Notes to Chapter XXVII
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NOTES TO CHAPTER XXVII.
(a) The Symbols of this Chapter are only manifested by the Evil Spirits.
(b) ORIENS, PAIMON, ARITON, and AMAIMON, execute the Operations hereof by the means of their common Ministers.
(c) The Familiar Spirits can to an extent perform the Operations of this Chapter.
(d) No especial instructions are given by Abraham regarding this Chapter.
(e) No. 1 consists of 13 Squares taken from a Square of 25 Squares. SELAC means "to cast down," "to cut down or fell" (as trees). Perhaps thus signifying the cut wood with which a trellis is made.
No. 2 consists of 13 Squares from a Square of 25 Squares. HESEB may mean the environs of a place.
No. 3 consists of 19 Squares from a Square of 49 Squares. AODONIA, from Hebrew root ODN = "Eden, a delightful place, etc.".
No. 4 is a Square of 49 Squares. ATSARAH = either "a store-house or treasury" or "to flow," according to its derivation.
No. 7 (the order of the numbering of the Squares is here changed) consists of 10 Squares taken from a Square of 25 Squares. SOREK means "to wind about".
No. 8 consists of 19 Squares from a Square of 81 Squares. AKROPOLIS is a Greek word signifying "citadel".
No. 6 consists of 18 Squares taken from a Square of 25 Squares. SELEG = "Snow," whence perhaps this should be numbered 19 instead of 6.
No. 5 consists of 15 Squares from a Square of 49. AGAMAGA = "pools of water," whence this should probably be numbered 4 instead of 5.
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No. 9 consists of 10 Squares from a Square of 25 Squares. CAIOT is probably from CHAIOTH = "Living creatures". It may also mean covert, where living creatures abide. Perhaps it should be numbered 20.
No. 10 consists of 11 Squares taken from a Square of 25 Squares. IAQEB probably means a bird of the crane species.
No. 11 consists of 17 Squares taken from a Square of 49 Squares. MELUNAC = "Thy dwelling-place," and perhaps this should be numbered 21.
No. 12 consists of 11 Squares taken from a Square of 25 Squares. PERAC may mean "flowering gardens". Perhaps this should be numbered 13.
No. 15 consists of 16 Squares taken from a Square of 49 Squares.
No. 14 is a Gnomon of 11 Squares from a Square of 36 Squares. OLELAH may mean "horned animals" or "tusked animals".
No. 13 consists of 14 Squares taken from a Square of 49 Squares. KIKAION = a place where gourds grow.
No. 16 is a Gnomon of 9 Squares taken from a Square of 25 Squares. MAKOR = "places digged".
No. 17 consists of 21 Squares taken from a Square of 49 Squares. MIGIRAS = "a place where productive plants grow".
No. 18 consists of 12 Squares from a Square of 36 Squares. ESAHEL = "rich".
No. 19 should probably be numbered 24. It is a Gnomon of 9 from a Square of 25 Squares. ARIEH = "a lion".
No. 20 consists of 19 from a Square of 49 Squares. LIMIKOS = "savage (animals)".
No. 21 consists of 13 Squares from a Square of 25 Squares. SASAS probably means "Horses," and this Square should probably be numbered 26 instead of 21.
No. 22 consists of 18 Squares taken from a Square of 49 Squares. KIKIMIS = "thistles," and also "some kinds of flowers".
No. 23 consists of 15 Squares from a Square of 49 Squares. NESIKER signifies fluids of various kinds.
No. 24 consists of 9 Squares from a Square of 25. DOBIH = "a bear," and should evidently be otherwise numbered.
No. 25 consists of 14 Squares from a Square of 49 Squares.
No. 26 is a Gnomon of 9 Squares from a Square of 25 Squares. PARAH = "a heifer," but also "fruit, produce".
No. 27 consists of 15 Squares from a Square of 49.
No. 28 consists of 10 Squares from a Square of 25. FANIN is probably from BN, and meaning "Towns and Villages," whence this should probably be numbered 21.
No. 29 consists of 8 Squares from a Square of 16. REEM =
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[paragraph continues] "Unicorns," and also beasts of the beeve kind, Buffaloes, etc. Perhaps this Square answers for 15 as well.
No. 30 consists of a Gnomon of 13 Squares from a Square of 2 5 Squares. AIIAH = rapacious birds.
No. 31 consists of 10 Squares from a Square of 25. SUHAL means "a blackish lion," whence this Square should be numbered 24 probably.
No. 32 consists of 18 Squares from a Square of 49. GIRIPES may mean "small beasts that run swiftly".
No. 33 consists of 10 Squares from a Square of 25. ARNEP should probably be ARNEB. It means "a Hare," whence this Square should perhaps be numbered 32.
No. 34 is a Gnomon of 9 Squares from a Square of 2 5. AIIAL probably means "wild goats".
No. 35 consists of 12 Squares from 25. KELEF = "a Dog," whence this Square should probably be numbered 33.
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