Journal Art & Science & Crafts

[Yazata]

The past few months while working on a few projects a couple of funny synchronicities happened that I joked about in some threads without going into detail.

@pixel_fortune 's post on the Lion's Gate made me decide I “had to” start something on that day, and as I usually do 1 year projects that go from birthday to birthday I had already planned this year is going to be based on ye system of Angel Magick that was delivered to John Dee and Edward Kelley.
But with my typical modifications / simplifications / introspeculations.
Leading up to this I have rewritten the core of the 24 Triangles in a way that links them to the 24 Seniors for those who can put one and one together.

Donald Tyson in his book Enochian Magic for Beginners gives a 19 day initiation / ritual to start your path in this type of Magick, but there are more than 1 or 2 things in it that I don't really agree with although I really like the idea of set period of days to work towards a finale. The archived post from Harry (Creating the Enochian Shield) sort of works that way (and it was one of the funny synchronicities that show me I'm doing something. Right?)

In my opinion Enochian is a system that has a lot of potential for tweaking as it's a complete structure while at the same time a very detailed skeleton that you can build on and add to. Please note that I said “in my opinion”. An example of what I mean by this is my version of the Sigilum Dei Aemeth in which I used only the basic design but none of the traditional letters.

Let's call it ShiKL MDO ChThaMeTh

The outer circle is divided into 72 parts which contain the 3 lettered Names of the Angels of the Shemhamephorash
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Then (corrected from) Heptameron
the names of the Kings of the days:
Sol – Varcan
It seems unlikely that the Name really starts with a Vav
Maybe ZRCh + VN
ZRCh (to shine, to sparkle, to rise)
the Name then is ZRChVN Zarkan
Luna – Arcan
ARCh + VN
ARCh (to take lodge, to pass through)
ARChVN Arkan
Mars – Samax
Maybe SMQ (to be red / to redden) + VN?
Mercury – Mediat / Modiat
MDOTh (acquaintance , friend) + VN?
Jupiter – Suth
SVT (to shake, become wild) + VN
Venus – Sarabot(r)es
ShRBT (swollen, stiff, stretched..) + VN
Saturn – Maymon
MMVN (money)
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Then the 7 Olympian Spirits:
Saturn – Aratron as ORVThRVN
ORVTh (precept / law of God)
Jupiter – Bethor as BITh (house) + AVR (light)
Mars – Phaleg as PLG (to cleave, to divide, a waterstream)
Sol – Och as ACh (brother, ally, howling, a great pot in which a fire was kept burning)
Venus – Hagith as ChGYTh (festive)
Mercury – Ophiel as OPL (to swell up, be arrogant)
Luna – Phul as PVL (guardsman)
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In the triangular spaces of the Heptagram are the planetary symbols and underneath these the Angels of the planets are numerically corrected
they are
ZphQIEL for Satun
ShThQIEL for Jupiter
ChMAVEL for Mars
ShMShIEL for Sol
HNAIEL for Venus
KVKBIEL for Mercury
LBVNAIHEL for Luna
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Beneath these the Names of the Angelic Choirs
ARALIM
ChSMLHIM
ShRPIM
MLIKIM
ThRTzHIM
ALLAThRRI
KRVBAIM
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Around the central Pentagram the Angels of the 4 quarters
written in such a way that 5 groups of 4 letters are formed
RPAL
AVRA
LMIK
ALGB
RIEL
(ran out of space else I would have included the Angels of the Lunar Mansions)

This design was made into a wooden table, and this then is my Universal Table of Praxis or the altar for the work through which I hope to be worthy of becoming wise enough to understand those things that are sealed up.

As I have said (more times than some people wash their neck) I don't read that many books, and so there have been (and will be..) times when I get super excited about a discovery only to hear that everyone and their mom already knows. Not going to change my way though, I'll just crawl from one word or Name to the next like an amazed and ignorant child full of enthusiasm and wonder and do my best to figure things out along the way.

When I started a journal with all the little details of my life it honestly almost made me depressed, and apparently it cam through in the letters. The 31 days of the initial Ritual in which all Kings, Seniors, Kerubs and the Angels of the Shemhamephorash were called, was completed last Saurday, and though I did write down everything I'm going to keep that away from your eyes. There was some communication with some of the Seniors (those of the Western Table were by far the most expressive) but that really wasn't the purpose of this part as I only wanted to formally begin.

