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...from the degree of the seventh House. Truly, according to the Egyptians, the name of the Genius Genius: a personal guardian spirit or guiding intelligence believed to be assigned to every person at birth is gathered according to the Almutel Almutel: the planet that holds the most astrological power or "dignity" over a specific point in a birth chart of the twelfth House, which they call the Evil Demon original: Malum Daemonem; in traditional astrology, the twelfth house is associated with hidden enemies, confinement, and self-undoing, yet it was used here to calculate spiritual guardians. And all these rituals, together with others that were handed down by us in the third book of Occult Philosophy, can be performed through the Characters characters: here referring to the letters or written symbols of a language of any language; since in all of these (as we have said above) there resides a mystic and Divine Number, Order, and Figure. From this it happens that the same Genius can be called by different names. Truly, others are extracted from the name of the spirit itself, whether good or evil, through Tables constructed for this purpose.
Therefore, Celestial Characters Celestial Characters: mystical symbols or scripts believed to represent planetary and angelic forces, often used in talismans consist of lines and Heads. There are six Heads, according to the six Magnitudes of the Stars In historical astronomy, stars were classified into six levels of brightness or "magnitude," with the first being the brightest; to which the Planets are also reduced: The first magnitude, with the Sun, contains a Star or a Cross. The second with Jupiter, a circular point. The third, with Saturn, a semicircle, a Triangle, or a hook, whether rounded or sharp. The fourth, with Mars, a small rod penetrating a line, or a square, whether straight or slanted. The fifth, with Venus and Mercury, a small rod, or a tailed point, [ending with the catchword: af-] original: af-; likely the start of "ascending" or "affixed" continuing on the next page