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Kameas, Magic Squares, sigils and seals for use with planetary and angelic magick

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How exactly are they used?
Does the sigil for the planet have to be drawn over the square?
I drew the square and seal for Michael on yellow construction paper, looks beautiful, but is there a complimentary color I should have used rather than black ink, and if so, will it make it worthless by it having black ink? I know flashing colors are good for opening the square or sigil, so I have no problem trying to add some other colored ink or redoing them from scratch.
 

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Donald Tyson explains it all in detail in Agrippa's Three Books.
The seal (sigil?) of Michael isn't based on a planetary square - unless you have made the sigil yourself.
 
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Yes, seals are different than sigils, seals are the more artistic looking items, as opposed to a circle and line sigil.

Seals of the planets are indeed placed over the square, and the sigils are generated from use of Hebrew within the square, such as qabalah of nine chamber or air baqir as a process to generate the sigils, the rose cross sigil generator can do it as well.

So then new question, does the table need to be duplicated three or four times, to have one for the planet, the archangel/the angel, the intelligence, the spirit? Although we will rarely work with th spirit of the planet itself.
 
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Reading Appendix V of Three Books of Occult Philosophy, it may take me a few days to process the stuff.
 

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does the table need to be duplicated three or four times, to have one for the planet, the archangel/the angel, the intelligence, the spirit? Although we will rarely work with th spirit of the planet itself.
Why would you need to make more than one. The square you can use to discover the letters of a certain sigil when you see it.
Or to create new / other sigils for new / other entities. And if you aren't going to use a spirit of the planet then why make the sigil in the first place?
I probably misunderstand what you are saying, but making the square itself is even pointless in my opinion if you have construction paper. Just know what number / letter is in one of the squares (that already are on your paper) and draw your sigil. Are you making the square with all the letters / numbers in it and drawing the sigils on top of that? Why
 
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Well. You're the first to explain better than Tyson, the book showed the planetary sigil over the square, hence the question about needing one or more. I did not know the square was a sigil generator.
 
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If there isn't already one here, and I can study my butt off quickly, absorbing and understanding, I may practice, and if there is a result that is suitable to my expectations, then I might just have to write a tutorial on the subject. Tyson up first it is, then Regardie, then Barrett, then Waite, and see what I am not getting about it.
1. Mathmeticians created these sudoko type squares, and sages saw an advantage with it.
2. Sages were obviously involved with planets and magick, and saw a use for the square.
3. Sages/Magicians found the squares could generate a sigil if a name was known.
4. Since they had successful magick and other sources gave names, it was a go.
5. There are four - adding an Archangel associated with it makes five potential sigils - the planet, the angel, the intelligence, the spirit.
6. Some sources claim the spirit of a planet to be evil, perhaps because Sorath was found to equal 666, they took note and came up with the idea of the planetary spirit being potentially if not outright evil.
7. Kameas and sigils for the angels, planet, or intelligence (if you so dare the spirit) should all be using proper correspondences.
8. There is a difference between the spirit seal and a spirit sigil, where the sigil is mathematically derived from the kamea, while the seal tends to be more symbolic leading it to seem artistic, which it is to a degree, but more importantly contains symbolism about th spirit or their office.

This is all I understand about them at this point.
 
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