The daily Ritual was as follows:
LBRP
Star-Pillar (a variant Middle Pillar with the Name of my Birth-Angel according to the letters of the Shemhamephorash)
Blessing of Water (with 3 drops of colloidal gold and 3 drops of Lunar tincture to form a Hexagram in the chalice)
The Astrachios Prayer from Grimorium Verum
(initially I also included the invocation of Scirlin but dropped that after a week)
The Enochian Rose Cross Ritual
(made two small changes: the Enochian Kabalistic Cross is now done towards the West instead of the East and the three “hisses” are spread out – 1 at the very beginning before the E.K.C., one in the middle before assuming the X pose, and one at the very last after the Amen)
The Prayer (my translation / interpretation of PGM XIII)
side note: in this Spell – the way I rewrote it – you call upon the 7 lettered Name of your Angel / your God. Here, for me, this is the Enochian Name of 7 letters that you find via your Birth-Chart
And then we come to the Keys.

I have adopted (but of course slightly modified..) Tyson's way of assigning the keys to the parts of the Great Table, with for example the Eastern Table uses the 3rd, 7th, 11th and 15th in a clockwise motion. The only thing I changed then is the way Tyson placed the 11th and 15th because I (now) don't see the logic in what he did - I know it relates to the way the Names on the Tablet of Union are ordered, but it feels off to me.

The Opening is standard, although for me, instead of the first + second, the 1st Key alone is used for the Central Great Cross or the Tablet of Union.
It's not earth-shaking because you (I) use the second Key every time as well anyway, but the 2nd Key (to me) is used for the 4 Great Crosses of the Elemental tablets. So, with the second Key you address all 12 God Names, all 4 Kings and all 24 Seniors. The way to specify is to first name the God Names + King (+ Senior) of the Tablet you are working with, then read the second Key in English, then repeat all Names, then read the Key in Enochian and then call the Names one last (third) time before making an invoking Pentagram (two handed of courze) over the altar.

As Tablets I started out by using the court-cards of the Tarot of the Golden Serpent, and from the Enochian Skrying tarot the Tablet of Union + the cards with the God Names, and for the Kings + Seniors I use one of the 24 Triangles.
It's a nice looking set-up but I felt there's still some room for playing with it (and I also had to make it my own in one way or another) So, based on the image given in Tyson's book, I made a (simplified) Great Table encircled by the 12 God Names and the 4 Name of Spirit. Instead of filling in the 4 tablets with tiny letters, I placed the 4 Seals in there – and after first making an ugly version with the order as given, I arranged them according to the Elemental associations, with the letter cross in the South, the “Sun” in the West, and the cross in the North. It feels perfect.

Here's a pic of the Table with the “circular Tablet of Union”



That was the arts and crafts part.

Is there an arts and science part? Myeah.. the 31 days (31! EL!) ended on the 7th, and yesterday I started the next phase. This one will continue for the rest of the year, with a Zodiac portion on one main day per month. My birthday is the 8th which is the day when the Sun is right in the middle of the Sign, so that's when the contact with the Zodiac Angels is made. This was a last minute decision yesterday and it gave me some problems in determining the correct (Enochian) Angel. @stalkinghyena mentioned this quirk in the Golden Dawn system but I had not idea what he meant and why he said it at the time (now I do..)
For now I follow the system of Mathers, in which the tribe of Naphtali is assigned to Virgo.

This then means that Zarzilg is the Angel of Virgo. There's a (very) good chance that at some point during the next 85 years I'll change my mind about this though, but what's more important (for now at least) was the calling of the Hebrew Zodiac Angel, because that one at least definitely is supposed to go there. Where else would he go?!
ChML – to be gentle, to save, to have compassion. Chemeliel (Hamaliel).
Maybe the Name ZARZILG can be understood as
Ceph – Test / Gather together
Un – Rise
Don – Pure
Ceph – Test / Gather together
Gon – Gate
Ur – He / One
Ged – Cut / Break
Sounds like a great guy. Just that last bit about breaking or cutting. Although. September is the Harvest month.. Might be something to this.

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[Yazata]

Some time ago I found a book by Paracelsus called Archidoces of Magic, and I want to incorporate it into this in some way. More specifically the second part of the book which is called Celestial Medicine. It gives the design and instructions on how to make 12 double faced Talismans for the signs of the Zodiac. It seems these talismans are (like the name of the chapter suggests...) meant to be used to treat diseases. With some logic, a lot of guessing and ye olde dictionaries of the worlde, I think I figured out that the Virgo one is intended to cure fevers. For now, for me, for this, it acts as a seal of the Angels of Virgo too. In a way, I think it even fits with (my interpretation of the meaning of) ZARZILG.

At some point, someone said that Enochian is more about the mystical experience / the visions / the lessons that you can learn from the evoked Angels but that you probably shouldn't use it to get tangible results because (and now it comes..) “it would be like using a forklift to move a twig”. I am 100 percent certain that I am misquoting it and I currently am not 100 percent sure who originally said it, but I do know that I have seen this parroted several times on the great internet. Kinda odd. The Angels of the Subangles have specific powers. Why would you (or I, or your sister's mother) not try to petition / evoke / invoke / task these Angels with the tasks that they are specialized in? Why reduce Enochian to skrying the Aethyrs and only get immaterial personal results?
Well, obviously because John was told never to use the system, Sandra. Ah, okay. Some twigs are hard to move though, especially if they are attached to a tree with roots.

