Planetary Characters from

Konrad Gsellius
Mihai Vârtejaru

Originally published on 26.04.2020 at

https://studies-vartejaru.blogspot.com/2020/04/planetary-
characters-from-konrad.html

1
 The volume Nigromantisches Kunst-
Buch (A Nigromantical Manual) was published
by Georg Konrad Gsellius in Köln in 1743, at
Peter Hammer`s publishing house. We cannot
rule out that the author and year of printing is as
real as the fictitious Peter Hammer. A
translation of this work was recently published
by Enodia Press, but since I do not possess it
yet, I cannot make any statements that could
have been covered by the publisher's preface.
I have chosen to bring this work to the
public's attention both for furthering the
editorial efforts of the good people of Enodia
Press, but also to present these little known
seals.
Although the book is abundant in such
elements, I will only reproduce the planetary
characters, with the hope that I will be able to
find their sources in the future.

2
 The first set of planetary characters is
problematic, containing errors, and being
presented in a vertical table. I have done my
best to rearrange them horizontally for practical
reasons and clean them to the best of my
abilities.
The second set is complete (the main reason
I choose to present it first), the characters being
associated to the days of the week and enclosed
in double circles. This shape makes us think that
they were meant to be either engraved as medals
(like Paracelsus or Arnold of Villanova) or
made into rings (such as the images of Belenus).
The order, as well as multiple instances of the
hexagram, would indicate a Jewish origin.

3
I. Seals of the Days of the Week
(p.59-65)

1. Seal of Sunday (Sun)

4
2. Seal of Monday (Moon)

5
3. Seal of Tuesday (Mars)

6
4. Seal of Wednesday (Mercury)

7
5. Seal of Thursday (Jupiter)

8
6. Seal of Friday (Venus)

9
7. Seal of Saturday (Saturn)

10
 II. Characters of the Planets

1. Characters of the Sun

2. Characters of the Moon

3. Characters of Mars

4. Characters of Mercury missing.

Due to mislabelling, the missing characters seem to be those of
Jupiter or Saturn.
11
 5. Characters of Jupiter.
Quite possibly a misabelling, the final character is Venus.

6. Characters of Venus.
Quite possibly a misabelling, the final character is Mercury.

7. Characters of Saturn.
Due to mislabelling, these may be the characters of Jupiter.

If you find this helpful, share it or consider becoming a patron, in order

to keep this free resource going with as much new material as possible.
Thank you.

12