Rather similar but more complicated and less uniform "magic squares"
are attributed to PARACELSUS.


Now to each planet is assigned an Intelligence or good spirit, and an
Evil Spirit or demon; and the names of these spirits are related to
certain of the numbers of the planets. The other numbers are also
connected with holy and magical Hebrew names. AGRIPPA, and BARRETT
copying him, gives the following table of "names answering to the
numbers of Mars":--

5. He, the letter of the holy name.
25.
65. Adonai.
325. Graphiel, the Intelligence of Mars.
325. Barzabel, the Spirit of Mars.

Similar tables are given for the other planets. The numbers can be
derived from the names by regarding the Hebrew letters of which they are
composed as numbers, in which case (Aleph) to (Teth)
represent the units 1 to 9 in order, (Jod) to (Tzade) the
tens 10 to 90 in order, (Koph) to (Tau) the hundreds 100 to
400, whilst the hundreds 500 to 900 are represented by special terminal
forms of certain of the Hebrew letters.[2] It is evident that no little
wasted ingenuity must have been employed in working all this out.


[2] It may be noticed that this makes equal to 326,
one unit too much. Possibly an Alelph should be omitted.