Notes to Chapter XX
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NOTES TO CHAPTER XX.
(a) The Symbols of this Chapter are manifested in part by the Angels, and in part also by the Evil Spirits.
(b) BELZEBUD performs the Operations hereof.
(c) The Familiar Spirits cannot well execute the Operations of this chapter.
(d) See instructions for Chapter XIX, which serve equally for that, and the present Operation.
(e) No. 1 consists of 19 Squares irregularly arranged, and taken from a Square of 25 Squares.--KANNA means "jealous".
No. 2 consists of 13 Squares from a Square of 25 Squares.--SELAK = "to cast down or prostrate".
No. 3 consists of 18 Squares from a Square of 25.--ROQEN implies "persons in power".
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No. 4 consists of 25 Squares from a Square of 49.--ATLITIS is a corruption of the Greek adjective ATLETOS = "insufferable, not to be borne".
No. 5 consists of 19 Squares from a Square of 49.--OTSAMAH = "bodily strength".
No. 6 consists of 21 from a Square of 25.--SINAH = "Hatred".
No. 7 is a Gnomon of 9 Squares from a Square of 25. SATAN is the Name of one of the Chief Evil Spirits and has been elsewhere explained.
No. 8 consists of 19 Squares in the form of a capital F, taken from a Square of 49 Squares.--LOFITOS is evidently from the Greek LOPHESIS, meaning "rest, cessation from action (i.e. in this case military action)".
No. 9 consists of 13 Squares arranged in the form of an F, and taken from a Square of 25 Squares.--GIBOR = "strength, might, severity".
No. 10 is a Square of 25 Squares.--NOKAM = "vengeance".
No. 11 is also a Square of 25 Squares.--KELIK = "for all kinds of things".
No. 12 consists of 25 Squares from a Square of 49.--KERABAH = "assault, attack".
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