Enochian language

Enochian
Project author	John Dee
Year of publication	1583
Linguistic ; classification	Constructed language Special language; Enochian ;

Enochian or the Enochian language is a magical language . It was supposedly transmitted to a medium by means of crystal romance since March 10, 1582 in London / Mortlake . The mathematician, geographer and alchemist John Dee (1527-1608), who at that time was still active as court astrologer and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I of England , wrote it down according to the dictates of the medium Edward Kelley (1555-1597) as long as it was in a trance found. According to Kelley, this language should be used for communication between God and his angels. Kelley and Dee claim they received them from angels. It has an individual alphabet, vocabulary and grammar.

Since the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn from 1888, the Enochian system found its way into the fund of magical practices.

origin

From 1581 to 1587, John Dee performed a series of magical operations, the aim of which was to obtain from the angels of God the wisdom he believed to have been lost with the biblical patriarchs. In March 1582 he met Edward Kelley, his only assistant in this project. Kelley was a lawyer of dubious reputation, having been convicted of fraud before he met Dee. The punishment for his offense was the loss of his ears, which were cut off after the trial.

During the sessions, Kelley looked into a crystal ball and went into a trance. This crystal ball, in the manuscripts as Schaustein called, lay on the Sigillum Dei Aemeth that in the middle of Tabula Sancta was placed. After the preparatory prayers, which often took more than an hour to complete, according to Kelley a light rose from the crystal and floated to Edward Kelley, who then began to convey the angels' messages. John Dee had several boards in front of him, consisting of 49 by 49 fields, in which individual letters were arranged. Kelley saw an angel in the crystal who showed him identical tablets and pointed to the fields to transmit individual letters. The Enochian calls were conveyed in this way in long sessions, but the angel dictated them backwards so as not to bring these calls to effect during the sessions. The first four calls were dictated along with their translations, calls five to eighteen were dictated afterwards, and their translations were not dictated by the angels until a few weeks later. In the time between the transmission of the last twelve calls and their translations, the names of the 91 "parts of the earth" and their references to regions of the earth as well as the four tables of the elements were transmitted. Lastly, the call of the Rufthyre was transmitted, then its translation and the names of the 30 Æthyre.

According to Dee, the Enochian language was the language of angels and was unknown until then. Enoch was a biblical patriarch who, according to various accounts, received great knowledge directly from divine source and was caught up into heaven, similar to Elijah . So his knowledge was considered almost on a par with that of Adam (before his expulsion from Paradise ). The name Enoch was synonymous with great occult knowledge in the minds of the scholars of that society . Because Enoch communicated and spoke with the angels, just as Dee himself suggested, the Enochian system came to be known by the name of the model prophet rather than the name of the person who recorded it.

Dee had role models, for example, in Giovanni Agostino Panteo , whose book on this subject he has demonstrably studied.

Enochian alphabet

English equivalent	Name of the letter	pronunciation
A.	U.N	/ ɑ /
B.	Pa	/ b /
C / K	Veh	/ k /
D.	Gal	/ d /
E.	graph	/ e /
F.	Or	/ f /
G / J	Ged	/ dʒ /
H	N / A	/H/
I.	Gon	/ iː /
L.	Ur	/ l /
M.	valley	/ m /
N	Drux	/ m /
O	Med	/O/
P	Times	/ p /
Q	Ger	/ q /
R.	Don	/ r /
S.	Fam	/ s /
T	Gisg	/ t /
U / V	Van	/ uː / , / v /
X	Pal	/ ks /
Y / W	Gon (with period)	/ y /
Z	Ceph	/ z /

The Enochian System

Components

A series of diagrams , symbols and tables are used together with the Enochian language . The Sigillum Dei Æmeth represents a special diagram , which combines several boards and symbols in its particular complexity. The tables comprise a large collection of different tables filled with numbers, symbols and mostly letters, with some tables showing combinations in their cells.

The Tabula Sancta

3D reconstruction of the Tabula Sancta with Sigillum Dei Æmeth and the "show stone"

Edward Kelley and John Dee used a “magic apparatus” for their work, which consisted of a whole series of boards and symbols. This collection of symbols is known as the Tabula Sancta , the “Holy Table”. The table stands on four feet, each of which rests on a seal drawn in a wax plate. Two of these seals are still in the collection of the British Museum.

