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ENOCHIAN 101

AN INTRODUCTION TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

by Christeos Pir

(Text of a seminar given at Ecumenicon/Sacred Space VIII, an occult/pagan-oriented

ecumenical conference that took place July 13 - 16, 1995 e.v. in Herndon VA.)

I. Introduction

1. Dee & Kelley

2. Causabon & Ashmole

3. Golden Dawn

4. Crowley

5. Modern

i. Scheuler

ii. Church of Satan

iii.Aurum Solis

iv.Ben Rowe

v. Independents

1. Misc. Dee & Kelley

i. Requirements (Table, Sigil, etc.)

ii. Book of Enoch

iii.Tribes of Israel

iv.Banners

II. History

III. The Enochian System

v. 91 Parts (see also Aethyrs, below)

2. Bonorum

3. Elemental Tablets

4. Aethyrs

5. Modern Variations

i. Golden Dawn

ii. Ben Rowe

iii.Various Independents

IV . Bibliography

INTRODUCTION

"I�m Christeos Pir, and I�m a student of Enochian Magick. I say that not out of formality or false

modesty, but because I have a pretty good idea (I hope) of my level of expertise with the Enochian

system. Those of you who have some experience with Enochian are invited to chime in with

comments or corrections when needed, though if something is a statement of opinion it�d be good

to clearly label it as such. Likewise, those new to Enochian are encouraged to speak up with any

questions, which I�ll do my best to answer as best I can. If I don�t know the answer, I�ll be glad

to make something up on the spot.

"So, what is Enochian Magick? Simply put, it is an approach to ceremonial magick based on the

alleged conversations between Dr. John Dee, an Elizabethan scientist and magician, his assistant

Edward Kelley or Talbot, and a number of Angels including Raphael, Uriel, and a young female

spirit named Madimi, among others. With that, perhaps we ought to start with the historical

perspective... "

HISTORY

Dr. John Dee was born, according to the horoscope he himself drew up, on

July 13, 1527. By the time of his experiments with Edward Kelley in the

1580's, he had earned a reputation as a scientist, astronomer, cartographer,

cryptologist, secret agent (he signed his secret messages to the Queen "007" ),

astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, and sorcerer. He had been imprisoned by

Bloody Mary, exalted by Elizabeth, attacked as a black magician, conned by

sleazy mediums and singled out by Angels to receive knowledge lost since the

time of the prophet Enoch. Despite the whispers of the ignorant, Dee was

solely concerned with obtaining knowledge from God or his delegates, and

constantly took measures designed to avoid being deceived by demonic forces:

I have often read in thy books and records, how Enoch injoyed thy favour and conversation; with

Moses thou was familiar; And also that to Abraham, Isaack and Jacob, Joshua, Gideon, Esdras,

Daniel, Tobias and sundry others thy good angels were sent by thy disposition, to Instruct them,

informe them, helpe them, yea in worldly and domestick affaires, yea and sometymes to satisfie

their desires, doubtes, and questions of thy Secrete . . .

I have always had a great regard and care to beware of the filthy abuse of such as willingly or

wittingly invoke or consult with spiritual creatures of the damned sort: angels of darkness, forgers,

patrons of lies and untruths. Instead I have flown unto God through hearty prayer, full oft and in

sundry manners.

Having reached a point in 1581 where he could honestly say that he could progress no further in

his learning by studying the works of other mortal men, he set out to establish contact with God

himself, or from his angels, the knowledge which could be had no other way. Accordingly, he

began a series of visionary �in the literal sense� operations. As he had no knack for this scrying,

or astral vision work, he hired a somewhat disreputable alchemist and con-man named Edward

Talbot, alias Edward Kelley, who had a gift for it. Thus was begun one of the most extraordinary

chapters in the history of magick, and one of the most far-reaching in its effect, ranking perhaps

with the Egyptians in influence.

Beginning with instructions from the angels on the design of various pieces of paraphernalia to be

employed, from a specially engraved cedar table to a ring to be worn when contacting them (many

of these items are preserved in the British Museum, by the way), they soon progressed to extended

visions of various angels and their insignia - the type of magical work familiar to readers of

medieval grimoires:

King Bobogel. He appeared in a black velvet coat; and his hose was close round hose with velvet

upperstocks, overlayed with gold lace. On his head was a velvet cap with a black feather in it. A

cape was hanging on one of his shoulders, and his purse was hanging about his neck. Hung upon

his girdle was a rapier. His beard was long, and he had bloomers and slippers. And he said, I

wear these robes not in respect of myself, but of my Government.

