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Enochian Magick

2005-07-19T02:21:42Z

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'''Enochian magick''' is a system of [[ceremonial magick]] based on the evocation and commanding of various spirits. It is based on the 16th century writings of Dr. [[John Dee]] and [[Edward Kelley]], who claimed that their information was delivered to them directly by an [[angel]]. They created the [[Enochian |Enochian script]], and the table of correspondences that goes with it. It claims to embrace secrets contained within the apocryphal [[Book of Enoch]].

Enochian magick is a hierarchical system of angel magick centered on the evocation of angelic beings whose names are constructed from several tables of letters using consistent rules of formation.

Enochian magick refers to a large number of letter tables, of which 5 are the most important. These tables include the [[Watchtowers]],a set of 4 12x13 letter tables often referred to the 4 traditional elements and the [[Tablet of Union]], a 4x5 letter table that is referred to the element of spirit. Together these 5 tables can be assembled into a supertable used in the generation of all the angelic names used in the Enochian system.

Additionally, Enochian magick uses a series of 19 calls written in [[Enochian_(language) | Enochian]] for the invocation of the various angelic forces and beings represented within the tablets. The exact use and attribution of each call is somewhat obscure, but most magical groups have some systematic approach to them.

== See Also ==
* [[Magick]]
* [[Occultism]]
* [[Mysticism]]

==References==
*Wikipedia(2004). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian_magick Enochian magick]. Retrieved Nov. 7, 2004.

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[[Category:Types of Magick]]
[[Category:Enochian]]

Traditional Witchcraft

2005-07-13T05:35:39Z

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Traditional Witchcraft is a variety of [[witchcraft]] that focuses on creating an authentic experience of the traditional pagan religions of germanic countries within a modern context using the best available historical research. Traditional witchcraft often contrasts itself with [[wicca]], which contains many elements adopted from Golden Dawn ceremonial magick and is more a reinvention of paganism than the reconstitution many traditional witches say they want.

Notable differences with [[wicca]] include traditional witchcraft's lack of any explicit banishing rituals, a focus on shamanic trance states and an emphasis on polytheism rather than a [[duotheism | duotheistic]] or [[monism | monistic]] general principle expressed within particular gods and goddesses.

Traditional witchcraft can be seen as a particular cultural manifestation of the [[traditional paganism]] movement.

Traditional Witchcraft

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Enochian Magick

2005-07-09T02:57:51Z

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'''Enochian magick''' is a system of [[ceremonial magick]] based on the evocation and commanding of various spirits. It is based on the 16th century writings of Dr. [[John Dee]] and [[Edward Kelley]], who claimed that their information was delivered to them directly by an [[angel]]. They created the [[Enochian |Enochian script]], and the table of correspondences that goes with it. It claims to embrace secrets contained within the apocryphal [[Book of Enoch]].

Enochian magick is a hierarchical system of angel magick centered on the evocation of angelic beings whose names are constructed from several tables of letters using consistent rules of formation.

Enochian magick refers to a large number of letter tables, of which 5 are the most important. These tables include the [[Watchtowers]],a set of 4 12x13 letter tables often referred to the 4 traditional elements and the [[Tablet of Union]], a 4x5 letter table that is referred to the element of spirit. Together these 5 tables can be assembled into a supertable

Additionally, Enochian magick uses a series of 19 calls written in [[Enochian_(language) | Enochian]] for the invocation of the various angelic forces and beings represented within the tablets. The exact use and attribution of each call is somewhat obscure, but most magickal groups have some systematic approach to them.

== See Also ==
* [[Magick]]
* [[Occultism]]
* [[Mysticism]]

==References==
*Wikipedia(2004). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian_magick Enochian magick]. Retrieved Nov. 7, 2004.

[[Category:Magick]]
[[Category:Types of Magick]]
[[Category:Enochian]]

Enochian Magick

2005-07-09T02:55:51Z

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'''Enochian magick''' is a system of [[ceremonial magick]] based on the evocation and commanding of various spirits. It is based on the 16th century writings of Dr. [[John Dee]] and [[Edward Kelley]], who claimed that their information was delivered to them directly by an [[angel]]. They created the [[Enochian |Enochian script]], and the table of correspondences that goes with it. It claims to embrace secrets contained within the apocryphal [[Book of Enoch]].

Enochian magick is a hierarchical system of angel magick centered on the evocation of angelic beings whose names are constructed from several tables of letters using consistent rules of formation.

