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about the author aaron leitch has been a scholar and spiritual seeker for over two decades he is a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn the ordo stella matutina and the societas magica his writings both in print and online cover such varied fields as ancient middle eastern religion and mythology solomonic mysticism shamanism neoplatonism hermeticism and alchemy traditional wicca and neopaganism the hermetic order of the golden dawn thelema angelology qabalah enochiana african diaspora religions hexcraft and hoodoo folk traditions psychology and consciousness expansion cyberspace and virtual reality and modern social commentary he is the author of the book secrets of the magickal grimoires as well as many essays on various aspects of magick and the angelical language please visit his website at http kheph777.tripod.com .

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the angelical language volume i the complete history and mythos of the tongue of angels based on the journals of dr john dee and edward kelley aaron leitch llewellyn publications woodbury minnesota

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other books by this author the angelical language volume ii both sides of heaven contributing author diabolical contributing author secrets of the magickal grimoires

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contents acknowledgments xiii introduction to volume i 1 chapter one the gates of heaven and the enochian tradition 11 the fifty cales or binah 12 the i-iermcric celles of intelligence 19 the book of enoch 24 the hook of soyga ialadamia sivc soyga vocan 30 chapter two john dee s book of enoch the book of loagaeth 39 the holy book of loagaeth i speech from cod 43 three types of knowledge 44 the last prophecy of the world 46 let those that fear god and arc worthy read 51 kelley s first vision of the holy book 1 kelley s second vision of the holy book 52 kelley s tilird vision of the h,jly book 5 from the right hand to the lefi as in the hebrew bible 55 the reception of the forty-nine tables 57 in forty days l v1ust lhe book be perfected 59 begin 10 practice in /wg~ist 61 begin the book next tuesday-tiie iv101her galvah 63 everv 10ndav is the seventh -the enochian sabbath 68 the fortv-nine tables of loagaeth what we know 69 titles of the tables i 7 fi rsl tahle second table fellii ll table illetcellth llf eiglztccntll tablr w

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i contents tilbles 20 to 49 82 forty-ninth table 84 be it unto thee as thou hast done-the anticlimax of the loagaeth saga 92 chapter three the forty-eight angelical keys or calls 103 the reception of the forty-eight keys 107 dee suspected of cryptography 108 corpus omnium the round table of nalvage 115 vita suprema first life pre-deluge 121 vita secunda second lifej-post-deluge to christ 122 vita tertia third lifej-post-crucifixion to present 123 life but also death fourth lifej-tribulation 123 the corpus omnium and the angelical keys 124 the angelical keys what we know 128 kev zero first table 128 key one second table 128 key three fourth tablej 129 keys nineteen to forty-eight twentieth to farly-ninth tables the call of the aethyrs 130 addendum the poetry of the forty-eight calls 133 chapter four gebofal-the gates of heaven and practice of the holy book 173 being called by god and to a good purpose 180 all these things must be used-gebofal and the heptarchia 184 gebofal instruction and ave s prayer of enoch 186 cehoe11 and the angelical keys final outline for gebofal 191 191

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contents ii chapter five the celestial speech 197 angelical mythos 202 the angelical alphabet 207 adjendum before that which you call hebrew angelical and agrippa s occult philosophy 214 of finding out the names of spirits and geniuses from the disposition of celestial bodies adapted from agrippa s third book chapter l61 215 of the calculating art of such names by the tradition of qahalists iadapted from agrippa s third book chapter 27 ,225 another manner of making characters delivered by qabalists adapted from agrippa s third book chapter 30 231 making pentacles and sigils adapted from pseudo-agrippa s fourth book of magical ceremonies .232 an angelical psalter 237 pronunciation key 238 vowels 238 consonants 239 long consonants 240 digraphs and diphthongs 241 accented syllables 241 calls in english 242 angelical key 243 further angelical phrases 280 an invitation to good angels 281 bibliography 285 index 295