Prince Bornogo. He appeared in a red robe with a gold circlet on his head; he shewed his seal

and said: This it is.

Soon, however, they began to become involved in the work for which they are best remembered:

the 19 Angelic Calls. This was a series of verses in an unknown language, which Dee called

Angelic, or Enochian, after the prophet Enoch who was said to have walked in conversation with

God. These Calls, which have been demonstrated to be in a language possessing a real grammar

and syntax, not to mention a poetic flair, were said to be the proper conjurations to be used to

directly contact and influence the angels having control over the affairs of our world. In

conjunction with a series of tables of letters representing those various angelic forces working

through the elements of Air, Water, Earth and Fire, these Calls would enable the magician to do

everything from effect cures for diseases to learning the natures of various metals. In fact,

according to the angels, the effect of learning all that they had to teach would be to bring about the

overthrow of governments around the world, the "alteration of most states and kingdomes in the

World," and usher in the apocalypse.

It has been alleged that Dee was simply the gullible dupe of Kelley�s willingness to come up with

any plausible-sounding material in order to stay on Dee�s payroll. The facts seem to rule this out

rather conclusively. In the first place, there is the matter of Kelley�s ability to produce the

material in the manner, amount, and style he did without supernatural help. Kelley was an

uninspired writer at best, but the poetry of the Calls is remarkable:

Can the wings of the winds understand your voices of wonder? O you, second of the First, Whom

the burning flames have framed with the depths of my jaws, whom I have prepared as cups for a

wedding or as the flowers in their beauty for the Chamber of Righteousness; stronger are your feet

than the barren stone, and mightier are your voices than the manifold winds. for you are become a

building such as is not, but in the mind of the all-powerful. Arise, sayeth the First, move therefore

unto his servants; show yourselves in power; and make me a strong seething; for I am of him that

liveth forever.

Furthermore, there is strong evidence that Kelley actually wanted to end the relationship and get

away from Dee: some of the messages received were repugnant to Kelley, like this one, strangely

prescient of some modern "channeled" work:

They would have persuaded him [Kelley]:

• That Jesus was not God.

• That no prayer ought to be made to Jesus.

• That there is no sin.

• That man�s soul doth go from one body to another childes quickening.

• That as many men and women as are now, have always been.

• That the generation of mankind from Adam and Eve, is not an History, but a writing which

has another sense.

Lastly, there is the way in which the Calls were received. The first five were dictated, one letter at

a time, backwards, by indicating the position of the letter on a large table or chart. The angel would

point to a letter, and Kelley would give Dee the position, leaving Dee to look up which letter it

was. Much of the work was done in just a few days, and the translations were not received until

sometime later, yet the grammar and syntax of the language is intact. Kelley would have had to

have been a genius unlike any the world has seen, to make it all up as he went. Indeed, there�s

even a session in which Dee is warned in Greek, through Kelley, who spoke no Greek, not to trust

him. I think we can rule out deception on Kelley�s part, at least in regard to the Enochian work.

His alchemical practices, which later ended with his death while escaping from a foreign prison,

may perhaps be another matter, but outside the scope of our work today.

Interestingly, there is no evidence that Dee ever actually used any of the instructions of the angels

for magical purposes. He seems to have been solely interested in knowledge and exploration for

it�s own sake. He died in 1608, lonely and destitute.

After Dee�s death, the manuscripts of his Enochian work had a strange history. During his life, he

had at one time tried to burn them, only to find that much of the material mysteriously survived.

I espied . . . a sheet of faire white paper lying tossed to and fro in the wind . . . I found three of my

Books lying, which were so diligently burnt the tenth day of April last.

