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Therefore the force, fecrecy and power , in what maner the facred names of fpirits are truly and rightly found our, confifteth in the difpofing of vowels , which do make the nameof a fpirit, and wherewith is conflituted the true name, and right word. Now this art is thus perfected and brought to pafs : firft, we are to take heed of the placing the vowels of the letters, which are found by the calculation of the celeftial figure , to flnde the names of the fpirits of the fecond order , Prefidents and Governours. And this in the good fpirics , is thus brought to effect , by confidering the ftars
which do conftitute and make the letters , and by placing them according to their order : firft , let the degree of the eleventh Houfe be fubftrafted from the degree of that ftar which is firft in order j and that which remaineth thereof, lee it be projected from the degree of the afcendent, and where that number endeth , there is part of the vowel of the firft letter : begin therefore to calculate the vowels of thefe letters, according to their number and order ; and the vowel which falleth in the place of the ftar , which is the firft in order, the fame vowel is attributed to the firft letter. Then afterwards thou fhalc finde the part of the fecond letter, by fubRra&ing the degree of a ftar which is the fecond in orderfrom the firft ftar j and that which remaineth, caft from And this is the part from which thou ftulc the afcendant. begin the calculation of the vowels ; and that vowel which falleth upon the fecond ftar, the fame is the vowel of the fe-
cond
letter.
And
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thou fearch ouc the
vowels of the following letters alwaies, by fubflraÂŁting the degree of the following flar. from the degree of the ftar next preceding and going before. And foalfo all calculations and numerations in the names of the good fpirits, ought to be made according to the fucceflion of the fignes. And in calculating the names of the evil fpirits, where in the names of the good fpirits is taken the degree of the eleventh Houfe, in thefe ought to betaken the degree of the twelfth Houfe. And all numerations and calculations may be made with the fucceffion of the fignes , by taking the beginning from the
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