SUBLUNAR SPACE - planets

Dark Night of the Soul

2023-07-10T19:30:00+02:00

This is the most difficult article I've written so far. I have less mental capacities to write than I used to and so much has happened since we set sails to our escape journey at the end of 2020. Little did I know that it would turn into a real odyssey.

I have written extensively about some of my experiences of planetary self-initiation in the past but I have come to realize that the further I progessed through the spheres the more meaningful and personal they became. It feels almost inappropriate to make all the details public here, due to their very personal nature and because they coincided with a difficult period of depression and crisis that took quite some time and effort to get out of. But I will try to briefly touch on them because they might actually be the most important magical experiences of my life.

The last time I had been through a similar personal upheaval and depression was over a decade ago around the time of my Saturn Return (while being completely ignorant of that concept). Back then I managed to shed several layers of self-perceived expectations and societal pressure that had kept my authentic self in confinement and came out of it feeling more like a grownup than before.

This time it was different. Not only in terms of the darkness and confusion I had to push through, as well as the mind-blowing levels of self-realization, but especially due to the magnitude of traumatizing fallout that directly influenced my immediate family. It's one thing to live through a period of depression by yourself, but when you are embedded in a family unit and have responsibilities as a spouse and parent, it is impossible to protect your loved ones from getting hurt.

Thus Spoke the Goddesses

Past planetary initiations had taught me about my relationship with my parents and the need for personal sovereignty (Jupiter), about the temporality of life and nonlinearity of time (Saturn), the art of war and listening to my instincts (Mars). They were all mind-blowing and exciting. In contrast, the initiations of the feminine planets I went through while living on the Canary Island of Tenerife turned out to be deeply soul shattering.

I had been especially looking forward to my Lunar initiation ritual, naively hoping it would help me get more lucid dreams or better psychic skills. Instead, the luminary goddess made me realize that significant parts of my past life had been a self-deceptive lie and that I actually tick all the boxes of an ADHD diagnosis while leaning heavily into the Autism spectrum. How's that for a surprise?

Facing Venus was something I had been scared of ever since starting the 7 spheres cycle, mainly due to the frightening experiences my mage friend Aaron of Charm the Water had gone through but I had to eventually do it and the ritual timing coincided with a very difficult relationship crisis. With equal intensity to her lunar kin the goddess of love and beauty made me ask myself very uncomfortable questions about my interpersonal experiences and abilities that both directly tied into my newly discovered neurodiversity. On the upside - and very weird for a pagan goddess - my venusian initiation resulted in a sudden felt sense of closeness to - wait for it - I still can't really comprehend it: Jesus Christ.

Into the Abyss

So here I was, displaced on a volcanic saturnian island in the middle of the Atlantic. Grappling with mental health issues, questioning my whole past life, having lost my career and general faith in humanity during a raging pandemic, having no friends and a shattered marriage apparently wasn't enough: I conducted Covid-19 during a short trip to Romania and infected my family when I returned. It hit us hard. My wife the hardest. I don't know how we all managed to not lose our minds completely and I really have problems recalling memories of that time. It was grim.

Three months after having officially recovered from Covid-19 I almost drowned from attempting to swim in the sea. My physical condition was at its worst ever, I could barely breathe and it all really bummed me out. When Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February 2022 it was the cherry on the despair cake and I lost it. I drifted off into a serious depression of which I barely recall anything besides fractions of images. I was suffering heavy post-Covid symptoms, overwhelming fatigue, a brainfog so intense I was unable to read or write properly.

In the months that followed, my wife - who miraculously hadn't left me - somehow managed to drag us all off the island and we spent several weeks traveling. We met my parents on their holidays on the neighbor island of Fuerteventura, we also traveled all our former homes, reconnecting with family and friends and it felt like collecting long forgotten shards of my soul.

Tikkun Atzmi

I wandered the endless white beaches of Fuerteventura, drowning in nostalgia from childhood vacation memories, reliving the bliss of those magical times, letting months of stuck tears flow.

I walked the streets of Berlin with a never before encountered intense sense of placeness. I ritually visited every house and neighborhood I had lived in for the past 20 years. I was overwhelmed by forgotten memories, almost breaking down on several occasions, finding myself crying, finally integrating grief and loss of past failed relationships and old friends.

I wandered through the forests around my hometown, in awe of the intensity of how much 'home' this place felt, reconnecting with my parents and friends from teenage times. We ended up spending several weeks in Heidelberg and I couldn't shake the feeling that immersing myself in this ancestral place contributed a lot to my recovery. I finished the seven Spheres with Mercury at his temple on the same mountain I had started the planetary journey three years earlier.

It was during that time that we decided to close this weird liminal chapter of our life and leave Tenerife for good. What had started as a hopeful and optimistic escape had turned out to be a dark underworld journey in the middle of a tropical paradise. And like every heroes journey it felt crucial to finish it properly and to return home. But what does 'home' even mean when you are a mixed background family? This had been one of our primary discussions in the last two years: where is our home? Where do we want to live? Where is our 'Ithaka' to return to?

We stayed on the island for just a few more weeks, wrapping up our life there and eventuall left the same way we had arrived - by land and sea - like Odysseus.

We arrived back in our old home of Berlin and rediscovered all of our belongings we had left behind two years before. Everything felt eerily familiar yet foreign and distant. In an almost manic tour de force we managed to get rid of the majority of our stuff, renovate the old flat and sublet it to a friend of ours - all within a month - and we took off to open a new chapter in a new place - yet another chapter of uncertainty but with ancestral ties: my wife's homeland, the holy land, Israel.

Solve et Coagula

I am still in the midst of an ongoing and probably never-ending process of re-framing and integrating my own past, re-adjusting my life to my newly realized neurodiversity and attempting to put it all into context. It's been a wild ride so far. My (also neurodiverse) wife and I have managed to reconcile and rebuild trust and are working through a ton of past baggage, both individual and common. Meanwhile I got the diagnosis of a liver condition resulting in raised cholesterole levels that might be the result of genetic disposition and long-covid. I take medication for that and since doing so I have been feeling much better physically. Also my brainfog has lifted to the point where I can read books again and write a few paragraphs of text. Overall I am hopeful and positive about the future and despite the intensity of dark experiences during the last two years I am grateful and in awe about the deep transformations I am going through. Jung called the process 'individuation', alchemists called it 'Magnum Opus', the 'Great Work' and now I know that 'great' refers to the incomprehensible heaviness of the 'work', the sacrifices and traumas one can endure on the way to a more authentic self.

I thank the planetary spirits, the gods and the theotokos for heeding my calls and pushing me through this magical adventure, the labyrinth of self-discovery that without proper divine help has the potential to merely become what's commonly referred to as 'midlife crisis'.

To Ram Through

2021-05-02T16:30:00+02:00

This is a half a year late quick report of personal gnosis that followed my initiation into the sphere of Mars right before he went retrograde in August 2020. I learned about the art of war, energy management, and to follow my instincts.

I admit it wasn't the best Astrological election to do my initiation into the sphere of Mars on Tuesday, August 18th. Mars was squaring Saturn, but also in a trine with a combust Mercury. But it was a New Moon and Aries was rising during the hour of Mars. I followed my intuition and just did it. My tropical sun-sign is Aries, so is my sidereal ascendant as well as my Lot of Daemon. So far, martian space weather has been mostly auspicious in my life.

I got myself into the right mood by listening to some war-glorifying electronic anthems from the local anti-german subculture, like "Alles musz in Flammen stehen" ("Everything must be in flames") by Das Flug, or Björn Peng's "We Do" and the theme of one of my favourite post-apocalyptic b-movies "Hardware". As soundtrack for the initiation itself I chose an organ arrangement of Gustav Holst's "Mars. Bringer of War".

My libation of choice was a deep port wine and I was excited to fumigate some of the Canarian dragonblood I had harvested on Tenerife some years ago. I decorated the altar with my taiji practice broadsword and a selection of corresponding Tarot cards: Ace of Wands, The Chariot, The Tower, ...The Force? I hesitated with the latter because it represents a more feminine yin form of martian energy but it made me think of Athena, the sister of Ares, symbolizing a more disciplined, strategic side of war. I wasn't sure about it, so I put it back into the card box.

Utilizing my Psithemius table of practice the invocation of Samael went smoothly. Like in my first use of the device for my solar initiation I got visual feedback again this time: the silhouette of a staff or spear wielding man appeared in front of my inner eye while gazing into the crystal.

Getting Things Done

I did not expect to have instant effects from the ritual, but already from the next day I had a burst of energy that lasted for a good week. I followed an urge to clear out our basement, a project I had successfully postponed over and over for months already. I also finally felt very motivated to start working on renovating our newly purchased transporter to turn it into a campervan. I worked on it almost every day.

A few days later things got weird. At 5 in the morning I was woken up by an obnoxious digital sounding noise. It came from my phone that was charging in the kitchen. It was an alarm. But the phone showed no indicator, no snooze button, no sign of the usual alarm interface. It stopped when I hit the volume down button. Then I saw that the phone was actually set to fully silent - even the alarms. It shouldn't have made any sound. Weird! When I went back to bed, slightly confused and annoyed, my daughter E suddenly started to giggle and cackle in her sleep. It creeped the hell out of me. Later that day I was sitting on the couch in our living room and opened a letter from the Police. Allegedly I had bumped into someone's car while pulling out of a parking lot. I was devastated and scared of the legal consequences. Suddenly my daughter came to me with a proud face to show me something she had done. I almost fell off the couch...

She handed me the Force card of my tarot deck, cleanly cut into two halves and the rounded corners clipped off. I should have known better but instead I yelled at her and she started crying. Of course she didn't know or understand what she had done. I was confused. I clearly remember having put this card back into its box. How did she get it? And how come it was the exact one I had so hesitated with? It struck me like an answer: "No, not this card is not Mars!"

And in combination with the letter from the Police! Samael clearly teaching some lessons here. I guessed this was about obedience, honoring rules and questioning my relationship with authorities. Things I have always had difficulties with.

The Art of War

The core martian teachings unfolded in the following weeks. But due to privacy concerns regarding a client I work as a consultant for I cannot go into any of the juicy details. All I can vaguely disclose is they had experienced an internal breach of trust that resulted in a power struggle destabilizing the whole company. Suddenly and out of nowhere my technical expertise was needed, but in more ways than anticipated. I found myself placed in the role of a war-general: assuming and predicting the next steps of the enemy and working on strategies to anticipate them.

My bursts of energy of the first week after the rite had been focused on my own personal projects, random and not very controled. Now I learned that directing martian energies towards a greater goal beyond mere personal gain and satisfaction seems to exponentially amplify them. My martial personality traits bloomed as never before and I felt contented to a whole new level.

This chapter lasted almost the whole Mars retrograde phase but ended in a glorious victory. The internal enemy was defeated, their actions repelled and retaliated. I was high from pride, the client both as surprised by my skills as I was and very satisfied by my work. Soon after, we agreed on a long term commitment. I felt very lucky, because the pandemic had killed my 15 year career from one day to another and I really needed a new job anyway.

Ovine Instincts

The other "thing" that happened in the aftermath of my Mars initiation was more of a process than an event. It started out as just a subtle but then day after day increasing irrational feeling of panic and looming danger. I got very anxious about it but at the same time it also felt eerily familiar.

In the the last decade I have already learned to trust my general instincts and gut feelings about life decisions more than my rational faculties. Ever since treading an enchanted path I tend to attribute this subtle "knowing" to my "higher self", "daimon", or my "guardian angel". When I found out that the planetary ruler of my astrological lot of daimon (Aries) is Mars I wasn't surprised at all. This intuitive force has always felt that way to me.

The growing anxiety felt exactly like that. Almost animal-like. An ovine precognition of imminent danger. And it was clearly related to the pandemic. Day after day I felt a stronger urge that we must escape Berlin as fast as possible, or else...

I talked to my wife about it and she trusted me. We came up with a crazy plan. Our initial incentive to buy a van and convert it into a camper was to travel France, Spain, and Portugal. We even did a test camping trip through the South of Germany in July and really loved it. Well, then pandemic related travel restrictions were put in place, so we had to ditch that whole idea. Now it was back on the table, but modified. Not "travel" but "escape".

At this point we didn't really know what to escape from but we knew where to: The Canary Islands.

That in itself seemed quite crazy: drive to an archipelago off the coast of Morocco, almost 4000km away, by car?! Mars didn't think it was crazy, so that's what we ended up doing...but that's going to be the content of another article.

Postscriptum

The police sent a letter a few weeks later that the case was dropped. And eventually also my intuition was right. After we left Berlin, lockdown measures got implemented, all childcare and schools closed. Most flights cancelled. Travel restricted. We would have been stuck in a locked down metropolis during a cold and dark winter with a bored and anxious child without kindergarten to go to and without friends to meet. Thanks to Mars we avoided a mental health crisis.

Canary Capricorn

2020-03-02T20:45:00+01:00

This is a detailed report of strange days full of pine tree portals, morning glory vines, tachycardia, synchronicities and personal gnosis that preceded (or retroactively followed) my initiation into the sphere of Saturn during a vacation with my wife and daughter on the Canary Island of Tenerife.

