Tyson

Where Mathers leaves us only his own preliminary notes to complete the working of this model,
thus implying his knowledge of his own version’s cumbersome, unworkable nature, Donald Tyson
picks up and gives us not only a completed chart based on Mathers (shown here), but also a
reformed chart (given in his work “Enochian Magic for Beginners”) of his own working based on
the reformed order of Raphael for the arrangement of the 4 Watchtowers on the Great Table. I won’t
delve into Tyson’s own model, because he was not one of the original members of the Golden Dawn,
however one cannot discuss the modern applications of Golden Dawn “Enochian” magick outside of
the Golden Dawn Order itself without giving credit to Donald Tyson’s work.
Here, Tyson’s completed version of Mathers’ model also fills in the letters for the “Calvary”
Crosses, as well as for the “Dekanate” Crosses central to each Watchtower quadrant of the “Great
Table” shown here. Because his attribution in this model follows Mathers,’ the Calvary Crosses of
each sub-angle are given the same order as the Watchtowers per quadrant in the whole “Great
Table.” The ordering of the letters in the Kherubic crosses we will discuss next, however, before
we can discuss that, we will first have to discuss also Mathers’ Golden Dawn method of rendering
attributes for the sub-angles’ squares other than, but based on, these intial elemental re-
combinatory attributes given here. So, in order to come to his method for sorting out traits for
each of the 5 X 6 square sub-angles, and given Tyson’s completed chart, let us look more closely at
Mathers’ method for deriving the elemental re-combinations per each square themselves.
As shown, where two letters intersect in Mathers’ short-hand chart, Tyson shows us one letter,
and in many of the squares Mathers’ shows us no letters, Tyson has given us an order to follow. So,
how does one follow from Mathers’ intersections to Tyson’s letters? The letters given for the
columns and rows by Mathers are translated into “duplicitous” re-combinations of elements, such
that the row or file will read the “bottom” or lowest “side” of the “truncated pyramid” per square,
and the column will be read on the “top” or uppermost “side” of the “truncated pyramid” per
square. Tyson’s letters, then, refer to permutations of elements to be calculated as a derivative of
these co-ordinate intersections. To understand Tyson’s method of yielding his set of elemental
letters, we have to first more fully understand Mathers’ method of assigning attributes alike each
combination of same.
Mathers’ “Duplicities” comprise a system of co-ordinate pairs, each with one of only four possible
values. However, where these co-ordinate pairs intersect, Tyson provides them reduced to a single
value, of the same sum set. So how does one derive from a pair? What Mathers’ “duplicities” or co-
ordinate pairs imply is that a third attribute can be assigned at each juncture point between these
four basic elemental values. The result of this implication is Mathers’ application of the 4 X 4 =
16 possible re-combinations per sub-angle to a set of 16 symbolic attributes. Thus, by tracing the
pattern of Mathers’ 16 values per 4 X 4 sub-angle, we can learn how Tyson attributed his letters
to each square. Suffice to say here only that all the letters are the same diaganolly right or left.
Before going on, it is best for the student to be reminded that this system, while extremely
complex, is not altogether accurate and, to put a final head on it, must be studiously reworked by
any serious adept for an accurate assignation of the traits to become clear.