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Hello! After searching through the forum several times, I haven't found too many people talking about their overall experiences with Enochian magic or scrying the aethyrs!
For my background, even though I did pentagram rituals and tried studying Golden Dawn & Thelema, I never really got into it. I spent much more time invested in Renaissance magic and the solomonic tradition, and I think this kept Enochian pretty clean for me. I think in Thelema people go through the Aethyrs after a long while of being invested in the system, so they're already seasoned practitioners. My hot take is that I think enochian magic can be way more effective for beginners than for "adepts"!
My own experiences with the Aethyrs was over the course of about 2 months. I would scry one every 2-3 days, averaging about 3 a week. Some weekends I would go through one daily after I got a huge insight, and the govenors said something about stuff coming up. I used Enochian Vision Magic by Duquette and Frater Yechidah's books as my main guides, and was only stopped by the govenors from progressing twice: at ZIP (9) where I was told to remain in ZAX (10) for the rest of the week to prepare me for the higher aethyrs, and at PAZ (4), where I was told to remain for a while longer.
Looking back, while a lot of the visions were cool and flowery, the best part of the whole process was getting a huge flash of personal insight about myself. Things like getting the inspiration to move away, to friends with particular interests I felt inspired to get to know, or even how I behave when going on dates! I quit my job, reconciled a huge strain between me and my parents, and completely reoriented myself from "occult seeker" to something...maybe a little less pretentious
It would usually just be 24-48 hours until the insights hit me, and I'd sit with my dreams & visions to help tease it out, which did always have the keys to the insight. Of course there was a lot of other mystical stuff that came up, reconciling myself across dimensions, ideas similar to Thelemic True Will popping up as God's Divine Plan, and a lot on the Holy Guardian Angel as a higher dimensional organism to become in line with, which is also just a refraction of some larger organism above it. Not super useful stuff, but definitely inspired the part of me that wanted to know more and more and more.
After sitting with the experience for a while, I have a few thoughts on the overall process. I think scrying the Aethyrs may actually be one of the best things for an aspirant to do, since it really peels back layers of the consciousness. Instead of months of pentagram rituals, or learning how to meditate, someone could really just leap straight in and peel themselves like a banana to get to the core. I haven't gone back to the aethyrs, but I think I may make it a yearly process!
As far as practical stuff, I haven't gotten much results out of using enochian angels in the way Scott Stenwick describes in his books on the Heptarchia. I only really tried once, and it was for a pretty far-out goal, but I also haven't really felt that inspired to try again. I really like Enochian magic for its role in my overall mystical practice, and using it has overall made me a wiser, more grounded person. What does everyone else think?
For my background, even though I did pentagram rituals and tried studying Golden Dawn & Thelema, I never really got into it. I spent much more time invested in Renaissance magic and the solomonic tradition, and I think this kept Enochian pretty clean for me. I think in Thelema people go through the Aethyrs after a long while of being invested in the system, so they're already seasoned practitioners. My hot take is that I think enochian magic can be way more effective for beginners than for "adepts"!
My own experiences with the Aethyrs was over the course of about 2 months. I would scry one every 2-3 days, averaging about 3 a week. Some weekends I would go through one daily after I got a huge insight, and the govenors said something about stuff coming up. I used Enochian Vision Magic by Duquette and Frater Yechidah's books as my main guides, and was only stopped by the govenors from progressing twice: at ZIP (9) where I was told to remain in ZAX (10) for the rest of the week to prepare me for the higher aethyrs, and at PAZ (4), where I was told to remain for a while longer.
Looking back, while a lot of the visions were cool and flowery, the best part of the whole process was getting a huge flash of personal insight about myself. Things like getting the inspiration to move away, to friends with particular interests I felt inspired to get to know, or even how I behave when going on dates! I quit my job, reconciled a huge strain between me and my parents, and completely reoriented myself from "occult seeker" to something...maybe a little less pretentious
It would usually just be 24-48 hours until the insights hit me, and I'd sit with my dreams & visions to help tease it out, which did always have the keys to the insight. Of course there was a lot of other mystical stuff that came up, reconciling myself across dimensions, ideas similar to Thelemic True Will popping up as God's Divine Plan, and a lot on the Holy Guardian Angel as a higher dimensional organism to become in line with, which is also just a refraction of some larger organism above it. Not super useful stuff, but definitely inspired the part of me that wanted to know more and more and more.
After sitting with the experience for a while, I have a few thoughts on the overall process. I think scrying the Aethyrs may actually be one of the best things for an aspirant to do, since it really peels back layers of the consciousness. Instead of months of pentagram rituals, or learning how to meditate, someone could really just leap straight in and peel themselves like a banana to get to the core. I haven't gone back to the aethyrs, but I think I may make it a yearly process!
As far as practical stuff, I haven't gotten much results out of using enochian angels in the way Scott Stenwick describes in his books on the Heptarchia. I only really tried once, and it was for a pretty far-out goal, but I also haven't really felt that inspired to try again. I really like Enochian magic for its role in my overall mystical practice, and using it has overall made me a wiser, more grounded person. What does everyone else think?