Enochian magick refers to a large number of letter tables, of which 5 are the most important. These tables include the [[Watchtowers]],a set of 4 12x13 letter tables often referred to the 4 traditional elements and the [[Tablet of Union]], a 4x5 letter table that is referred to the element of spirit. Together these 5 tables can be assembled into a supertable

Additionally, Enochian magick uses a series of 19 calls written in [[Enochian language |Enochian_(language)]] for the invocation of the various angelic forces and beings represented within the tablets. The exact use and attribution of each call is somewhat obscure, but most magickal groups have some systematic approach to them.

== See Also ==
* [[Magick]]
* [[Occultism]]
* [[Mysticism]]

==References==
*Wikipedia(2004). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian_magick Enochian magick]. Retrieved Nov. 7, 2004.

[[Category:Magick]]
[[Category:Types of Magick]]
[[Category:Enochian]]

Enochian Magick

2005-07-09T02:54:40Z

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'''Enochian magick''' is a system of [[ceremonial magick]] based on the evocation and commanding of various spirits. It is based on the 16th century writings of Dr. [[John Dee]] and [[Edward Kelley]], who claimed that their information was delivered to them directly by an [[angel]]. They created the [[Enochian |Enochian script]], and the table of correspondences that goes with it. It claims to embrace secrets contained within the apocryphal [[Book of Enoch]].

Enochian magick is a hierarchical system of angel magick centered on the evocation of angelic beings whose names are constructed from several tables of letters using consistent rules of formation.

Enochian magick refers to a large number of letter tables, of which 5 are the most important. These tables include the [[Watchtowers]],a set of 4 12x13 letter tables often referred to the 4 traditional elements and the [[Tablet of Union]], a 4x5 letter table that is referred to the element of spirit. Together these 5 tables can be assembled into a supertable

Additionally, Enochian magick uses a series of 19 calls written in [[Enochian_(language)]] for the invocation of the various angelic forces and beings represented within the tablets. The exact use and attribution of each call is somewhat obscure, but most magickal groups have some systematic approach to them.

== See Also ==
* [[Magick]]
* [[Occultism]]
* [[Mysticism]]

==References==
*Wikipedia(2004). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian_magick Enochian magick]. Retrieved Nov. 7, 2004.

[[Category:Magick]]
[[Category:Types of Magick]]
[[Category:Enochian]]

Enochian (language)

2005-07-09T02:36:53Z

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'''Enochian''' is an [[occult]] (angelic) language introduced by [[Dr. John Dee]] and [[Edward Kelly|Sir Edward Kelly]] in the 16th Century. Dee and Kelly claimed that it was revealed to them by angels.

Angels would be evoked by Dee into a crystal "shew stone" resting upon the Enochian [[Table of Practice]] Kelly, the more experienced scryer, would observe the angelic visions that ensued.

The language appears slightly inflected and has a word order that closely approximates English, although Enochian appears to lack both a definite or indefinite article. The language also appears to possess some characteristics common to agglutinating languages, such as the collapse of multiple lexical units into single words. Enochian's small vocabulary makes it difficult to assess the significance of apparent inflection in noun and verb forms. The linguist Donald Laycock has speculated that these possible inflections represent merely random variations in word forms and lack any syntactic significance, but this is simply informed speculation.

Enochian possesses its own alphabet which can also be transliterated into the Latin alphabet. Unlike most phonetic alphabets, the names of the Enochian letters appear to have very little to do with the pronounciation of the letters. Indeed, the total number of characters composing the Enochian letter names enumerates to 64, a perfect square. Given the importance of square tables in the derivation of many Enochian words, it is possible that this fact is not a coincidence but is instead indicative of some hidden cypher underlying the composition of the letter names.

Several words have rather intimidating consonant clusters; they are pronounced by inserting a vowel, e.g. "nazpsad" is pronounced "nazepesad". Other words consist entirely of vowels. Several systems of pronunciation exist. The Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley favored system mimics the pronounciation of Hebrew by associating an implicit vowel sound with every consonant not immediately apposed to another vowel. Donald Laycock believed that Enochian pronounciation more closely approximates that of English.

Most of the vocabulary consists of names of angels derived from four acrostic tablets. Besides that, there are fewer than 1000 attested words, which appear in 19 symbolic poems, called "keys". Dee's use of the keys is not entirely clear, although one key, the 19th, appears to lead to visions of 30 "aethers" or dimensions.

Enochian, and the [[Enochian Magick | magical system]] that Dee and Kelly based on it, were incorporated by [[Aleister Crowley]] as part of his popular and influential system. It is also popular in [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], from which Crowley learned it, and in the [[Aurum Solis]].

