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When is someone going to put out a book of really advanced magick? I receive this question frequently in my mail and email. I also hear it from people I meet when I travel to give workshops and lectures. Lately, I've been pondering this question a great deal. I regret to say that in the past, there simply hasn't been a market for such information. My Modern Magick, primarily based on the Western Mystery Tradition, is broad enough to be of interest to people following any path. There, information and practices can be used by people involved in Eastern or Western, ceremonial or Pagan traditions. If I had written a large book which only discussed advanced techniques of, say, Kabbalistic ...
This article is not yet another repetition of how Dr. Dee and his assistant Edward Kelly discovered a magickal system (I actually consider it a set of systems) that has come to be called "Enochian Magick." I'm also not going to get into debates over pronunciation, which letters should be in various squares used in the system, etc. You can find out all of this information by simply searching the Internet or looking through a book or two on the subject. Rather, I’d like to share some personal experiences and revelations. Over the years, Enochian Magick has been called the most powerful system of magick available. Stories have come out of how people merely saw the special sets of ...
From the very advent of the spoken word among humanity, language has been considered something sacred and magickal. To be able to share ideas between people was a powerful innovation, as was the ability to name and train our work animals, such as hunting and herding dogs. To know the true name of a person also granted some power over them: you might warn them away from danger or lure them into an ambush at your own will. As our legal systems became more sophisticated over time, the true name of a person (especially in the form of a signature) became a very powerful political tool—and it remains such to this day. Right from the start, language extended to (or we might say from) the ...
While dismissed in scientific circles, the idea that we could arrive at some language that more accurately or efficiently communicates with spirits or our own deep minds is a common one in magic. The most famous of attempts to do is often called Enochian, although the creator, John Dee, called it "the Angelic Language." John Dee, who was court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I in the sixteenth century, specifically characterized his attempt to contact angelic beings and learn their language as an attempt to recover an anterior Ur-language that was spoken by Adam before the fall. What Dee ended up with, thanks to the help of his friend Edward Kelley, is a collection of short poetic ...