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acknowledgments i wish to acknowledge mr geoffrey james joseph peterson donald tyson the late donald laycock and the awesome folks at themagickal review.org without their work dee s original system of mysticism would have lain hidden in the five books oj the mysteries and a true and elithfiil relation for god knows how long their books and resources were indispensable as reference material in my own studies special thanks must also go to joseph peterson and to ian rons of the magickal review for granting me permission to use their publications of dee s journals and the best enochian font ever made-the kelley angelic font in the same spirit i wish to acknowledge patricia shaffer her work on gathering dee s pronunciation notes for the angelical keys was an indescribable help to mel finally i also thank her for taking the time to work with me and to answer all of my challenges to her work i also wish to thank everyone on the enochian-l e-mail list at gnostica.net who collectively make up the very elite of enochian scholarship i would also like to mention ben rowe aka josh norton who was one of the brightest minds in enochian scholarship of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries like james peterson laycock and the others he was instrumental in the resurrection of dee s lost system of angelic magick i know you re studying with the pir now mr rowe a special kind of thanks goes to robert heinlein and his work stranger in a strange land he told us all about the miracles one could accomplish if one would only take the time to learn a language that transcends human thought i wish also to thank those from my personal life who allowed me access to dee s records before the magickal review gave them to the world l thanks to steve for swelling my head just enough to keep plugging away at this weirdness as well as for helping me get the images and diagrams in order thanks to austin without whom j would never have had the computer equipment to get onto the internet ten years ,1go nor to write this material of course thanks must go to carrie iiii

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iio acknowledgments for enduring ten long years of this project thanks also ro jessica tor reviewing and editing the chapters of volume i with a fresh eye i would also like to show my appreciation for llewellyn s expert readers they must have seen much potential in this project because they sacrificed a lot of their own time to make page-by-page constructive criticisms and editing suggestions the final project is much better thanks to their efforts i also find it most appropriate to give my thanks to the acquisitions production and art departments at llewellyn worldwide especially kevin r brown donna burch brett fechheimer and elysia gallo each of you has gone above and beyond on every aspect of this project you rook a great book and made it exceptional thank you i further dedicate this work to the memory of travis meeks aka doc fox you helped me much more than you knew and to a rose my first and greatest fan i love you both j

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introduction to volume i t he work you are now holding is the end product of an intensive ten-year project in fact this undertaking was so massive i had little choice but to split it between two volumes-the first of which you arc currently reading if you are at all familiar with dr john dec sir edward kelley and or their system of angelic magick you may be shocked and i hope delighted to discover this is not a typical book about enochian magick instead it is an exhaustive analysis of the angelical tongue recorded in dee s magickal journals including its history regarding its reception by dee its mythology as expounded to dee by the angels and in volume ii its grammar and linguistics this work docs not merely present angelical but will actually help the student un derstand the language by the year 1997 i was firmly dedicated to a study of classical an· gelic magick-such as we find in the medieval solomonic cycle the sa,ted tviagjc of abml11elin tije mage and of course the enochian magick of dee and kelley among these often diverse systems of mysticism i must admit none puzzled and fascinated me more than that preserved in dr dee s journals john dee 1527-1608 was a world famous mathematician scholar and inventor he was also d mystic and an astrologer in which capacity he acted as an advisor to queen elizabeth l it was dee who in 1559,

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2 introduction cast a horoscope to choose the most fortunate time for elizabeth s coronation there is even a long-standing tradition that dee was england s first official spy-traveling across europe on the queen s business but under the guise of an eccentric old wizard dec was interested in angelic magick throughout his life but his real work did not begin until he met one edward kelley introduced to him as edward talbot in the year 1582 ceo kelley 1555-97 has an uncertain and perhaps dark history but we can be certain that he was an avid student of alchemy this was likely what brought him to dee during their very first meeting dee learned that kelley had a knack for mediumship that he himself lacked dee performed an invocation to bring angels into his mystical shewstone and kelley was able to see hear and speak to the angels with case thereafter the two men formed a years-long partnership dedicated to a series of angelic seances they began by contacting one of the seven planetary archangels-annael ruler of venus-who claimed to be the current successive ruler of the cosmos i annael then introduced the men to the four archangels known as michael gabriel raphael and uriel it was these four angels and lesser angels directed by them who delivered the entirety of dee s magickal systems the seances effectively ended by 1587 and the two men went their separate ways by 1589 dee recorded his angelic sessions in several journals and condensed the main points of the magick into a grimoire before he died he hid a number of his journals and the grimoire in the false bottom of a wooden chest after his death the papers remained hidden there for over fifty years the chest was sold to a confectioner as a gift for his wife who owned the chest for twenty years before the papers were finally discovered an illiterate maid used several pages to kindle fires but the wife eventually discovered this and rescued what remained finally her second husband sold the papers to elias ashmole 161792 the famous english mason mystic and scholar ashmole discovered that the papers included dee s journals from december 1581 to may 1583 comprising the five books of the mysteries in which we find the bulk of the heptarchic system and parts of the loagacth system a copy of the angelical book or loagacth and dee s personal grimoire.

