Path: shell.portal.com!shell.portal.com!not-for-mail From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (mordred) Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.magick.tyagi Subject: FTennyachu: Enochian Magick Date: 31 Mar 1995 09:15:00 -0800 Organization: Portal Communications (shell) Lines: 55 Sender: tyagi@shell.portal.com Message-ID: <3lhdak$5h4@jobe.shell.portal.com> Reply-To: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (mordred) NNTP-Posting-Host: jobe.shell.portal.com Xref: shell.portal.com alt.magick:40927 alt.magick.tyagi:2688 ~From: baphomet@cosy.softwords.bc.ca (Frater TENNYACHU) ~Subject: Magick/Enochian topic ~Date: Sun, 12 Mar 95 11:04:45 EST TITLE: ENOCHIAN MAGICK 93 The system that we know as "Enochian Magick" comes to us from the experiments made by Dr. John Dee, Court Astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, and Sir Edward Kelly. The system bqegan with skrying ("crystal-gazing") experiments between Dee and Kelly (the latter was the "seer") on December 22, 1581, although according to Donald Laycock, there is evidence to suggest that their skrying together began on March 8 of the same year. Dr. John Dee was a mathametician par excellence, and wrote the leading mathematics textbooks of his day. Having been immersed in the Holy Qabalah, Dee sought to contact the "spirits", "Angels", or as some contemporaries might say, "archetypes" through mathematical correspondences. This is, of course, pure Qabalah. However, Dee and Kelly supposedly tapped into an entirely new LANGUAGE, as far as humans know it. This language is called ENOCHIAN. While it is true that in 1530 an alchemist called Pantheist produced a language called ENOCHIAN, ther eis no resemblance between the two. While Pantheist may have influenced Dee and Kelly, the language of Dee and Kelly is a language unto itself. It contains it's own sytax, grammar, and vocabulary, with roots not withstanding. There are many similarities with English, but certain unexplained phenomena as well that, in this writer's opinion, forces one to conclude, upon analysis, that if Dee and/or Kelly simply "invented" their Enochian language, thatit nonetheless contains tremendous insights and pathways to Occult wisdom. In short, it would be a much more miraculous occurence if Dee and Kelly HAD invented this language, than if it was simply dictated to them by "Angels" or "archetypes" of exalted states of consciousness, which the props of ceremonial magick have as their sole justification. A psychologist may use a couch to help alter his own patient's entering into more exalted states of consciousness. While teh Enochian language is probably the most fascinating of any language- manmade or natural- to a philologist, it has been shown by experiment to have a definite magickal application, of great power. Aleister Crowley recorded his experiences of the 30 Enochian "Aethyrs" or Calls, in LIBER 418, or THE VISION AND THE VOICE. This type of practical application is the foci of this topic. Dee and Kelly's Enochian system of Magick, which they derived from their experiments, was ellaborated upon, and increased in sophistication, by S.L. MacGregor Mathers and the golden Dawn, and then by that groups brightest pupil, Aleister Crowley. There are some dozen plu sbooks (at least) about Enochiana available today, including a fascinating work by by Gerald Schueler called "Enochian Physics", which applies Enochian theory with that of modern physics, although unfortunately before Superstring theory was more accessible. There is even a system of divination, developed by the golden Dawn, called "ENOCHIAN CHESS". It is my hope that those few who may have experience with this system will share their Wisdom and Understanding with us. Looking forward to your participation. 93 93/93 Frater TENNYACHU (Baphomet 0=0)