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From the Introduction:
The central problem with Enochian Magick has been three-fold. First, in reviving the ancient and obscure record of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly, the Golden Dawn very quickly (and creatively) started devising their own system; adding elements to it that were not the original intent of those praeter-human sources that Dee & Kelly were in contact with. This has led to a major confusion to what actually Enochiana might be and what is really a blend of Golden Dawn and Enochian ideas. On this particularly, Enochian Chess and truncated pyramids, as well as Egyptian gods are not a part of the Enochian system prescribed by these prater-human intelligences; referred to as Angels.
The second problem is that the original documents themselves are both inconsistent and in several cases changed and reworked; and in some cases, there‘s only a partial recovery of missing or destroyed records. The third problem is that there is a host of erroneous and scattered information both in formal publication and on the Internet. This has led to errors in lettering on the Holy Table of Practice, confusion as to the importance of various tables and even a mis-assignment of the planets for the all-important Ensigns of Creation. A study of Cornelius Agrippa and Crowley‘s own notes on his Enochian work has corrected this.
As if all of this wasn‘t difficult enough, there‘s one major problem that so far, very few people seem to even want to overcome. The Enochian system was meant to be practiced and understood in Enochian and not in English. It seems everyone has decided to use English lettering and completely ignore the reception of the Angelic alphabet from the praeter-human intelligences that communicated it to humanity. For Thelemites, the problem is integral. If we so revere Liber AL vel Legis because of the praeter-human connection with its revelation, why would we then rebuke these same, possibly Nephilitic contacts when it comes to Enochian Magick? This error is compounded when we consider the fact that most of Thelemic doctrine is revealed through Crowley in his skrying of the 30 Aethyrs in Liber CDXVIII. Even the Holy Table, as will be shown below, is a prophecy that reveals the advent of the Aeon of Horus by announcing the incarnation of Babalon and the Beast. Kenneth Grant would say that it opened the 'Gate‘ for the Thelemic energies.
The central problem with Enochian Magick has been three-fold. First, in reviving the ancient and obscure record of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly, the Golden Dawn very quickly (and creatively) started devising their own system; adding elements to it that were not the original intent of those praeter-human sources that Dee & Kelly were in contact with. This has led to a major confusion to what actually Enochiana might be and what is really a blend of Golden Dawn and Enochian ideas. On this particularly, Enochian Chess and truncated pyramids, as well as Egyptian gods are not a part of the Enochian system prescribed by these prater-human intelligences; referred to as Angels.
The second problem is that the original documents themselves are both inconsistent and in several cases changed and reworked; and in some cases, there‘s only a partial recovery of missing or destroyed records. The third problem is that there is a host of erroneous and scattered information both in formal publication and on the Internet. This has led to errors in lettering on the Holy Table of Practice, confusion as to the importance of various tables and even a mis-assignment of the planets for the all-important Ensigns of Creation. A study of Cornelius Agrippa and Crowley‘s own notes on his Enochian work has corrected this.
As if all of this wasn‘t difficult enough, there‘s one major problem that so far, very few people seem to even want to overcome. The Enochian system was meant to be practiced and understood in Enochian and not in English. It seems everyone has decided to use English lettering and completely ignore the reception of the Angelic alphabet from the praeter-human intelligences that communicated it to humanity. For Thelemites, the problem is integral. If we so revere Liber AL vel Legis because of the praeter-human connection with its revelation, why would we then rebuke these same, possibly Nephilitic contacts when it comes to Enochian Magick? This error is compounded when we consider the fact that most of Thelemic doctrine is revealed through Crowley in his skrying of the 30 Aethyrs in Liber CDXVIII. Even the Holy Table, as will be shown below, is a prophecy that reveals the advent of the Aeon of Horus by announcing the incarnation of Babalon and the Beast. Kenneth Grant would say that it opened the 'Gate‘ for the Thelemic energies.