Escaping Winter

In the last years the time after Christmas has always been quite a downer. Berlin falls into a mode of total greyness that just makes you want to hibernate. Usually my freelance economy is also hibernating during that time when there are no jobs around. For this year my partner T. and I decided to escape this misery and booked vacations on my beloved Canary archipelago - first a couple of days on the chthonic gods' black rock altar manifested as the island of Lanzarote and then three weeks on the sacred island of Tenerife. We prepared for relaxed weeks, but ended up in wonderland...

A few days after we arrived on Tenerife things became very strange. It all started on a Wednesday, two days after we arrived by sea with a ferry from Lanzarote. The trip between the islands was beautiful but also wavy and quite long. All tired and unnerved from the journey we arrived at a small and quite cold little hut in the mountains of La Esperanza. The hut was cute but had no heating, just a malfunctioning fireside. That Wednesday we all decided to go for a walk in the forest which according to the map was only minutes away. Remembering the ancient pine trees we had visited last time we came to this island, I let my offline-map-app Osmand show me all points of interest of the "tree" category and chose the closest one to our house.

Ten minutes later we found ourselves in a stunningly beautiful forest of mostly pine trees with eucalyptus groves and small leaved shrubbery on hilly ground covered in an endless carpet of pine needles. The walk was very soothing and gave us back a sense of peace of mind. We eventually arrived at our waypoint marker: a really creepy and old pine tree that must have barely survived a wildfire. Its trunk was hollowed out and from the remaining black bark dripped thousands of threads of golden resin. The bottom part of the trunk was so thoroughly burnt from all sides it created a hole you could see through to the other side, large enough for a person to crawl through.

Baal's Portal

Well, that's what we did, jokingly calling it a "gateway to another dimension". First I, then my wife T. and a bit more hesitantly, my 3 years old daughter E. stepped through the tree trunk. It was fun! Before leaving I decided I wanted a branch from the tree to keep as a magic wand because maybe the old pine had been struck by lightning which is supposed to be the perfect magically charged wood for wands. I circled the tree four times and threw a small log at one of the branches that broke off. The branch was not as straight as I had hoped for but was a bit crooked like a sickle, but I kept it anyway.

We walked a bit further, had a small picnic and started our way back to the car. Making our way through a bushy and narrow path downhill my daughter started to get a bit tired and bored and made up one of her roleplaying games. She declared: "I am Juno now! You have to call me Juno, OK?” I smiled and nodded and we continued our descent. Suddenly I remembered that the ancient mother goddess who was venerated by the aboriginal population of the Canarian archipelago and who had been syncretized into the Catholic patron saint Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria was assumed to have been the Catharginian goddess Tanit, whom the Romans dubbed "Juno Caelestis." What a curious synchronicity!

In the following night I had a strange dream involving a village road that we needed to urgently pass through and that it had something to do with Saturn. We needed to pick up a brown rental car of the type "Reverend" and it was a brown SUV stretch-limousine. The pick-up location was at a wide sandy beach and there were plenty of people wearing suits wildly racing stretch-limousines across the sand and performing wheelies and other tricks. It was loud and stormy. I looked along the beach and saw a body of a woman lying face down in the wet sand, white roaring waves breaking violently around her. Suddenly a humanoid giant emerged out of the whitewater and carefully picked up the body. The woman was was my wife! I ran to the giant as fast as I could. T. was confused but seemed fine. I thanked the giant and suddenly had a moment of realization. I looked at her, saying "If they are on our side, this must be really important!" Then I woke up.

Horned Gods

I obsessively thought about the "Saturn" part all day long. I just couldn't shake it off. In the evening I did a search for "Saturn" in my collected research documents folder on my computer related to myths and archaeological findings of the Canary Islands and found an interesting paper¹ I had not read yet. It was about a curious theory that the Canaries must have been visited by Christian missionaries before the official arrival of the Spanish conquerors in the late 14th century, because the aboriginal population mainly venerated a heavenly creator god and his holy mother when encountered. The author found this a too curious coincidence and looked into what numinous creatures local folklore had declared "devils" like in so many other Christianized areas of Europe where the previous pagan gods were either syncretized into Saints or declared evil demons. He found matching stories about "wooly goat or sheep like creatures" with "red eyes" an on one island a "wooly black haired man" who were usually appeased on mountain tops with offerings of milk and butter. The author's theory was that this was probably their god before they started believing in a transcendental heavenly father. He related the goaty god to Baal-Hammon, who was the other prime deity next to Tanit worshipped in Catharge and throughout many areas of North Africa, primarily by Berber tribes. In the paper¹ it was mentioned that the Romans saw in Baal-Hammon a form of Saturn.¹

Mind blown, I went to bed and thought a lot about everything I had learned. Then it dawned on me: Saturn! Kronos! Baal-Hammon! My dream and the forest walk suddenly made sense in an uncanny way. The pine tree is considered a Saturnian creature. The branch I had broken off: it looked like a scythe! My daughter suddenly coming up with the name "Juno". Tanit!

The next days were weirdly interwoven with synchronicities. I felt strangely disconnected from life and seemed to experience everything from a weird observer perspective. I obsessively started to think about doing a ritual for Saturn or Baal-Hammon. Maybe using the Trithemius method from "Seven Spheres"? I didn't have my "table of practice" with me. I would need to make one. I needed materials, incenses, candles, corresponding plants... The moment I had just finished this last thought I just finished parking our car next to a park in the city of La Laguna and almost fell into a gigantic hedge completely overgrown by purple Morning Glory vines. There it is! A Saturnian plant! We walked through the city and past a large mural sculpture made from plastic trash. It was a black crow! A Saturnian animal! Needless to say that I noticed SUVs everywhere we drove to, all in this weird brown color like the one in my dream.

One afternoon we took a walk along the large meadows surrounding the little house we had rented for our vacation. Suddenly a large flock of sheep entered our neighboring field with their archaic looking shepherd and his dogs. Half of the livestock were sheep, the other half a strange looking breed of black and very wooly goats with very long corkscrew-like horns. "Baal-Hammon" I thought. The "wooly goat god" of the Canaries. Also "Capricorn" popped into my mind. Of course. The sun just entered the sidereal zodiac sign of Capricorn, home of the planet Saturn who would also join his sign in the upcoming days. This was too much!

At night I couldn't sleep well. Something really bothered me. It was the fact that the Catharginian cults of Tanit and Baal-Hammon were tightly connected to human sacrifice, specifically child sacrifice. Followers had allegedly offered their firstborns to their gods, unless the whole story was just Greek, Jewish and later Christian propaganda. Nobody really knows. But it bothered me a lot, being a father and all. I did not want to go that path of syncretizing Saturn with Baal-Hammon. It just felt: wrong! In the night I had a nightmare of which the only image I remembered upon waking in panic was holding the limp body of my daughter in my hands.

Another evening my wife and I had a long and serious talk about our current life. It was a talk that had been long overdue. About our financial situation. About our job situation and occupational outlooks. About the lack of overview over our assets. About living from day to day, the lack of perspective and planning. About stability and getting our shit together. It was good. We also had more and more serious talks about what we want in our life. About where we want to live our life. About how much we loved it here and whether we want to stay in Berlin or relocate to the Canary Islands. A once wild dream suddenly became a concrete topic that needed attention, consideration, planning. Saturn in Capricorn. It all felt appropriate and weirdly controlled, as if external forces made us finally have these talks.

Transience

I felt very light-headed and dizzy one early evening and went to bed earlier than usual. I felt weirdly sick. My body was completely exhausted, but my mind was highly alert. I took this as an opportunity to try to induce "sleep paralysis" and attempt and out of body experience. It didn't fully work. I was able to shift my awareness around in the room and even push it outside of the house, but wasn't sure how much of it was just vivid imagination. It was a strange evening and I had feverish repetitive dreams that night without actually having a fever. The following evening our daughter seemed extraordinarily restless and crazy. Even for a three and a half year old. She was clumsy and whiny and when my wife took her on her lap to comfort her she suddenly said: "her heart seems very fast!". I put my ear on our daughter's chest and counted. 22 in 6 seconds. Holy Shit. A heart rate of 220 beats per minute! We calmed her down and went to bed, hoping for her pulse to slow down during her sleep.

It didn't.

The next day we rushed to the hospital. The closest one was the University Hospital Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria. How appropriate, I thought. We were treated nicely and with patience, although the emergency ward was completely overcrowded and in chaos. Nobody spoke English or German, yet we managed with my very limited Spanish. The very young doctors in the pediatric section did an electrocardiogram and gave our little one a shot of adenosine. A heart reset. It stops the heart for a moment. It is a very scary thought. But it works. It did work. Her little heart reset to normal speed and we were very relieved. She was very scared and confused. Poor thing.

Apparently she had relapsed into a fairly common heart condition she had as a small baby which she was supposed to be cured from a long time ago. During the next 6 hours staying in the hospital for observation so many things went through my mind. About parenthood and responsibility. About not taking things for granted. About more awareness of risks. About protecting my child better from insensible doctors. About fear of loss and parental anxieties. It was hell. But my daughter loved it. So much attention and hours of cartoons.

Eventually we could go home. When I left the building to get our car I saw a rainbow in the sky above the city. Problem was that I couldn't find our car anymore. Where had I parked it? I randomly walked up and down the small roads around the hospital. They all looked the same. Then I saw the rainbow again, at the end of a small street. I took a turn and walked towards it to get a better look and suddenly there it was in front of me: our car!

Temporality

That evening I was scared to the bones. Baal-Hammon. Saturn. Child sacrifice. A moment of death before the heart resets. My nightmare of holding my limp daughter. It was way too much. I wanted it all to stop. I suddenly felt almost compelled to do a ritual. Not to start something, but to stop it. The next day I gave my wife a day off to recover from the stress and I took my daughter to Puerto de la Cruz, to do something nice, buy her ice-cream, visit some playground. The secondary objective was to go to the local Esoteric shop and a paper shop to buy ritual accessories. A quartz crystal. Storax incense. Black paper. Silver pen. It had to be done.

At some pont it hit me! Saturn! Father of time! Of course! I realized that everything that happened in the last days had the strange taste of initiation to it. I remembered the Jovial initiation I did last year. The feeling of outside perspective on my own life. The sparks of inspiration. The lessons and emotions. All the weird synchronicities that happened after I initiated into the sphere of Jupiter. This was the same but different. Why did all of this happen BEFORE my initiation ritual and not AFTER? Why? Because Saturn rules time! He can do whatever the fuck he wants with it. Why not reverse it and let the initiation ritual ripple into the past instead of the future, or why not both ways? It was crystal clear to me now that I had to do the ritual as soon as possible. I decided to do it on the 25th of January. New Moon in sidereal Capricorn, sun also, and Saturn just entering his home sign too. Plus it was a Saturday. Perfect space weather. I asked my Tarot whether it was a good election and what to expect.

To my defense: it wasn't just me who felt this omnipresent looming weirdness. T. felt it too. Ever since we crawled through that creepy tree, she said. Oh god, that tree. It was true. Like another dimension! We decided that we needed to go back and crawl through it again – this time from the other side! And we were not joking.

On Friday and especially on Saturday I felt awful. Very depressed and sad for no apparent reason, anxious and clumsy and very snappy. Tired and unnerved we barely managed to go back to the tree, but we did. It had to be done. I circled it four times, this time clockwise, and all three of us climbed back through the gaping hole in the charred trunk.

We suddenly felt very relieved and strangely happy and walked back to the car.

Calling Qaftsiel

In the evening I packed all my ritual accessories I had gathered and prepared in the days before and got into the car around sunset. I drove down the village road to a hedge I had spotted before. Overgrown by Morning Glory! I harvested a few vines with the purple flowers and hit the road uphill towards the mountain. It was pitch black as I drove up the serpentine roads through the forest. After cancelling a hike up to the mountain top due to the darkness and also deciding not to use a cave near the road due to unbearable urine stench I spontaneously opted for a manmade cave I had marked on my phone-map a few days before. It was just off an easy to find hiking path and should be doable even in the darkness.

I was a bit scared walking through the forest at night but I felt excitement and an urge to push through with the plan. I climbed down a steep hill into a small valley in total darkness, slipping on the pine needles and mossy rocks. My phone reception went dead. I should have left my coordinates. Fuck it. Let's do it. I eventually found the cave! It was a small horizontal mine shaft from old attempts to dig a tunnel for water. There are thousands of these on the island. This one was around a meter in diameter and just two meters deep into the rock. But it was dry and clean and fortunately too inaccessible to be used as a toilet. It was perfect!

I set up my altar and table of practice, decorated it with the flowers and checked the time. Almost an hour left until the appropriate planetary hour of Saturn. I crawled back out and sat down on a rock. I closed the flashlight and looked around. Complete darkness. Complete silence. Just the wind in the treetops and omg, the stars!

I was mesmerized by the beauty of the night-sky. The Pleiades were right above my head and I saw a satellite pass by when I looked up. I stared into the sky for a long time lying on my back enjoying each moment that seemed like eternity. Then it was time for the ritual.