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introdllction 3 these three are preserved today in the british museum in london as sloane mss 3188 3189 and 3191 respectively apparently dee did not hide all of his journals after his passing several of them were sold with dee s library-purchased along with some of dee s angelic magick tools by the antiquarian sir robert bruce cotton these journals pick up where ashmole s leave off beginning at may 1583 and ending at april 1587 cotton passed these journals on to his son sir thomas cotton and they are preserved today in the british museum s cotton appendix 46 parts 1 and 2 it was in the cotton library that meric casaubon discovered them somewhere casaubon also obtained journals covering march to september of 1607 he combined these composed of thirteen individual books into the compendium entitled a true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between dr john dec j and some spirits published in 1659 this work contains the remainder of the heptarchic system the bulk of instruction concerning loagaeth and the angelical keys and dee s advanced magick involving the parts of the earth and the great table of the earth or watchtowers a copy of this book is preserved as sloane ms 3190 although most of dee s journals were lost for a time aspects of his angelical language survived to have a profound influence upon western esotericism this was largely through dee s grimoire sloane 3191 which contained a section entitled the 48 claves angelicae 48 angelical keys as well as a section of invocations for the angels of the four quarters of the universe l the latter section is called the book of supplication by modern scholars because dee was instructed by the angels to write supplications to invoke the angels whose names are contained in the great table of the earth or the watchtowers of the four quarters unfortunately instructions for the correct use of these systems were not irtcluded in dee s groimoire likely because the grimoire was simply his working notes intended for his personal use therefore mystics began to adopt dee s material into the structure of their own systems and even expanded the material on the same basis the invocations contained in the book of supplication were expanded until the book was ten times its original size and the 48 claves angelicae were applied directly

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4 introjuction to the four watchtowers this neo-enochian system eventually made it into the hands of the esoteric masons who in 1888 founded the her metic order known as the golden dawn the study of enochian magick through most of the twentieth century descended almost entirely from the golden dawn and those who followed such as alcister crowley s thclema the aurum solis and many others even when students returned to dee s original manuscripts they merely continued the tradition of adopting into their own systems bits and pieces of what they tlund this is no surprise because dee s journals were obscure at best-the handwriting was hard to decipher the material was scattered throughout the books and dee s english was archaic in the end most of dee s original material was ignored it wasn t until the later years of the twentieth century that scholars began to take a fresh interest in the dee journals and what these journals had to say about the skeletal material found in his grimoire the first such scholar was donald laycock who published the complete eno chian dlctionary in 1978 this book was transitional between standard neo-enochian and the newer study of dee s original material which i call dee-purist while laycock included all the angelical words he could find from the systems of the golden dawn and aleister crowley dee s versions of the words formed the basis of laycock s work moreover laycock s preface to his dictionary was the first to delve deeply into actual journal entries written by dee and kelley the next groundbreaking work on dee s system geoffrey james the enochian evocation ivjagick of dr john dee was published just a few years later in 1984 in 1994 it was re-published under the title the enochian of dr john dee 1 this book was mostly a presentation of dee s grimoire sloane 3191 along with a preface several quotes tram dee s diarv outlining the mythology behind the system and several appendices that nicely complimented laycock s preface james also created a cross-reference system t r the words of the keys for example the seventh word of the first key would have the cross-reference number 1.7 these numbers are extremely useful t r study purposes and make the angelical words of the keys easy to locate.

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