Related to this, and the time of the year, I wrote this based on a prayer for All Hallows / all Souls:

O Lord
God of Mercy
Let there be
Continual Burning Lamps
Upon their Heads
Pouring down
Rest
and
Peace
On all Creatures
(the) Known
and
a Stranger
Amen

ENAY
IAD RIT
CHRISTEOS
HUBAR
MIRC OZOL
PANPIR
PAGE
OD
ETHARZI
TOLHAMI
OMAX
OD
GOSAA
AMEN

Side note: in trying to determine the right Angels for an upcoming experiment, I noticed how the power of the Kerubs of the Northern and Southern tables could just as well be swapped? Maybe. We'll see at some point.

Anyway. God gave us a mind so we can change it.
I remembered reading in Tyson's book that there are 91 tutelary spirits in the 30 aethyrs because that is “12 X 7 + 7” which is a very awkward way of saying 13 X 7. There aren't always 13 (full) moons in a year, but from the beginning of this Enochian year of mine until the same date next year, there.. are.. 13 full Moons. First one is on September 17th and the thirteenth one on September 7th.
Excellent. Maybe. Not exactly. There are of course also 13 weeks in one quarter of a year but that's beside the point.
A good but tight structure is one Aethyr per 12 days – which gives roughly 4 days per Genius (with the first 4 having three days each..) And this schedule obviously brings back that fascinating number 24.

Uninspired idea of the week: the 30 Aethyrs can be linked with the Earth, the 7 Planets, the 12 Zodiac signs and.. (10 more to go.. hm..) Of course this has been thought up before, especially since the 30th Aethyr has 4 Geni for the 4 Element(al forces).
I got this in my mind now, and so inevitably it influences my vision / eksperienzez. Skrying the 30th, I saw 4 (somewhat brutish or “lowly”) Kings / royals doing a sort of crude dance where they all joined their left hand and slowly danced in a circle, dipping and rising as they moved.

The 3 Angels of the 29th Aethyr appeared on a “lunar” surface and had greyish skin. They tried to stimulate / open / dig out my third eye and spoke a mantra. This mantra kept coming back throughout the session, running “beneath” the rest of the conversation.
(afterwards) I puzzled together meanings for the names, and in hindsight I can make it make sense to myself. The planetary sauce fit for this and I'm sticking with it for now.

O, the names of the Aethyrs might be translated as well.
TEX then is Fence – Window – Garment
RII is Pure – Gate – Gate
or, smoothening it:
A window in the fence that is the garment of God
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The pure gate of gates​

 

[Amur]

Really neat tablet of Union. Great inspiration to bring forth some crafting of my own when I get the tools available to make something for myself. Had a really powerful White Light embedded inside it when I watched the picture this Astral Light shone from the tablet. Keep up the good work

 

[Yazata]

28th Aethyr
Had the Mercury Pantacle on the altar along with the Tablet of Union.
I translated the names of the three Angels and also chanted their names letter for letter between the Calls.
Laying down, I felt pressure on my ears, like coming from inside and going outward (visual: like something within me expanding like a ripple)
First saw a “feminine male Angel” with shoulder long blond hair who was very dismissive and uninterested.
He got replaced by an old professor. This one seemed bewildered or amazed, but definitely was too busy in his own mind to pay any attention to me. Then a large “knight” in armour with a dark blue mantle appeared, sitting on a sort of stone chair. This was the only one who seemed to want to speak. He said they were the three faces of BAG
(I am aware – of course – that my expectations are heavily influencing this, so it's no surprise that again there were three “Angels” here, and that one of them was effeminate and another one was a student / professor. The knight was unexpected. But it might be explained with the three Angels being embodiments of the three letters of the name of the Aethyr. BAG is branch – rise – cut. Maybe. If I apply that same idea to the 29th RII it is pure – gate – gate, and well, it makes sense to me. In the 30th with 4 Angels of course it all falls apart though)
Afterwards I remembered a confusing passage from Picatrix about the decans of the Planets, in which it is unclear to the translator (and me) what is meant with “faces of the planets”.
But it might fit with the 91 Geni
On two days this week I had dreams involving a fertile / green mountain that looked to be my destination (or at least a place where I could get to if I'd went for a walk)