It took quite a while. I started with the day's prayer of my ongoing novena to La Virgen de La Candelaria and did a full Headless Rite following my usual new moon routine. The cave filled up with the incense smoke and hummed in resonance with the frequency of my voice while I recited the prayers of the Seven Spheres protocol. I was an amazing feeling.

After I was done I had such an intense feeling of relief and peace of mind that I got high from it. Absolute Clarity.

I somehow made it back to the car and drove home. The remaining days on the island were dominated by peacefulness and joy. Hardly have I felt so happy and clear minded. My family too.

Cold and dry in the head. Capricorn season.

Wipf, Karl A. "Der sogenannte Hochgottglaube der Altkanarier." Almogaren 15 (1984): 45-76. ↩↩↩

Into the Spheres

2019-04-18T14:00:00+02:00

Trying Trithemius

I have to admit my guilt of initial skepticism towards Rufus Opus' "Seven Spheres" from an ignorant armchair magician's perspective. The magical system seemed too "watered down" in comparison with the original framework laid out by Trithemius in "Drawing Spirits into Crystals" and other modern interpretations of it, like Frater Ashen Chassan's outstanding work.

My mind was changed by listening to the lovely Charm the Water podcast and following the reports of incredible synchronicites and life-changing events that unfolded around Aaron and Kelly's lives around each of the planetary initiation rituals. It has been on my bucket list ever since and a few weeks ago I finally managed to plunge into the first sphere.

How Aaron diverged from RO's original ritual order and timing resonated very much with me. The schedule in Seven Spheres seems quite tight and the order of planets to initiate into very strategic. Aaron approached it in a more organic way by following his intuition to tell him which planet to reach out to next and to let much more time pass after each ritual. It allowed him to fully experience each unfolding of planetary enchantment without hurry.

I knew that I wanted to initiate into the sphere of Jupiter first, because he rules my sun sign (Pisces) and I wanted to do it around my birthday at the end of March. I elected April 4 for the ritual, a Thursday, in the evening hour of Jupiter. The space weather seemed auspicious: the Sun and Moon were in Pisces, Jupiter himself at home in Sagittarius, and visited in his sign also by grumpy old wizard Saturn.

Allowing myself some artistic freedom constructing the required Trithemian table of practice, I followed Ashen Chassan's lead (backed up by Peterson and Stratton-Kent) and used the names of the Four Kings instead of the Archangels. Instead of the Gothic Latin names of the planetary angels RO uses and Chassan's classic Hebrew version which both are quite difficult to draw due to the calligraphic serifs I followed the layout by Polyphanes and used the Celestial Hebrew typeface popularized by Agrippa. Here is the final design I went with:

Dialing Sachiel

I painted it onto a wooden plate using black permanent marker and some minor decorations in gold and silver. The crystal is a scrying glass sphere I bought in my local New Age shop together with two royal blue candles, corresponding with Jupiter. For the required lamen and seals I used cardboard in the same color. Following Chassan I placed the altar towards Southwest and I intuitively turned the table of practice so the Four Kings would point into their respective cardinal directions. As suffumigation I went with a delicious combination of aloe- and cedar-wood. I quit smoking three years ago so I skipped the cigar smoke offering part, but I adorned the altar with some dried laurel leaves from the kitchen and an olive branch I had taken from a small tree that was next to the altar of Bona Dea Heia Augusta that I found during an obsessive quest in Croatia last summer. The alcohol offering of choice was a glass of my favorite Scotch Whisky Glenmorangie and as music I first played "Ode to Joy" and then a compilation of loungy Austrian jazz that seemed appropriate.

My preferred ritual language is German, so I had to translate the prayers from English first. You can find the translations here.

Despite neither seeing anything appear in the crystal, nor feeling any Angelic presence, I followed through with the whole ritual, confident that it would take some time for the effects of the initiation to unfold in the next days and weeks - and boy, did they unfold...read on

Sieben Sphären

2019-04-18T13:59:00+02:00

Sieben Sphären ist ein Buch des US-amerikanischen hermetischen Magiers Frater Rufus Opus, der basierend auf einem Werk von Johannes Trithemius von Spanheim ein modernes magisches System geschaffen hat, mit planetischen Engeln in Kontakt zu treten und mit deren Hilfe Herrscher über die eigene Lebenssphäre zu werden.

Hier sind einige Gebete und Formeln aus dem Buch, übersetzt ins Deutsche von Sublunar Space und frei verfügbar unter Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Lizenz.

Gebet an den Ersten Vater

Erster Vater, Quelle allen Lichts, der dennoch in absoluter und ewiger Dunkelheit weilt; Du, der durch Dein Wort alles erschaffen hat; Du, mit dem liebenden Spiritus Mundi, der mich in deinem Ebenbild als göttlicher Schöpfergott geformt hat, Ich rufe Dich an, jetzt diese Riten zu segnen und zu weihen.

Gebet an den übernatürlichen Assistenten

Du übernatürlicher Assistent, allgegenwärtiger Freund und Führer, bereite jetzt den Weg zwischen mir und der Sphäre des [Planeten] und seiner Intelligenzen. Bereite ein Fest für diese Wesen vor, die wir anrufen werden und machen den Weg zwischen uns frei.

Weihung des Kristalls

Oh unbelebtes Geschöpf Gottes, sei geheiligt und geweiht, und gesegnet zu diesem Zweck, damit in dir kein böses Gespinst erscheine; oder, falls sie es tun, dass sie gezwungen seien, verständlich zu die Wahrheit zu sprechen, und ohne die geringste Zweideutigkeit, um Christi willen. Amen.

Beschwörung des Erzengels

Im Namen der gesegneten und heiligen Dreieinigkeit beschwöre ich Dich, Du starker mächtiger Engel [Name], wenn es der göttliche Wille des Tetragrammaton ist, des Heiligen Gottes, der Vaters, dass du eine Form annimmst, die Deine himmlische Natur am besten widerspiegelt, und hier in diesem Kristall erscheinst, im Namen der Herrlichkeit und Ehre seiner göttlichen Majestät, der lebt und die endlose Welt regiert. Amen.

Herr, dein Wille geschehe auf Erden wie im Himmel; - Reinige mein Herz in mir und nimm nicht deinen Heiligen Geist von mir. O Herr, ich habe ihn in deinem Namen gerufen. Dulde ihn mir dienen zu lassen. Und dass alle Dinge für deine Ehre und Herrlichkeit zusammenarbeiten, denn dir, dem Sohn und dem Heilige Geiste werden alle Macht, Majestät und Herrschaft zugeschrieben. Amen

Oh Herr! Danke dass Du mein Gebet erhörtest und danke, dass du deinen Geist für mich erscheinen lässt. Amen.

Anmerkungen

Im Originalbuch gibt es auch noch eine Weihung des Räucherwerks, orphische Hymnen an die Planeten, und eine Lizenz zum Abgang. Da ich die Hymnen bereits nutze bzw. andere Formeln benutze, habe ich diese nicht übersetzt.

Rehoboam's Cheat Sheet

2018-05-08T20:00:00+02:00

(updated 20/01/2019)

Pay attention, my dearest son Rehoboam, to the details of this art of mine, your father Solomon, regarding the things in which the entire attention of Hygromanteia lies...

For talisman and sigil creation, as well as for other minor spells that don't fall into my usual PGM inspired practice I like using the days and hours and their angels and daimons from the Hygromanteia. The inspiration came from Gordon White who uses them in his sigil practice.

This is a cheat sheet in the sense that it is a searchable digital document and features different language options for the prayers and conjurations. I switched from using the more popular 15th century Codex Harleianus 5596 manuscript version of the Hygromanteia to the 16th century Codex Monacensis 70 because it's the only one featuring the lists of the angels and the daimons of the hours I could find in Greek online and because the planetary prayers are shorter and more to the point. It suits me well because as adoration of the planetary deities I usually already recite the Orphic Hymns beforehand.

The German translations have been done by myself and are freely available (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license). The English translations are copied from The Magical Treatise of Solomon - or Hygromanteia by Ioannis Marathakis and fixed where needed. All rights remain reserved.

The Epistle to Rehoboam

it is absolutely necessary to find the proper hour in order to accomplish your will. At first recite the prayer of the planet that rules this hour and then conjure the angel and the servant, that is to say, the demon.

Afterwards, draw the characters of the planet with the appropriate ink and incense. The lord and ruler of the hour will grant you the power he owns.

The Hours of the Days

Hour Elections

Day	Hour	Ruler	Purpose
☉	1	☉	[Begin an adress]
☉	2	♀	it is good for getting the love of lords, great men and rulers
☉	3	☿	good for encounters with lords
☉	4	☽	for addressing to lords
☉	5	♄	for preventing encounters
☉	6	♃	for appearing before lords
☉	7	♂	take care to do nothing
☉	8	☉	do anything you need regarding lords
☉	9	♀	the same regarding ladies
☉	10	☿	for making a petition
☉	11	☽	start an address
☉	12	♄	do nothing
☉	13	♃	speak in aid of friends
☉	14	♂	for preventing an address
☉	15	☉	for sending dreams to a king
☉	16	♀	for sending dreams to a lady
☉	17	☿	do nothing
☉	18	☽	a good hour for working
☉	19	♄	take care to do nothing
☉	20	♃	for getting the love of lords
☉	21	♂	for restraining somebody's activities
☉	22	☉	for appearing before a king
☉	23	♀	for appearing before a lady
☉	24	☿	rest
☽	1	☽	it is good for making a talisman for buying or selling
☽	2	♄	bad hour
☽	3	♃	good hour for opening workshops
☽	4	♂	for restraining workshops
☽	5	☉	for beginning to sell
☽	6	♀	for dealings
☽	7	☿	for going on a journey
☽	8	☽	for buying
☽	9	♄	for restraining
☽	10	♃	set up a business, [f 241)
☽	11	♂	for preventing luck
☽	12	☉	set up a business
☽	13	♀	rest
☽	14	☿	for earning a living
☽	15	☽	work on your affairs
☽	16	♄	do not work on anything
☽	17	♃	write and speak (for your affairs)
☽	18	♂	for restraining and hindering
☽	19	☉	start plans
☽	20	♀	rest and work on affairs
☽	21	☿	move and stir affairs
☽	22	☽	reckon your plan
☽	23	♄	do not work on anything
☽	24	♃	open your workshop
♂	1	♂	it is good for making a talisman for winning at war and the similar
♂	2	☉	for taking loot
♂	3	♀	for displaying your (military) skills
♂	4	☿	for going to war
♂	5	☽	for going and returning
♂	6	♄	beware of the war
♂	7	♃	for appearing before enemies
♂	8	♂	ask for aid
♂	9	☉	for taking loot from a castle
♂	10	♀	for doing mighty deeds
♂	11	☿	for standing out
♂	12	☽	hour for despoiling slain enemies
♂	13	♄	be careful
♂	14	♃	for bringing someone into discredit
♂	15	♂	for asking aid for your salvation
♂	16	☉	useless
♂	17	♀	for rising in honor
♂	18	☿	for escaping
♂	19	☽	for winning over opponents
♂	20	♄	for marching against enemies
♂	21	♃	for keeping concealed
♂	22	♂	pray to God
♂	23	☉	for appearing at war
♂	24	♀	enviable hour
☿	1	☿	it is good for making (a talisman) for invisibility and the similar; also for teaching children
☿	2	☽	for resting and cheering
☿	3	♄	useless hour
☿	4	♃	for practicing alchemy
☿	5	♂	for revealing secret things
☿	6	☉	for finding treasures
☿	7	♀	for dominating a woman
☿	8	☿	for making (a talisman) regarding the decision of a tribunal
☿	9	☽	for cohabiting with a woman
☿	10	♄	be careful
☿	11	♃	begin whatever you want
☿	12	♂	do nothing
☿	13	☉	win over a discourse
☿	14	♀	begin praying
☿	15	☿	for making (a talisman) concerning dreams
☿	16	☽	for casting binding spells
☿	17	♄	useless hour
☿	18	♃	for harming people
☿	19	♂	for making retribution
☿	20	☉	hour useful for everything» [f 242]
☿	21	♀	for sending dreams
☿	22	☿	for teaching
☿	23	☽	hour for casting binding spells
☿	24	♄	useless hour
♃	1	♃	it is good for making (a talisman) concerning the healing of any man or animal
♃	2	♂	useless hour
♃	3	☉	for appearing before kings
♃	4	♀	for appearing before a lady
♃	5	☿	for the learning of rhetoric
♃	6	☽	for changing residence
♃	7	♄	be careful at this hour
♃	8	♃	good and blessed hour
♃	9	♂	hour for causing jealousy
♃	10	☉	for making (a talisman) concerning the benefit of your body
♃	11	♀	for healing a woman
♃	12	☿	for emigrating far away
♃	13	☽	for success
♃	14	♄	useless hour
♃	15	♃	hour for every kind of healing
♃	16	♂	for making surgical incisions
♃	17	☉	for healing kings
♃	18	♀	for healing a lady
♃	19	☿	for not being afraid of robbers
♃	20	☽	useful hour
♃	21	♄	useless hour
♃	22	♃	in this useful hour do whatever you want
♃	23	♂	for causing hassles
♃	24	☉	make (a talisman) regarding decisions of tribunals and lords
♀	1	♀	make (a talisman) concerning love and affection
♀	2	☿	for messages of matchmaking
♀	3	☽	good for everything
♀	4	♄	obstacles of love
♀	5	♃	for gifts and pleasant conversations
♀	6	♂	for causing jealousy in love
♀	7	☉	good hour, beneficial for love
♀	8	♀	good hour for making (a talisman) concerning love
♀	9	☿	hour for messages concerning engagements
♀	10	☽	good hour, if you want to do something
♀	11	♄	it is a useless hour
♀	12	♃	for making agreements
♀	13	♂	begin an engagement
♀	14	☉	for binding a couple with a spell
♀	15	♀	for binding someone with love spells
♀	16	☿	for sending dreams of love
♀	17	☽	good hour
♀	18	♄	for sending dreams of hatred
♀	19	♃	for making (talismans) towards any beneficial aim
♀	20	♂	do nothing
♀	21	☉	good hour
♀	22	♀	an hour of love
♀	23	☿	hour for alchemy
♀	24	☽	for restraining (love)
♄	1	♄	it is an hour for making (a talisman) for the harm of your enemies; that is to say, for striking men with illness
♄	2	♃	for causing a shipwreck
♄	3	♂	for setting up enchantments
♄	4	☉	for making lords fight each other
♄	5	♀	for making a couple hate each other
♄	6	☿	useful for finding a treasure
♄	7	☽	for speaking with demons
♄	8	♄	for performing basin divination
♄	9	♃	for performing skull divination
♄	10	♂	for causing peoples to plunge into the sea
♄	11	☉	for making litigants mad at each other
♄	12	♀	for causing fear and enmity
♄	13	☿	beneficial for discovering secret things
♄	14	☽	for seeing people long dead
♄	15	♄	for seeing visions by water divination
♄	16	♃	useful for teaching
♄	17	♂	very malign hour
♄	18	☉	useless hour
♄	19	♀	for gaining money in dice
♄	20	☿	for restraining every good thing
♄	21	☽	hour without virtue
♄	22	♄	for causing visions
♄	23	♃	useful for profit
♄	24	♂	hour for hassle and enmity