The square top of the table is surrounded by 23 squares filled with individual Enochian letters, with the corner fields each containing the letter "B". The area delimited by this contains a hexagram whose only isosceles triangles do not ideally overlap, which means that the space in the center is elongated. In this hexagram there is a table made of lying rectangles, which is three fields wide and four fields high. Around this central table, seven predominantly square tables are arranged, which are assigned to the classic seven planets. The top panel is assigned to the moon, followed by Mercury, Venus (with a round panel), Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn (also with a round panel) in a counterclockwise direction. The Enochian seal of the element water is derived from the tablet, which is ascribed to the sun.

The elementary tables

Four of these panels are assigned to the four elements , the so-called watchtowers . These elementary tables include Enoch's own seal for the four classical elements air, water, earth and fire. These panels each measure twelve squares in width and thirteen squares in height. Together with a fifth panel of five by four fields, the panel of union ascribed to the spirit , these five panels are supposed to represent the world.

The four elementary tables are divided into four angles each. These “little corners” are in turn assigned to the four elements. The four small corners of each elementary table are separated by three lines: the seventh row counted from above or below is called “Linea Spiritus Sancti”, the seventh column from the right is called “Linea Dei Patris”, the seventh column from the left is called “Linea Dei Filius "called. The latter two are also summarized as "Linea Dei Patris Filiique".

The four watchtowers and the table of the association do not contain any words in the Enochian language, but rather are intended to represent the divine hierarchy in the four aspects of the world through their internal structure . They are divided into different classes of names, which describe beings called spirits, angels, seniors, princes and kings that can be extracted from the tablets in a sometimes complex manner. The number of letters of such a name as well as the table of origin of the letters indicate the status in the hierarchy.

In the small corners of the elementary tables there are sixteen so-called "serving fields", over which four "cherubic fields" are set in each corner. From these fields there are sixteen angels and four “ cherubim ” per little corner. By combining them with certain letters from the table of the association , the names of archangels or Erzcherubim result.

In all elementary tables, the beings of the Little Corners are assigned the same basic properties or responsibilities. John Dee describes these responsibilities as follows:

In the little corners of the air the cherubim know about the connections of nature and their destruction, as well as about the passing things, the serving angels guard the knowledge about the healing arts and how diseases and any damage to the body can be remedied.
In the little water corners the cherubim know about movement from place to place, the serving angels guard the knowledge about finding and using metals as well as the composition and meaning of stones.
In the small revelations the cherubim know about any mechanical power, the serving angels guard the knowledge about change and transplantation.
In the little fire corners the cherubim know about the secrets of human life, the serving angels guard the knowledge about the elementary creatures, their types and their number, and how they are placed in the four elements.

The Enochian calls

There are nineteen texts in the Enochian language which go back to John Dee. These are known as Enochian calls or keys . In the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn these calls were systematized and used to work with the Enochian tablets.

Allocation of the calls to the boards

Based on the numbering of John Dee, the Golden Dawn assigned the Enochian keys to the elements or areas of creation as follows:

The table of union is opened by the first call, the second key leads to the manifestation of forces. The elementary components in this table are addressed by the calls three (air), four (water), five (earth) and six (fire).

The panel assigned to the air is opened by the third call, the sub-elements contained are addressed by the seventh call (water of the air), the eighth call (earth of the air) and the ninth call (fire of the air).

The panel assigned to the water is opened by the fourth call, the sub-elements contained are addressed by the tenth call (air of water), the eleventh call (earth of water) and the twelfth call (fire of water).

The table assigned to the earth is opened by the fifth call, the sub-elements contained are addressed by the thirteenth call (air of the earth), the fourteenth call (water of the earth) and the fifteenth call (fire of the earth).

The panel assigned to the fire is opened by the sixth call, the sub-elements contained are addressed by the sixteenth call (air of fire), the seventeenth call (water of fire) and the eighteenth call (earth of fire).

The nineteenth call is for the 30 Aethyre .

Since the nineteenth call in its thirty variants are each assigned different meanings, a total of forty-eight calls are often counted. There is also said to be a forty-ninth call, which refers directly to God and should not be understood by humans.

The Aethyre

The call of the Aethyre is the longest of the Enochian keys and is changed by three letters at one point to call the desired Aethyr . There is only sparse information about the ethyre in Dee's records, and the approaches with which these ethyre are processed and viewed are correspondingly different . The thirtieth aethyr should be the furthest away from God, the first aethyr is then closest to him. At the same time, they should be connected to the four watchtowers and thus to the four elements. The Aethyrs are each headed by three governors, the Aethyr with the number 30 are headed by four. Of these governors, Dee wrote that each of them would rule "part of the world." The names of the governors are hidden in the form of seals in the four watchtowers and the table of the association , their names consist of seven letters each.

