Recently I did an evocation of Tiriel, using the Frater R.O.-Trithemius, conjuring a spirit into a crystal, methodology. Part of the reason I did so was to get Tiriel's blessing for a talisman done in his honor (based around Jason Miller's "Sorcerer's Secrets") around the rim of the orange construction paper talisman I placed the symbols of the four royal stars. The whole purpose of the evocation and talisman consecration was specifically for the augmentation of a few objects dedicated to St. Lucy, for esoteric intelligence gathering and such. Now in using the Four Royal Stars, Tiriel (after blowing my mind with info regard, God, the devil, and the demiurge) decided to give me some basic input regarding what they are, leading me to study there role in Strega. From there on I basically started doing research on the four watchers that would act as protectors in certain rites in a similar fashion as the four archangels. Now this is what peaked my interest, recently I was reading Poke Runyon's review for Aaron Leitch, and I remember one of the points they disagreed upon was the associations for the Almadel angels. In Poke's system he outright associates them with the four great archangels and the elements, whilst other occultists point out that the four altitudes corresponds more to the four seasons, looking at it from an astrological perspective (As above so below) the four royal stars are associated with the four seasons. One of these days I'm hoping to create the four almadels and get working, first by the traditional associations and techniques then with the symbols and names of the four royal stars and the watchers. Any thoughts, ideas, and opinions would be much appreciated
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