Angels and Daimons of the Hours

Day	Hour	Ruler	Angel of the Hour	Phonetic	Daimon of the Hour	Phonetic
☉	1	☉	Μιχαηλ	Michaēl	’Ασμουαι	Asmouai
☉	2	♀	Αρφαναηλ	Arphanaēl	Ορναι	Ornai
☉	3	☿	Περουηλ	Perouēl	Πηρραθ	Pērrath
☉	4	☽	Ιωραηλ	Iōraēl	Σιληδων	Silēdōn
☉	5	♄	Πιελ	Piel	Σιτρος	Sitros
☉	6	♃	Ιωχθ	Iōchth	Ζηφαρ	Zēphar
☉	7	♂	Πελ	Pel	Μανιηρ	Maniēr
☉	8	☉	Ιοραν	Ioran	Οσμιε	Osmie
☉	9	♀	Καταηλ	Kataēl	Πνιξ	Pnix
☉	10	☿	Βιδουηλ	Bidouēl	Γηρατ	Gērat
☉	11	☽	Ηδιηλ	Ēdiēl	Νηστα	Nēsta
☉	12	♄	Σαναηλ	Sanaēl	Πελιωρ	Peliōr
☉	13	♃	Οψιηλ	Opsiēl	Ο Ιστος	Hoistos
☉	14	♂	Τεραηλ	Teraēl	Απιος	Apios
☉	15	☉	Λυσιελ	Lysiel	Νηγμος	Nēgmos
☉	16	♀	Ναλουηλ	Nalouēl	Αραξ	Arax
☉	17	☿	Ορκιηλ	Orkiēl	Νηστριαφ	Nēstriaph
☉	18	☽	Περιηλ	Periēl	Ασκινος	Askinos
☉	19	♄	Ιαρηλ	Iarēl	Κινοπιγος	Kinopigos
☉	20	♃	Αθουηλ	Athouēl	Αραψ	Araps
☉	21	♂	Θαμανιηλ	Thamaniēl	Ταρταρουηλ	Tartarouēl
☉	22	☉	Βραδηλ	Bradēl	Μελμεθ	Melmeth
☉	23	♀	Κλινος	Klinos	Μηθριδανου	Mēthridanou
☉	24	☿	Ιων	Iōn	Φροδαινος	Phrodainos
☽	1	☽	Γαβριηλ	Gabriēl	Μαμονας	Mamonas
☽	2	♄	Φαρσαφβηλ	Pharsaphbēl	Σκολιων	Skoliōn
☽	3	♃	Πινδωηλ	Pindōēl	Θετιδωφ	Thetidōph
☽	4	♂	Κοτπηλ	Kotpēl	Αρβαν	Arban
☽	5	☉	Κελεκιηλ	Kelekiēl	Αζαν	Azan
☽	6	♀	Ταριηλ	Tariēl	Μεμαχθ	Memachth
☽	7	☿	Μνιηλ	Mniēl	Σκαμιδινος	Skamidinos
☽	8	☽	Εζεκιηλ	Ezekiēl	Στιρφαν	Stirphan
☽	9	♄	Ιωηλ	Iōēl	Γιραμ	Giram
☽	10	♃	Σιναηλ	Sinaēl	Μενακτινος	Menaktinos
☽	11	♂	Μεναηλ	Menaēl	Μεκακτινος	Mekaktinos
☽	12	☉	'Ροχαηλ	Rochaēl	Μεξιφων	Mexiphōn
☽	13	♀	Αρησιηλ	Arēsiēl	Ουτολωχ	Outolōch
☽	14	☿	Τραπηδωηλ	Trapēdōēl	Νυκτιδων	Nyktidōn
☽	15	☽	Ακινατιελ	Akinatiel	Ουιστος	Ouistos
☽	16	♄	Οργανιελ	Organiel	Κασιερωφ	Kasierōph
☽	17	♃	'Ρωματιηλ	Rōmatiēl	Κησιεποπος	Kēsiepopos
☽	18	♂	Σελπιδων	Selpidōn	Ανδροφαι	Androphai
☽	19	☉	Οuτιτωμ	Outitōm	Νιωεχ	Niōech
☽	20	♀	Μεταβιηλ	Metabiēl	Ενταυρος	Hentauros
☽	21	☿	Ακβαηλ	Akbaēl	Συριτωρ Φλιναφε	Syritōr Phlinaphe
☽	22	☽	Εικονιηλ	Eikoniēl	Κυκνιτ	Kyknit
☽	23	♄	Γενηκιηλ	Genēkiēl	Κηνοψ	Kēnops
☽	24	♃	Κροτιηλ	Krotiēl	Σαρκιδων	Sarkidōn
♂	1	♂	Σαμουηλ	Samouēl	Κακιστων	Kakistōn
♂	2	☉	Ιασμηλ	Iasmēl	Λιθριδων	Lithridōn
♂	3	♀	Φρερεηλ	Phrereēl	Μαιλωθ	Mailōth
♂	4	☿	Ευδηλ	Eudēl	Σαραπιδιε	Sarapidie
♂	5	☽	Πικτωηλ	Piktōēl	Ταρταρουηλ	Tartarouēl
♂	6	♄	Οκαηλ	Okaēl	Κερινουδαλος	Kerinoudalos
♂	7	♃	Γναθαηλ	Gnathaēl	Κλινοτιος	Klinotios
♂	8	♂	Περγανιηλ	Perganiēl	Τυρρυτωρ	Tyrrytōr
♂	9	☉	Γεστιηλ	Gestiēl	Πληλαταν	Plēlatan
♂	10	♀	Λεγμιελ	Legmiel	Συθλος	Sythlos
♂	11	☿	Ναχωηλ	Nachōēl	Οσθριδιε	Osthridie
♂	12	☽	Οκναν	Oknan	Ομιμοτ	Omimot
♂	13	♄	Γορφιλ	Gorphil	Απρωξ	Aprōx
♂	14	♃	Πατιηλ	Patiēl	Σκωην	Skōēn
♂	15	♂	Παρταν	Partan	Προφαι	Prophai
♂	16	☉	Σαλτιηλ	Saltiēl	Αχλιτωλ	Achlitōl
♂	17	♀	Αβαηλ	Abaēl	Ορναν	Ornan
♂	18	☿	Στραγιηλ	Stragiēl	Χαλμωθ	Chalmōth
♂	19	☽	Οπαδοuηλ	Opadouēl	Τοuδδεδην	Touddedēn
♂	20	♄	Μαρνιηλ	Marniēl	Τεφρα	Tephra
♂	21	♃	Μεθνιηλ	Methniēl	Νιραν	Niran
♂	22	♂	Στιρωηλ	Stirōēl	'Ρακιρω	Rakirō
♂	23	☉	Ισματιηλ	Ismatiēl	Ιργοτιε	Irgotie
♂	24	♀	Τριζιωηλ	Triziōēl	Γεγαωρ	Gegaōr
☿	1	☿	Ουριηλ	Ouriēl	Λουτζιφερ	Loutzipher
☿	2	☽	Αρακηλ	Arakēl	Γουκουμωρ	Goukoumōr
☿	3	♄	Μιεμφιηλ	Miemphiēl	Εισπνιρυξ	Heispniryx
☿	4	♃	Τρωσιηλ	Trōsiēl	Μιδωκητ	Midōkēt
☿	5	♂	Χαρτισιελ	Chartisiel	Νταδαδιφ	Ntadadiph
☿	6	☉	Σφυκινοηλ	Sphykinoēl	Σκιντογηρ	Skintogēr
☿	7	♀	Οuλωδιας	Oulōdias	Φνιδωτας	Phnidōtas
☿	8	☿	Καλβαγιελ	Kalbagiel	Καραταν	Karatan
☿	9	☽	Σκιταμιηλ	Skitamiēl	Μιαγ	Miag
☿	10	♄	Τιρωηλ	Tirōēl	Γατζαρ	Gatzar
☿	11	♃	Μιελ	Miel	Πνιδωρ	Pnidōr
☿	12	♂	Χαρακιηλ	Charakiēl	Τοιβλας	Toiblas
☿	13	☉	Υδρωηλ	Ydrōēl	Ταξιπων	Taxipōn
☿	14	♀	Σιδρηλ	Sidrēl	Οφιταν	Ophitan
☿	15	☿	Παραπιηλ	Parapiēl	Αβλυχος	Ablychos
☿	16	☽	Μουρουηλ	Mourouēl	Μαλακις	Malakis
☿	17	♄	Κουρταηλ	Kourtaēl	Βλεμιγχ	Blemigch
☿	18	♃	Κουπεηλ	Koupeēl	Χειρων	Cheirōn
☿	19	♂	Περανιηλ	Peraniēl	Εφιππας	Hephippas
☿	20	☉	Σανταηλ	Santaēl	Ορκισταφ	Orkistaph
☿	21	♀	Κατζιελ	Katziel	Λογιναφ	Loginaph
☿	22	☿	Λουλιελ	Louliel	Φαρως	Pharōs
☿	23	☽	Σαλταηλ	Saltaēl	'Ροκτατ	Roktat
☿	24	♄	Γαβτελ	Gabtel	Οπναξ	Opnax
♃	1	♃	'Ραφαηλ	Raphaēl	Μελτιφρων	Meltiphrōn
♃	2	♂	Περνιφελ	Perniphel	Οχλος	Ochlos
♃	3	☉	Κισφαηλ	Kisphaēl	Ουηρος	Ouēros
♃	4	♀	Καλιηλ	Kaliēl	θαφωτ	Thaphōt
♃	5	☿	Γλωστας	Glōstas	Τζιππατ	Tzippat
♃	6	☽	Μνιμεηλ	Mnimeēl	Αμωρ	Amōr
♃	7	♄	Χαλριηλ	Chalriēl	Ορφωρ	Orphōr
♃	8	♃	Σκιαηλ	Skiaēl	Ουταητ	Outaēt
♃	9	♂	Μισοελ	Misoel	Εργωτας	Hergōtas
♃	10	☉	Δαλβωθ	Dalbōth	Αζουβουλ	Azouboul
♃	11	♀	Χαρτωηλ	Chartōēl	Απληξ	Aplēx
♃	12	☿	Κιφαρ	Kiphar	Σιγως	Sigōs
♃	13	☽	Σιτιοηλ	Sitioēl	Ασμοδας	Asmodas
♃	14	♄	Βοκιελ	Bokiel	Ουωχ	Ouōch
♃	15	♃	Σενοηλ	Senoēl	Νικοκεπ	Nikokep
♃	16	♂	Οριατορ	Oriator	Κοπινος	Kopinos
♃	17	☉	Χυμεριηλ	Chymeriēl	Καητε	Kaēte
♃	18	♀	Ορφνιηλ	Orphniēl	Λαστωρ	Lastōr
♃	19	☿	Κιδουηλ	Kidouēl	Επιη	Hepiē
♃	20	☽	Γοθ	Goth	Οργαν	Organ
♃	21	♄	Φισναελ	Phisnael	Νιεριερ	Nierier
♃	22	♃	Καρααηλ	Karaaēl	Ουαλιελος	Oualielos
♃	23	♂	Κωνδαρ	Kōndar	Γαλιελιωρ	Galieliōr
♃	24	☉	Κισπωλ	Kispōl	Χουκαν	Choukan
♀	1	♀	Αγαθουηλ	Agathouēl	Γουλιων	Gouliōn
♀	2	☿	Νιδουηλ	Nidouēl	Βιζηκ	Bizēk
♀	3	☽	Αμφιλοηλ	Amphiloēl	Ζορζοραθ	Zorzorath
♀	4	♄	Κανικελ	Kanikel	'Ραφιωφ	Raphiōph
♀	5	♃	Σελινιελ	Seliniel	Ερμαγ	Hermag
♀	6	♂	Καρκανφερ	Karkanpher	Κερινουδαλος	Kerinoudalos
♀	7	☉	“Ανιελ	Aniel	Ταβαλταλις	Tabaltalis
♀	8	♀	Μουριηλ	Mouriēl	Θαφνιξ	Thaphnix
♀	9	☿	Τοφατιηλ	Tophatiēl	’Ελιασεμ	Heliasem
♀	10	☽	Σκιρτουηλ	Skirtouēl	Αμιχ	Amich
♀	11	♄	Αρμωηλ	Armōēl	Γ αλγιδων	Galgidōn
♀	12	♃	Οτραηλ	Otraēl	Εφιριτ	Hephirit
♀	13	♂	Ταλκιδονιος	Talkidonios	Στραγετ	Straget
♀	14	☉	'Ρουδιηλ	Roudiēl	Ανθηρος	Anthēros
♀	15	♀	Θηκιελ	Thēkiel	Πηζητος	Pēzētos
♀	16	☿	Γλυκιδωλ	Glykidōl	Απριξ	Aprix
♀	17	☽	Ψαλματιος	PSalmatios	Νιφων	Niphōn
♀	18	♄	Σταυφνηλ	Stauphnēl	Οτριχος	Otrichos
♀	19	♃	Δεαυκων	Deaukōn	Χιμερι	Chimeri
♀	20	♂	Ασφοδηλ	Asphodēl	Μελυ	Mely
♀	21	☉	Πετιλωλ	Petilōl	Καπνιθελ	Kapnithel
♀	22	♀	Γοργιελ	Gorgiel	Ταχμαν	Tachman
♀	23	☿	Βαταανιηλ	Bataaniēl	Ουκισεμ	Oukisem
♀	24	☽	Πολιων	Poliōn	Ουνιφρηρ	Ouniphrēr
♄	1	♄	Σαβαπιελ	Sabapiel	Κληνδατωρ	Klēndatōr
♄	2	♃	Σαλωηλ	Salōēl	Χειριμ	Cheirim
♄	3	♂	Βεσαηλ	Besaēl	Σπινδωρ	Spindōr
♄	4	☉	Αβαηλ	Abaēl	Κεριακ	Keriak
♄	5	♀	Γ ιελμων	Gielmōn	Νικεμ	Nikem
♄	6	☿	'Ρεταηλ	Retaēl	Μωριηλ	Mōriēl
♄	7	☽	Πελαφιηλ	Pelaphiēl	Συνιγειρωμ	Synigeirōm
♄	8	♄	Σαμωσαν	Samōsan	Αφιος	Aphios
♄	9	♃	Πλετανιξ	Pletanix	Θοριος	Thorios
♄	10	♂	Μαρμιχαηλ	Marmichaēl	Στελφα	Stelpha
♄	11	☉	Ντεχαριγξ	Ntecharigx	Κυπως	Kypōs
♄	12	♀	Αρκιηλ	Arkiēl	Σκαρ	Skar
♄	13	☿	Γεαβιηλ	Geabiēl	Τηχαρ	Tēchar
♄	14	☽	Πιτριηλ	Pitriēl	Ακρωκ	Akrōk
♄	15	♄	Γολγοηλ	Golgoēl	Αργιταν	Argitan
♄	16	♃	Σανιπιηλ	Sanipiēl	Ατομεος	Atomeos
♄	17	♂	Βελαραηλ	Belaraēl	Γ νωτας	Gnōtas
♄	18	☉	Οπιαελ	Opiael	Μερκου	Merkou
♄	19	♀	Οφχινηλ	Ophchinēl	Εναριταρ	Henaritar
♄	20	☿	Πατριηλ	Patriēl	Νιουχαν	Niouchan
♄	21	☽	Ιανιηλ	Ianiēl	Αμφου	Amphou
♄	22	♄	Κονδιηνηλ	Kondiēnēl	Μανκως	Mankōs
♄	23	♃	Ουξουνουηλ	Ouxounouēl	Μοιγρων	Moigrōn
♄	24	♂	Θαναηλ	Thanaēl	Νιγρισφ	Nigrisph

