ompany it.

Dee and Kelley believed their visions gave them access to secrets
contained within the Book of Enoch.

Contents
1 History
1.1 Origins and manuscript sources
1.1.1 Liber Logaeth � The Sixth and Sacred Book of the Mysteries
1.1.2 The Five Books of Mystery
1.1.3 Other Enochian manuscripts
2 Rediscovery by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
2.1 Aleister Crowley and Enochian
2.2 Criticism of Enochian Magic
3 The system
3.1 The Calls or 'Keys' and the "World" of the 30 Aethyrs
3.2 The Great Table of Earth: The Elemental Watchtowers and their subdivisions
3.3 Enochian temple furniture
4 Today
5 Caveats
6 See also
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links
History
Origins and manuscript sources
The Enochian system of magic is primarily the work of two men: John Dee, Edward
Kelley. The researches of Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Aleister Crowley, Dr.
Thomas Rudd, Elias Ashmole, Dr. William Wynn Westcott and Israel Regardie made
additional contributions.[1]

The raw material for the Enochian magical system was "dictated" through a series of
Angelic communications which lasted from 1582-1589. Dee and Kelley claimed they
received these instructions from angels. While Kelley conducted the psychic
operation known as scrying, Dee kept meticulous written records. Kelley looked into
a crystal "shewstone" and described aloud what he saw.[citation needed]

This account of the Angelic communications is taken at face value by most Enochian
occultists. However, some of them have pointed out remarkable similarities to
earlier grimoiric texts such as the Heptameron known to Dee.[2] Such magical texts
as The Book of Soyga (of which Dee owned a copy) and others including the magical
works of Agrippa and Reuchlin probably also had an influence on Dee and Kelley. The
system claims to relate to secrets contained within the apocryphal Book of Enoch.
[citation needed]

Liber Logaeth � The Sixth and Sacred Book of the Mysteries

The Liber Logaeth (Book of the Speech of God)(aka The Book of Enoch aka Liber
Mysteriorum, Sextus et Sanctus -The Sixth (and Sacred/Holy) Book of the Mysteries)
(1583); is preserved in the British Museum as Sloane ms 3189. The correct spelling
is Loagaeth but it has been so frequently printed as Logaeth that this spelling is
in common use. Written up by Edward Kelley, it is composed of 65 folios containing
101 exceedingly complex magical grids of letters, 96 of which are 49?49 grids
(preceded by one "table" composed of 49 rows of text � the first row of which is
actually the 49th row of the first table, not in this MS.), plus 5 grids of 36 x 72
cells. It is from Liber Logaeth that Dee and Kelley derived the 48 Calls or Keys
(see below), and in which are concealed the keys to the Mystical Heptarchy, a
related magical work by Dee. Liber Logaeth has never been published in book form
but is available online at: [1]. Dee himself left little information on his Sixth
Holy Book apart from saying that it contained 'The Mysterie of our Creation, The
Age of many years, and the conclusion of the World' and that the first page in the
book signified Chaos. Note that the title The Book of Enoch attributed to the text
of Liber Logaeth is not to be confused with the aprocryphal Biblical The Book of
Enoch. (There are three versions of the latter; a facsimile reprint of the
Ethiopian version is Laurence, (1995))[3] Nor should it be confused with Crowley's
rescension Liber Chanokh (The Book of Enoch) although all these texts are related.
[4]

The Five Books of Mystery

Another manuscript Sloan ms. 3188, also available in a fair copy by Elias Ashmole,
MS Sloane 3677. Available online at: [2]). It is an account of the 'actions' or
workings undertaken in the Liber Logaeth, titled the Mysteriorum Libri Quinque
(Five Books of Mystery (or Mystical Exercises). The Mysteriorum Libri Quinque is
the diary for 22 December 1581 � 23 May 1583 inclusive: the first five Books of the
Mysteries (and Appendix), ending where Casaubon's A True and Faithful Relation
begins. It describes the furniture of the temple; the Seal of God (Sigillum Dei);
the Tables of Light; the Great Circle and corresponding Collected Table of 49 Good
Angels; the Mystic Heptarchy and the Tables of Creation; the Angelic Alphabet
(Dee's copies) and the beginning of Loagaeth (i.e., the first few folios of MS.
Sloane 3189). There are two transcripts of this manuscript available today: Joseph
Peterson[5] and C. L. Whitby.[6] Versions of the first three of the five Books of
Mystical Exercises can be found online at : [http://john-dee