Pronunciation example

The pronunciation of Enochian varies depending on the tradition in which it is used. John Dee wrote in his notes that the stringed consonants should be made pronounceable by preceding vowels. A special feature of Enoch is the pronunciation of the "Z" as "ZOD", based on the Greek " Zeta ". The Golden Dawn used a Kabbalistic system derived from the Hebrew letters . There are also approaches that try to pronounce the language as it is written.

The common translations of the texts are based on the translations which John Dee and Edward Kelley are said to have been given by the same angels several weeks after the Enochian texts. Due to the small size of the texts and thus both the known vocabulary and the grammatical structure of the language, a scientific analysis of the language is only possible to a very limited extent. Mostly mystical interpretations are used to attempt an analysis.

Text example: (first call, first sentence)

Ol sonf vorsag, goho iad balt, lonsh calz vonpho.

Pronunciation: (after Golden Dawn)

Ol sonuf vaoresadji, goho IAD balata, elonusahe caelazod vaonupeho.

Translation: (after John Dee and Edward Kelley)

I reign over ye, saith the God of Justice, in Power exalted above the Firmament of Wrath.

I rule over you, says the God of righteousness, exalted in power over the firmament of anger.

Overview

Primary sources

All known manuscripts are listed in full in the following table.

Abbr.	title	reference	year	publication	Type	period
LM	Liber Mysteriorum I – V & Appendix	Sloane Ms. 3188	1581-1583	Peterson 2003	spiritual diary	1-2
LL	Liber Mysteriorum sextus et sanctus; Liber Loagaeth	Sloane Ms. 3189	1583	Digitized	spiritual diary	2
TFR	A T rue and F aithful R elation (of What passed for many Years Between Dr. John Dee and some Spirits)	Appendix Ms. XVLI, part 1 & 2	1583-1587, 1607	Casaubon 1659, Skinner 2012	spiritual diary	2-3
CA	48 Claves Angelicæ	Sloane Ms. 3191	1584	Laycock 1994	spiritual diary	3
LS	Liber Scientiæ, Auxilii, et Victoriæ Terrestris	Sloane Ms. 3191	1585	Sothis 1977	spiritual diary	3
HM	De Heptarchia Mystica	Sloane Ms. 3191	1585	Turner 1986	Grimoire	1
TB	Tabula bonorum angelorum invocationes	Sloane Ms. 3191	1585	Turner 1989	Grimoire	1
FL	Præfatio Latina in action	Ashmole Ms. 1790 I.	1586	Josten 1965	spiritual diary	3
CHM	Compendium Heptarchiæ Mysticæ	Additional Ms. 36674	1588	Transcript	Grimoire	1

Three creative periods

The 3 Enochian Periods

Although all of the manuscripts listed above are generally referred to as “Enochian”, on closer inspection they can be differentiated into 3 creative periods. This is not only for the thematic clarity, but also simply has to do with the working method used: Intensive work phases, in which some marathon sessions took place in chord, were followed by periods without any noteworthy activities.

Heptarchical mysticism
Loagaeth
Enochian

Exclusions

The first session "Actio Saulina" contained in Liber Mysteriorum Primus took place with Barnabas Saul as the medium. It does not actually belong to Enoch in the narrower sense. However, it has a certain relevance, since in this session the angel Annael prophesied a new seer for Dee, who later actually appeared as Edward Kelley.

The recordings from 1607 contained at the end of the compilation A True and Faithful Relation (…) were made with the medium Bartholomew Hickman. They are not related to Enochian.

De Heptarchia Mystica , Tabula bonorum angelorum invocationes and Compendium Heptarchiæ Mysticæ are three grimoires that Dee put together for personal use. They do not contain any new Enochian material, but are written down from the spiritual diaries and provided with additional remarks by Dee.

chronology

Here the Enochian development can be found in its chronological order. In addition to the Latin name of the manuscript, the period covered is given in brackets. The table of contents attached in a short paragraph can only remain incomplete due to the abundance of material.