A notable student of Enochian at the turn of the 21st Century was the late Benjamin Rowe[http://www.hermetic.com/browe-archive] a.k.a. "Josh Norton," a self-taught ceremonial magician who authored many papers on the use of Dee and Kelley's magical system. Rowe's work is widely respected among Enochian magicians but is also highly idiosyncratic, and relies heavily on the qabalistic speculations of [[Charles Stansfeld Jones]].

==See also==

* [[Enochian Magick]]

==References==

*Wikipedia. (2005). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian Enochian]. Retrieved Jan 19 2005.

==External Links==

* [http://members.aol.com/AJRoberti/enochlng.htm Enochian Linguistics]
* [http://www.themagickalreview.org/enochian/enochian_mss.php Digital Scans of the Enochian Manuscripts]
* [http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/kelly.htm Sir Edward Kelly]
* [http://www.alchemylab.com/kellydee.htm Edward Kelly and John Dee]
* [http://www.levity.com/alchemy/kellystn.html The Stone of the Philosophers by Edward Kelly]
* [http://www.hermetic.com/browe/ The Enochian World of Benjamin Rowe]
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/enoch/ Several Enochian Texts]

[[Category:Magick]]
[[Category:Types of Magick]]
[[Category:Enochian]]

Enochian (language)

2005-07-09T02:33:45Z

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'''Enochian''' is an [[occult]] (angelic) language introduced by [[Dr. John Dee]] and [[Edward Kelly|Sir Edward Kelly]] in the 16th Century. Dee and Kelly claimed that it was revealed to them by angels.

Dee would invoke an inteligence and Kelly would see and hear.

The language appears slightly inflected and has a word order that closely approximates English, although Enochian appears to lack both a definite or indefinite article. The language also appears to possess some characteristics common to agglutinating languages, such as the collapse of multiple lexical units into single words. Enochian's small vocabulary makes it difficult to assess the significance of apparent inflection in noun and verb forms. The linguist Donald Laycock has speculated that these possible inflections represent merely random variations in word forms and lack any syntactic significance, but this is simply informed speculation.

Enochian possesses its own alphabet which can also be transliterated into the Latin alphabet. Unlike most phonetic alphabets, the names of the Enochian letters appear to have very little to do with the pronounciation of the letters. Indeed, the total number of characters composing the Enochian letter names enumerates to 64, a perfect square. Given the importance of square tables in the derivation of many Enochian words, it is possible that this fact is not a coincidence but is instead indicative of some hidden cypher underlying the composition of the letter names.

Several words have rather intimidating consonant clusters; they are pronounced by inserting a vowel, e.g. "nazpsad" is pronounced "nazepesad". Other words consist entirely of vowels. Several systems of pronunciation exist. The Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley favored system mimics the pronounciation of Hebrew by associating an implicit vowel sound with every consonant not immediately apposed to another vowel. Donald Laycock believed that Enochian pronounciation more closely approximates that of English.

Most of the vocabulary consists of names of angels derived from four acrostic tablets. Besides that, there are fewer than 1000 attested words, which appear in 19 symbolic poems, called "keys". Dee's use of the keys is not entirely clear, although one key, the 19th, appears to lead to visions of 30 "aethers" or dimensions.

Enochian, and the [[Enochian Magick | magical system]] that Dee and Kelly based on it, were incorporated by [[Aleister Crowley]] as part of his popular and influential system. It is also popular in [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], from which Crowley learned it, and in the [[Aurum Solis]].

A notable student of Enochian at the turn of the 21st Century was the late Benjamin Rowe[http://www.hermetic.com/browe-archive] a.k.a. "Josh Norton," a self-taught ceremonial magician who authored many papers on the use of Dee and Kelley's magical system. Rowe's work is widely respected among Enochian magicians but is also highly idiosyncratic, and relies heavily on the qabalistic speculations of [[Charles Stansfeld Jones]].

==See also==

* [[Enochian Magick]]

==References==

*Wikipedia. (2005). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian Enochian]. Retrieved Jan 19 2005.

==External Links==

* [http://members.aol.com/AJRoberti/enochlng.htm Enochian Linguistics]
* [http://www.themagickalreview.org/enochian/enochian_mss.php Digital Scans of the Enochian Manuscripts]
* [http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/kelly.htm Sir Edward Kelly]
* [http://www.alchemylab.com/kellydee.htm Edward Kelly and John Dee]
* [http://www.levity.com/alchemy/kellystn.html The Stone of the Philosophers by Edward Kelly]
* [http://www.hermetic.com/browe/ The Enochian World of Benjamin Rowe]
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/enoch/ Several Enochian Texts]

[[Category:Magick]]
[[Category:Types of Magick]]
[[Category:Enochian]]