The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee

The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee

by Geoffrey James
The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee

The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee

by Geoffrey James

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Based on the transcriptions of Dr. John Dee, the famous Elizabethan scientist and magus, The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee is the translation of the original material received from direct Angelic contact. In 1852 Dee and his partner Edward Kelly, while gazing into a crystal stone, began to see and hear angels. These beings desired to reestablish the true art of magic, which had been lost due to man's wickedness and ignorance. The true magical art, these beings claimed, would bestow superhuman powers upon its practitioners, change the political structure of Europe, and herald the coming of the Apocalypse. Dee believed this research would greatly benefit mankind and documented all of the channeled information into a series of manuscripts and workbooks. Author Geoffrey James presents here the direct translation of the core of the channeled material itself, framed in a historical context, with authority and integrity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781578634538
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date: 02/10/2009
Pages: 232
Sales rank: 480,465
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Geoffrey James is an amateur historian of western religion. He is best known for his work on the life of John Dee, the court magician of Queen Elizabeth I. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of California, where he was a Rhodes Scholarship Candidate and elected Phi Beta Kappa.

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"Dee discovered that he was unable to perceive spirits on his own, and so was forced to employ skryers or crystal gazers. The most prolific of Dee's skryers was Edward Kelly, a man of mediocre education whose main interest was alchemy. Kelly originally asked to work with Dee because Kelly believed that with divine aide they might discover the philosopher's stone that would transmute lead into gold. Dee was hesitant at fi rst, but when they performed a simple ceremony, it was far more successful than anything Dee had ever experienced. . . Kelly's skrying was destined to produce what is perhaps the most unusual magical literature of the Renaissance."

Table of Contents

Preface to the Weiser Edition xi

Preface xiij

Book 1 The Magick of Enoch 1

Chapter I The Fall of Man 1

Chapter IJ The Wisdom of Enoch 3

Chapter IIJ The Fall of Enoch's Magick 6

Chapter IV The Reestablishment of Enoch's Wisdom 8

Chapter V The Nature of This Wisdom 10

Chapter VI General Considerations of This Art 14

Book 2 The Mystical Heptarchy 17

Chapter I Of the Title & General Contents of This Book with Some Needful Testimonies 17

Chapter IJ Of John Dee & His Interest to Exercise the Doctrine Heptarchical 21

Chapter IIJ Some Remembrances of the Furniture & Circumstances Necessary in the Exercise Heptarchical 29

Chapter IV Some Notice of the Peculiar Forms & Attire Wherein the Kings, Princes & Ministers Heptarchical Appeared & Some of Their Actions & Gestures at Their Appearance 39

Chapter V The Oration to God to Be Spoken Every Day, Three Times Successively 53

Chapter VI The Devout and Pious Invitations to the Good Heptarchical Angels 57

Chapter VIJ Some Recital & Contestation of the Peculiar Offices, Words, & Deeds of the Seven Heptarchical Kings & Princes 59

Book 3 The Forty-Eight Angelic Keys 65

Book 4 Earthly Knowledge, Aid & Victory 103

Book 5 The Angels of The Four Quarters 117

Chapter I The Great Table 117

Chapter IJ The Corrected Great Table 118

Chapter IIJ The Great Circle of the Quarters 119

Chapter IV The Fundamental Obesance 120

Chapter V The Twenty Four Seniors 121

Chapter VI The Angels of Medicine 127

Chapter VIJ The Angels of Precious Stones 133

Chapter VIIJ The Angels of Transformation 139

Chapter IX The Angels of the Four Elements 145

Chapter X The Angels of Natural Substances 155

Chapter XI The Angels ofTransportation 161

Chapter XIJ The Angels of the Mechanical Arts 167

Chapter XIIJ The Angels of Secret Discovery 173

Appendices 179

Appendix A The Practice of Enochian Evocation 179

Appendix B Translator's Notes 192

Appendix C General Method of Translation & Transcription 194

Appendix D Bibliography 198

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