The Veil of Shadows configuration

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Here we are at week 12... WOW! Thanks to everyone for your awesome support so far, next week I have something really cool planned but for now. Cube # 12 The Veil of Shadows Philip LeMarchand is known to have created this puzzle after spending three sleepless weeks studying the manuscripts of Dr. John Dee, a famous Elizabethan magician and court astrologer, at the library in Oxford where he lived for a short time in the late autumn of 1749. Because the box was inspired by Dr. Dee's work, practitioners of the dark arts have long referred to it as The Enochian Conundrum. Inside the Veil of Shadows are hidden the sigils of the four Elemental Watchtowers of the Universe, so that when the box is placed on an altar, the tablet of Air faces east, the tablet of Fire south, the tablet of Water west and the tablet of Earth north. The central square is inscribed with the Tablet of Union, where all of the elements are synthesized and balanced in a perfect harmony. However, Lemarchand warns us: "Yet take care lest ye be comforted by that which is spoken of angels dwelling within." "For these are but guardians of the gates that restrain the deeper secrets of this configuration," writes Lemarchand in his journal from 1749. And what secrets are these? Few people have possessed the box and lived to record its revelations, but we do know the identity of one survivor who has made it through the experience. The Veil of Shadows was once owned by Aleister Crowley, a famous mage, who purchased it from a Bedouin sorcerer in Algiers in November 1909. A few days later, in the desert at Bou-Saada, Crowley conjured the demon Choronzon from the box and the echoes of this event can still be felt today. On his way back to London, Victor Neuberg, Crowley's friend and scribe, stole the cube from his master's cabin and threw it overboard in a fit of fear. Crowley tried to strangle him after that incident. The Veil of Shadows was lost at sea for over a century until now. It is believed by modern scholars that LeMarchand killed over one hundred people, both French and American, while he was working on the cube. "Like" if you've downloaded this puzzle and are ready to have some fun!