Sigils of the

Aiq Bekar
By Asterion

In my research upon seals ans sigils I became rather fascinated

with the Kabbala of the Nine Chambers, also called Aiq Bekar.
While preparing a complete volume on it’s history and uses I
decided to innovate a little and extend the system that Agrippa
set forth in his “Occult Philosophy”. His method of sigil making
derived from the Nine Chambers is quite effective and creative,
but I feel that it has been put on a pedestal and kept in mind as
an only method of constructing sigils involving the Aiq Bekar.
In my forthcoming work, “The Book of the Nine Chambers”, I
shall detail at least nine personal and new methods of making
sigils, the one presented here being just one of them.
 1.Introduction

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book

III, Chapter xxx

There is moreover another fashion amongst the Cabalists,

formerly had in great esteem, but now it is so common, that it is
placed amongst prophane things, and it is this. The twenty seven
Characters of the Hebrews may be divided into three Classes,
whereof every one contains nine letters. The first, viz. è ç æ å
ä ã â á à which are the seals or marks of simple numbers, and
of intellectuall things, distributed into nine orders of Angels. The
second hath ö ô ò ñ ð î ì ë é the marks of tens, and of
Celestial things, in the nine Orbs of the heavens. The third hath
the other four letters, with the five final, by order, viz. ó ï í ê
ú ù ø ÷ which are marks of hundreds, and inferior things, viz.
four simple Elements, and of five kinds of perfect compounds.
They do now and then distribute these three Classes into nine
Chambers, whereof the first is of unites [unities], viz.
intellectual, celestial and elemental: The second is of Twos. The
third of Threes, and so of the rest: These Chambers are framed
by the intersection of four parallel lines, intersecting themselves
into right angles, as is expressed in this following figure.
Out of which being dissected into parts, proceed nine particular
figures, viz.

Which are of the nine Chambers, Characterizing their letters by

the above written Notariacon: which if it be of one poynt [point]
shews the first letter of that Chamber; if of two, the second; if of
three, the third letter; as if thou wouldest frame the Character
Michael ìàëéî, that comes forth thus, extended with five
figures, viz.
 Which then are contracted to three figures, after this manner.

Which then are contracted into one, yet the points Notariacon
are wont to be omitted, and then there comes forth such a
Character of Michael.

Source:
http://www.esotericarchives.com/agrippa/agripp3c.htm
 2.Principles
The Aiq Bekar functions on a very simple premise: the
numerical values of the letters. There are 22 sacred Hebrew
letters, along with final ones, making a total of 27. As they are
used in a base-ten counting system, there are 27 numeric
equivalents, that is 9 units, 9 tens and 9 hundreds. If we arrange
from right to left the letters in the boxes, we must keep in mind
the numeric value. The first chamber will host the numbers 1, 10
and 100, that is, letters Alef, Yud and Qoph, the second will host
numbers 2, 20 and 200, or Beth, Kaph and Resh, and so on.
The figures extracted from the Nine Chambers are of course,
Nine. Each one represents a chamber. The corner chambers will
be represented by the double-openings, or the L shaped symbols.
The middle chambers will correspond to the single-openings, or
the U-shaped symbols. The final form is that of the fully
enclosed figure, the center.
The position of the letter in one of these chambers will yield a
characteristic figure. There are three positions possible in this
arrangement: first, second and third letter in the chamber, or
initial, medial and final. Agrippa assigns the simple form to the
first letters, the single dotted form to the second letters and the
double dotted form to the third. Although he makes this
differentiation, when constructing the seal, the dots disappear. I
made it essential in the following sigil method to differentiate
the three sets, designing three different endings of the figures.
The Fist position will always be a single number, letters Aleph
through Teth. I have decided to note these in the simplest way
possible, of lines terminated with a small T. The central figure
will not bare the specific terminations because there is no
opening. To correct this, I have introduced a geometric figure for
each set, being an enclosed figure. The Square is for the first
letter, in our case, He.

The second position will always be the multiples of ten, that is

letters Yud (10) through Tzade (90). They have small circles as
endings, and the central figure (Nun) will be a circle.
Last but not least, the third group will represent the multiples of
100, that is letters Quph (100) through Final Tzade (900), having
triangular endings, with the central figure (Final Kaph) a
triangle.

Thus we have a new and very practical magical alphabet to work

with. As the method devised by Agrippa was later used for
different alphabets, it can be considered that his Aiq Bekar
method was the source of later Rosicrucian, Freemasonic and
Golden Dawn ciphers. One could even consider the implications
of the Aiq Bekar when taking a closer look at one’s mobile
phone…Quite an interesting feature those three groups of letters
arranged in a 3 X 3 square on the buttons. Not as esotheric as we
might expect, but still interesting.
So, until now, we have the consonants. Upon further reflection, I
decide to take it one step further, and add signs for the vowels.
These are smaller, simpler, and are simply added to the
consonant they follow. The I sound is represented by a small
circle, about half of the figure for Nun, so as not to confuse
them. The A, E, O and U are small dashes or line that are drawn
perpendicular to one of the lines of the figure. The vowel will be
attached to the consonant they follow. For example, in
MICHAEL, the I symbol will be on ones of the sides of the M
letter, the A symbol will cross the CH and the other I will be
attached to Yud.

Moving on, how do we make a sigil? We have a new set of 27

symbolic Hebrew letters, 5 new symbols for vowels, and an urge
to play around with the forces of the Universe...
 1.The Sigils

For sake of clarity, we shall take a spirit’s name and work the
method step by step.
We choose to work with the name of the Jovian entity BARIEL.
Although we do have a genuine seal of this entity, we shall
create a sigil here for didactic purpose only.
We write the name of BARIEL in the Hebrew way, from right to
left, and look for the symbols in the Aiq Bekar Square.

L A Y R B

The Hebrew spelling must be the correct one, so it would be

better to do a little research on how the name is spelled
correctly. After having written down the letters, we can beging
jopining them together, taking care to respect the order of the
letters.
First we join Beth with Resh and obtain B_R. In order to spell
BAR, we shall add the A sign to the B sign:

B_R

BAR
As you can see, we shall make an effort to keep the letters
separate from one another, but joining them in a very aesthetic
way. We then add the sign for Y and the vowel I, from right to
left, spelling BARI:

After that we join the A, crossing it with the E symbol (the two
little lines), obtaining BARIE. Notice that the ending has
another function: to “stick” one letter to another. The little line
ending of Aleph goes right on the horizontal bar of the figure:
The final move is placing the L, Lamed. Lamed is a second
letter, and has circle terminations. In our seal, we already have a
free circle termination, and we shall use this to start our L.
Therefore, we join the two circles and make them one, maling
the Lamed run continuously from the sigil:

This is only one of the multiple ways of joining these letters

together, going from right to left and from up to down. After
trying a few models, you could try making the seal more
pleasing and more symmetric, which is exactly what I tried to
do. The Result is a very nice and potent seal of the entity in
question, not to mention correct from a linguistic and
ethymological point of view, especially for those who do not
trust the seals and sigil in the grimoires on account of their
corruption or inaccuracy.
 Aiq Bekar seal of Bariel

Use this method as you see fit and if you like, give me
some feedback. This is a copyrighted method and I would
like to be asked for permission before anyone would
reproduce it in a book or on a website.
May God bless your steps upon the Path
Asterion, Romania, 2009
asterionmage@yahoo.com