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Zalewski’s model of the twelve “Angelic Kings” of John Dee
This model presents the 12 “Names of God,” as given on 3 banners per each of the 4 directions by
John Dee, as they were related to the names of the 12 “Angelic Kings” over each of the 12 Tribes
of Israel, used in the Golden Dawn. Zalewski takes pains to segregate his own model from earlier
models given in the “unpublished papers” of Mathers, however it is clear that some form or other
of this model was in use among the initiates during the later years of the Order.
In this model we have the “Name of God,” of three, four or five letters each, given on the outermost
side of each of the 12 triangles. On the inner two opposite sides of the triangles are the 7 letter
names of “Angelic Kings” given by Dee and the Tribe of Israel to which they were assigned in the
Golden Dawn. It is apparent that the order relating the 12 “Names” and “Kings” given by Dee to
the 12 Tribes derived from the application of the Tribes to the 12 Zodiac signs, and that this was a
method applied by the Golden Dawn, and not Dee. In all likelihood, the application of the Tribes to
the 12 Zodiac signs would have been a profane attribution of which Dee himself would never have
approved.
This order is more or less useful therefore to relate the 12 Tribes with the 12 Zodiac signs, and
from there to the 12 “Names” and “Kings” given by Dee, however, as with all the material
generated by the Golden Dawn following Dee’s original system, it should be taken with a grain of
salt, and every attribution should be checked and double-checked by any ardent researcher.