Liber Mysteriorum Primus (December 22, 1581 to March 15, 1582)
The first works of John Dee are described in this manuscript. It initially contains two prayers, in between a short note from Dee about the four archangels ( Michael , Gabriel , Raphael , Uriel ) and the angel Annael. Then the sacred table on which the Sigillum Dei rests is described. In addition, the magical PELE wonder ring with which Solomon already performed all miracles, holy works and miracles. This manuscript also mentions the mysterious book Soyga (Aldaraia Sive Soyga Vocor) several times, which Dee tried in vain to decipher.
Liber Mysteriorum Secundus (March 1st, 1582 to March 21st, 1582)
The description of the angels for the construction of the Sigillum Dei.
Liber Mysteriorum Tertius (April 28, 1582 to May 4, 1582)
This manuscript depicts the seven banners of creation, seven complex talismans intended for the holy table. Next comes the table of the 49 good angels, responsible for all concrete worldly matters. Finally there are several written visions.
Liber Mysteriorum Quartus (November 15, 1582 to November 21, 1582)
This manuscript continues the presentation of the Heptarchia Mystica that was begun in the previous book. The names of the seven kings and their seven princes with their 42 ministers are listed. In the session on November 21, 1582, Dee received a new "showpiece" from an angel. See also: John Dee's artifacts
Liber Mysteriorum Quintus (March 23, 1583 to April 18, 1583)
The unveiling of the Enochian alphabet and the Protohenochian tablets continued in the Loagaeth book.
Quinti Libri Mysteriorum Appendix (April 20, 1583 to May 23, 1583)
Here the Tabula Sancta is described in detail, as well as the Character / Lamen of Dignification. Dee prepared 28 detailed questions that had accumulated over time and are now being answered by the Archangel Uriel.

reception

The estate

Meric Casaubon

After Dee's death, his library was sold to Robert Bruce Cotton , who also purchased some of Dee's magical implements. The Enochian diaries contained in the library covered the period from May 28, 1583 to April 2, 1587 and a short period in 1607. Cotton's son later gave the manuscripts to the scholar Meric Casaubon , who finally made them in 1659 in a compilation he edited under the title A True and Faithful Relation (of What passed for many Years Between Dr. John Dee and some Spirits) .

Elias Ashmole

The remaining records of John Dee's spiritual sessions were lost for a while because Dee hid them in a secret compartment of a box. In 1662 they were rediscovered by chance and in 1672 they passed into the hands of Elias Ashmole . According to Ashmole, about half of the documents were destroyed or no longer decipherable, but the records of Dee's work between 1581 and 1585 were preserved for him and posterity:

“Be reminded that on August 20, 1672, through the hands of my servant Samuell Story, I received a package of Doctor Dee's manuscripts, all in his own handwriting; z. For example: his conferences with angels, which first began on December 22nd, 1581. And continued until the end of May 1583, when the printed book of the other conferences (published by Doctor Casaubon) begins and is summarized in this volume.

All of this, a few days earlier, was delivered to my servant named for me for inspection (I was just at the house of William Lillies at Hersam in Surrey) by my good friend Thomas Wale, one of His Majesty's Guardians in the Tower of London .

On September 5th, Mr. Wale came to my office in the Tax Office on Broadstreet (when he heard of my return to town) and told me he'd agree to trade the aforementioned books for one of my books, The Institution Lawes & Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter, and I agreed to it, and delivered one, which I sent him neatly bound, with gold letters on the spine.

On September 10th, Mr. Wale went there again, and brought his wife with him, from her I received the following report about the way these books had taken before they got into my hands, namely: that her previous husband was a certain Mr. Jones was a pastry chef who previously lived in the field in Lubard Street, London, and who, shortly after their marriage, took them to the joiners on Adle Street to buy some household goods, where they (on the corner house) a cedar chest about one and a half Yard long, whose lock and hinges with exceptionally elegant workmanship, invited them to buy. The shop owner told them it was part of the goods of a certain John Woodall, surgeon (father of Thomas Woodall, later serving surgeon to his current Majesty King Charles II (my confidential friend), and this he very likely bought after Doctor Dee's death when his remains were up for sale.

Twenty years later (and about 4 years before the fatal fire in London) she and her husband, occasionally moving the chest from its usual place, thought they heard a loose rattle inside, right hand towards the end, under the box or cassette of it and after they shook it they were utterly convinced that it was so: her husband then pushed a piece of iron into a small crack in the bottom of the chest, and a hidden private drawer appeared, which was pulled out, and it was inside various books in manuscript form, and papers, together with a small box containing a wreath of olive pits, with a cross made of the same wood at the end of the same.

