On Occult Philosophy

And whichever [degree] falls upon the second Star, that is the vowel of the second letter. And in this manner, you shall subsequently investigate the vowels of the following letters, always by subtracting the degree of the following star from the degree of the star immediately preceding it. And all projections and numerations for the names of good Spirits original: "Spirituum bonorum" ought to be performed according to the succession of the zodiacal signs Moving forward through the signs: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, etc..

However, in the names of evil Spirits, where in the case of the good ones the degree of the Eleventh House Eleventh House: traditionally the house of friends and hopes is taken, in these [evil] cases, let the degree of the Twelfth House Twelfth House: the house of hidden enemies and self-undoing be taken. Furthermore, let all numerations and projections 1) be performed 1) read: against the succession of the signs, The marginal correction indicates that for evil spirits, one should count backward through the zodiac. taking the beginning from the degree of the Tenth House.

But in names extracted by means of tables, the vowels are placed in a different way. For first, the total number of letters constituting the name itself is taken, and one counts thus from the beginning of the column of the first letter, or under which the name is extracted: and the letter upon which this number falls is referred to the first letter of the extracted name, by taking the distance of one from the other according to the order of the Alphabet. And the number of that distance is projected from the beginning of its own column: and where it ends, there is the place of the first vowel. From that point, therefore, project the vowels themselves,