The Seven Holy Pillars of Eternity

that is, the one who has received the power and authority to invent and consecrate such letters; of which kind, among various nations and religious sects, were those to whom the holy things had been entrusted; whose inventions and arrangements, however, have not come down to us, except for the little that one finds preserved here and there, scattered and piecemeal, among various writers.

Same work, II, 22.

The Magisten magicians/magi also hand down to us certain small number tables or squares, which they assign to the seven planets and call holy, consecrated planetary tablets. They attribute to them many great heavenly effects, insofar as they represent that divine heavenly arithmetic which, through the representations of the divine mind and by means of the world-soul, is imprinted upon the heavenly beings; and [they represent] their most lovely harmony and agreement with the heavenly emanations, according to the proportion of the images and impressions that the super-terrestrial Intelligenzien intelligences/angelic beings also represent, as those which, in