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Amended and Abridged from an Ancient Manuscript.

by Frater Sapere Aude

THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH SAID: “Let the World have its time, and let there be Keepers, Watchers, and Princes placed over it, for years, months and days.”

Hence it plainly appeareth that the world was not committed to their charge from the Creation, but afterwards, and in diverse times and offices both to God and Man. Now we are to understand that there are FOUR OVERSEERS -ANGELS over the world whom the Eternal Power in His providence hath placed against the usurping, blasphemous misuse and stealth of the wicked and great ene­mies and tempters of man, the devils. Thus do the Divine Ones restrain the wicked.

Each of these Four Angelic Powers is a mighty Prince and Angel of the Lord, and they are set by his Divine decree, as chief Overseers over the several and respective parts of the world; viz: East, West, North and South.

And to them belong four characters, being tokens of the presence of the Son of God, by whom all things were made, in the Creation and are the natural marks of Holiness, and unto which belong four Angels severally, and before each one of these great Angelic Princes, are borne 3 banners, whereon are displayed 3 Great Names of God, comprehending 3, 4, and 5 which in all are 12. And these

12 Great Names of God govern all creatures upon Earth, both visible and invisi­ble.

Each one of these 4 Great Angelic Princes hath 5 Presidential Angels or Guardian Princes attending him, under whom are 6 Angels called Seniors which St. John remembered (who, as their officers are, etc. ) judge the Government of their mighty Angelic King, and fulfill the will of God, as it is written, etc.

Under which Seniors are 4 Presidential Good Angels who are depositors of the commands of those that are the Superior Governors of the 4 Principal Angels, or quarters: East, West, North, and South, over which they are severally and respectively constituted and sit etc., etc.

Under whom again are many and numberless Aerial ministering subservient spirits of several offices, both good and bad, all which shall be further explained in the opening and exemplifying of the Tablets, etc., which is as followeth:

Here we have 4 Tables or Quadrangles, which are but one general table, only divided into 4 parts, East, West, North and South. In the center between these 4 Quadrangles is another little table joined cornerly to them all, and which serveth to unite the several parts of them together, according as they are to be diversely referred, as shall be shewed hereafter, etc.

The First Wathctower

Or

The Great Quadrangle of the East

The Second Wathctower

Or

The Great Quadrangle of the West

The Tablet Of Union

The Third Wathctower

Or

The Great Quadrangle of the North

The Fourth Wathctower

Or

The Great Quadrangle of the South

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