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Overview
Enochian Magick - Introduction:
This essay is intended to
provide an overview of my take on Enochian magick. It incorporates
my earlier essay on the watchtower hierarchy and part of my
essay on the calls. The interested reader is referred to my
other essays for fuller information on the various parts of
the system. My work builds on that of Benjamin Rowe in a number
of repects, as will be noted as we go along. It also incorporates
the I Ged material 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. 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. 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. As I'm not particularly
interested in the GD system per se, I will only mention their
system occasionally in passing.
The Original Enochian Magick
Material:
I will assume that the reader
has access to the relevant tablets, names, calls, etc. Those
who do not should start with Ben's Enochian Reference Document
for the history of Dee's workings. Donald Tyson's Enochian
Magic for Beginners offers a more detailed version, though
Tyson's own ideas can charitably be described as goofy. The
first thing Dee received was a quasi-planetary system of angels
known as the heptarchic system, including instructions for
various furniture and tools. I have described my take on this
in another essay. Next he received Liber Logaeth, which consisted
of a number of large tablets and was preceded by a number
of untranslated calls. 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.
Finally, Dee received the material generally known as the
Enochian system, the subject of this essay. First came the
Tablet of God, a small tablet for which Runar has received
additional names, as discussed in another essay. Then came
48 calls, with an unspoken one giving a total of 49. 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.
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. Some time later, Kelley
had a vision of a round house with doors in the four directions
opening to reveal the four elements. The record of these visions
may be found in Tyson's book, and they will be discussed later
in this essay.
Cosmology:
Based 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. There is a being
variously known as God, the Tao, etc. from whom our inmost
spirits were formed and of whom we, or most of us, are still
a part. God is only a part of the Earth's creative scheme
and is very much junior to the spirit enlivening the planet,
to whom I will refer as the Worldspirit, and She is in turn
junior to the spirit enlivening the Sun. Somehow, perhaps
as described in the Book of Seniors, the Worldspirit has come
to be encased in the core of the planet behind a double barrier,
with only a few cracks to let Her influence out. The Babalon
mentioned in the calls is the bodily intelligence which has
remained in Her place. Also, there is a veil over the Earth,
coincident with the aethers, which limits the influence coming
from the Sun as well as the other planets of the solar system
and extrasolar forces. This veil is rapidly burning away.
As a result of human beings' physical incarnations, we have
developed in ways fitting with our place in Babalon's realm.
As contact increases with the Worldsoul, Sun, and extrastellar
forces, people will develop in directions relating to these
as well.
The religions of the Age of
Pisces have emphasied dissolving into God (or Tao or emptiness)
and exhibited a disdain for the nature of the world, categorized
as a realm of sorrows where one inevitably gets crucified
and so on. The Age of Aquarius can be expected to bring a
greater emphasis on choice as to spiritual direction. Curiously,
Ben talks about large numbers of human spirits going off to
other star systems or universes, yet he ducks the fact that
God is not out there where they'll be going, and sticks with
the Piscean notion as to the point of initiation.
The Enochian magick material,
in contrast to systems that have been known longer such as
Kaballah, is not designed for the purpose of bringing people
to the realization of God. The Enochian angels are primarily
creative beings, not devotional/teaching ones, and they seem
to be members of the broader Earth scheme who answer to God
as well as others, as opposed to direct minions of God such
as Kaballistic angels are. Between these, the I Ged spirits,
the other beings mentioned in the calls, and the various forces
that all of these can bring one in contact with, one has a
great deal of choice as to the direction one will go. Of course,
the flip side of choice is responsibility. One needs to be
clear on the direction one is bringing to Enochian workings
and to get to know the various beings before deciding which
ones one wishes to become attuned to, if any. An important
example of this point is the business of climbing the aethers.
The aethers are the avenue through which influence from outside
the planet are able to enter, and so climbing the aethers
will tend to bring one into tune with the will coming from
the Sun rather than that coming from God.
The Enochian Magick Calls:
The original set of calls
given to Dee and Kelley were described as opening 49 gates
and connected tablets. These tablets would seem to be those
given in Liber Loagaeth, though the details are not clear
yet. The calls open gates through which energy is transmitted
and invoke the things mentioned in the calls including the
I Ged spirits. The beings invoked do not seem to be intrinsically
connected with the gates, as the connected tablets are. Rather,
they seem to represent one way of employing the energy. The
calls have a 7-fold pattern that seems to derive from the
gates. This does not fit neatly with the structures found
through the calls, in particular that of the aethers. It can
be described roughly as follows: 0: These calls (0,7,14,etc.)
seem to have a sense of reaching a sense of unity to complete
the preceeding calls and then returning to form to begin the
next set. 1-3: These relate to some barrier to be reached
through, with the first being outside projecting in, the second
inside obeying the first, and the third giving a passage through
connecting these two. 4: These have a quality of brightness
and peace that make receptivity possible. They connect to
the Worldsoul who lives at the center of the Earth. 5: These
have an extraterrestrial connection admitted by means of the
preceding. 6: These have a quality of earthly manifestation
of higher plans. The calls involve a structure referred to
in the 4th-6th calls as angles and in the 8th call as heavens.
These would seem to connect like the points of an M and fit
with the formula IHShVH as follows:
Angle: Aethers: Plane:
I 4 1-10 causal
H 3 11-19 mental
Sh 2 20-22 mental
V 23-29 astral
H 30 astral.
The fifth point, which relates
to the IALPIRGAH "flames of first glory" in call
7, is Haditian, the root of consciousness. The first point,
corresponding to call 3, relates especially to the lower set
of twelve seats mentioned there which are the zodiac. The
zodiac seems to correspond to the turning from the astral
to mental planes in the Enochian system and seems to be a
major barrier. In contrast, the turning from the mental to
the causal, where the Abyss is usually placed, seems to be
incidental. There are two copies of the zodiac involved, one
at the outside of the veil over the Earth and equivalently
outside the aethers, the other between the aethers LIN and
TOR. These seem to relate to the distinction between the tropical
and sidereal zodiacs. Inside the inner zodiac, the sidereal
zodiac which runs Aries-Pisces holds sway. Between the two
zodiacs, the tropical zodiac which runs Pisces-Aries holds
sway. Outside the outer zodiac, there is just the direct influence
of the stars and planets. The aethers are apparently incidental
and perhaps identical with the veil over the Earth. Their
geography is apparently simple, with TEX nearest the Earth
and the rest running outward in order.
The first call invokes the
authority of Iad Balt, who is coordinator of the watchtower
angels amongst others, and is directed specifically at the
watchtower angels. The second call is also well suited to
working with the watchtower angels and tends to give a more
material oriented feel. The next sixteen calls invoke the
I Ged spirits amongst others. As some of the I Ged spirits
employ the watchtower angels, this gives an indirect connection
between the calls and the angels. Efforts by the GD an others
to parcel out the angels between the calls seem very misguided
to me. Consider the 7th call, which invokes the NI among others.
As the NI are able to employ all of the subquarters between
them, it does not make sense to suppose that the 7th call
is limited to only one quarter or subquarter. Further details
on the calls can be found in my essay on them. (Continued
In Enochian Magick Overview Pt2...)
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