Practical Angel Magic of John Dee's Enochian Tables

by Skinner, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780738723518
• ISBN10: 0738723517
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-08
• Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd

Summary

Derived from two previously unpublished seventeenth century manuscripts on angel magic, this coveted book contains the final corrected version of John Dee's great tables and an expansion of his most prized book of invocations.Discover what happened to John Dee's most important manuscript, his book of personal angelic invocations, and how it was developed by seventeenth century magicians into a full working magical system. Learn how only a small part of this material reached the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was suppressed-never appearing in Israel Regardie's monumental work on the Order rituals.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
Traditional Approaches to Western Magic	p. 12
Definition of Magic	p. 16
Dualist View of Magic	p. 19
Aristocratic Connections	p. 21
A Short History of Angel Magic in England
Sources of Angel Magic in the Grimoires	p. 23
John Dee, Elizabethan Magus	p. 30
Aristocratic Magic after the Sixteenth Century	p. 43
Resurgence of Magic - The Impact of the Golden Dawn	p. 48
The Manuscripts
The Manuscripts	p. 53
Notes on Style used in the Manuscript Transcription	p. 55
The Practice of the Tables
Tabula Bonorum Angelorum Invocationes	p. 57
Clavicula Tabularum Enochi	p. 58
A Brief Introduction to the use of the Tables	p. 61
The Hierarchy of Angels	p. 65
East Quadrangle	p. 67
The Table of Union	p. 78
Evil Angels in the Table of Union	p. 80
Method to Invoke the Angels to Visible Appearance	p. 86
Of the Evil Malicious Spirits	p. 90
The General Use and Signification of the Tables	p. 92
The Book and the Procedure	p. 97
The Practice of the Tables
The Practice of the East Table	p. 101
The Practice of the West Table	p. 112
The Practice of the North Table	p. 122
The Practice of the South Table	p. 132
The Title of the Following Prayer [before Invocation]	p. 142
The Invocations of the Kings, Seniors, Angels and Spirits
Invocation of the East	p. 147
Invocation of the West	p. 165
Invocation of the North	p. 182
Invocation of the South	p. 199
The Keys to the Portals
Janua Orientalis Reserata, or the Key…of the East	p. 216
Janua Occidentalis Reserata, or the Key…of the West	p. 227
Janua Septentrialis Reserata, or the Key…of the North	p. 238
Janua Meridienalis Reserata, or the Key…of the South	p. 249
Ashmole's Prayers
Humble Supplication to Almighty God	p. 260
Enoch Prayer	p. 263
Appendices
Angel Function Table	p. 267
Golden Dawn Book H: Clavicula Tabularum Enochi	p. 269
Angel Magic from Allan Bennett's magical diary	p. 271
Table of the Kings, Seniors and Angels	p. 278
Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 292
List of Tables & Illustrations:
Map of the City of London in 1593.	p. 32
A sample page of Sloane MS 307 showing the red ruling.	p. 52
The final form of the Enochian Tables from Sloane MS 307.	p. 58
A note in the back of the Golden Dawn Flying Roll Book H.	p. 268
Cover Page of F.L. Gardner's copy of Book H.	p. 270
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