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From: Gnomedplume@aol.com (Gnome d Plume)
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Subject: Re: Goetia astrological decan associations
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 04:21:00 GMT
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:45:20 GMT, diox@diox.com (diox) wrote:

>On 17 Oct 2002 07:47:10 -0700, stargazerj19@hotmail.com (datagirl) wrote:
>
>>Can someone here expalin the correlation between the Goetia and the
>>decans of the Zodiac each demon is associated with?
>>
>>I understand why each has a metal attributed to them (for talisman
>>creation)... but why a decan association?
>
>read lemegeton 6 :
>
>http://home.nordnet.fr/~avalfroy/magie/Lemegeton.html
>
>Diox

****Aude:

The best guess is that they originally derived from the 72 (quinaces)
Ancient Egyptian good and bad "Gods" of the zodiac. At some point the
"bad" gods dropped out and the 36 good gods became the Decans.
However, the original 72 hung on in the shadows as good and bad
spirits. At some point one of the medieval magical systemizers came up
with this (IMO) pointless "Day" and "Night" demon business and put the
whole sequence out of phase. Medievalists had a tendency to split-off
and lump such sequences into triplicities and quatranaries---e.g. the
Enochian Tablets---but we chose to disregard it and move straight
around the circle the way the Shemhamephorash does. And speaking of
that, there was no original connection between the Goetia demons (a
Arabian/Christian system) and the Shemhamephorash (Hebrew) but as soon
as they leaked into the Hermetic qabalah, the Goetia magicians picked
them up (see Joe Peterson's Lemegeton). We stole 'um fair-and-square
and they've been ours for several hundred years. ****

Good Magick!

Gnome d Plume