27th Aethyr was fun. I believe the Angelic choir of Venus, the Tharshishim have been misinterpreted / misspelled (maybe deliberately) and I “corrected” the spelling before. These Angels (then.. of course..) took the form of nice looking welcoming ladies but there were more than 3 and they formed a sort of circuit. The name of the Aethyr could be gather together – rise – rise.
Following (or stealing) the idea that the aethyrs and aeons are connected I see some resemblances but the order has to be changed to make everything fit neatly. Sophia is closest to man, and Sophiel is a Lunar Angel. The moon is our neighbour, but in the form of Sandalphon Sophia is even closer (among us ruling Earth), so yes in-Dee(d) Sophia is compatible with the 30th Aethyr and the realm of the 4 Elements. Moving up, the next name would be Telethus. In mythology Telethusa is the wife of Ligdus who tells her that if she gives birth to a girl it will be put to death. Telethusa tricks the husband and raises the daughter as a son who later as an adult male marries a woman. Maybe the name Telethus could be translated as “distance + sacrifice”. Telethusa's “deceiving of her husband” or the “illusion” she created goes well with the moon and her ever changing shape + the rule over the inner waters that always are in motion and distort every reflection. It also makes me think of the way the old Germanic tribes, as well as the modern German language, see the Sun as female and the Moon as male ( die Sonne und der Mond)

But the next name in order doesn't fit the narrative I am trying to force upon it. Entirely based on a very superficial understanding of the names: if the 28th is in some way to be linked with Mercury then it would make more sense if this was Synesis “unification / meeting / intelligence” (the 26th). Mercury is regarded as the planet that rules over quick thinking, making connections, and also with the hermaphrodite. Based on this I (for now..) declare that, in our sacred Order of the Ever-Changing Somethings, Synesis is number 28. Now, taking one step back, let's continue with the regular schedule and rejoice in the similarities between Macariotes “blessedness / happiness” and the planet of joys and art Venus. I said a couple of sentences ago that the name of the Choir of Venus might have been misinterpreted. If you haven't read that then you aren't reading this, but, lemmy explain anyway: Tharshishim is an alternative name for this class of Angels, and it is believed to come from ThrShISh (“breaking”). Really something that comes to mind when you think of Venus, right? No. But if you spell it like the word ThRTzH(IM) it becomes “the pleasant ones” and gives a Gematria that reduces to 7 for Netzach / Venus.

And now ladies and gentle friends, we have arrived at the Sun.
Through a synchronicity (i.e. looking for the source of a Greek ritual) I found a book on old Coptic Christian Magick that gave instructions for ascending through the aeons. In it was given a short text that mentioned that each aeon has three (evil) archons who inhabit it, but each aeon is ruled by an Angel that in turn is to be invoked to banish the archons. For each angel a unique seal, number, name and invocation are given (though the seals were omitted in the example I was reading). This, and the words used can only make you think of Enochian. The one (big) difference is that in the system of aethyrs there are 3 angels that rule over three geni (= archons?) and the sigils given are those of the geni. Not entirely sure what that implies yet. The short invocation given for each aeon are all slightly different but very similar. They have three words and the last word is super close to the name of the ruling Angel. For now, for me, I am going to continue to include the three names of the Geni (spelled letter for letter with the names of the letters to make each name into a sentence..), then add the three sigils, and a short invocation with two words loaded with Z's + the name of the Aethyr. Of course.. if the three lettered name of the Aethyr is in fact a description of the three Geni (each letter being one of them) then this could be the one “Angel” who rules over them.

The names of the Aethyr and three Geni spelled in full translate to
DES: valuable window (to) spreading
Bazchim: the branch (to) rise (and) gather, received by man, the gate expands
Nigrana: bond (with the) gate, break (through and be?) pure, rise, bond and rise
Pophand: as much as self, as much as man, rise, the valuable gate

Tablet + Pantacle of Sol on the altar. Performed invoking two-handed-hexagram of Sol, the prayer, first two calls + the 19th. Traced the sigils over the Tablet of Union, spoke the names letter by letter and an Enochianized three word invocation
Ozazm Aziazior DES
On a yellowish/orange (Solar..) surface, the three were sitting on thrones, wearing golden crowns. They were sitting miles apart but in the shape of a triangle and I was in the middle of it. They stood up and joined hands. I then saw my own hands making the triangle shape and passing through it.

Okay. Heavily influenced by my assumptions and previous miscoveries, but I am for the moment satisfied with this method. The aeonic name that fits best seems to be Ecclesiasticus. This name is translated as “son of Ecclesia”, with Ecclesia being the community, the assembly or the church. That of course makes you (me) think of Jesus. Fun fact to distract: the Latin name for the apocryphal book “wisdom of Jesus of Sirach” is Ecclesiasticus. Throughout the ritual I kept thinking of Sirach but I only read this connection later.
In one of my amateur etymologies for Sirach (in Grimorium Verum) I translated Sirach as ShR + RVCh or “the Prince of Spirit(s)” and from there figured that the Triangle of the Art (a circle in a triangle in a circle) is the Seal of Sirach.​