Olympian Spirits

The seven planetary pairings and offices follow aphorism 17. The seals are traced from the first Latin printing, Universitätsbibliothek Basel, AN VI 37. Original crops remain available beside each tracing. Their irregularities are retained; the vector drawing does not establish a historical order of strokes.

Open the Latin facsimile →

The English text comes from the complete EEBO-TCP A26563 transcription of Turner's collection, released under CC0. All forty-nine aphorisms are retained, including marked gaps. Seven groups of seven organise the passage index; the irregular section headings of the printed text remain in the continuous archive reader. Latin seal images supplement the English transcription and are identified by their own edition.

Arbatel of Magick → · The complete collection →

The Latin reading text is transcribed from the Basel 1575 copy shown in the page viewer. Long s is rendered as s, line-break hyphens are joined, and clear nasal and common abbreviations are expanded. Printed word forms and substantive errors remain; uncertain readings are marked and discussed beside the passage. The scans preserve the typography in full.

Each complete Latin aphorism is paired with Turner’s existing English transcription. Navigation follows aphorism numbers; linked scrolling follows relative position within a passage. Short optional notes identify selected edition differences and transcription questions. The closing classification chart is rendered as a readable hierarchy, with its original layout available in the page viewer. The English text is unchanged.

Read Latin and English →

Aphorism 16 prints 32 provinces for Bethor in both inspected witnesses. Both this Latin copy and the English transcription give a total of 186. Replacing 32 with the familiar 42 produces a descending sequence of sevens and a total of 196; those are editorial corrections, not the readings of these copies. The profiles use the stable planetary pairings without silently changing these numbers.

The work announces nine books; only the introductory book is known to survive. Olympian and Homeric magic are separate announced divisions. The seven governors here have no added zodiac placements or automatic equivalents among the seventy-two angels.

The diagram follows the verbal description of aphorism 27 in the Basel 1575 Latin print, pp. 47–51. The print supplies no diagram. Four quarters each contain a prince in the middle, three nobles on either side, and four divisions for each of those seven positions: 112 divisions in all. The centre A is the single divine source, not one of the princes.

North is placed at the top; boundary letters B, C, D and E run southeast, northeast, northwest and southwest. Equal angular divisions and concentric bands are modern drawing choices. The Latin reads E.B. for the southern boundary and places the lesser secrets in the west and north; Turner prints E.D. and, later, east and north. The drawing follows the Latin readings, while the English archive remains unchanged. The numbered divisions are positions, not recovered names.

English passage → · Latin facsimile →

Aphorism 16 mentions Aratron in the first hour of Saturday; aphorism 17 refers to planetary days and hours; aphorism 21 describes a sunrise observance. The weekday labels in this planner use the conventional planetary week: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn from Sunday to Saturday. This is a calendar aid, not a complete planetary-hour algorithm supplied by the Arbatel.

Sunrise and sunset are calculated in the browser using NOAA/Meeus solar equations with the Sun’s centre at 0.833° below a level horizon. Times are estimates; terrain, elevation and weather are not modelled. Dates and daylight duration use the selected place’s IANA time zone, including daylight-saving changes where the browser’s time-zone database supports them. Polar dates without a rise or set are identified.

City coordinates, regional names and time-zone identifiers are adapted from GeoNames, downloaded 6 September 2026, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The local search includes its cities15000 dataset; manual coordinates are available for other locations. Browser-local place storage is optional.

NOAA calculation details · GeoNames · CC BY 4.0

The seal inspector aligns the original image crop and its tracing using the same uniform scale and translation recorded when the contours were made. Dark ink was separated from paper at a fixed threshold; small paper flecks were excluded after inspection. The overlay makes those choices visible. It does not reconstruct a stroke order or complete faint lines. Zoom and panning change the view, never the seal geometry.

The editor combines a historical character with an original frame, lettering and your inscription. Changes to the frame leave the seal's internal geometry intact. SVG downloads record the selected spirit, source edition and design settings. Palette choices belong to the design, rather than a historical colour correspondence.

The archive's Clementine Vulgate is a named Latin textual tradition. Its standardized editions postdate the Arbatel, so it supplies context rather than the exact Bible edition used by the author. Its Psalm numbering is retained.

Clementine Vulgate → · Heptameron → · The Magus → · The Book of Ceremonial Magic →