The Eighteenth closes the fixed-Call sequence with a light of comfort, a stored truth, and an appeal for a consoling window. The next printed section turns to the Aethyrs.
- Number
- Eighteenth of the numbered Calls
- 1912 text
- The Equinox I:8, pp. 123–124
- 1912 assignment
- Earth of Fire
A different ending to the flame sequence
The English Eighteenth addresses a powerful light and a burning flame of comfort. It depicts divine glory reaching the earth’s center and says that 6,332 secrets of truth abide in the addressee. A name associated with immeasurable joy follows, then a request for a window of comfort. This texture is markedly different from the Seventeenth’s thorned wings, vexation, and wrath, even though the two are neighbors in the later Fire-tablet row.
The closing request to appear and disclose mysteries is familiar from the preceding Calls. Its repetition marks a common style, while the comfort and truth images make the Eighteenth distinctive. The text is neither a verifiable storehouse of thousands of factual secrets nor a promise that a reader will experience comfort. This guide describes what the 1912 English rendering states and lets the historical voice remain visibly separate from the site’s own claims.
Earth of Fire and the edge of the fixed series
The Equinox bracket identifies the Eighteenth as Earth of Fire. It follows Air of Fire with the Sixteenth and Water of Fire with the Seventeenth, while the Sixth holds Fire of Fire. That placement completes the later four-by-four elemental arrangement of Calls three through eighteen. The word “Earth” is a subordinate angle, not a replacement for the Fire tablet or a statement that the flame imagery is literally terrestrial.
Immediately after the Eighteenth’s bracket and rank caption, the printed article adds a note on its numbering and then introduces the Calls for the thirty Aethyrs. The note reflects a ceremonial counting convention in the 1912 presentation. The nineteenth verbal pattern is then applied with changing Aethyr names, a separate question from this Eighteenth’s English imagery. Readers looking for the end of the fixed sequence can use that visible page transition rather than a modern list alone.
Two pages, then the Aethyr transition
The original issue begins the Eighteenth’s Angelical wording near the foot of printed page 123. Its continuation, English rendering, Earth of Fire bracket, and following note are on page 124. That page turn makes 123–124 the correct printed span for this source. A PDF page index is offset by the issue’s preliminary pages, so a precise locator should say which numbering it uses.
Sloane MS 3191 is the earlier autograph witness for the corpus of forty-eight Angelical Keys, according to the British Library catalogue, which dates the reception from April to July 1584 and assigns the group to folios 1r–13r. The public catalogue does not resolve the Eighteenth’s exact manuscript spelling or individual folio. Whitby’s analysis explains the eighteen fixed forms and the Aethyr pattern. This entry’s comfort, truth, and elemental claims remain tied to the checked 1912 printing.
Sources and witness notes
- British Library, Sloane MS 3191 catalogue ↗Autograph volume, forty-eight Keys at folios 1r–13r, dated 13 April–13 July 1584.
- The Equinox, volume I, number 8 (1912), The Forty-Eight Calls or Keys ↗Original-issue article on printed pages 99–127; the Calls begin on page 103 and the Aethyr Call ends on page 127. Its English renderings and later elemental assignments supply the summary table.
- 100th Monkey Press, The Equinox I:8 original-issue scan and bibliography ↗Bibliographic record links a scan of the original September 1912 issue. Calls 1–18 span printed pages 103–124; the Aethyr Call spans 125–127. These printed numbers differ from PDF page indexes.
- Christopher L. Whitby, John Dee’s Actions with Spirits, vol. 1 ↗Scholarly analysis of the manuscript books, Calls, thirty Aethyrs, and ninety-one earthly parts.