The Tablet of the
49 Good Angels
The
first angel in each of the seven sectors is counted as a King,
and rules the planet and day of the week indicated by the circled
planetary glyphs. The first of these Kings, Baligon, also rules
the entire Heptarchic system under his alias of Carmara. Each
King has under him a Prince, who is the second angel in the preceding
sector. E.g., Baligon's prince is Bagenol from the sector of Luna.
The
remaining angels in the Tablet have no special rank, and no details
as to their functions and uses are given in the diaries.
The
King and Prince rule a specific day of the week, and have a set
of 42 ministers that, in groups of seven, rule a four-hour section
of that day. The name of the principal minister in each group
is derived from the Tabula Bonorum according to a method that
varies for each King. The names of the remaining ministers are
derived from the principal minister's name by rotating the letters.
The
following illustration shows the method by which each King's ministers
are derived from the Tabula Bonorum.
BLUMAZA |
BOBOGFL |
BABALEL |
BYNEPOR |
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BNASPOL |
BNAPSEN |
BALIGON
/ CARMARA |
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In
the first five instances, the green
line shows the letters selected out of the "Solar" sector
of the Tabula Bonorum to get the first principal minister's name.
The letters in the same relative positions in the following five
sectors are selected to get the names of the remaining principal
ministers of each King.
In
the case of Baligon/Carmara, the ministers' names are formed entirely
from the names of the seven Heptarchic Kings. The Kings' names
are listed in the sequence they appear in the Tabula Bonorum;
the ministers' names are found by reading down the columns, omitting
the first column. Note that these same names appear in the second
version of the Twelve-by-Seven Table, and thus also appear on
the rim of the Holy Table of Practice.
For
King Bnapsen, the ministers' names are only partially derived
from the Tabula Bonorum. The six
colored lines show the portion of each name that is found in the
Table; the remaining letters of the names do not
appear to be derivable from the Table by any consistent method.
