The Angelical Language, Volume II: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the Tongue of Angels

595 Pages·2010·8.39 MB·English

by  Aaron Leitch

About the Author
Aaron Leitch has been a scholar and spiritual seeker for over two de
cades. 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, Neopla
tonism, Hermeticism and Alchemy, Traditional Wicca and Neopagan
ism, 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 I.
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ANGELICAL
LANGUAGE
VOLUME II
An Encyclopedic Lexicon
of the Tongue of Angels
BASED ON THE JOURNALS OF
DR. JOHN DEE AND EDWARD KELLEY
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Other books by this author
The Angelical Language, Volume I
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Both Sides Heaven (contributing author)
Diabolical (contributing author)
Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires
Contents
I ntroduction to Volume II ... I
Chapter 1: Angelical Linguistics ... 11
Angelical "English Senses" and Fluid Definitions ,,12
Root Vv'ords, ,1-\
Compound" ,15
Coniugation ,,17
Affixes, .. 1 S
Rarities: Pronouns, Prepositions, Adjectives, Articles, Case, . , 19
Phonetic Glosses. , ' 22
Early Modern English and Angelical. , , 25
Early Modern English Phonetics Chart (for Angelical Pronunciation) , .. 30
MiJdle English and Angelical, .. 32
General Notes on Angelical Phonology. , , 33
Vowels ... 33
Consonants, , . 33
Special Cases, , , 35
Chapter 2: The Forty-Eight Angelical Keys: A Cross-Reference, , , 39
First Column: Cross-Reference Numbers, , ,40
Second Column: Angelical \Vords . , . 40
Third Column: "English Senses" , , ,41
Fourth Column: Literal Translations, , , 41
Key Ten, , ,(03
Chapter 3: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the Tongue of Angels, . , 87
I-Iow to esc This Lexicon ,87
Pronunciation Notes 90
'Also" and Shared Root, ,91
Other Notes, ,92
Contents
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Compare from Loagaeth ... 92
Abbreviations Used in This Lexicon ... 92
Sources for All Words Found in This Lexicon ... 93
Exclusions from This Lexicon ... 94
Pronunciation Key (Fully Explained) ... 95
VoweLl ... 95
Consonants ... 96
"Long Consonants" ... 97
Digraphs and Diphthongs ... 97
Accented Syllables ... 98
Angelical Root Words ... 98
The Angelical Alphabet ... 106
An Angelical to English Dictionary ... 107
An English to Angelical Dictionary ... 533
Tips on Translating English into Angelical ... 533
Bibliography ... 581
Introduction to Volume II
T he work you hold in your hands is the second volume of a massive
study of the Angelical language as recorded by Dr. John Dee and
Edward Kelley-two magicians who lived during the Elizabethan era in
England. In the introduction to the first volume, I explained who these
men were, so I will not go into such detail here. Suffice it to say they
were two extremely important figures in Western mysticism and occult
ism, and their recorded journals have had a profound impact on nearly
every Western esoteric tradition that has followed them.
What concerns us most in this work are the records of their encoun
ters with various Angels. Dee was a meticulous journalist, and he re
corded his Angelic seances in every detail, along with the details of his
daily life with Kelley during the years they were most active in speaking
with the Angels. Not only did these celestial beings relate hundreds of
sermons on religious and mystical philosophy. but they transmitted an
entire system of Angel magick along with details about their own native
language.
This book is not about that system of magick (although some ob
scure details about it can be found in volume I of this work). Instead,
this volume focuses entirely upon the Angelical language itself. As I de
scribed in the previous volume, this is the aspect of Dee's work that
fascinated me the most as I delved ever deeper in my own studies of
2 Introduction
s(H:alkd «Enochi:m" llldgick. That is, as a mystic. [ was excited hy the
prospect of being ahle to pr,ly to c1l1d cvuke tht' Angels via their own
nativc tongue.
To this end, [ gathered Dee's original journals·· published as Five
Rooks llf 1\1)'-'11'1')', A True illld F£litiitid Rciati(Hl llf \Vhat Passed for MallY
YL'<lr,1 Ret,veell OJ: .101m Dec ,(md Semc Spirits, and Dee's own personal
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grimoire including the 48 Ctaves Angelil'ae-a collt'ction of the forty
eIght Angelical invocatiuns Dec was supposed to use to open the Gates
of Heaven and call out the Angels thert'from. I also gathered the best
texts dvailJhle ,lbout Det' <s magickal system~such as Donald Laycock's
Complete El1oci1idn Dictionary, CeoftcryJames' The El10chian A1agick of Or,
Jolm Dee. and Donald Tyson's Enochian Magicjo1' BegimlCYs.
Howeycl', when I was furtunate enough to become involved with a
group of accomplished Enuchian schoiars, I soon learned that all of the
texts about Dee's system It'ft much to be desired when it came tu un
derstanding the Angelical language. Most of them had been written by
authors who had not studied Dec's original journals page by page, and
thus did not t'ntirely understand the context surrounding the language,
For example, both James and Laycock tocused upon the Keys out
lined in Det' 's 48 Claves Angelicac, with limited reference to Causabon's
A True and Faithfid Relation. However, neither author had studied A True
and Faithtiil Rdation exhdustively, and \vere thus unaware of st'veral cor
rections to the Keys made by the Angels later in Dee's records. (And the
48 Claves docs not always preserve these corrections. I
Another shortcoming is found in the hreakdown of the Angelical
words themselves. Both Laycock I who happened to be a linguist) and
James attempted to 3nalyu the words hased upon their understanding
of modern linguistics-·. . ·which led to some conflicts with Dce's journals.
Most of these conflicts arose from their sometimes unsuccessful at·
tcmpts to recognize compounLi words and separate them inro their base
elements. Llycuck, fc)r instance, has hrokt'n the v'lord C110'70<1 (unto his
servants) into C \,'ot)(ld. In his dictionc,ry section, one em find an entry
tor I\'o<j(ld, hut nOlle tClr the actual Angelical word Cno(]od. Meanwhile,
there is n,) indication 111 Dec's records that CHll(]Ni is ~1 compound at all.