Magical Elements (Heptameron) and Agrippa's Fourth Book

magnitude and nature: then, having placed the number of those stars according to their position and order, lines should be drawn to the likeness of the signified image, as copiously as that can be done.

However, the characters that are extracted according to the name of a spirit are composed by the following table, by giving to each letter of the name that which corresponds to it from the table: just as is easily evident to one observing. But there is no small difficulty in this, specifically when a letter of the name falls into a line of figures or letters, so that we know which figure or which letter is to be taken. This, however, shall be known thus. For if, in the line of letters, a letter falls, consider what number this letter is in the order of the Name, as for example the second or third. Then, how many letters the name itself comprises, such as five or seven: and multiply these numbers by one another, and triple the product. Then project the whole aggregate from the beginning of the letters, according to the succession of the Alphabet: and into whichever of the letters that number falls, this is the one that ought to be placed in the Character of that Spirit. But if any letter of the name falls into a line