Other Enochian manuscripts

Yet another central manuscript is Sloane 3191 (available online at: [3] ) which
comprises: 48 Angelic Keys; The Book of Earthly Science, Aid and Victory; On the
Mystic Heptarchy; and Invocations of the Good Angels.

Two further Manuscripts from Dee and Kelley's workings are important to Enochian
magic:

1) MS. Cotton Appendix XLVI Part I (available online at: [4] is the diary for 28
May 1583 � 15 August 1584 inclusive: The Sixth (and Sacred) Parallel Book of the
Mysteries (not to be confused with "The Sixth and Sacred Book of the Mysteries",
which is part of Liber Logaeth - see above) and "The Seventh Book of the Mysteries"
(Krakow), beginning where A True and Faithful Relation begins. It includes the
arrival of Prince Adalbert Laski, the journey to Krakow and the dictation of the 48
Calls or Keys (including descriptions of the 91 Parts of the Earth), as well as the
Vision of the Four Watchtowers and also the Great Table.
2) MS. Cotton Appendix XLVI Part II (available online at: [5]) is the diary for 15
August 1584 � 23 May 1587 (and 20 March � 7 September 1607) inclusive: The Book of
Praha, The Royal Stephanic Mysteries, The Puccian Action, The Book of Resurrection,
The Third Action of Trebon and the remaining Spirit Actions at Mortlake in 1607,
ending where A True and Faithful Relation ends. (It may be seen that Casaubon's A
True and Faithful Relation is equivalent to the MS Cotton Appendix in toto, i.e.
Dee and Kelley's diaries from 28 May 1585-23 Sept 1607).
Meric Casaubon's 1659 edition of part of these diaries (Cotton Appendix MS. XLVI),
entitled A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers between Dr. John
Dee and Some Spirits contains notorious transcription errors which in some cases
were transmitted through many subsequent republications of the Dee/Kelly material;
Casaubon's edition was intended to discredit Dee and Kelly by accusing them of
dealing with the Christian Devil. An expanded facsimile edition of Casaubon was
published by Magickal Childe in 1992[7]

Dee and Kelley's surviving manuscripts later came into the possession of Elias
Ashmole, who preserved them, and made fair copies of some, along with annotations.

Rediscovery by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

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Dee and Kelly never referred to their magic as 'Enochian' but rather called it
'Angelic'. However, in modern occultism it is commonly known as Enochian. It is not
quite clear how much of Enochian magic was put to use by Dee and Kelley. Indeed,
whether Dee and Kelly ever practiced Enochian is still up for debate. The angels
told them not to work Enochian, and there are no diary records of works being done
except for one healing talisman that they were instructed by the angels to make.
Dee and Kelley's journals are essentially notebooks which record the elements of
the system, rather than records of workings they performed using the system.

Some writers assert that Thomas Rudd was the centre of a group of angel magicians
who may have used Dee and Kelly's material. The Angelical material of Dee and
Kelley also had a considerable influence on the magic of Rosicrucianism. However,
little else became of Dee's work until late in the nineteenth century, when it was
incorporated and adopted by a mysterious and highly secret brother-hood of adepts
in England, who called themselves the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The
rediscovery of Enochian magic by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers of the Hermetic
Order of the Golden Dawn in the 1880s led to Mathers developing the material into a
comprehensive and workable system of ceremonial Magick.[neutrality is disputed]
They invoked the Enochian deities whose names were written on the tablets. They
also traveled in what they called their Body of Light (commonly known as the
"astral body" in western occultism) into these subtle regions and recorded their
psychic experiences in a scientific manner.[neutrality is disputed] The two major
branches of the system were then grafted on to the Adeptus Minor curriculum of the
Golden Dawn.

