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listed in Col. III of Dee’s “Liber Scientiæ, Auxilii, et Victoriæ Terrestris” [Sloane ms.
3191, fols. 16 v –31 r ; Turner, pp 50–57; and others]. Looking closely at “The 91
Symmetrical Characters” as they appear on the Great Table, you will see that most of
the figures, but not all, are made up of six segments each, drawn from the center of one
square to the next, encompassing seven squares in all. After 88 of these seven-square
sigils have been positioned upon the table, there remain eight squares left over. Six of
these squares are paired, with one segment between them, and two squares are apparently
a part of no sigil at all. By noting the positions of these orphaned squares on the Great
Table, we find that the corresponding letters are drawn backwards when possible, and
are found by comparison to be AO, N, L, RA [Turner, p 59, is incorrect here, his Great
Table exhibiting “OA” instead of “RA”. James, p 117, agrees with Dee’s Great Table,
Sloane ms. 3191, fol. 57 r ], and PA. Seven of these eight letters, when arranged in their
proper order, form the name Paraoan, the name of #65, the 2 nd Governor of the 22 nd
Æthyr. Dee is instructed to perform this same exercise in an operation on 26 June,
1584, the day after receiving the tables [Casaubon, p 179].
There remains one letter of our original eight, the backward “L”, which has yet to be
included in the name of any Governor. Immediately after the angels explained to Dee
the manner in which Paraoan is obtained, he was instructed to take the letters of the
three Governors of the 10 th Æthyr, Lexarph, Comanan, Tabitom, and leaving off the
initial “L” of the first name, write the remaining 20 letters in tabular form, left to right,
in four rows of five letters each. These were then to be placed in a particular manner
“without the first Table” [Ibid ], to form a large cross in the center of “The Great Table”.
This cross serves to bind the four quadrants together, as Ave explains, and Dee refers to
it on occasion as the “crosse of union”. Indeed, those who developed the Enochian
material used by the Golden Dawn called the above table of twenty squares the “Tablet
of Union”, employing it in that Order’s “Portal” ritual, the bridge between the Inner
and Outer orders, and its formula is central to the Inner Order RR et AC’s “Consecration
of the Vault of the Adepts”, arguably their most important ceremony. The same table is
found in the Golden Dawn Cypher Manuscript [fol. 54]. Kelly suffered a migraine, to
which he appears to have been prone, during the reception of this material, and when
he became convinced that the angel Ave mocked his pain, Dee reports “A great
temptation fell on E.K.” [Casaubon, p 179]. Though little of what transpired occurs in
the record at this point, it appears from a later description that Kelly’s temptation took
the form of frightful curses of not only Ave, but Michael, Gabriel, and the heavenly
powers in general [Ibid, p 183].
In Dee’s diagrams, the “crosse of union” was generally drawn in solid black [Sloane
ms. 3191, fols. 49 v –50 r , 53 v –54 r , 56 v –57 r ], and in a marginal note he refers to it as the
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