Etteilla's rota
Did Etteilla originate the technique or was it passed down?
"In 1777 a Chapter of the Order of the African Architects<<aka Master Builders>> operates in Paris. About fifteen years later the alchemist Etteilla forges, in Lyon, the rite of the Perfect Initiates of Egypt.<<les Parfaits Initiés d'égypte>> "
http://www.grandelogesymboliquedefrance.org/Sous_le_maillet/Historique/GLSF-Guide.html
"But by reading of authenticke histories and Chronicles, yee shall learne experience by Theoricke, applying the bypast things to the present estate, quia nihil novum sub sole, [There is nothing new under the sun] such is the continuall volubilities of things earthly, according to the roundnesse of the world, and revolution of the, heavenly circles: which is expressed by the wheeles in Ezechiels visions, and counterfeited by the Poets in rota Fortunae"
-James I: Basilicon Doron(the Kingly Gift )1598, p.40.
James I was initiated in the Scottish rite and was reponsible for nurturing speculative freemasonic vitality according to Marsha Keith Schuchard : "Restoring the Temple of Vision : Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture", 2002(see the introduction)