Category Archives: An Enochian Miscellany

Enochian Vision Magick

Hermetic Library fellow T Polyphilus reviews Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and Practical Guide to the Magick of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley by Lon Milo DuQuette, forward by Clay Holden (of the John Dee Publication Project).

Lon Milo DuQuette Clay Holden Enochian Vision Magick

There sure have been a lot of books published on the topic of Enochiana—understood generally as the system of angelic magic derived from the work of the Elizabethans John Dee and Edward Kelly. I count over twenty in my personal library alone. Many of these are historical, focusing on the primary materials from Dee and Kelly; while others are practical, offering instructions to contemporary aspirants and practitioners. Never before has there been a book that combines the two in such an accessible and sensible manner.

Lon Milo DuQuette is a storyteller, and his understanding of magick demands, and thus offers, the narrative framework so often missing from not only the modern practitioner approach, but also that of the source text analyst. His tale synthesizes the confusingly atomized objects and texts of angelic magic, placing them in a developmental sequence, and assessing their importance in the origins and fulfillment of Enochian praxis. His story does not end in the 17th century: the book is full of anecdotes about his own work and that of other living magicians, characterized by the humor and humility that are DuQuette’s trademark as an authority on esoteric subjects.

These stories are complemented by the necessary technical detail for anyone who wishes to use this book as a practical reference in actual work. And for those whose bent is toward research, the overview indicates all of the principal texts and topics of the angelic corpus, as the heads of so many fascinating trails. In my view, this book makes obsolete every previous “beginner” book on the topic, and is itself likely to hold a focal place in the bibliography for years to come. And along with its success as a primer, Enochian Vision Magick includes original reflection and inventive technique, so that veterans of the tablets and aires are sure to find food for thought among its pages. [via]

Conjuring Spirits

Conjuring Spirits: A manual of Goetic and Enochian Sorcery by Hermetic Library fellow Michael Osiris Snuffin, the 2010 hardcover from Concrescent Press, is part of the collection at the Reading Room.

Michael Osiris Snuffin Conjuring Spirits from Concrescent Press

“Sorcery, defined here as the art of conjuring spirits, is one of the traditional, core disciplines of magickal practice. It is highly admired and its practitioners accorded great prestige. While many of the old grimoires have baroque and elaborate procedures for conjuring spirits, Frater Osiris cuts through the Gordian knot of complexity and obfuscation to present us with a much more direct approach to evoking Goetic and Enochian spirits. It is simple, clear, practical and without mystification. It is highly accessible and designed to enable practitioners to assemble the few tools required, prepare themselves, and begin work almost immediately reaping the practical and spiritual benefits of sorcerous practice. Naturally, it is an approach that some won’t like, but many more will appropriate and tune to their own satisfaction. Anyone can get started here.” [via]

 

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Babalon, Enochian Magick, and Music with Lon Milo DuQuette on Jun 30 in Sacramento

You may be interested in “Babalon, Enochian Magick, and Music with Lon Milo DuQuette in Sacramento!” an event being presented by The College of Thelema of Northern California and the Temple of the Silver Star which will be a day with a couple lectures and a musical performance by Lon Milo DuQuette on Sun, Jun 30th in Sacramento, CA.

Babalon, Enochian Magick, and Music with Lon Milo DuQuette

“Sunday, June 30, 2013
at the Soror Meral Building
Sacramento, California

Schedule of Events:

1pm Lecture: Babalon and the Abyss: the Ultimate Attainment

Explore the mysteries of the crossing of the ‘Abyss’; and learn about the nature of Babalon, the Thelemic archetype of the all-encompassing goddess.

3pm Lecture: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Enochian Magick

Learn the basic theory as well as the practical tools necessary to begin work with this powerful system of ceremonial magick.

5pm Musical performance by Lon Milo DuQuette

6pm Reception. Lon will be available to sign his books, so bring your copies! A limited number of Lon’s books and related titles will also be available for purchase.

Lon’s lectures and performances are both thought-provoking and tremendously entertaining. It’s quite unusual to learn so much and have so much fun on the same occasion. Don’t miss this opportunity to see Lon in person!” [via]

Enochian Chess of the Golden Dawn

Enochian Chess of the Golden Dawn: A Four-Handed Chess Game by Chris Zalewski is part of the collection at the Reading Room.

Chris Zalewski's Enochian Chess of the Golden Dawn from Llewellyn

 

 

The Hermetic Library Reading Room is an imaginary and speculative future reification of the library in the physical world, a place to experience a cabinet of curiosities offering a confabulation of curation, context and community that engages, archives and encourages a living Western Esoteric Tradition. If you would like to contribute to the Hermetic Library Reading Room, consider supporting the library or contact the librarian.

Enochian Working and Scrying Session with Lon Milo DuQuette

You may be interested in Enochian Magick – Online Group Working and Scrying Session with Lon Milo DuQuette offered through Thelesis Aura on Sat, Jul 28 at 12pm PDT but you can participate from anywhere in the world that has access to the Internet.

