Polygraphy and the Seven Secondary Intelligences

ON THE SEVEN SECONDARY INTELLIGENCES ##

original: "DE SEPTEM SECVNDEIS"; The "Secondaries" are the seven planetary angels who, according to the author, rotate in 354-year cycles to govern the history of the world.

In the eighteenth place after Zachariel, the Angel of Jupiter, Raphael, the spirit of Mercury, took up the government of the world for the third time, on the 2nd day of the month of November, in the year 6023 from the creation of the universe, in the 8th month. In the year of the Lord’s birth, however, it was 817. He presided over the world for 354 years and 4 months, until the year of the world 6378, which was the year of the Lord 1171. At the beginning of this revolution, the Monarchy

1171. The transfer Translation: the concept of Translatio Imperii, the historical and legal theory that imperial authority was inherited or transferred from one nation to another of the Roman Empire to the Franks.

of the Roman Empire, as we have said, was transferred to Charlemagne Charles the Great. After Charles, his son Louis [the Pious] reigned for 25 years. Upon his death, his sons, fighting among themselves, again weakened the strength of the Empire. The Normans Vikings devastated Gaul. Rome was twice defiled by the Saracens.

A rain of blood. A chasmatic terror in Saxony.

A "chasmatic" terror refers to a terrifying opening or fissure in the earth (a chasm).
Under Louis II, it rained blood from the sky in Italy for three days. In Saxony, a certain village with all its buildings and people was swallowed in a moment by a horrible opening in the earth. Around the year of the Lord 910, great upheavals occurred in Italy, and Italy defected from the empire of the Franks and established its own kings, the first of whom was Berengarius, Duke of Friuli,

The transfer of the Roman Empire to the Romans. The Ottonian Emperors. The conversion of the Hungarians to the Christian faith. The origin of the Prince-Electors.

whom seven succeeded in order, for nearly fifty years, until the transfer of the empire to the Germans. And Otto [I] became the first Emperor, and from this time the Monarchy began to be reformed; his son Otto [II] and grandson Otto [III] succeeded him in the empire, under whom the Hungarians were converted to the Christian faith. Otto III, however, died without children, and established the Electors of the Empire The high-ranking princes who held the right to elect the King of the Romans/Emperor after him in the year of Christ 1002, just as they remain until the present day. Jerusalem, however—