The Holy Table
The
Holy Table, from Meric Casaubon's True and Faithful Relation. Although
this is included in Casaubon's print of the Dee diaries of the seances, an
explanation of it as a whole or at all is seemingly missing. (It is a large
document, and I only have access to it via microfilm, so I could be overlooking
it!) The following (updated) explanation I found online so it doesn’t have a
reference to the place in the Dee diaries that it came from, but is true and
correct. What doesn't appear in this
image, is a detailed look at the tables (scotcheons) around the central matrix
of letters. They are in fact the "seven tables, characters, or
scotcheons" worn by the angels in the séance of April 28, 1582, outlined
in the Numerus Primus section.
The
central Table reads four lines of 3 letters:
O I T
R L U
L R L
O O E
These
letters are derived from the “heart” of the 12 by 7 Table which is best described in the
page that outlines it. The table is actually the “heart” from the second,
corrected version of the table, and has then been rotated 90 degrees
counter-clockwise, and transposed back into the Right-to-Left Enochian manner
of writing.
The
border is made of what seems to be random letters rather than words. We should
first examine what these letters are, and their patterning to become more
familiar with how they are NOT any strings of known Enochian words. They read
as so: (L-R)
North: (B) N G G D O F O O E E O N E G L S S N O S
O (B)
East : (B) A R R L U E O G A O I T F R E L R S M A
N (B)
South: (B) A O P P L G G Z E O O E E O A N L R L L
N (B)
West : (B) L N N I A O A V A A N B B L R P S E A O
I (B)
What
these letters actually are, are the columns of the 12 by 7 Table read from the Top Right of the 12
by 7, reading downwards, and right to left (as with all good Enochian!) These
begin at the end of the North row (i.e. the top left), and read right to left,
with the text up the right way to the viewer. It then reads East, South and
finally West. It’s best that the reader view the 12 by 7 table page to see how the names that
create this are laid out. They are in fact the names of the King and Prince of the
Tabula Collecta.