Planetary Prayers

Kronos

Greek: Ο θεος ο αιωνιος, το ασχετον κρατος, ο παντα οικονομων επι τα της ημων σωτηριας, δος ημιν χαριν, ινα υποταξω τον δεινα πλανητην εις το εμον θελημα. ορκιζω σε, πλανητα Κρονε, εις την οδον σου και εις τον αεραν σου και εις την κληρονομιαν σου και εις τον ουρανον σου και εις την λαμψιν και ενεργειαν σου και εις τα ονοματα σου ταυτα· Γασιαλ, Αγουνσαελ, Ατασσερ, Βελτολιελ, Μεντζατζια, ινα μοι δωσεις χαριν και ενεργειαν και δυναμιν εις την ωραν, εν η κυριευεις.

Phonetic Greek: O theos o aiōnios, to ascheton kratos, o panta oikonomōn epi ta tēs ēmōn sōtērias, dos ēmin charin, ina hypotaxō ton deina planētēn eis to emon thelēma. Orkizō se, planēta Krone, eis tēn odon sou kai eis ton aeran sou kai eis tēn klēronomian sou kai eis ton ouranon sou kai eis tēn lampsin kai energeian sou kai eis ta onomata sou tauta· Gasial, Agounsael, Atasser, Beltoliel, Mentzatzia, ina moi dōseis charin kai energeian kai dynamin eis tēn ōran, en ē kyrieueis.

English: Eternal God, irresistible might, who arranges everything towards our salvation, give me the grace to subdue so and so planet to my will. I conjure you, planet Kronos, by your orbit, by your air, by your properties, by your heaven, by your brightness, by your virtue and in your following names: Gasial, Agounsael, Atasser, Beltoliel, Mentzatzia, grant me grace, virtue and power during the hour that you rule.

Deutsch: Ewiger Gott, unwiderstehliche Macht, der alles für unserer Erlösung anordnet, schenke mir die Gunst, den Planeten meinem Willen zu unterwerfen. Ich beschwöre dich, den Planeten Kronos, bei deiner Bahn, bei deiner Luft, bei deinen Eigenschaften, bei deinem Himmel, bei deiner Helligkeit, bei deiner Tugend und bei deinen folgenden Namen: Gasial, Agounsael, Atasser, Beltoliel, Mentzatzia, gewähre mir Gnade, Tugend und Macht während der Stunde, die du beherrschst.

Characters:

Draw the characters of Kronos with the dross of lead and with vinegar. Cense them with sulfur. Draw them on a male kid's parchment.

Zeus

Greek: Κυριε και θεε, πατερ παντοκρατωρ, ο δημιουργος ορατων και αορατων, ο βασιλευς των βασιλευοντων και κυριος των κυριευοντων, επιδος ημιν δυναμιν χαριτος, ινα ο Ζευς υποταγη ημιν, οτι παντα δυνατα σοι, κυριε. ορκιζω σε, Ζευ, εις την σοφιαν σου και εις την γνωσιν σου και εις την ιαματικην σου ενεργειαν και εις την ουρανιον πορειαν, εν η περιπατεις, και εις τα ονοματα ταυτα, Ανωφ, Ορσιτα, Ατνοξ, Ονιγευι, Ατζινιελ, Ανκανιτει, Τυνεος, Γενιερ, Κανιπτζα, ινα υποκλινης εν εμοι την χαριν σου εις την δουλειαν τουτην, εν η ποιω.

Phonetic Greek: Kyrie kai thee, pater pantokratōr, o dēmiourgos oratōn kai aoratōn, o basileus tōn basileuontōn kai kyrios tōn kyrieuontōn, epidos ēmin dynamin charitos, ina o Zeus hypotagē ēmin, oti panta dynata soi, kyrie. Orkizō se, Zeu, eis tēn sophian sou kai eis tēn gnōsin sou kai eis tēn iamatikēn sou energeian kai eis tēn ouranion poreian, en ē peripateis, kai eis ta onomata tauta, Anōph, Orsita, Atnox, Onigeui, Atziniel, Ankanitei, Tyneos, Genier, Kaniptza, ina hypoklinēs en emoi tēn charin sou eis tēn douleian toutēn, en ē poiō.

English: Lord God, almighty father, creator of things visible and invisible, King of kings and Lord of lords, give me the power of your grace in order to subdue Zeus, for everything is possible to you, Lord I conjure you, Zeus, by your wisdom, by your knowledge, by your curative virtue, by the heavenly orbit you follow and by your following names: Anōph, Orsita, Atnox, Onigeui, Atziniel, Ankanitei, Tyneos, Genier, Kaniptza, grant your grace in this operation I attempt.

Deutsch: Herr, Gott, allmächtiger Vater, Schöpfer der sichtbaren und unsichtbaren Dinge, König der Könige und Herr der Herren, gib mir die Macht deiner Gnade, um Zeus zu unterwerfen, denn dir ist alles möglich, Herr, ich beschwöre dich, Zeus, bei der Weisheit, bei deinem Wissen, bei deiner heilenden Tugend, bei der himmlischen Umlaufbahn, der du folgst, und bei deinen folgenden Namen: Anoph, Orsita, Atnox, Onigeui, Atziniel, Ankanitei, Tyneos, Genier, Kaniptza, gewähre deine Gnade für dieses Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche.

Characters:

Draw the characters of Zeus with the dross of silver and with rose water. Cense them with myrrh. Draw them on an unborn calf's parchment.

Ares

Greek: Ο θεος ο φοβερος, ο θεος ο αδιηγητος, ο θεος ο αθεωρητος, ον ειδεν ουδεις των ανθρωπων ουδε ιδειν δυναται, ον οι αβυσσοι ιδοντες εφριξαν και οι ζωντες απενεκρωθησαν. Χαριτωσον ημας, ινα δυνηθωμεν υποταξαι τον Αρεα τον πλανητην. Ορκιζω σε, Αρη πυρινε, εις τον θεον τον κτισαντα τας νοερας ουσιας και πασαν την πυρινην στρατιαν ορκιζω σε εις τας ενεργειας σου και εις την οδοιποριαν σου και εις την λαμψιν σου και εις τα ονοματα ταυτα Ουτατ, Νουητ, Χορηζη, Τινιαη, Δαχλι, Αμπιρα, Νολιεμ, Σιατ, ’Αδιχαηλ, Τζανας, Πλησυμ, ινα μοι δωσης την χαριν σου δια ταυτην την δουλειαν.

Phonetic Greek: O theos o phoberos, o theos o adiēgētos, o theos o atheōrētos, on eiden oudeis tōn anthrōpōn oude idein dynatai, on oi abyssoi idontes ephrixan kai oi zōntes apenekrōthēsan. Charitōson ēmas, ina dynēthōmen hypotaxai ton Area ton planētēn. Orkizō se, Arē purine, eis ton theon ton ktisanta tas noeras ousias kai pasan tēn purinēn stratian orkizō se eis tas energeias sou kai eis tēn odoiporian sou kai eis tēn lampsin sou kai eis ta onomata tauta Outat, Nouēt, Chorēzē, Tiniaē, Dachli, Ampira, Noliem, Siat, Adichaēl, Tzanas, Plēsym, ina moi dōsēs tēn charin sou dia tautēn tēn douleian.

English: Dreadful God, indescribable God, invisible God, whom no man has seen nor can see, whom the abysses saw and bristled and the living became lifeless, give us your grace in order to be able to subdue the planet Ares. I conjure you, fiery Ares, by God who created the intellectual natures and the whole fiery host. I conjure you by your virtues, by your orbit, by your brightness and in your following names: Outat, Nouēt, Chorēzē, Tiniaē, Dachli, Ampira, Noliem, Siat, Adichaēl, Tzanas, Plēsym, grant your grace in my present action.

