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Enochian Magick Revisited

To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.pagan.magick
From: catherine yronwode 
Subject: Re: Enochian Magick Revisited
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:04:23 GMT

Alexander Mulligan wrote:
> 
> Finally, after about of a week of trying and failing to get some
> straight answers in plain English from the Enochian folks, I
> have learned that their current theory and practices are based
> upon attempts to recreate the reported scrying experiences of
> one person, whose name is not Enoch.

Not so. Dr. Dee, who developed the system utilized the services of
several scryers, of whom Edward Kelly was the most successful ... and
the most notorious. 

Enoch is a person mentioned in the Book of Genesis in the Jewish
Tanach who was said to communicate directly with heavenly beings. John
Dee specifically stated that his own system of holding communion with
heavenly entities was be superior to the Hebrew system. He thus
appropriated the name of Enoch and also the tripartite division of the
Hebrew alphabet for his angelic language, making him, in my opinion,
one of many magical Christians who appropriate elements of Jewish
magic and mysticism and then claim to side-step Judaism while yet
retaining its  supposed spiritual benefits. 

> Apparently, the Enochians would have us believe [...]  that elaborate
> and arcane training and study and ritual are needed, and that they have
> some kind of exclusive license to convey and train these abilities.
> 
> Is that unfair? I don't think so. 

It seems unfair to me, in that it untrue.

     1. No course of "training" is offered. John Dee, the man who
devised the Enochian magic system  was a polymath astrologer,
mathematician, scholar -- his best known scryer (Edward Kelly) was a
criminal who simply had the ability to see visions in a crystal. Dee
did not have that ability and no amount of training inculcated it in
him. He used other scryers before Kelly. None of them were "trained."
The ability to sky is therefore taken in Enochian magic to be some
sort of inherent spiritual "gift." 

     2. There is no "study" needed except for those who wish to study
Dee's methodology. Dee himself did not "study," nor did Kelly. They
merely sat down as scryer and recorder.

     3. The ritual is anything but "elaborate and arcane." The needed
materials, as Geoffrey James makes clear, are a small table, a block
of wax and a graver to inscribe it, a cloth, some wooden disks, paints
and brushes, and a 2-inch diameter crystal ball.  All the rest of the
stuff that the Golden Dawn and O.T.O. added (huge rafts of gematria,
Egyptian god forms, tables of perfume correspondences, tables of
Indian chakra equivalents, the Jewish Tree of Life diagram, et cetera
ad absurdum) have nothing whatsoever to do with Dr. Dee's Enochian
magic. 

Cordially,

cat yronwode 

Hoodoo in Theory and Practice - http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html

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