from whom our inmost spirits were formed and of whom we, or most of us, are still a part. There is a being variously known as God, the Tao, etc. The record of these visions may be found in Tyson's book, and they will be discussed later in this essay.īased on my own work with the calls and drawing on Ben's Book of Seniors and other results, I have come to the following conclusions. Some time later, Kelley had a vision of a round house with doors in the four directions opening to reveal the four elements. The tablets were preceded by a vision of a number of beings coming out of four watchtowers, these beings partially fitting with the names drawn from the tablets. Mixed with the reception of the calls were the names of the 91 parts of Earth and the Enochian tablets together with the ways of deriving the names of the watchtower hierarchy from them. Then came 48 calls, with an unspoken one giving a total of 49.
First came the Tablet of God, a small tablet for which Runar has received additional names, as discussed in another essay. Finally, Dee received the material generally known as the Enochian system, the subject of this essay. Runar has produced translations for a few of these calls, and my limited work with them has suggested that they are significantly more powerful in their scope than the rest of the material Dee received, which is saying a lot. Next he received Liber Logaeth, which consisted of a number of large tablets and was preceded by a number of untranslated calls.
I have described my take on this in another essay. The first thing Dee received was a quasi-planetary system of angels known as the heptarchic system, including instructions for various furniture and tools. Donald Tyson's Enochian Magic for Beginners offers a more detailed version, though Tyson's own ideas can charitably be described as goofy. Those who do not should start with Ben's Enochian Reference Document for the history of Dee's workings. I will assume that the reader has access to the relevant tablets, names, calls, etc. As I'm not particularly interested in the GD system per se, I will only mention their system occasionally in passing. The GD seems to have been primarily interested in fitting the material with the rest of their system, rather than with exploring it in itself. I should also mention here that I tend to buy Patricia Shaffer's take on the letters and that I do not buy most of the Golden Dawn's take on the material. It also incorporates the I Gedmaterial which Runar Karlsen has received, consisting of calls, tablets, and names for the various groups mentioned in the original calls, as well as observations various people on the enochian-l email list have made. My work builds on that of Benjamin Rowe in a number of repects, as will be noted as we go along. The interested reader is referred to my other essays for fuller information on the various parts of the system. It incorporates my earlier essay on the watchtower hierarchy and part of my essay on the calls. This essay is intended to provide an overview of my take on Enochian magic.
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