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[[Éliphas Lévi]]'s book ''Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie'' (1854) later translated by [[A.E. Waite]] and published in English as ''Transcendental Magic'' (1923), lists the demon's names and [[sigil|seals]], but his versions of the seals are found nowhere else in previous literature. Levi considered these spirits to represent the descending energies of the [[zodiac]] signs, but did not believe them to be explicitly demonic or evil. He also claimed to have found the information about the [[demon]]s in Gaffarel's work, and ignores their appearance in Kircher's book. | [[Éliphas Lévi]]'s book ''Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie'' (1854) later translated by [[A.E. Waite]] and published in English as ''Transcendental Magic'' (1923), lists the demon's names and [[sigil|seals]], but his versions of the seals are found nowhere else in previous literature. Levi considered these spirits to represent the descending energies of the [[zodiac]] signs, but did not believe them to be explicitly demonic or evil. He also claimed to have found the information about the [[demon]]s in Gaffarel's work, and ignores their appearance in Kircher's book. | ||
Other mentions include Johann Albert Fabricius's 1712 book ''Menologium'' and [[Alexandre Lenoir]]'s 1814 book ''La Franche-Maçonnerie Rendue à sa Véritble Origine'' which gives an alternative set of sigils. | |||
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