They didn't make a big deal of these books etc because they couldn't understand them; which gave their maid an opportunity to waste about half of it on cakes and other similar uses, which, when discovered, resulted in them keeping the rest safer.

About two years after these books were discovered, Mr. Jones died; and when the fire passed from London the box was lost in the flames, as it could not be easily moved, however the books had been taken out and carried away with the rest of Mrs. Jones' goods to Moorefields, and safely returned she gave take care to preserve them; and after marrying Mr. Wale, he came to know these books and then, with their consent, sent them to me, as I stated earlier. "

- Elias Ashmole : Sloane 3188 folio 2a-3a

Elias Ashmole's collection became the property of the British Museum .

Sloane Mss. 3624-3628

Sloane manuscripts 3624–3628 (5 volumes) contain the records of a group that met over a period of 17 years (July 24, 1671 to December 18, 1688) to make contact with the Enochian angels through a crystal. In the group, an "E. R [orbon] “the role of the medium. The role of the writer was held by an "RO" who wrote down the perceptions communicated to him by the medium. A third group member is named in the journals as "EC", or occasionally as "Brother Collings". The group's main concern with the angels, according to the journals, was their own financial sufficiency, and there was a great deal of interest in digging up buried treasures. Little is known about these journals.

Religious work

Golden Dawn

At the end of the 19th century , some of John Dee's notes caught the attention of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn , who understood the system to be magical and designed an initiation system around it. The fragments in Enochian were interpreted as formulas for incantation , and the Golden Dawn enriched them with elements from Egyptian mythology .

In the founding document

Cipher Manuscript fol. 47

Enochian material can be found in the Golden Dawn in the so-called Cipher Manuscript . Thus, on sheet 47 in the middle of the upper half, the Enochian tablet of the association (there called the "Union Tablet of the Elemental Tablets") can be clearly seen. The cipher manuscript is an encrypted (a code alphabet from the book Polygraphiae by the German abbot Trithemius was used) and supposedly authentic manuscript on which the entire founding legend of the Golden Dawn order was based and its traditional ancestry as a genuine Rosicrucian Order was derived.

Enochian chess

Another special feature of the Golden Dawn was the use of a chess game , which was based on the elementary tables of the Enochian system. Sixteen fields are taken from each of the four small corners of the boards (the so-called “serving fields”) in order to get a playing field for each element.

The rules of the game are reminiscent of the forerunners of chess such as Chaturanga . It is played by up to four players, everyone stands on one side of the field and sets up his pieces in one of the corners. There are different ways of setting up the pieces at the beginning of a game, depending on the chosen playing field. The game and the characters are based in many details on the teachings of the Golden Dawn, so each character, including the farmers, is ascribed to an Egyptian god. The peasants, however, correspond to the same deities (sons of Horus) in each color, the officers bishop, knight, rook, queen and king correspond to different deities in each color.

In the Golden Dawn this variant of chess was ritualized and used for divination . William Butler Yeats describes such work in his memoir.

Status

In any case, the rediscovery of Enochian by the Golden Dawn contributed to a considerable extent to today's fame in modern occultism. Enochian as a magical system is difficult to reconstruct from the original Sloane manuscripts, but contemporary occult organizations have attempted to make it usable. The Golden Dawn was the first of these orders, but its source material was only part of Dee's diaries, and the additional planetary, elementary, or zodiacal assignments are unfounded. The organizations that carry on the Golden Dawn tradition disagree about the importance of Enoch.

Astrum Argenteum

The work with the ethyren was described by Aleister Crowley in his book Liber CDXVIII: The Vision and the Voice . The approach followed by Crowley is documented by this book and is considered authoritative by the majority of his followers. But there are other ways of working with these concepts.

Allegedly in the years 1910–1914 Aleister Crowley made 15 recordings with Edison wax rollers , on which he recited the first and second Enochian calls, among other things. This so-called wax-cylinder housings ( English wax cylinder recordings ) were eventually over time to 78- rpm -Lack- Dubplates transferred, and 1986 in a limited edition of Current 93 on LP published. This was followed by releases on CD from various labels . The quality of the recordings are true to the original sound carrier and age, but give an idea of Crowley's pronunciation of these two Enochian calls.

Builders of the Adytum

The Builders of the Adytum (BOTA) categorically reject the Enochian system adapted from the Golden Dawn and actively try to hinder its spread.

