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To: alt.magick From: catherine yronwodeSubject: My Enochian 100 Words Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 09:00:51 GMT Having read the material in siva's library on Enochian magick, i am now ready to rise to Bruce's challenge to define it in 100 words or less. I ask the indulgence of actual Enochian magicians, who will probably wish to write their own 100 word description. Enochian Magick is a system of communication with angelic and demonic beings, embedded in a Christian framework and specifically said to involve a language more sacred than Hebrew. It was written by John Dee, a mathematician, from the visions his scryer, Edward Kelly, a criminal, saw in a crystal in the 16th century. The angelic language is coded into complex tables of letters. Dee and later editors made multiple transcription errors that any sharp eye can catch. The aim of Enochian magic is to reveal heavenly secrets; it basically describes a Heaven resembling 16th century European monarchical rulership paradigms. (99 words) cat yronwode ----------------------------------- To: alt.magick From: catherine yronwode Subject: Re: My Enochian 100 Words - Post Script Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 09:24:18 GMT Two small notes of addendum: The Geoffrey James book on Enochian magick, "The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee" (Heptangle Books, 1984), was the volume that i found most interesting and useful. This was the sole book i could easily lay hands on (by borrowing, not buying) that did NOT cut 16th century Enochian magic to fit the Procrustean bed of 19th and 20th century Golden Dawn / Ordo Templi Orientis fallacious hyper-syncretism -- and, incidentally, it was dedicated to one "C. R. Runyon," our very own Poke de Plume. By contrast, Gerald Schueler's "Enochian Magic: A Practical Manual" (Llewellyn, 1987) was rife with simple errors of fact and was hampered by the author's overwhelming intention to exalt and promote the G.D. / O.T.O. re-write of Dee's and Kelly's work. Interestingly, though, this book was nicely illustrated by one Bill Fugate -- a comic book artist who illustrated a graphic adaptation i wrote from an interview with the rock'n'roll pianist Jerry Lee back in the early 1980s. cat "it's a small world after all" yronwode END
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