“Enochian Magick has long been considered the ‘deep end of the pool’ of the occult arts. Ever since John Dee and Kelley began their workings with these angelic beings centuries ago, no other branch of magick has been treated with as much fear and wonder. Performing an Enochian working is, by definition, a process by which beings from another world are contacted and communed with.

For more than 35 years, acclaimed occultist Lon Milo DuQuette has worked with this controversial system of magick. His book ‘Enochian Vision Magick’ is considered the best of its kind, and the public workings he’s done around the world have been called life-changing by those who’ve been privileged to attend.

In an historic, first-time experiment, Lon will be conducting an Enochian live magick workshop followed by an actual group scrying session over the Internet. Anyone, anywhere in the world with a good Internet connection and computer will be able to participate in this global experiment in consciousness.

To our knowledge this has never before been attempted.”

The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee, By Glyn Parry

“The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee, By Glyn Parry” is a book review by Ronald Hutton of a new biography of John Dee, due to release in the states in April, from Yale University Press. (HT @t3dy)

“One of the most colourful and least respectable figures of the European Renaissance was the magus, a scholar, expert in the hidden wisdom of the created world, who sought the power to manipulate it to the advantage of (depending on his degree of probity) himself, his employers or humanity.

The most familiar such character in fiction is of course Dr Faustus, but the best known in real life is John Dee, a Londoner of Welsh blood who haunted the English and other royal courts throughout the late 16th century.

Much has been written about him in modern times, though little has been produced by experts in his period. To most historians he represents a tragic waste of talent; a brilliant scientist who was diverted into a fruitless attempt to converse with angels, thereby ruining his career and reputation and falling prey to the demented or unscrupulous adventurers who posed as his mediums: above all Edward Kelley, who combined both characteristics and, at one point, even persuaded Dee to swap wives with him under angelic instruction. Modern ritual magicians, by contrast, have seen Dee as a hero who discovered an occult system of genuine validity.

But in Glyn Parry, he has at last attracted a biographer with a talent for uncovering fresh archival material, who has conducted thorough research both into his life and the circles in which he moved.

The basic argument of the resulting book is that Dee was not an anomalous figure at the court of Queen Elizabeth, because that monarch and her leading courtiers – like their counterparts on the Continent – were deeply interested in the occult arts and sciences and were prepared to invest large sums in practitioners who promised material gains from them. As a result, they tapped into an underworld of alchemists and ritual magicians who became tangled up in turn with royal policy-making, political rivalry, and conspiracy.” [via]

The Enochian and Thelemic Works of David Richard Jones

Welcome to David Richard Jones, who is the newest guest to have a personal site at the Hermetic Library. The new guest site is The Enochian and Thelemic Works of David Richard Jones. David is a noted scholar, and author of numerous articles on Freemasonry, Magick, Enochian and Biblical and Religious Studies; who is also purported to be a member of numerous secret societies.

While David has already been a contributor to the library, with material available in An Enochian Miscellany, I’ve been working to consolidate what is already on the site and, moreover, to improve the presentation of that for this new guest site. David also has decades of additional Enochian and Thelemic material that we have been working together to make available on the site for the first time.

The Enochian and Thelemic Works of David Richard Jones is going to be even more interesting and promises to continue the tradition of excellence. There are currently three primary areas of focus for this new guest site: Enochian Studies, Thelema and Historical.

I’ve already been posting about a large amount of historical materials that is new to the site in both The Oratory of the Enochian Forum and The Invisible College, and there’s a significant number of documents to explore in those restored archives. You can also check through those posts on this blog by gandering at the categories for The Oratory of the Enochian Forum and The Invisible College. There’s actually still much from the Invisible College that I haven’t posted about, so there’s still gems there you can discover.

The section for David Richard Jones’ Thelemic work contains material that is entirely new to the site, and some that’s not readily available elsewhere. There’s currently a collection of essays and a few of those have been a bit controversial, so be sure to check them out! Two of these are derived from postings on the old Beast Bay forum, which has gone offline and haven’t been available except for via some snapshots in the Internet Archives’ Wayback Machine. (There’s actually a lot of Beast Bay material there.)

The final section is David’s Enochian Studies and there’s a mix here of material. I’ve been doing a great deal of work to update the materials that have already been available with better graphics and better navigation. Eventually I’ll be adding in redirects from the old presentations of these works as they appeared in An Enochian Miscellany that point to the new presentations here. But, in addition to these improvements, there’s also newly available work that you can check out. So, if you’ve an interest in Enochian, whether as a beginner or as a long time student, there’s definitely material here for you.

Even though this guest site is new, you can already see that there’s an enormous amount of interesting material to be discovered and re-discovered. Moreover, there’s lots more material to be added in ongoing updates to the site so there’s even more to come!