The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy

by its own number and order, in the same column: and that which falls upon the first letter of the name, that shall be assigned to it. However, you shall find the following vowels original: vocales; in this system, consonants are often derived first, and vowels are added later to make the name pronounceable and ritually effective by taking the distance from the preceding letter to the succeeding one, and so on, according to the order of the Alphabet. And the number of that distance is counted from the beginning of its column: and where it falls, there is the part of the sought-out vowel. From that, then, project project: a method of counting through a series of letters or numbers until a specific value is reached the vowels—as we said above—and those that fall upon their respective letters should be assigned to them. But if any vowel falls upon another vowel, let the first give way to the latter meaning the second vowel replaces or takes precedence over the first in the final name.

And understand this to apply only to Good spirits. For evil spirits, however, proceed in a similar way, except that you must make the calculations in a contrary and reverse order, against the succession of the Alphabet, and against the order of the columns—that is to say, by ascending Magic involving "evil" or "cacodemons" often mirrors the logic of celestial magic but operates in reverse (retrograde) to symbolize its oppositional nature.

The name of the good Genius Genius: a tutelary or "guardian" spirit assigned to a person at birth of every person—which we taught how to find in the third book of Occult Philosophy Refers to Henry Cornelius Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy. This current text is the controversial "Fourth Book," which focuses more on practical ritual summoning according to that method—is of no small authority and rests on no slight foundation. But now we shall provide you with certain other methods, based on reasons that are not empty. And of these, one is by taking, in the figure