The Zodiacal Round
by Benjamin Rowe

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The Zodiacal Round

				ORO
			        (Pisces)
And God said: "The time has come to create again. Let the old 
forms be banished. I begin anew."

				IBAH
 			       (Aquarius)
And God said: "I bind my will in patterns, ordered, cyclic, yet 
never the same. My Will evolves in Time."

				AOZPI
			       (Capricorn)
And God said: "The towers of My Will arise upon the base which I 
have set. Level upon level they rise. Well-founded are they in matter, 
and shall not fall while My Will continues to its end."

				MPH
			     (Sagittarius)
"Fabulous filigrees are wrapped about My towers by the ever-
changing movements that My Will evokes. Filigree upon filigree; filigree 
within filigree; always similar, never identical, they blend the large 
movements with the small, the small with the infinitesimal, until scale 
is lost and none knows where ends and beginnings arise."

				ARSL
			        (Scorpio)
"From the blending of the scales does chance arise, the 
possibility of change and unexpectedness within the pattern of My Will. 
The seeds of new motions spontaneously arise; and none, not even I, know 
when and where they will appear."

				GAIOL
				(Libra)
"Yet My towers are one, balanced in the light and in the darkness; 
that which arises shall always act within the bounds set by My Will."

				OIP
				(Virgo)
And God looked upon his work and said: "But these are virgin 
houses: none as yet have dwelt therein. Let the seeds of life be sown 
and let them root and grow within the patterns of My thought."

				TEAA
				(Leo)
And God said: "Let the lesser creators dwell within my towers. And 
let them work within the patterns of My Will according to their own 
creative arts, revealing unseen potential as does a sun entering into a 
dark place."

				PDOCE
				(Cancer)
"Let the living creatures worship the creators as visible gods 
within the worlds. And let the lesser builders work their   wills as do 
My angels when I speak my Word of Power."

				MOR
				(Gemini)
And God said: "Let the thoughts of men blend with My thoughts, and 
elaborate them in the worlds where I no longer go."

				DIAL
				(Taurus)
"And let their work build upon My pattern; and let their works 
reflect My evolving Will."

				HCTGA
				(Aries)
"Let men work until matter and My Will are one. Then let them say: 
Thy Will is done."


Seer's Comments:

These brief sayings were given to the seer during an exploration 
of the Names of God for the Air Tablet. They are intended as meditations 
on the significance of the twelve Names of God within a system of 
attributes called the "Zodiacal Round". In this arrangement, the Names 
from each Tablet are assigned to a quarter of the zodiac centered on the 
fixed sign corresponding to the element of the Tablet. This puts the 
groups of names in the same relative positions as are their respective 
Tablets within the Great Table of the Watchtowers.

The Enochian "angels" have frequently dealt with zodiacal 
progressions in our previous contacts, but their earlier statements have 
always treated the progression in a more goal-oriented fashion. This is 
the first purely cyclic expression they have provided. Like Finnegans 
Wake it never actually ends, but curves back to begin again.

This is the second full set of zodiacal attributes the angels have 
given me for the Names of God. The first set were provided in connection 
with the techniques described in the chapbook Enochian Temples. In that 
set, the Three Names for each element were assigned respectively to the 
mutable, fixed, and cardinal signs of that element. A quote provides the 
angels' perspective on the question of how these two sets of attributes 
interact:

"Now we would go in the way that you wish, and show the powers of 
the individual squares, but you should be aware that the groups of 
squares making up one of the Three Names have their attribute (as a 
group) to one of the signs, and these are of more power in most 
instances than the power of the individual squares.

"The Name ORO has its dual attributes to Pisces in the round of 
the zodiac, and to Gemini in the construction of the Temples of God's 
Will. The knife or sword of Zayin was shown in yesterday's brief vision 
as cutting the cord between the fishes of Pisces. Hence in that vision 
we showed how the two sets of attributes relate.

"First one encounters the attribute from the zodiacal round. As 
the mind flies higher, then the attribute of the Temple is encountered. 
In the course of initiation, the knowledge of the latter grows, is 
formed out of, the experience of the former. Much in the way that the 
knife of Air in the last vision was formed out of the tin of Jupiter and 
the copper of Venus, who are ruler and exalted planet of Pisces."

"In the initiatory progression, one goes from the sign, the most 
basic attribute, to the power of the ruling and exalted planets, to the 
Temple attribute, to the ruling and exalted planets of the Temple sign. 
This may seem complex, but the powers embodied in the Tablets are a 
reflection of the powers of the universe, and the universe is a very 
complex place on all levels."

This shift of attributes can be viewed in two ways. First, as a 
transformation from a condition in which the zodiacal quadruplicities 
dominate, to one in which the zodiacal triplicities dominate. Second, as 
a ninety-degree shift in the positions of the mutable and cardinal 
signs, counterclockwise for mutable, clockwise for cardinal. 

The angels state in another place that movement of the powers 
through these various attributes produces two circular flows in the 
Great Table of the Watchtowers. In both cases, the power represented by 
the "Temple" attribute flows into the name whose Zodiacal Round 
attribute is the same. For example, the powers of ORO flow in the way 
quoted above, then the power flows into the Name MOR in the Earth 
Tablet, which has Gemini as its Zodiacal Round attribute. The powers of 
the fixed signs flow in both directions, since their attributes in both 
sets is the same.

When using these attributes in invocations, the angels specify 
that the Zodiacal Round is to be used in invocations of the angels of 
the Lesser Angles, and in invocations involving the use of the Second 
Call. The "Temple" attributes are to be used in invocations of the Kings 
and Seniors, and those involving the use of the First Call. 

The powers of the Three Names are concentrated and formed into a 
vortex by the King of the Tablet. The King connects with the Names 
primarily through the first letter and the last two letters of his name. 
These letters all come from the four-letter Name of God, which is 
attributed to the element of the Tablet in both arrangements. So no 
matter which set is used, the powers of the Three Names are funneled a 
sign of the appropriate elemental character when they are used in 
invocations of the lower powers of the Tablets.

For those who wish use these sayings for meditation, it should be 
emphasized that the symbolism is almost purely astrological, with some 
admixture of Tarot. Formulations based on the Tree of Life are not 
present.