The Olympic Spirits
The Arbatel of Magick was printed in Latin at Basel in 1575. Nobody knows who wrote it. Its seventh aphorism names seven Olympic Spirits — Aratron, Bethor, Phaleg, Och, Hagith, Ophiel and Phul — who divide the world between them and govern it in turn, each for a spell of four hundred and ninety years.
Each is given a character: a figure of lines and loops standing in for the name. The characters here are traced from the pages of Robert Turner’s English translation, printed in London in 1655 beside Agrippa’s Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy.
7 characters, free to browse and free to keep
These are figures with a structure, not free drawing, and a stroke straightened to tidy one up changes it. That is why they are traced from the printed page rather than redrawn by hand.
Arbatel of Magick, Basel 1575. English translation 1655. The text and the characters are in the public domain.
The Ars Goetia — The seventy-two spirits of the Lesser Key of Solomon, each with the seal set down beside it. 72 seals.
The Pentacles of Solomon — Forty-four pentacles from the Key of Solomon, seven to a planet, each with the use the book puts it to — many of them protective. 44 pentacles.
The Angels of the Days — The seven angels who govern the days of the week, each with the sigil the Heptameron sets beside him. 7 sigils.
The Elder Futhark — The twenty-four runes of the oldest runic alphabet, each with the stanza the Old English Rune Poem gives it. 24 runes.