Writing precedes voice in POP; a narrow door opens onto combatants fighting without allies before Sebek and a blue-winged angel redirect Crowley’s nineteenth Aethyr.
- Aethyr number
- 19 of 30
- Earthly-part positions
- 55–57
- Crowley’s 1911 chapter
- Printed pp. 47–51
Dee’s Liber Scientiae is the earlier manuscript setting. The Equinox I:8 (1912) supplies the spelling and number used here. Crowley’s Vision and the Voice (1911) supplies the much later vision described below.
The nineteenth name and its parts
The 1912 Equinox name list places POP after ZEN and before KHR. Whitby’s description of the earthly-part grouping yields positions 55–57 for the nineteenth order. As elsewhere in this guide series, the span is arithmetic from a described manuscript structure. It is not a claim that every later image is encoded in three Dee place names.
The British Library catalogue locates the earlier Liber Scientiae in Sloane MS 3191. Crowley’s blue-winged angel and battlefield belong to his 1911 printed report; the 1912 table is evidence for the spelling and ordinal used here.
Sources: The Equinox I:8 (1912), p. 125 ↗ · Whitby, John Dee’s Actions with Spirits, vol. 1, pp. 141–142 ↗ · British Library, Sloane MS 3191 catalogue ↗
POP governor names: ordinals 55–57
The Equinox I:7 (1912) groups three names under POP on printed page 241. These are the spellings in that later table; the comparison labels below identify only forms that differ in a modern Great Table reconstruction.
- 55 TORZOXISame spelling in the 2010 comparison appendix
- 56 ABAIONDSame spelling in the 2010 comparison appendix
- 57 OMAGRAPSame spelling in the 2010 comparison appendix
Writing, a door, and a battle with no sides
The vision begins with a black web, a black cross, a smaller gold cross, and an arch whose letters look like arranged little daggers. The narrator says the writing is received without ordinary voice, vision, or thought. The golden cross becomes a narrow door. A Hermit-like figure warns him away; a green dragon stands at the gate.
Beyond it the seer first calls the chaos a battle between forces, then corrects himself: each warrior fights every other, and even the charioteers betray their riders. Fallen fighters become fruit beneath a great tree, which Sebek, a crocodile-headed figure, devours. This correction inside the narrative matters more than assigning POP a single “war” keyword.
Sources: The Equinox I:5 supplement (1911), printed pp. 47–51 ↗
The blue-winged angel and unread table
An angel in blue appears after Sebek. She carries a torch and cup, identifies herself through several tarot-like keys, and links love, pain, and the unknown in a long speech. Her open book shows a Holy Table with twelve central squares, but the narrator says its light is too bright for him to read the characters. He is told to study it for another Aethyr.
The chapter ends with a violent return from the vision and a Bou Saâda date line of November 30, 1909. Its alphabet, table, and angel are printed claims within a later occult narrative. The page supplies no legible manuscript transcription of the dazzling table and no reason to merge this angel with an entity named in Dee’s ninety-one earthly parts.
Sources: The Equinox I:5 supplement (1911), printed pp. 47–51 ↗ · The Equinox I:8 (1912), p. 125 ↗
Source editions and page locators
- The Equinox I:8 (1912), p. 125 ↗
- Whitby, John Dee’s Actions with Spirits, vol. 1, pp. 141–142 ↗
- British Library, Sloane MS 3191 catalogue ↗
- The Equinox I:5 supplement (1911), printed pp. 47–51 ↗
The 1911 link opens a scan of the original supplement at PDF page 49, corresponding to printed page 47. The 1912 issue link is a modern reconstruction. This page paraphrases the original printing and does not treat the visionary report as independently verified.
Continue reading the Aethyrs
- 18. ZEN A later vision moves from a disturbing opening image to a crystal mountain and a chamber whose centre cannot be seen.
- 20. KHR A peacock dissolves into angels and a complex wheel; the seer then questions what can be remembered from his own vision.
- 17. TAN A reported encounter with Madimi introduces weighing and justice, while its specific symbols remain Crowley’s later account.
- 21. ASP The older name and earthly-part position beside a later report of wind, a throne, and speech that the seer cannot reliably hear.
- 16. LEA The earlier Aethyr name and three earthly-part positions beside a later vision of displaced kingship and a returning woman.
- 22. LIN A luminous tablet, a musician-angel, and a striking example of why visionary number claims need their own source label.