Enochian as an operative system is difficult to reconstruct based upon original

manuscripts like the collection of Sir Hans Sloane in the British Museum, but
contemporary occult organizations have attempted to make it usable. The Golden Dawn
was the first, but their knowledge was based upon only one of Dee's diaries and
their planetary, elemental, or zodiacal attributions have no foundation in the
original sources.

The Golden Dawn also invented the game of Enochian chess, so that aspects of the
Enochian Tablets can be used for divination. The four chessboards do not have any
symbols on them, just sets of squares colored in certain ways. Each board is
associated with one of the four elements of magick. Pat Zalewski's book (1994) on
the subject is definitive.[8]

The papers of the Sphere Group, a sub-group of the Golden Dawn founded by Florence
Farr which experimented with Enochian magic, have been edited and published in
Kuntz, (1996).[9]

Aleister Crowley and Enochian

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Aleister Crowley, who worked with, and wrote about, Enochian magic extensively,
contributed to its comparatively widespread use today. Crowley published the Golden
Dawn Enochian material as "A Brief Abstract of the Symbolic Representation of the
Universe Derived by Doctor John Dee Through the Skrying of Sir Edward Kelly."
(Initially published in Crowley's Journal The Equinox Nos VII and VIII, this work
was subsequently renamed Liber LXXXIV vel Chanokh, or The Book of Enoch - Chanokh
being an older Hebrew form of the name Enoch. Crowley numbered the book as 84 since
that number is the Qabalistic numeration for Chanokh. (In some printings the number
89 is mistakenly assigned to the book).
Crowley's most famous work with Enochian focused upon the Calls of the Aethyrs. His
visions from these Calls, which he experienced while working with Victor Neuberg in
Algeria, formed a document called The Vision and the Voice, also known as Liber 418
(or to give it its full title, Liber CCCCXVIII: Liber XXX ?rum Vel Saeculi, Being
of the Angels of the Thirty Aethyrs the Vision and the Voice - see Holy Books of
Thelema). The book was written with highly symbolic imagery and is integral to
Crowley's explication of his Law of Thelema. Recordings of Crowley reading the
First and Second Calls of the Aethyrs (in both English and Enochian) exist; they
were recorded as part of a series of wax cylinder recordings made by Crowley in
1922, and can be found on various compilations of these recordings onto CD which
are widely available today.

Criticism of Enochian Magic

The value and safety of the Enochian system of magic has been disputed. Paul Foster
Case, a 20th-century occultist who began his magical career with the Alpha et
Omega, was critical of the Enochian system. On Case�s account, the system of Dee
and Kelley was in fact a torso of an older, more complete Qabalistic system.[10]
The existing Enochian system, according to Case, is both partial and lacking in
sufficient protective methods. Case believed he had witnessed the physical
breakdown of a number of practitioners of Enochian magic, due precisely to the lack
of protective methods.[11] In a letter to occultist Dion Fortune, Case wrote:

�I have personal knowledge of more than twenty-five instances where the performance
of [Enochian] magical operations based upon the Order�s [i.e. Alpha et Omega�s]
formulae led to serious disintegrations of mind and body� Perhaps the most
conspicuous example of the use of these formulas is A.C. [Aleister Crowley]
himself, but there are plenty of others I have personally witnessed, whose personal
shipwrecks have been just as complete even though their smaller tonnage, so to say,
makes the loss seem less deplorable...�[12]
When Case wrote the lessons for the magical order he founded, the Builders of the
Adytum or B.O.T.A., he removed the Enochian system of the Alpha et Omega and
substituted elemental tablets based on Qabalistic formulae. These formulae were
reportedly communicated to Case by Master R..[13]

The system
The two pillars of modern Enochian Magick, as outlined in Liber Chanokh are the
Elemental Watchtowers (including the Tablet of Union) and the "World" of the 30
Aethyrs. The Aethyrs are the "heavens" or Aires of the system. Starting wi