Aaron Leitch - The Essential Enochian Grimoire: An Introduction to Angel Magick from Dr. John Dee to the Golden Dawn

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The Essential Enochian Grimoire: An Introduction to Angel Magick from Dr. John Dee to the Golden Dawn 2014 by Aaron Leitch.

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Contents

: Who Was Enoch?

: What Enochian Magick Is

: An Enochian Cast of Characters

: The History of Dees Enochian Tradition

An Enochian Grimoire

: The Enochian Universe

: The Heptarchia

: The Angelic Magickal Tools

: Instructions for Heptarchic Invocation

: The Book of Loagaeth and Gebofal

: The Parts of the Earth System

: The Great Table of the Earth (Watchtowers)

: Neo-Enochiana

: Creating a Neo-Enochian Truncated Pyramid

: A Neo-Enochian Angel Summoning

: The Angelical Language

: An Angelical Psalter (Forty-Eight Callings)

Introduction

T he Enochian system of magickal evocation is considered one of the most advanced in the Western world. The angels whose attentions it gains are among the most powerful and dangerousmighty spiritual beings who are concerned with the motions of the stars and the rise and fall of earthly governments. Respected magickal orders such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn reserve Enochian magick for their highest Adept grades. Academics and researchers have spent generations attempting to decipher and understand the journals of the men who first recorded the material. Even beyond those original journals, the Enochian system has had a profound effect on Western occultism over the last several hundred years, much of which has been little understood until fairly recently.

Therefore, I must admit that it was difficult to imagine writing an Enochian magick book written for beginners. Imagine, for example, attempting to write An Introduction to Atom Smashing or Brain Surgery for Beginners . What information could such books contain that would be understandable and useful for someone just beginning on his or her path? For a while I was stumped and even unsure whether I should take on the project.

Thankfully, some close friends quickly pointed out an error in my thinking. Whether the subject is nuclear physics, neural surgery, or Enochian magick, you have to start somewhere. Writing a beginners book on a complex subject does not mean creating a watered-down version of the system and presenting it as safe for the courageous neophyte. Instead, it should serve as an introduction to the more complex material. It should include some basic history and define the terms and lingo the student will encounter later. Most importantly, it must present a simplified overview of the entire system, thereby allowing the student to see the whole proverbial elephant before focusing upon the trunk, ears, legs, or other elephantine components in detail.

Thinking about the project in this way also brought another fact into focus: in its original form, Enochian magick was never restricted to magickal masters alone. In fact, the Enochian journals record a system that was very much for beginners at the start and proceeded into more advanced practices as the system unfolded over months and years. Therefore, a modern Enochian beginners book can follow the same pattern, introducing the student to the very basics and preparing him or her for the more advanced material encountered in later study and practice.

Once I had considered all of the above, I realized I had been given the opportunity to create an Enochian grimoire, presenting the practice of the magick without dwelling upon every detail of the system (such as endless magickal squares made from other magickal squares, complex methods of name decryption, long-winded quotes from Dees journals, etc.). All these aspects of the system are certainly importantthey are the underlying foundation of the magickbut they are not necessary in an introduction to the system. An Enochian grimoire should be light enough to carry around a magickal circle or temple and include the information you need to create the tools and perform the ceremonies. (All of the underlying details of Enochiana will be covered in depth in a later work, to which this book can be considered a primer.)

Of course, John Dee himself created the worlds first Enochian grimoire. It still exists today, cataloged in the British Library as Sloane MS 3191 and also published in Geoffrey Jamess Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee (a book I highly recommend you obtain). However, Dee apparently did not intend his grimoire as a primer. It includes very little instruction for the creation of the tools and presents even less information about how to use them. Instead, Dees grimoire is a collection of working notes intended for his own use and therefore assuming the reader is already well-versed in the system. A modern Enochian primer needs to present the tools along with what they represent and, most importantly, how to properly use them.

The book you are now reading is intended to fill this gap in Enochian literature. Here I will briefly cover some of the history behind the system, so the beginner will know something about the men who first recorded the materialDr. John Dee and Sir Edward Kelleyand what they were attempting to accomplish with their work. Then I will present an overview of each phase of Dees magick as it progressed through his journalsfrom the Heptarchia (planetary magick), Gebofal and the Book of Loagaeth (including the famous forty-eight Angelical Callings), to the Parts of the Earth and the Great Table of the Earth (which concern world-changing magick). I will then trace the thread of Enochian history from John Dee through the Golden Dawn and beyond to illustrate how a set of journals that Dee never shared with the public became some of the most influential magickal documents in Western history.