Deutsch: Schrecklicher Gott, unbeschreiblicher Gott, unsichtbarer Gott, den niemand gesehen hat, noch sehen kann, den die Abgründe sahen und sich sträubten, und die Lebenden wurden leblos, gib uns deine Gnade, um den Planeten Ares bezwingen zu können. Ich beschwöre dich, feuriger Ares, bei Gott, der die geistige Substanz und alle feurigen Heere erschaffen hat. Ich beschwöre dich bei deinen Tugenden, bei deiner Bahn, bei deiner Helligkeit und bei deinen folgenden Namen: Outat, Nouēt, Chorēzē, Tiniaē, Dachli, Ampira, Noliem, Siat, Adichal, Tzanas, Plēsym, gewähre deine Gnade für mein gegenwärtiges Werk.

Characters:

Draw the characters of Ares with pure cinnabar and rose water. Cense them with dried human blood. Draw them on a seal's parchment1 and the ruler will grant you .

Helios

Greek: Βασιλευ των βασιλευοντων και κυριε των κυριευοντων, η υπεραρχιος φυσις, δυναμις αεναε, φως ακατανοητον, φως απειρον, ο μονος πλουσιοπαροχος, ο χορηγος του ελεους, επισκεψαι ημας δια της σης χαριτος και ευεργεσιας, οπαις τον παροντα πλανητην τον Ηλιον, ινα δυνηθυιμεν υποτοξοι και κατασχειν αυτου την ενεργειαν ορκιζω σε Ηλιε αφαυστε, ακατεργαστε, ημεροφεγγης, εις τον χρονικον σου κυκλον και εις τους τεσσαρας σου καιρους και εις την οδον σου και εις τας ακτινας σου και εις τος πτερυγας σου και εις τας ενεργειας σου και εις τα ονοματα σου ταυτα Γλιβιωδ, Αντικον, Λιθετιουδ, Αχριπαλ, Ελβιουλ, Αυτιουρ, Νοτιωλιοσημ, Οωγην, Γωδασωρ, Τουλδωραφ, Ηνιυαν εις ταυτα τα ονοματα ορκιζω σε μη παρακουσης μου, αλλα δια της χαριτος της σης συνεργησον εις ταυτην την δουλειαν.

Phonetic Greek: Basileu tōn basileuontōn kai kyrie tōn kyrieuontōn, ē yperarchios physis, dynamis aenae, phōs akatanoēton, phōs apeiron, o monos plousioparochos, o chorēgos toy eleous, episkepsai ēmas dia tēs sēs charitos kai euergesias, opais ton paronta planētēn ton Ēlion, ina dynēthuimen hypotoxoi kai kataschein autou tēn energeian orkizō se Ēlie aphauste, akatergaste, ēmeropheggēs, eis ton chronikon sou kyklon kai eis tous tessaras soy kairous kai eis tēn odon soy kai eis tas aktinas soy kai eis tos pterugas sou kai eis tas energeias sou kai eis ta onomata sou tauta Glibiōd, Antikon, Lithetioud, Achripal, Elbioul, Autiour, Notiōliosēm, Oōgēn, Gōdasōr, Touldōraph, Ēniuan eis tauta ta onomata orkizō se mē parakousēs mou, alla dia tēs charitos tēs sēs synergēson eis tautēn tēn douleian.

English: King of kings and Lord of lords, supreme essence, eternal power, incomprehensible light, infinite light, the only generous, the dispenser of mercy, look upon us with your grace and benevolence, so that we will be able to subdue this planet, Helios, and possess its virtue. I conjure you, untouched, unconquered Helios who shines at day, by your annual cycle, by your four seasons, by your orbit, by your rays, by your wings, by your virtues and in your following names: Glibiōd, Antikon, Lethetioud, Achripal, Elbioul, Autiour, Notiōliosēm, Oōgēn, Gōdasōr, Touldōraph, Ēniuan. In these names I conjure you; do not disobey me, but assist my present work by your grace.

Deutsch: König der Könige und Herr der Herren, höchstes Wesen, ewige Kraft, unbegreifliches Licht, unendliches Licht, der einzige Großzügige, der Spender der Barmherzigkeit, schau auf uns mit deiner Gnade und deinem Wohlwollen an, damit wir diesen Planeten, Helios, bezwingen und seine Tugend erlangen können. Ich beschwöre dich, unberührter, unbesiegter Helios, der am Tag strahlt, bei deinem jährlichen Zyklus, bei deinen vier Jahreszeiten, bei deiner Bahn, bei deinen Strahlen, bei deinen Flügeln, bei deinen Tugenden und bei deinen folgenden Namen: Glibiōd, Antikon, Lethetioud, Achripal, Elbioul, Autiour, Notiōliosēm, Oōgēn, Gōdasōr, Touldōraph, Ēniuan. Bei diesen Namen beschwöre ich dich; verweigere mir nicht den Gehorsam, sondern unterstütze mein gegenwärtiges Werk durch deine Gnade.

Characters:

Draw the characters of the Helios with gold or orpiment plates and water. Cense them with nutmeg. Draw them on a parchment from a human fetus or on a foal's parchment.

Aphrodite

Greek: Ο θεος ο μονος αγαθος, ο ανεξικακος εν φιλανθρωπια, ο υπεραπειρον εχων της αγαθοτητος το ανεξιχνιαστον πελαγος, παρ’ ου της φιλιας η ευσπλαγχνια, προσπιπτω τη ση φιλανθρωπια, 'ινα δωσης ημιν δυναμιν και χαριν, ινα την ενεγρειαν χρηστην και πεπληρωμενην δωσης εις εμε τον πλανητην τουτον, δια να ποιησω ταδε· ορκιζω σε, ωραιοτατη και γλυκεια Αφροδιτη εις την χαριν σου και εις την οδον σου και εις την ενεργειαν σου και εις την γλυκυτητα σου και εις τα ονοματα ταυτα· Ηρεθ, Λαβαμ, Συαρ, Σατηρ, Τουιδ, Τουτιμαρ, 'Ρεσφοδωμ, Σιρωφ, Κακεμ, Σετιαπ. εις ταυτα δε ορκιζω σε, ινα μη παρακουσης μου, αλλα την σην χαριν εμοιγε δωσης, οπως το δεινα ποιησω.

Phonetic Greek: O theos o monos agathos, o anexikakos en philanthrōpia, o yperapeiron echōn tēs agathotētos to anexichniaston pelagos, par’ ou tēs philias ē eusplagchnia, prospiptō tē sē philanthrōpia, 'ina dōsēs ēmin dynamin kai charin, ina tēn enegreian chrēstēn kai peplērōmenēn dōsēs eis eme ton planētēn touton, dia na poiēsō tade· orkizō se, ōraiotatē kai glykeia Aphroditē eis tēn charin sou kai eis tēn odon sou kai eis tēn energeian sou kai eis tēn glykutēta sou kai eis ta onomata tauta· Ēreth, Labam, Suar, Satēr, Touid, Toutimar, Resphodōm, Sirōph, Kakem, Setiap. eis tauta de orkizō se, ina mē parakousēs mou, alla tēn sēn charin emoige dōsēs, opōs to deina poiēsō.

English: O God, the only benevolent, who keeps off the evil by your philanthropy, who infinitely possesses the inscrutable sea of goodness, from whom derives the compassion of love, I beg your philanthropy, grant me the power and the grace, so that I may possess the virtue of this planet effectively and fully, in order to do such and such. I conjure you, most beautiful and sweet Aphrodite, by your grace, by your orbit, by your virtue, by your sweetness, and in your following names: Ēreth, Labam, Suar, Satēr, Touid, Toutimar, Resphodōm, Sirōph, Kakem, Setiap. I conjure you in your above names, do not disobey me, but grant me your grace in order to do such and such.

Deutsch: O Gott, der einzige Wohltäter, der das Böse durch deine Menschenliebe fernhälst, der ewig das unergründliche Meer der Güte besitzt, von dem das Mitgefühl der Liebe stammt, ich bitte bei deiner Menschenliebe, gewähre mir die Kraft und die Gnade, damit ich die Tugend dieses Planeten wirkungsvoll und vollständig besitzen darf, um das und das zu tun. Ich beschwöre dich, die schönste und süßeste Aphrodite, bei deiner Gnade, bei deiner Bahn, bei deiner Tugend, bei deiner Süße und bei deinen folgenden Namen: Ēreth, Labam, Suar, Satēr, Touid, Totimar, Respodōm, Sirōph, Kakem, Setiap. Ich beschwöre dich in deinen obigen Namen, mißachte mich nicht, sondern gewähre mir deine Gnade, um so etwas zu tun.

Characters:

Draw the characters of Venus with the blood of a bat, or with pure lapis lazuli and rose water, on a pup's or on an unborn fawn's parchment. Cense with mastic and labdanum.

Hermes

Greek: Παντοκρατωρ κυριε, ο ευρετης της σοφιας και της γνωσεως, ο των ουρανιων και υπερουρανιων τεχνιτης, παντεποπτα και παντοδυναμε, ευεργετησον ημιν χαριν, οιαν του σου πλανητου Ερμου εγκατελιπες, ινα δυνηθωμεν πραξαι το δεινα · ορκιζω σε, Ερμης πανσοφε, λογιωτατε και συνετωτατε, ευσυναπτε και εγρηγορωτατε, εις την σοφιαν σου και εις την λογιοτητα σου και εις την ζωνην, εν η περιπατεις, χαι εις τα ονοματα ταυτα· Νηφαν, Πιουτ, Νομην, Σελακ, Μερεπων, Στεμηνος, Καζητοκ, Μιωτ, 'ινα μοι υποκλινης την χαριν σου και την ενεργειαν σου εις την πραξιν ταυτην, εν η βουλομαι ποιησαι.

Phonetic Greek: Pantokratōr kyrie, o euretēs tēs sophias kai tēs gnōseōs, o tōn ouraniōn kai yperouraniōn technitēs, pantepopta kai pantodyname, euergetēson ēmin charin, oian tou sou planētou Hermou egkatelipes, ina dynēthōmen praxai to deina · orkizō se, Hermēs pansophe, logiōtate kai synetōtate, eusynapte kai egrēgorōtate, eis tēn sophian sou kai eis tēn logiotēta sou kai eis tēn zōnēn, en ē peripateis, chai eis ta onomata tauta· Nēphan, Piout, Nomēn, Selak, Merepōn, Stemēnos, Kazētok, Miōt, 'ina moi hypoklinēs tēn charin sou kai tēn energeian sou eis tēn praxin tautēn, en ē boulomai poiēsai.

English: Almighty Lord, the inventor of wisdom and knowledge, the maker of the celestial and supercelestial things, omnispective and omnipotent, grant us the grace you bequeathed to your planet Hermes, so that we may do such and such. I conjure you, all wise, most erudite, most intelligent, adaptable, most watchful Hermes, by your wisdom, by your erudition, by the orbit you follow and by the following names: Nēphan, Piout, Nomēn, Selak, Merepōn, Stemēnos, Kazētok, Miōt; grant your grace and your virtue to the operation I wish to attempt.

Deutsch: Allmächtiger Herr, der Erfinder der Weisheit und des Wissens, der Schöpfer der Dinge im und jenseits des Himmels, allwissend und allmächtig, gewähre uns die Gnade, die du deinem Planeten Hermes hinterlassen hast, damit wir das und das tun können. Ich beschwöre dich, ewig weiser, gelehrtester, klügster, anpassungsfähigster, wachsamster Hermes, bei deiner Weisheit, bei deiner Gelehrsamkeit, bei der Umlaufbahn, der du folgst und bei den folgenden Namen: Nēphan, Piout, Nomēn, Selak, Merepōn, Stemēnos, Kazētok, Miōt; Gewähre deine Gnade und deine Tugend für dieses Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche.

Characters:

Draw the characters of Mercury with the blood of an ox, of an ass or of a lamb, or with rust and water on virgin parchment, and cense them with the skin of a hare and frankincense.

Selene

Greek: Δεσποτα κυριε, ο δεσποζων ζωντων τε και νεκρων, ο εν σοφια κατασκευασας τον ανθρωπον, ινα δεσποζη των υπο σου γενομενων χτισματων εν οσιοτητι και συνεσει, συνεργησον μοι, ινα δυνηθω ο δουλος σου χαριν λαβειν και οποταξαι τον πλανητην την Σεληνην και τελειωσαι το εργον, ο επεχειρισθην ορκιζω σε Σεληνην, του ουρανου ωραιοτατη πορφυρα και της νυκτος παραμυθια. ορκιζιυ σε εις την οδον σου χαι εις την ανακαινισιν σου και εις αναμετρητους βαθμους, εν οις κατερχει, και εις τα ονοματα ταυτα- Σαβαηλ, Βοαηλ, Ωνιτζηρ, Σπαρου, Σωρτηρχα, Γαβηδ, Ουτουπων, Καιπολης, Γωμεδην, Μαρηβατ. εις ταυτα σε ορκιζω, Σεληνη, ινα μοι υποκλινης την χαριν σου και την ενεργειαν σου εις την δουλειαν ταυτην, εν η επιχειριζομαι.

