Enochian · Figures
The four Watchtowers
The four Watchtowers drawn as a camp: gated towers at Septentrio, Oriens, Meridies and Occidens, each with one Trumpeter, three Ensign bearers, six Seniors, a King and his five Princes, and the sixteen Dispositors around them.
What the diaries say of it
The plate names each quarter's cloth — white as lilly, dark green like garlicke blades, black, fresh red — and sets the four and twenty Seniors at the centre, "come hether as to Consult".
The same camp, drawn
The plate is legible and it is also a photograph of secretary hand at four different angles. This is its content as structure — the four arms, what each one musters, the cloth each carries — transcribed off the engraving above and drawn from that transcription.
- Septentrio — the north
- one Trumpeter · Three Ensignes · Six Seniors · The King · Five Princes · 5 Crosses in ye air The Cloth Lilly white XVI Dispositors
- Oriens — the east
- one Trumpeter · Three Ensigne bearers · Six Seniors · The King · his five Princes · The Crosses 5 The Cloth dark greene Cullor like garlicke blades XVI Dispositors
- Meridies — the south
- one Trumpeter · Three Ensigne bearers · Six Seniors · The King · his five Princes · The 5 Crosses The Cloth Blacke as of gilbery Juyce (the hand gives “gilbery” or “gilbert”; this is not a settled reading) XVI Dispositors
- Occidens — the west
- A Trumpeter · Three Ensignes · Six Seniors · A King · five Princes · five Crosses The Cloth of passage for The King his Majestie, Fresh Red Cullor XVI Dispositors
The XXIIII Seniors are come hether as to Consult
The letter tables are not here
This is the disposition of the four Watchtowers, not the Great Table. The four elemental tablets are grids of twelve letters by thirteen, and the 1659 edition does not print them: the transcriptions that do are a modern editor's editions of Sloane MS 3191. They are left out rather than reconstructed.