Phaleg

Governor of Mars

The character of Phaleg
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In orderNo. 3 of 7
GovernsMars
Provinces35
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As the 1655 translation has it
Phaleg ruleth those things which are attributed to Mars, the Prince of peace. He that hath his character, he raiseth to great honours in warlike affaires.
Where this comes from

The Arbatel was first printed in Latin at Basel in 1575, and its seventh aphorism names the seven Olympic Spirits who govern the world between them. The passage here is Robert Turner's English translation, printed in London in 1655. The long s of the original is set as a plain s; nothing else is changed.

Arbatel of Magick, translated by Robert Turner, in Henry Cornelius Agrippa's Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (London, 1655). The text and the characters are in the public domain.

The character is traced from the page of the 1655 printing on which it stands.

The 1655 printing gives no count of Phaleg's spirits, and this is the shortest of the seven entries.

By the book's reckoning Phaleg governed from the year 430 until 920.

The book lists the provinces as 49, 42, 35, 28, 21, 14 and 7, then gives the total as 186. Those figures add to 196. The discrepancy is in the book, not here.

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