Phonetic Greek: Despota kyrie, o despozōn zōntōn te kai nekrōn, o en sophia kataskeuasas ton anthrōpon, ina despozē tōn hypo sou genomenōn chtismatōn en osiotēti kai synesei, synergēson moi, ina dynēthō o doulos sou charin labein kai opotaxai ton planētēn tēn Selēnēn kai teleiōsai to ergon, o epecheiristhēn orkizō se Selēnēn, tou ouranou ōraiotatē porphura kai tēs nyktos paramythia. orkiziu se eis tēn odon sou chai eis tēn anakainisin sou kai eis anametrētous bathmous, en ois katerchei, kai eis ta onomata tauta- Sabaēl, Boaēl, Ōnitzēr, Sparou, Sōrtērcha, Gabēd, Outoupōn, Kaipolēs, Gōmedēn, Marēbat. eis tauta se orkizō, Selēnē, ina moi hypoklinēs tēn charin sou kai tēn energeian sou eis tēn douleian tautēn, en ē epicheirizomai.

English: Lord and master, the ruler of the living and the dead, who fashioned man by your wisdom, in order to dominate your creatures with piety and prudence, assist me, your servant, so that I may receive the grace to subdue the planet Selene and finish the operation I have started. I conjure you, Selene, most beautiful purple of the heaven and consolation of the night. I conjure you by your orbit, by your renewal, by the innumerable degrees you pass through and in your following names: Sabaēl, Boaēl, Ōnitzēr, Sparou, Sōrtērcha, Gabēd, Outoupōn, Kaipolēs, Gōmedēn, Marēbat. In the above names I conjure you, Selene, grant your grace and your virtue to the operation I attempt.

Deutsch: Herr und Meister, Herrscher über die Lebenden und die Toten, der den Menschen in deiner Weisheit geformt hast, um deine Geschöpfe durch Frömmigkeit und Klugheit zu beherrschen, hilf mir, deinem Diener, damit ich die Gnade erhalte, den Planeten Selene zu beherrschen und das Werk zu vollbringen, das ich begonnen habe. Ich beschwöre dich, Selene, schönstes Purpur des Himmels und Trost der Nacht. Ich beschwöre dich bei deiner Umlaufbahn, bei deiner Erneuerung, bei den unzähligen Graden, die du durchläufst und bei deinen folgenden Namen: Sabaēl, Boaēl, Ōnitzēr, Sparou, Sōrtērcha, Gabēd, Outoupōn, Kaipolēs, Gōmedēn, Marēbat. Bei den obigen Namen beschwöre ich dich, Selene, gewähre dem Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche deine Gnade und deine Tugend.

Prayer of the Angels

Greek: Ορκιζω σε, ω αγγελε [δεινα], οστις κυριευεις την ωραν ταυτην και ει συ βαλλομενος προς προβλεψιν και υπουργιαν του ανθρωπινου γενους, [δεινα], ο παντοτε προθυμος, δυνατος και ανδρειος και οξυς, ορκιζω σε εις τον θεον, ος σε εταξε φυλαττειν την ωραν ταυτην, ινα εισαι συνεργος μου μετα του υποτακτικου σου του [δεινα] δαιμονος, ος επροεταχθη να εναι δουλος εις την ωραν ταυτην και εσυς να μοι συνεργησεται και να ποιησεται την δουλειαν ταυτην, να εναι δοκιμος, καλη και αληθινη.

Phonetic Greek: Orkizō se, ō angele [NN], ostis kyrieueis tēn ōran tautēn kai ei su ballomenos pros problepsin kai hypourgian tou anthrōpinou genous, [NN], o pantote prothymos, dynatos kai andreios kai oxus, orkizō se eis ton theon, os se etaxe phylattein tēn ōran tautēn, ina eisai synergos mou meta tou hypotaktikou sou tou [NN] daimonos, os eproetachthē na enai doylos eis tēn ōran tautēn kai esus na moi synergēsetai kai na poiēsetai tēn douleian tautēn, na enai dokimos, kalē kai alēthinē.

English: I conjure you, angel [so and so] who rules this hour and who is appointed for the provision and the service of mankind; angel [so and so], eager at all times, strong, brave and sharp, I conjure you by God, who ordered you to guard this hour, to be my collaborator, together with your submissive demon [so and so], who is appointed to be servant at his hour. Cooperate with me, and make my work effective, good and true.

Deutsch: Ich beschwöre dich, Engel [so und so], Herrscher über diese Stunde, der der Vorsehung und Sorge der Menschheit folgt; Engel [so und so], allzeit eifrig, stark, mutig und pünktlich, ich beschwöre ich dich bei Gott, der dir befohlen hat, über diese Stunde zu wachen, mein Partner zu sein, zusammen mit deinem ergebenen Dämonen [so und so], der als Diener in seiner Stunde beauftragt wurde. Begleite mich und mache mein Werk wirkungsvoll, gut und wahr.

Orphische Hymnen

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Eine Auswahl der Hymnen des Orpheus, die ich aus mehreren Übersetzungen zusammengetragen habe. Sie sind hier nach den sieben Wochentagen sortiert, beginnend mit Helios (Sonntag), da ich sie, ähnlich wie die Planetischen Gebete zur täglichen Andacht nutze. Der Name des Übersetzers bzw. Inhaber des Urheberrechts der jeweiligen übersetzten Hymne steht in Klammern unter jedem Titel.

HELIOS

(Joseph Otto Plassmann)

Hör mich, Glückseliger! Waltend Des alldurchschauenden, ewigen Auges, Fernhochwandelnder, himmlische Leuchte, Goldblinkender Titan; Unermüdlicher, Selbsterzeugter, Holder Anblick der Lebenden! Zur Rechten der Morgenröte Erzeuger, zur Linken der Nacht, Du mengst im Viertakt des Reigens Der Horen wechselnde Schar; Schnellfüßiger, Feuriger, Wirbelentfacher, Heiterblickender, Lenker des Wagens, Der in Wirbeln umfährt Des unermehlichen Kreises Bahn. Frommen ein Weiser zur Schönheit, Doch den Bösen feindlich gesinnt. Du lenkst mit goldener Leier Des Alls harmonische Bahn, Aufzeiger der Werke des Guten, Held, der die Horen emährt. Herrscher des Alls, mit Flötengesang, Feuriger Renner, im Kreise wirbelnd, Schimmemder Bringer des Lichts, Spender des Lebens, fruchtgebender Paian, Ewigblühender, Fleckenloser, Vater der Zeit, unsterblicher Zeus! Heiterer, Allerleuchtender, Kreisendes Auge des Alls, Brennend und lodernd, schönglänzend in Strahlen, Richter des Rechtes, der Flüsse Freund; König des Weltalls, Wächter der Treue, Immerdar Höchster, Helfer und Freund, Lebenslicht, der Gerechtigkeit Auge, Rosselenker, mit schwirrender Geißel Den vierspännigen Wagen treibend - Helios, höre mein Wort: Wonniges Leben zeige den Mysten!

SELENE

(Joseph Otto Plassmann)

Höre mich, göttliche Königin, Lichtspendende, hehre Selene, Mene, mit Hornschmuck der Stiere geziert, Nachtwandelnde, die in den Lüften schweift, Fackelträgerin, nächtlicher Mond, Sternenfreundliche Jungfrau, Wachsend und schwindend, männlich und weiblich, Mildleuchtende, Freundin der Rosse, Fruchtspenderin, Mutter der Zeit; Schimmernde, Herzbeschwerende, Allüberstrahlende Spährin der Nacht, Allsehende, Freundin fehlenden Schlafes, Übersät von der Schönheit der Sterne, Freundin erquickender Ruhe Und des freundlichen Wohlgeschicks! Hellschimmernde, Hörnerträgerin, Heldblickende Wonne der Nacht, Sternfürstin, vom weiten Gewande umhüllt, Läuferin des Kreises, allweise Jungfrau: Komm, Selige, Freundliche, Sternenfreundin, Rette, schimmernd im Lichte Deiner neuen Schützlinge Schar!

ARES

(Stilian Ariston)

Sohn des Zeus, Wächter der Städte, Speergewaltiger Hort des Olymp, Führer gerechtester Männer, Ares, erhöre uns! Kampferprobter, gewähre deinen Beistand. Handstarker Gott mit eisernem Willen, leuchte dein mildes Licht auf unser Dasein, bewahre uns vor Angriffen und stütze den Frieden. Sei unser Schild, gib uns Mut. Gib uns deine Kraft die kriegerische, die Fäden sinnlosen Leids zu durchschneiden. Unbezwingbar ist deine Macht, allein Aphrodite kann sie binden, die Schaumgeborene. Beende die Schlacht und auch den Schmerz im Herzen, Wache über uns, wie du über den Kosmos wachst, Erhöre mich Seliger, lasse meine Worte nicht von Winden weggetragen werden. Entfache die Glut, wenn Erschöpfung nach uns langt, Tapferkeit, zu verscheuchen die elende Feigheit, Durchhaltevermögen, wenn die Kraft sich dem Ende neigt, Geradlinigkeit im Angesicht des Sturms. Sohn des Zeus und der Hera, gewähre Frieden und Sicherheit, zärtliches Glück und gute Gesundheit.

HERMES

(Joseph Otto Plassmann)

Höre mich, Bote des Zeus, Hermes, der Maja Sohn, Allbezwingenden Mutes mächtig, Walter des Streites, der Menschen Gebieter; Scharfsinniger, schillernd von List, Geleitender Argostöter, Freund der Männer im Flügelschuh, Künder des Wortes den Sterblichen, Listenreicher Übungen Freund Und des trügenden Spieles; Träger des Schlangenstabes, Aller verkündender Herold, Schlauer Kaufmann, Löser der Sorgen, Haltend in Händen des Friedens Untadligen Heroldstab. Herrscher von Korykos, schimmernd von Worten, Seliger, Bringer des Heils, Helfer strebender Mühen, Den Menschen ein Freund in der Not; Der Zunge wirksame Waffe, Den Menschen Schrecken und Furcht: Hör mein Gebet! Gewähre dem Leben, Reizvollen Worten und hohen Gedanken Und den Taten ein tugendlich Ende!

ZEUS

(Joseph Otto Plassmann)

Vielgepriesener Zeus- Unvergänglicher Zeus; dieses Zeugnis Bringen wir dir: Erlösung und Bitte. O König, all dieses erschien durch dein Haupt: Mutter Erde, die göttliche, Der Berge ragende Höhen, Das Meer und was der Himmel In seinen Wölbungen wirkt. Kronios Zeus, du Träger des Szepters, Niedersausender, mächtig an Mut, Aller Erzeuger, Anfang und Ende, Erderschütterer, Mehrer und Nährer, Allbewegender, Sühnender, Blitzender, grollender Donnerer, Höre mich, zeugender Zeus! Luftgestalt, gib mir schöne Gesundheit, Gib mir götttichen Frieden Und des Reichtums vollendeten Glanz!

APHRODITE

(David Karl Philipp Dietsch)

Himmelsmacht, glorreich, du holdanlächelnde Kypris, Meergeborne Gebärerin du, nachtfeiernde, hehre; Nächtliche, knüpfend das Band, trugflechtenden Mutter des Zwanges! Alles ja stammet von dir, ja dir gehorchet das Weltall; Selbst des Geschicks Göttinnen beherrschest du, alles gebährend, Was im Himmel nur lebt, und was auf fruchtbarer Erde, Und in des Meeres Abgrund. Erhabne Gesellin des Bakchos, Froh des Freudengelags, Ehstifterin, Mutter der Sehnsucht; Peitho, im Lager der Liebe geheim, Huldgeberin, Fürstin; Sichtbar und unsichtbar, schönlockige, edeles Vaters; Bräutliche, sitzend am Mahl, mit der Ewigen Zepter, Lykäna; Quelle des Stamms, Mannfreundin, ersehnteste, Quelle des Lebens; Welche die Sterblichen fesselt mit unauflöslichen Banden, Und des Gewildes Geschlecht, im rasenden Taumel der Liebe. Komm, Aphrodite, du göttlicher Spross, ob du im Olympos, Götterkönigin weilst, in freudiger Schöne das Antlitz; Ob du in Weihrauchduft den syrischen Tempel umwandelst; Ob in den Segensaun des heiligen Landes Aegyptos Du, mit goldenem Wagen, umhegst die fruchtbaren Wasser, Oder mit dunklem Geschirr zu des Meers aufwogender Wallung Jetzo genaht, dich erlabst am Zirkeltanze der Robben; Oder der Nymphen dich freust, blauäugiger, jetzo in Dia, Taumelnder Wonn', am sandigen Strand leichthüpfendes Fusses; Ob in der heimischen Kypros, o Königin! alwo dich holde Unvermählte Mädchen und Bräut' in jeglichem Jahre Preisen, o Selige, dich und den himmlischen reinen Adonis, Komm, o selige Göttin, in deiner reizenden Anmut! Reines Herzens ja ruf' ich dich an mit heiligen Worten.

