Lack of progress report 2021.12.25

Primary key-entry on "A Select Treatise" is now done: a draft of this section has been uploaded to Scribd.

I'm now getting more doubtful as to whether this was actually by the author of the Janua Magica Reserata instead of having been written by someone else in imitation of it.  Leaving aside vagaries of spelling in the Sloane 3821 copy, which can be chalked up to the copyist, generally grammar is worse, sentence structure frequently broken and the conjurations have a jarring shift in the tone adopted towards the spirits addressed: the opening refers them as "blessed," "dignified" and "Angelicall," but near the end they are threatened (spelling modernised):

[...] visibly show thyself at this very minute, as you will answer the contrary, being high misdemeanour, at your peril, before Him who shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the world by fire: Fiat, Fiat, Fiat.

... which kind of language is not used in the Janua, Clavicula Tabularum Enochi, "Celestial Confirmations," nor even the "Operations of the Angles of the Air" to the demon kings and their subordinates: it's more normally associated with spirits of dubious or mixed nature or explicitly referred to as "fallen."

EDIT: Actually, a similar phrase, "Come away as you will answer the contrary upon the highest of Misdemeanor, to your principle King and Governor," does appear in the "Tenth Key" of the Janua in Sloane 3825 (fol. 96r), addressed to the glorious, great sacred celestial Angel Substitute Name (assuming that's what the abbreviation used in the MS. means) of the Choir of Blessed Souls: but that "Tenth Key" was not part of the original work (it is in a radically different style to the other nine, the copy in 3825 is in different handwriting and written in, somewhat cramped, on a single page between the original end of the Janua and the start of the next text).  Indeed, the "Tenth Key" is stylistically closer to the conjurations of "A Select Treatise" than either is to the Janua or Clavicula Tabularum Enochi, and both cite Ogim Osi as an apparent divine name, which (at least with that orthography) appears to be otherwise practically unknown (the only Google hits for it in such a context are for (a) pirated copies of Keys to the Gateway of Magic, Skinner & Rankine's typeset of the Janua and (b) a modern ritual for the planetary Intelligences, which itself seems to derive directly or indirectly from "A Select Treatise").

Further, the descriptions of the Intelligences, as well as the texts of the conjurations, make explicit references to technical astrological considerations, implying that they should be called when their planet is "both essentially and accidentally well dignified and fortified," whereas by contrast the planetary invocations of "Celestial Confirmations" simply refer to the planetary "day and hour" system which is largely a dodge for avoiding the hassle of calculating aspects, dignities and the like.

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