From: Sar Draconis <#page7@popd.ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Enocian Magick before Dee: The Florentine Lodge Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:58:20 -0700 Organization: Sar Draconis Lines: 58 Message-ID: <3417968C.5552@popd.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: #page7@popd.ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: pax-ca27-04.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Sep 11 1:58:55 AM CDT 1997 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) Path: bridge!news1.ValuServe.Com!207.33.1.246!news.pagesat.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!ix.netcom.com!news The Enochian system of magic and its vehicle, the Angelical language, are usually attributed to Dr. John Dee (1527-1608) and his Skryer or clairvoyant, Edward Kelley. However, in a Latin treatise published at Venice in 1531, Vaorchadumia -- itself an Angelical word -- the script of the Angelical alphabet is already to be found. From 1475 onward, a secret Lodge of the same name, with which Marcello Ficino is said to beve been connected, was operating in Venice. Chwolsohn, in his misleadingly named "Nabatgaean Agriculture" published in German in St. Petersburg about 1860, also gives the Angelical letters though it is not likely that he knew of Dee's investigations. Madame Blavatsky (HPB) mentions Chowolsohn's work but not Dr. Dee's: by her references to Enochian literature in the "Secret Doctrine" she means the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Even considering the links that obtained between the early Theosophical Society in England and the early GD, it is not likely, though it is possible, that she gave MacGregor Mathers and Wynn Westcott a hint to investigate the system. However this may be, they did so, using not only the resources of scholarship but those of clairvoyance through the skrying of VNR (who might therefore be considered the real founder of the Golden Dawn, if not the Secret Chiefs of the Order). Kenneth R.H. Mackenzie, who died just before the founding of the GD, left manuscripts wherein the Angelical language was used; and if these were accessible to the founders they would have provided further incentive. Mackenzie's documents are not to be dicovered in the Brithish Museum Library nor, I am told, in that of the S.R.I.A., of which he was at one time a member; instead they are hiding in some other private Masonic collection. Kenneth R.H. Mackenzie was instructed in the teachings of the German "Gold und Rosenkreuzer," and the table of esoteric Grades (identical with those of the GD) published in his "Masonic Cyclopedia" derives from a secret manuscript of that Fraternity. Certain of the ritual magickal formulae utilized within the "Golden" Dawn system are said to have derived from the "Gold" -und-Rosenkreuzer; but the documentation on this question is said to be even more obscure that that of the MacKenzie table itself. The system of 13X12 squares composing the Angelical Tablets of John Dee has not only the Enochian Tablets for their realization. There are others, including ones utilized within the highly secret "Vaorchadumia" Lodge itself. I am reliably informed of certain secret Cipher Manuscripts still in existence to this very day containing certain arcane formulae, which if put in effect by appropriately qualified individuals ("adepti") would enable them to obtain through Angelical Communication additional Tablets of the Enochian type, but which in certain areas of Magickal working, could well prove more powerful magickally than those of Dee themselves. The Varochadumia also worked with 13X12 Tablets using characters in other languages, such as Hebrew and Greek; and if legend could be believed, a certain outpost of this tradition in India even attempted to impose the Sanskrit alphabet on the Enochian tablet schema. All of this was connected with the practical operative alchemical ways within the hidden alchemical tradition; for certain theurgical formualae utilized by the alchemical adepti employed the same.