KRONOS

(Ewald K Strohmar)

Entflammter, Vater der seligen Götter und der Menschen, listiger Ratgeber, Unbefleckter, Mächtiger, streitbarer Titan, du verzehrst alles und vermehrst es dennoch selbst, mit unzerstörbaren Bändern hältst du den unendlichen Kosmos zusammen, Kronos, Erzeuger der Zeit, Kronos von den kunstvollen Geschichten, aus der Erde entsprossen und inmitten des Himmels, erzeugt, gewachsen, verkleinert Gemahl der Rhea, heiliger Prometheus, der du wohnst in allen Bereichen des Kosmos, Beherrscher alles Gewordenen, Verschlagener, Bester! Höre meine bittende Stimme und gewähre ein glückliches Leben und ein zufriedenes Ende.

Routines in Theurgy

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As an almost full-time father of a now one year old child my spare time for enchantment is quite limited. The only thing I manage to routinely do is a daily adoration of the day's ruling planetary spirit. I have formed a habit of doing early morning walks with my daughter through a lovely park nearby and mostly they happen around sunrise. The park has a small hill at one end of it that I have chosen as my temple for the daily visits. Since June of this year I've visited the hill almost every day and recited the daily Planetary Prayer from the Hygromanteia. (My daughter started to say "Amen" right when it's appropriate, in sync with me, it's freaky!)

The other routine I have is a monthly run of the Stele of Jeu aka Headless Rite around every New Moon when the illumination is just after 0% and it just starts waxing again. It feels like a great starting point for the upcoming month's endeavors, and so far it has served me well. I also try to do this on the same hill, depending on the time of the day and how much privacy I will potentially have up there.

I started to dislike the commanding tone of the Planetary Prayers and how the planets are being subdued in the name of god and I switched to the Orphic Hymns two week ago. It makes a huge difference for me! I feel more connected to the planets than before, and I have the feeling that I am being increasingly noticed by them too.

Especially in the last two weeks since the last New Moon some things have happened that seem like "results" without me even having specifically asked for them. I got four freelance job offers within a couple of days after months of really almost nothing going on, also my relationship has improved, my general mood too.

Yesterday, after having finished my hymn to Selene and closed the widdershins circumambulation of the temple mound, on the way down I found a little yellow children's torch. Instant synchronicity! Just the night before, in bed I had read one of Uncle Chuckie's e-books on Psionics in which he talks about how he's always had a problem with having to imagine a beam of light coming out of his magic wand when using it in ritual and eventually ditching it for a torchlight. This idea resonated with me and I intended to imitate it one day, turned around in bed and fell asleep. And the next morning I find one on my temple mound! Well, here's my new wand! And its brand is "Brainstorm Ltd" (online research revealed that it's actually a toy photo projector that projects images up to one meter wide onto walls and ceilings!) I was puzzled by my find and on the way home through the park my daughter pointed to something on a park-bench. I looked and it was a kids drawing block, soaking wet from rain. I picked it up and opened it and on the first page someone had written "Each takes what he needs" and drawn a heart below it.

Alright then, thanks universe!

Ankle of God?

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When I translated the planetary prayers from the English translation of the Harleianus 5596 manuscript (Hygromanteia) by Marathakis into German for my personal use I stumbled over this peculiar expression in the prayer to Jupiter:

I conjure you, most valorous and most beneficial Jupiter, by the immeasurable ankle of god.

Marathakis seems to have been puzzled by this too as he added a footnote claiming that it must have been a corrupted text because he could not find any other reference to this 'ankle of god'.

Digging a bit around myself I came to a different conclusion. The Greek word for 'ankle' is αστράγαλος and the term might actually refer to a game of chance similar to dice popular in ancient Greece and elsewhere that was played with ankle bones:

Knucklebones (astragali), were an essential part of many ancient games: αστραγαλισμοσ was played using four astragali with different values on each side […] πευτελιξοι was played with five astragali, simultaneously thrown into the air to be caught on the back of the hand. Natural knucklebone was usually cut down, grinded, drilled and filled with lead. (source)

Die Planetischen Gebete

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In der Hygromanteia sind die Gebete an den Tagen und Stunden der jeweiligen Planeten als Anrufung und Vorbereitung zur Weihung und Aktivierung von Talismanen beschrieben. Sie eignen sich aber auch zur täglichen Gebetspraxis.

Sonntag

Im Namen des allmächtigen und höchsten Gottes beschwöre ich dich, Herr Sonne, den Erleuchter, den König aller Sterne, den Erzeuger der Sichtbarkeit. Oh Herr Sonne, der nährt und die Kräuter und die Bäume dazu bringt, Früchte zu tragen, der die ganze Welt mit Herrlichkeit verziert, der Ungemach in Dunkelheit verbannt, der die schönen Dinge von den Hässlichen trennt; Oh Sonne, Zierde der unschätzbaren Dinge, Schönheit und Herrlichkeit der Perlen, Gold und Edelsteine, Ruhm der Könige und Gedanke der Richter; Ich beschwöre dich, Sonne, Herr Sonne, unvorstellbarer, unergründlicher, der die Kräfte des Himmels sieht und die Pracht des höchsten Gottes versteht. Ich beschwöre dich, Herr Sonne, Kerze, die vor dem schrecklichen Gott Sabaoth brennt, gehorche mir. Ich beschwöre dich bei den folgenden Namen: Pithankouz, Doriel, Sinae, Madoél, Lytrophar, Phryktouel, Pelkadón, Andraphor, Iymedón, Alianos, Gararouél. Bei den vorgenannten Namen gib deine Gnade, Macht und Tugend für das gegenwärtige Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche. Wende dein Unglück von mir ab. Bring mir nur Glück. Amen.

Montag

Herr, allmächtiger, höchster Schöpfer, König der Könige und Herr der Herren, der den Menschen erschaffen und gemeißelt hat, der den Himmel mit Sternen verziert und mit Blumen und Tieren auf der Erde geschmückt hat, in Angesicht dessen Macht jede Kreatur, sichtbar oder unsichtbar, erzittert und erschauert, ich, dein unwürdiger Diener, bitte dich und ich flehe dich an, mich zu erhören und mir die Tugend dieses Planeten zu unterwerfen. Herrin Luna, Ordnung und Erkenntnis der Welt, Gestalt des Himmels, Trost der Nacht und Königin der gefesselten Geister; Herrin Luna, Offenbarung der Zeit, Zeichen aller Feste und Bräuche; Ich beschwöre dich, Luna, beim hohen Thron Gottes, bei den Sonnenstrahlen, bei der Ruhe Gottes, bei den Cherubim und den Seraphim, bei allen Rängen der heiligen Engel und bei den folgenden Namen: Khariómó, Gallagil, Benouel, Agramouel, Adekael, Thyeloel, Rhaphael, Zygothoel, Galael. Bei den vorgenannten Namen gib deine Gnade, Macht und Tugend für das gegenwärtige Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche. Wende dein Unglück von mir ab. Bring mir nur Glück. Amen.

Dienstag

Oh Herr, gewaltiger und mächtiger, dessen Zorn den Grund des Meeres trocknet, dessen heftiger Blick die Berge zerbricht, die Berge fürchteten dich und der Abgrund erschrak vor dir. Jeder Chor der Erzengel und Engel verehrte dich. In deinem Namen, mein Herr, wage ich es, jedes Werk zu vollbringen. Ich beschwöre dich, Mars, kriegerischer Mars, beim Herzen des mächtigen Löwen und bei der Flamme des starken, brennenden Feuers, mir zu gehorchen. Ich beschwöre dich, Mars, heißblütig und kühn, bei der Luft, bei der Erde und der Erdmitte, mir zu gehorchen. Oh Mars, der sich am Unheil erfreut und das Glück verachtet, ich beschwöre dich bei Ihm, den du und jede planetarische Schöpfung fürchtest, und bei deinen folgenden feurigen Namen, Agla, Aser, Pioriroth, Alband, Endor, Omer, Skonapher, Kalonos, Almanos. Bei den vorgenannten Namen gib deine Gnade, Macht und Tugend für das gegenwärtige Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche. Wende dein Unglück von mir ab. Bring mir nur Glück. Amen.

Mittwoch

Im Namen des All-wohlwollenden Gottes, Amen; Oh Herr, der in der Höhe weilt und auf die Demütigen herabbschaut, der die Zügel und die Herzen leitet, Herr der Geister, König des Himmels und der Erde, gewähre mir, dem Sünder, die Gnade, Herr, die Mächte des Planeten Merkur zu unterwerfen. Oh Merkur, geschicktester in logischen Argumenten, wirksamer und erhabenster in Weisheit und in jeder Wissenschaft; Der die Kunst und das Handwerk unter den Menschen aufteilt und verbreitet; Erfahrener und geschickter Soldat, ohne dich wären alle Dinge, bewegliche oder unbewegliche, nicht denkbar; Oh Merkur, Schöpfer, Philosoph und größter unter den Rednern, der über den Verstand herrscht; Ich beschwöre dich bei Gott, der dich erschuf und dir deinen Platz im Himmel zuwies. Ich beschwöre dich bei deinem Himmel, bei deiner Sphäre, beim Schatz und der geheimen Weisheit Gottes, bei seiner starken und unermesslichen Hand und bei allen unzähligen Engeln, gehorche mir. Ich beschwöre dich bei den folgenden Namen: Siboraz, Hyielisphak, Iagrou, Hysoreono, Eililoph, Naendor, Gelstamot, Khaselon, Aseoulouel, Teratouon, Sphalikon, Kyrmaen, Barnidon. Bei den vorgenannten Namen gib deine Gnade, Macht und Tugend für das gegenwärtige Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche. Wende dein Unglück von mir ab. Bring mir nur Glück. Amen.

Donnerstag

Herr, unser Gott, der große, gelobte und unergründliche, dessen göttliche Erhabenheit unermesslich ist, für dich bete ich. Ich, der Unwürdige, flehe um die Größe deines Mitgefühls, erhöre mich und mache mein Streben und das Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche, höchst wirksam. Ich beschwöre dich, den tapfersten und wohlhabendsten Jupiter, beim unbegreiflichen Würfel Gottes (1), gehorche mir. Ich beschwöre dich, Jupiter, bei der Gnade aller Kräuter. Ich beschwöre dich, Jupiter, bei deiner Tapferkeit und Gerechtigkeit, bei deinen wundersamen Tugenden und bei deinen folgenden Namen: Misthan, Mesaou, Alasigno, Pelkhaous, Aabio, Kedesod, Olaber, Sedio, Azanor, Merran. Bei deinen großartigen und tapferen Namen schenke mir deine Gnade, Macht und Tugend für das gegenwärtige Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche. Wende dein Unglück von mir ab. Bring mir nur Glück. Amen.

(1) eigentlich "beim unermesslichen Knöchel Gottes (Erklärung hier)"

Freitag

Im Namen des höchsten Gottes, bei seinen begehrtesten Namen, beschwöre ich dich, die harmonischste, schönste und lieblichste Herrin Venus, die in Tapferkeit liegt und in der Macht der Liebe, die das menschliche Fleisch von innen her quält. Oh Venus, die über die Leidenschaft herrscht und die Liebe verbreitet, schönste Venus, die jede Sehnsucht in die Herzen von Männern und Frauen führt und die Eingeweide der Menschen bewegt; Oh Herrin, gekrönt mit dem Kranz der Liebe, ich flehe dich um deine Macht an, in meinem Willen die Leute zu peinigen und vor meinen Füßen niederfallen zu lassen. Ich beschwöre dich, Venus, bei Gott, der dich erschuf und dich in den Himmel gelegt hat. Ich beschwöre dich beim Siegel, das in deinem Herzen ist, bei deinem Kranz, bei deinem Himmel und bei deinen folgenden Namen: Montoaran, Maugoran, Ktioel, Pyrgeton, Lioikon, Ikarizi, Iakor, Ladokon, Parinos, Phrektiouz, Phaloumpol, Kraipophon, Alleopon, Estoge, Iaseph, Zaglytai, Krigenos, Ooulan. Bei deinen vorgenannten Namen mißachte mich nicht, sondern gib deine Gnade und Tugend für das Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche. Wende dein Unglück von mir ab. Bring mir nur Glück. Amen.

Samstag

Herr, unser Gott, der Große und Höchste, der den Menschen erschaffen und gemeißelt hat, der Abgrund sah und fürchtete dich, das Leben sah dich und wurde leblos. In seinem Namen und durch seine große und mächtige Macht beschwöre ich dich, Saturn. Durch die Höhen des Himmels und durch die Tiefen des Meeres beschwöre ich dich, Saturn, gehorche mir. Bei deinem Alter und deiner überragenden Bedeutung beschwöre ich dich, oh kalter Saturn, der über jedes Leid herrscht, der Schätze gibt und der alles bietet. Ich beschwöre dich wieder, oh Saturn, bei deinen folgenden Namen: Arphin, Orkip, Ouliob, Berik, Ouraphon, Sarok, Taimon, Odel, Sigep, Sotad. Gib deine Gnade und Tugend für das Werk, das ich zu vollbringen suche. Wende dein Unglück von mir ab. Bring mir nur Glück. Amen.

Übersetzt ins Deutsche von Sublunar Space und frei verfügbar unter Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Lizenz; Die Quelle war die englische Übersetzung des Harleianus 5596 Manuskriptes aus dem Buch The Magical Treatise of Solomon - or Hygromanteia von Ioannis Marathakis.