The founder of BOTA, Paul Foster Case , wrote a letter to Israel Regardie on January 15, 1933 . In it he explained the subliminal dangers of the Enochian magic practiced in the Golden Dawn. He denied Enochian any essential quality in the Golden Dawn rituals. All of these religious rituals could be carried out just as precisely without Enochian, here he relied on his own experience over a period of seven years. Case did not limit himself to the ceremonial-magical aspect of Enoch in the Golden Dawn. Rather, he saw himself on the safer side of keeping everything Enochian, which comes from a suspected dubious source, out of his magic.

In another letter dated August 10, 1933, Case reported the following points of criticism to Regardie:

that it largely emerged from Kelley as a medium.
that the panels were part of a theater in which Kelley Dee wanted to convince Dee that they were pulling the strings of a new European political order that would succeed the then ruling kingdoms.
that the same angel who dictated the tables also demanded that Kelley and Dee have everything in common, including their wives .
that the whole project came to the same shameful end that was to be expected of human endeavors based on promises from spirits.
that there was no valid reason to assume that Kelley and Dee, or their venture, let alone their magic, corresponded to anything Rosicrucian related .
that he was personally aware of more than twenty-five cases in which the performance of magical operations based on the formulas of the Order resulted in serious breakdowns of mind and body.

Further elaborating his last point, at the same time following up on his previous letter, Case expressed concern about those who would build on the Golden Dawn order formulas and would have to learn by applying them at their own expense - but then perhaps too late - that there is much more to magic than achieving results. Case named Aleister Crowley as possibly the best known example of the unfortunate consequences of such magical operations.

Order of the Cubic Stone

Also unfortunate with the Enochian Golden Dawn material was the Order of the Cubic Stone (OCS), founded in Wolverhampton (England) in 1963 in Wolverhampton (England) by Theodore Howard, David Edwards and Robert Turner, which limited itself to the research of Enochian magic on Dees, because the modifications by the Golden Dawn seemed too imprecise to the members of the OCS. The order was declared "dormant" in 1991 after the order leader Robert Turner was assaulted. There was the official order publication The Monolith , which was mostly published every six months . Otherwise the order worked decentrally throughout the country and did not have a central archive.

Church of Satan

The founder of the Church of Satan (CoS), Anton Szandor LaVey , used the Enochian keys in a modified form in his Satanic Bible . LaVey proceeded quite inconsistently: while he almost completely adapted the English translations, both cosmetically and in terms of content, to his purposes, he left the Enochian keys almost entirely in the original, only changing a few words here and there. LaVey completely renounced the complex background, since the thus distorted Enochian keys are not used in the Church of Satan for magical purposes, but to create a strange effect ( psychodrama ) in the ritual .

Summary

The Enochian system is difficult to compare with the various magical currents, then as now. So far, there is no uniform interpretation of Dee's “Enochian” records. The approaches are partly traditional, partly very individual. Correspondingly, the Enochic is also found in chaos-magical circles. Another approach is called "Enochian Shamanism ".

References and comments

Individual evidence

↑ Umberto Eco : The search for the perfect language. CH Beck, Munich 1994, p. 194 f.

↑ MS. Sloane 3189 ( Accessed March 15, 2014)

↑ Joseph H. Peterson: Compendium Heptarchiæ Mysticæ of Dr. John Dee (1999; Accessed March 15, 2014)

↑ Benjamin Rowe: Enochian Magick Reference, version 0.8 (November 21, 2003; Accessed July 1, 2008)

↑ Joseph H. Peterson (Ed.): John Dee's Five Books of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic. Weiser, Boston MA USA 2003, ISBN 1-57863-178-5 , p. 61.

↑ Sekhet-Maat Lodge: Library / Sloane Manuscripts ( Memento of June 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (November 5, 2007; Accessed: July 29, 2008)

↑ Deborah E. Harkness: John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature . Pp. 222-223

↑ Donald Tyson: Crowley's Recordings of the Enochian Keys ( Memento of May 26, 2011 on the Internet Archive ) (2001; Accessed February 29, 2008).

