Part III: The Circumference and the Hieroglyphic Monad in In Operibus Sigillo Dei Aemeth by David Richard Jones.

“The encoding of this connection is indicated by the relationship of the geometry of the Monad with that of the Sigillum. Note that the problem of constructing a regular heptagon sept-dividing (dividing a circle into seven equal parts) with the aid of a compass and a straightedge only without the aid of measurement has been a problem since classical times. So difficult a problem is it that no such formulation is provided in the Elements of Euclid, to which John Dee wrote his famous preface. A solution by Archimedes is preserved in Arabic, but was not rediscovered until 1927, and is notable even to its author/preserver for its lack of elegance.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “If these divisions are taken Qabalistically, the T of the 4T may be seen as Taurus, the 6 of 6ω as the central Sun, the 4 also as the equal armed cross and the horns of Aries as the inverted omega at the base. 9G on the left boundary of the 4T may be seen as the lunar crescent crowning the figure as both the moon and the horns of Taurus, and by duplication, the horns of Aries as its base. The a24 on the left boundary may be equated with the 24 Theorems that divide the text of the Hieroglyphic Monad, and may also be associated with the critical place that the number 24 and its value play in the mathesis of the Monad.”
  2. “Those familiar with Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad will immediately realize that it is principally a Hermetic symbol, elaborated from the symbol for Mercury into an inclusive meta-symbol for the whole of Hermetic knowledge, alchemically and inclusive of all three levels of traditional occult science: elemental planetary, and astrological.”
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  4. “We posit that there is a more than indirect relationship between the Sigillum and the Hieroglyphic Monad, that in fact the Monad provides a key to the proper attribution of symbols and values to the names encrypted within the Sigillum.”
  5. “We hypothesize here that the Sigillum Dei Aemeth is an encoded Hermetic symbol. The letters and the numbers that populate the divisions of the circumference of the Sigillim Dei Aemeth are primarily given as encoding a series of names.”