The Angelical Language, Volume I: The Complete History and Mythos of the Tongue of Angels

by Aaron Leitch

Overview

The Angelical language channeled by alchemist Edward Kelley and recorded by royal astrologer John Dee has mystified magicians, linguists, historians, and cryptographers for generations. It's even rumored that the language may be an encryption method of some kind, unbroken to this day. This fascinating, in-depth analysis reveals the truth behind the saga of two Renaissance wizards who spoke with angels and received instruction in the celestial tongue.

This volume begins with an exploration of the mystical traditions that influenced Dee's work—the Fifty Gates of Binah, the legends of Enoch, and the Book of Soyga. It presents an in-depth study of the forty-nine Tables of Loagaeth (Speech From God), the forty-eight Angelical Keys (or Calls), and the drama surrounding them as chronicled in Dee's journals. Special features include an analysis of the translations of the 48 Keys, instructions for the magickal use of Angelical characters, and a complete Angelical Psalter.

Aaron Leitch's long-awaited masterwork reveals in plain language—for the first time ever—how the Angelical language was received, for what it was intended, and how to use it properly, providing a fascinating historical context for its practical application in The Angelical Language, Volume II: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the Tongue of Angels.

Praise:
"The Angelical Language is the single most comprehensive text ever written on the subject of the Enochian magical system and language of Elizabethan luminary, Dr. John Dee. This two-volume magnum opus demonstrates Aaron Leitch's familiarity with practical magic as well as his skill as a meticulous researcher. A must-have book."
—Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero, Chief Adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738714905
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	05/08/2010
Series:	The Angelical Language , #1
Pages:	307
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Aaron Leitch has been a scholar and spiritual seeker for over three decades. He is an ordained Gnostic Priest and a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Societas Rosicruciana in America, and the academic Societas Magica. His writings cover such varied fields as religion and mythology (from ancient Middle Eastern to Renaissance European), Solomonic mysticism, shamanism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and alchemy, traditional Wicca and Neopaganism, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and more. He is the author of Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires, The Angelical Language, Volumes I and II, and the Essential Enochian Grimoire. He also has edited and/or contributed to various projects concerning the Western occult mysteries. Visit his blog at AaronLeitch.wordpress.com and his Facebook at www.facebook.com/kheph777.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction to Volume I 1

Chapter 1 The Gates of Heaven and the Enochian Tradition 11

The Fifty Gates of Binah 12

The Hermetic Gates of Intelligence 19

The Book of Enoch 24

The Book of Soyga (Aladaraia Sive Soyga Vocar) 30

Chapter 2 John Dee's Book of Enoch (The Book of Loagaeth) 39

The Holy Book of Loagaeth (Speech from God) 43

Three Types of Knowledge 44

The Last Prophecy of the World 46

Let Those that Fear God, and Are Worthy, Read 51

Kelley's First Vision of the Holy Book 51

Kelley's Second Vision of the Holy Book 52

Kelley's Third Vision of the Holy Book 55

From the Right Hand to the Left...as in the Hebrew Bible 55

The Reception of the Forty-Nine Tables 57

In Forty Days Must the Book Be Perfected 59

Begin to Practice in August 61

Begin the Book Next Tuesday—the Mother Galvah 63

Every Monday is the Seventy—the "Enochian Sabbath"? 68

The Forty-Nine Tables of Loagaeth: What We Know 69

Titles of the Tables 70

First Table 74

Second Table 77

Fourth Table 78

Ninth Table 78

Nineteenth (or Eighteenth?) Table 80

Tables 20 to 49 82

Forty-Ninth Table 84

Be It Unto Thee, as Thou Hast Done—The Anticlimax of the Loagaeth Saga? 92

Chapter 3 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 Life)—Post-Deluge to Christ 122

Vita Tertia (Third Life)—Post-Crucifixion to Present 123

"Life, but also Death" (Fourth Life)—Tribulation 123

The Corpus Omnium and the Angelical Keys 124

The Angelical Keys: What We Know 128

Key "Zero" (First Table) 128

Key one (Second Table) 128

Key Three (Fourth Table) 129

Key Nineteen to Forty-Eight (Twentieth to Forty-Ninth Tables): The Call of the Aethyrs 130

Addendum: The Poetry of the Forty-Eight Calls 133

Chapter 4 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

Gebofal and the Angelical Keys 191

Final Outline for Gebofal 191

Chapter 5 The Celestial Speech 197

Angelical Mythos 202

The Angelical Alphabet 207

Addendum: "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 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

Editorial Reviews

"The Angelical Language is the single most comprehensive text ever written on the subject of the Enochian magical system and language of Elizabethan luminary, Dr. John Dee. This two-volume magnum opus demonstrates Aaron Leitch's familiarity with practical magic as well as his skill as a meticulous researcher. A must-have book."
—Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero, Chief Adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

"This extensive tome, ten yeas in the making, is a profound step in the evolution of magickal understanding. Though debate continues to surround the 'legitimacy' of Dee and Kelley's Enochian system, its influence on modern magick is undeniable. Aaron Leitch has taken it upon himself to deeply explore the ins and outs of the Angelical Language, examining its linguistics and origins with accuracy and an eye for detail. For serious practitioners interested in an approach to Enochia that is both scholarly and mystical, I can't suggest this book highly enough."
—Raven Digitalis, author of Shadow Magick Compendium and Planetary Spells and Rituals

"The most in-depth analysis of the Enochian alphabet and the Enochian language that has appeared to date."
—Donald Tyson

"In The Angelical Language, Aaron Leitch is to be congratulated on producing what is surely by far the most lucid, thorough, practical, and coherent study of the apparently diverse workings of Dr John Dee and Edward Kelley to date."
—David Rankine and Sorita d'Este, authors of Practical Elementary Magick

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