↑ Discogs.com: Aleister Crowley - The Hastings Archive / The World As Power (Accessed: February 29, 2008)

↑ Paul Foster Case Resource Page: Letter from PFC to Israel Regardie, January, 1933 (9 kB PDF, January 15, 1933; Accessed: February 29, 2008)

^ Paul Foster Case Resource Page: Letter from PFC to Israel Regardie, August, 1933 (15 kB PDF, August 10, 1933; Accessed: February 29, 2008)

↑ Robert Turner et al. a .: The Monolith Vol. 2 No. 5 The Order of the Cubic Stone, Wolverhampton 1983.

↑ David Edwards: The Order of the Cubic Stone (OCS) (Accessed: January 8, 2016)

^ Anton Szandor LaVey: The Satanic Bible. Avon Books, New York 1969, ISBN 0-380-01539-0 .

↑ LaVey, pp. 157-272

Remarks

^ Kelley's manuscripts on Enochian are also preserved.
↑ This manuscript was mainly written by Edward Kelley; only the titles are from Dee's hand.
↑ Whether it is correctly called Loagaeth or Logaeth is unclear; both spellings appear in the manuscripts.
↑ Generally known under this title, but the original manuscripts have different ( Latin ) titles.
↑ The first two pages of this manuscript are partially damaged, so the exact starting date is not known.
↑ Inspired by this description, Gustav Meyrink published the novel The Angel from the Western Window 345 years later .
↑ A crystal ball (ø 6 cm) is exhibited in the British Museum to which the given description applies.
↑ According to other sources, said recordings were recorded directly on dubplates in 1936–1942 in the HMV recording studio (in London ). This was done at the suggestion of Frieda Harris , and the corresponding could be read in Crowley's diaries.
↑ Apparently an allusion to Edward Kelley (aka Edward Talbot).
↑ This is actually only relevant with regard to the continuation of the Golden Dawn tradition.

literature

Primary literature

Peterson, Joseph H. (2003): John Dee's Five Book of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic . Samuel Weiser Inc. ISBN 978-1-57863-178-0 .
Skinner, Stephen (2012): Dr. John Dee's Spiritual Diaries: 1583-1608 . Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 978-0-7387-3138-4 .
Halliwell, James Orchard (1842): The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee . Project Gutenberg . Ebook

Secondary literature

Regardie, Israel (1988). The magical system of the Golden Dawn Volume III , pp. 1255ff. Freiburg: Hermann Bauer Verlag. ISBN 3-7626-0507-6 .
Crowley, Aleister (1993). Liber CDXVIII The Vision & The Voice . Bergen: Kersken-Canbaz-Verlag. ISBN 3-89423-004-5 .
Eschner, Michael (2000). The Enochian Magic according to Dr. John Dee - Volume 1 . Bergen: Kersken-Canbaz-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89423-130-9 .
Laycock, Donald C. (2001): The complete Enochian Dictionary . Red Wheel / Samuel Weiser. ISBN 978-1-57863-254-1 .
Satyr (2002). The Black Lodge of Santa Cruz (PDF; 346 kB). Kaos-Babalon Press.

Web links

Golden Dawn: Enochian Magic Introduction to Enochian ( November 23, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive )
Rising Eagle: Enochian Shamanism [1]
John Dee Publication Project: Enochian Materials [2]
Hermetic Library: An Enochian Miscellany [3]
Benjamin Rowe: Enochian Magick Reference [4]
Wisdom's Door: Aethyrs [5]
Enochian-English dictionaries [6] and [7]
Digital scans of Dees' Enochian manuscripts [8]
Enochian Temple [9]

[1] Umberto Eco : The search for the perfect language. CH Beck, Munich 1994, p. 194 f.

[2] Kelley's manuscripts on Enochian are also preserved.

[3] This manuscript was mainly written by Edward Kelley; only the titles are from Dee's hand.

[4] Whether it is correctly called Loagaeth or Logaeth is unclear; both spellings appear in the manuscripts.

[6] Generally known under this title, but the original manuscripts have different ( Latin ) titles.

[10] The first two pages of this manuscript are partially damaged, so the exact starting date is not known.

[11] Inspired by this description, Gustav Meyrink published the novel The Angel from the Western Window 345 years later .

[12] A crystal ball (ø 6 cm) is exhibited in the British Museum to which the given description applies.

[15] According to other sources, said recordings were recorded directly on dubplates in 1936–1942 in the HMV recording studio (in London ). This was done at the suggestion of Frieda Harris , and the corresponding could be read in Crowley's diaries.

[19] Apparently an allusion to Edward Kelley (aka Edward Talbot).

[21] This is actually only relevant with regard to the continuation of the Golden Dawn tradition.