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ArthurBDD

Error in Liber 231's tables of sigils

So the two tables of sigils in Liber 231 almost correspond to each other nicely in the arrangement of Hebrew letters on them. On the "Mercurii" table, the letters run right-to-left, as expected in Hebrew. On the table of the cells of the Qliphoth they *mostly* are arranged left-to-right - as you would expect if looking at the other table "from the back".

So far, so good! One could even see the sigils as 22 little talismans, each with a front side provided by a Mercurii and a rear provided by its Qliphoth.

Except there's an issue: He and Vau seem to have been swapped around on the Qliphothic side. An error (deliberate or otherwise) in writing out the letters, such as might occur when writing a sequence backwards from the usual order, or were the two sigils themselves swapped around? Has there been any discussion on this?

Posted Sep 5, 2026, 3:54 PM UTC

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