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the second to Jupiter, the third to Mars, the fourth to the Sun, the fifth to Venus, the sixth to Mercury, and the seventh to the Moon in the order accepted by the Egyptians. Repeat this process and when you have gone through the 24 hours you will find that the first hour of the second day belongs to the Sun. Again repeat the process throughout the second day or Sun's day and you will assign the first hour of the third day to the Moon. Go through the other days in the same way and each day will obtain the deity with which it is connected.
As it is all-important to grasp the meaning of this, I will risk incurring the charge of unnecessary repetition. If each hour in succession is assigned to a planet, taking them in the normal order, the 8th, the 15th and the 22nd will fall to the planet with which we begin. The 23rd will therefore belong to the 2nd planet on our list, the 24th to the 3rd, and the 1st of the next day to the 4th, so that, as we have seen is the case, to find the planet which begins the next day, we have always to drop two from that which began the day before. I append a diagram for two of the days.
| Saturday (hours) | |
| Saturn | 1st–8th–15th–22nd |
| Jupiter | 2nd–9th–16th–23rd |
| Mars | 3rd–10th–17th–24th |
| Sun | 4th–11th–18th |
| Venus | 5th-12th–19th |
| Mercury | 6th–13th–20th |
| Moon | 7th–14th–21st |
