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The different domains of Hell are represented by the legs and feet, with the Earthly and harmonious Heavenly realms represented by the upper stomach and chest, arms, and head; the navel represents the Unmanifest realm that is connected with pure sound and vibration, and absolute silence, which connects everything together.
In several of these books, rituals designed to help summon spirits are found. [1] The following table lists spirits whose titles show up in these grimoires for evocation ritual purposes. The list does not include all Enochian angels.
John Dee's Heptarchic Lamen in Enochian (left) and English (right). De Heptarchia Mystica, or On the Mystical Rule of the Seven Planets, is a book written in 1582–83 by English alchemist John Dee.
He is the third demon in the Lesser Key (including Thomas Rudd's variant) and is referred to as a prince "of a good nature" and of the "same nature as Agares". [1] He rules twenty-six legions of spirits, and is summoned to tell magicians of past and future events, and locate lost objects.
The Angelic Table is subdivided into four lesser grids for the four elements and the four directions, bound together by the cross-shaped Tablet of Union. They are used to call upon the aid of angels ruling over the four directions. The names of God and the angels to be used in the invocations are extracted from the tablets. [3]
Buer, the 10th spirit, who teaches "Moral and Natural Philosophy". Illustration by Louis Breton from Dictionnaire Infernal The sigil of Buer. Buer is a spirit that appears in the 16th-century grimoire Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and its derivatives, where he is described as a Great President of Hell, having fifty legions of demons under his command.
Ibn Hanbal stated that one has a qareen from the devils and a qareen from the angels" (malak). [14] Tabari cites a tradition (hadith) that every human has a qareen from the devils advising evil and an angel accompanied advising good. [15] Suyuti is unsure if the qareen in Surah 50:23 refers to a devil or angel.
These images have been connected with the seraphim angels associated with Isaiah's visions, or perhaps more directly to the aforementioned "fiery flying serpent", but this continues to be debated – and an image of serpentine seraphim clashes with Isaiah's own vision, which clearly envisioned seraphim with heads, legs, and arms – although ...