Towards the end of his life, Dee hid a number of the most important manuscripts in the false

bottom of a cedar chest, where they laid for years after his death. One day, a certain Mr. Jones,

who had bought the chest for his wife, discovered them. About half of them were burnt when the

maid lined some pieplates with them (let�s hope the pies were worth the loss!), and some time

later when Mrs. Jones was forced to flee the great fire of London the chest was lost, yet she

somehow discovered the remaining papers among the effects she had saved. They ended up in the

possession of Elias Ashmole, scholar and mystic, who had already discovered a number of Dee�s

diaries elsewhere. Meanwhile, Meric Causabon, another 17th century scholar, published some

additional Dee diaries in his book, A True and Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers

Between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes)

and Some Spirits: Tending (had it Succeeded) To a General Alteration of most States and

Kingdomes in the World.

Ashmole and Causabon recognized the importance of Dee�s work in their preservation and

presentation of his writing. Contemporary writings reveal that other occult experimenters were

familiar with some of the material, and their influence on modern occultists is unprecedented.

Enochian turns up in Rosicrucian and Masonic texts and rituals from the 18th Century on.

The next major chapter in the story is the occult explosion of the late 19th Century, a period when

occult groups of various kinds proliferated like Spring flowers. One of the most influential was the

celebrated order known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn has an

interesting and colorful history of its own, which I won�t go into at this time; save to mention that

some of its brightest lights, Dr. Wynn Westcott, the poet W. B. Yeats and Samuel Liddell Mathers,

discovered some of the Dee manuscripts in their research in the British Museum and incorporated

the Enochian system in their occult teaching and rituals. Another member of the Golden Dawn, the

famous magician, poet, mountainclimber and gnostic Aleister Crowley , studied the Enochian

system as presented by the Golden Dawn and used it to great effect in a series of visionary works

published as The Vision and The Voice . Crowley�s sometime secretary and Golden Dawn

reconstructor Francis "Israel" Regardie included much of the Enochian papers of Westcott, Yeats

and Mathers in his revived Golden Dawn material. Circus showman turned self-proclaimed head

of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey, incorporates the Calls in his Satanic Bible , typically, he

turns all references to God (literally "The Highest" in Enochian) to the name "Satan."

Today, Enochian magic is found in such diverse places as the teachings of several of the Golden

Dawn offshoots, the Order of the Aurum Solis, Crowley�s Ordo A.'. A.'. , the abovementioned

Church of Satan, the pop-occult writings of Gerald and Betty Scheuler, several decks of tarot cards

based in part or whole on Enochian material, and the researches of a great many independent

occultists and magicians. One of the latter who deserves particular mention is Benjamin Rowe

(known to some as Josh Norton, the name he uses in some newsgroups), who has carried his

research beyond most of his predecessors into fascinating new fields, as described in a number of

his books, particularly his Enochian Temples .

THE ENOCHIAN SYSTEM

In the beginning, the angelic sessions pretty much fit the standard pattern of

medieval magical ideas, with a mage in consecrated robes and a ring of power

commanding planetary spirits to obedience. In fact, the table they commanded

him to make had magick squares inscribed with spirits� names some of

whom we see listed in such works as the Key of Solomon. This is perhaps not

unexpected - it is apparent that each person�s visions are couched in terms

appropriate to their particular worldview and personal psychological makeup.

Thus the Christian sees Jesus or the God of the Bible, the Buddhist might

converse with Amitabha, the Wiccan with Herne and the Lady, and the

Elizabethan magician conjure to visible appearance Buer and Asmodeus. These early sessions

included many revelations of magic squares filled with intersecting angelic names -don�t forget

Dee was a cryptographer- and complex instructions for extracting them. We�ll run into this

concept again when we come to the so-called Governors of the Aethyrs in a bit. There were

engraved cedar tables standing upon glass "insulators" that held wax images of the Sigil Dei

Aemeth [NOTE: This sigil, and a number of the images mentioned below, are available for

viewing. ] , and hundreds of angels whose names began with the letter B.

He also received a pseudo-biblical Book of Enoch outlining the history of the knowledge being

imparted to him, from God�s conversations with Enoch to His dispatching of the angels to instruct

Dee, and outlining the nature of the use of the knowledge:

These are the holy and mystical Calls delivered, which followeth in practice for the moving of the

Tables that control the Kings and Ministers of government. Their utterance is of force, and moveth

them to visible apparition. ... They will open the mysteries of their creation, as far as shall be

necessary: and give you understanding of many thousand secrets, wherein you are yet but

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