21: Nelekael

is the name of the twenty-first genius of the Mercury sphere. He is an excellent initiator into the whole hermetic science. He helps occult writers by inspiration and by giving them a great power of imagination. He provides the per- son looking for genuine truth with the appropriate means for his studies and lets him get into contact with a genuine teacher of magic, a Guru. His methods, instructions and formulae protect the magician against the negative influences of any sphere. He gives exact information on the magic powers of herbs and precious stones that are of special importance in magic and quab- balah and alchemy, as well as on the effectiveness of the Akasha- principle and on the art of reading in it.