth of Japhet. 25. Influence of Mercury. Tenth plague of Egypt.
26. Influence of Mars. Deliverance of the Israelites, and passage of the Eed Sea. 2 7. Influence of Diana, or Hecate. Splendid victory achieved by Judas Maccabeus. 28. Influence of the Sun. Samson carries off the gates of Gaza. Day of strength and deliverance. 29. The Fool of the Tarot. Day of failure and miscarriage in all things.
We see from this rabbinical table, which John Belot and others borrowed from the Hebrew kabbalists, that these ancient masters concluded a posteriori from facts to presumable inp. 323fluences, which is completely within the logic of the occult sciences.
We see also what diverse significations are included in the twenty-two keys which form the universal alphabet of the Tarot, together with the truth of our assertions, when we say that all secrets of the Kabbalah and magic, all mysteries of the elder world, all science of the patriarchs, all historical traditions of primeval times, are enclosed in this hieroglyphic book of Thoth, Enoch, or Cadmus.
An exceedingly simple method of finding celestial horoscopes by onomancy is that which we are about to describe ; it harmonises Gaftarel with our own views, and its results are most astounding in their exactitude and depth.
Take a black card ; cut therein the name of the person for whom you wish to make the consultation ; place this card at the end of a tube which must diminish towards the eye of the observer ; then look through it alternately towards the four cardinal points, beginning at the east and finishing at the north.
Take note of all the stars which you see through the letters ; convert these letters into numbers, and, with the sum of the addition written down in the same manner, renew the operation ; then compute the number of stars you have ; next, adding this number to that of the name, again cast up and write the sum of the two numbers in Hebrew characters.
Again renew the operation; inscribe separately the stars which you have noticed ; then find the names of all the stars in the planisphere ; classify them according to their size and brightness, choosing the most brilliant of all as the pole-star of your astrological operation ; then find, in the Egyptian planisphere, the names and figures of the genii to which these stars belong.
A good example of the planisphere will be found in the atlas to the great work of Dupuis. You will then know the fortunate and unfortunate signs which enter into the name of the person, and what is their influence ; whether in childhood, which is the name traced at the east ; in youth, which is the name traced at the south ; in mature age, which is the name at the west ; in decline, which is the name at the north ; or,
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