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

314 Pages·2010·5.75 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/ .
The
ANGELICAL
LANGUAGE
VOLUME I
The Complete History and Mythos
of the Tongue of Angels
BASED ON THE JOURNALS OF
DR. JOHN DEE AND EDWARD KELLEY
AARON LEITCH
Llewellyn Publications
Woodbury, Minnesota
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Other books by this author
The Angelical Language, Volume II
Both Sides of Heaven (contributing author)
Diabolical (contributing author)
Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires
Contents
Acknowledgments ... xiii
Introduction to Volume I ... 1
Chapter One: The Gates of Heaven and the Enochian Tradition ... 11
The Fifty Cales or Binah. . 12
The I-Iermcric Celles of Intelligence ... 19
The Book of Enoch ... 24
The Hook of Soyga IAladamia Sivc Soyga Vocan ... 30
Chapter Two: John Dee's Book of Enoch (The Book of Loagaeth) ... 39
The Holy Book of Loagaeth Speech from Cod) .. 43
I
Three Types of Knowledge .. 44
The Last Prophecy of the World ... 46
Let Those That Fear God. and Arc Worthy, Read ... 51
Kelley's First Vision of the Holy Book ... ) 1
Kelley's Second Vision of the Holy Book ... 52
Kelley's Tilird Vision of the H,Jly Book ... 5)
From the Right Hand to the Lefi ... as in the Hebrew Bible ... 55
The Reception of the Forty-Nine Tables ... 57
In Forty Days l'v1ust lhe Book Be Perfected ... 59
Begin 10 Practice in /Wg~ist ... 61
Begin the Book Next Tuesday-tiIe Iv101her Galvah ... 63
Everv ;\10ndav Is the Seventh -the "Enochian Sabbath"' ... 68
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The Fortv-Nine Tables of Loagaeth: What We Know ... 69
Titles of the Tables ... 7()
Fi rsl Tahle ... ~-i
Second Table ... ~-
felliI'll! Table ... ~."
\'illetcellth (llf Eiglztccntll.') Tablr ... W
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Tilbles 20 to 49 ... 82
Forty-Ninth Table ... 84
Be It Unto Thee, as Thou Hast Done--
The Anticlimax of the Loagaeth Saga? ... 92
Chapter Three: The Fo rty-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 LifeJ-Post-Deluge to Christ ... 122
Vita Tertia (Third Lifej-Post-Crucifixion to Present ... 123
"Life, but Also Death" (Fourth Lifej-Tribulation .. , 123
The Corpus Omnium and the Angelical Keys ... 124
The Angelical Keys: What We Know ... 128
Kev "Zero" (First Table) ... 128
Key One (Second Table) ... 128
Key Three (Fourth Tablej ... 129
Keys Nineteen to Forty-Eight (Twentieth to Farly-Ninth Tables);
The Call of the Aethyrs ... 130
Addendum: The Poetry of the Forty-Eight Calls ... 133
Chapter Four: 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
CehoE11 and the Angelical Keys.. 191
Final Outline for Gebofal ... 191
Contents Ii
Chapter Five: The Celestial Speech ... 197
Angelical Mythos ... 202
The Angelical Alphabet ... 207
AdJendum: "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 L61 ... 215
Of the Calculating Art of Such Names by the Tradition of
Qahalists IAdapted 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
Acknowledgments
I wish to acknowledge Mr. Geoffrey James, Joseph Peterson, Donald
Tyson, the late Donald Laycock, and the awesome folks at TheMagickal
Review.org. Without their work, Dee's original system of mysticism
would have lain hidden in the Five Books oJ the Mysteries and A True and
Elithfiil Relation ... for God knows how long. Their books and resources
were indispensable as reference material in my own studies. (Special
thanks must also go to Joseph Peterson and to Ian Rons of The Magickal
Review. for granting me permission to use their publications of Dee's
journals. and the best Enochian font ever made-the "Kelley Angelic"
font.)
In the same spirit, I wish to acknowledge Patricia Shaffer. Her work
on gathering Dee's pronunciation notes for the Angelical Keys was an
indescribable help to mel Finally. I also thank her for taking the time to
work with me, and to answer all of my challenges to her work. I also
wish to thank everyone on the Enochian-l e-mail list (at gnostica.net),
who collectively make up the very elite of Enochian scholarship.
I would also like to mention Ben Rowe (aka "Josh Norton"), who
was one of the brightest minds in Enochian scholarship of the late
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Like James. Peterson, Lay
cock, and the others, he was instrumental in the resurrection of Dee's
lost system of Angelic Magick. I know you're studying with the Pir now,
Mr. Rowe!
A special kind of thanks goes to Robert Heinlein, and his work
Stranger in a Strange Land. He told us all about the miracles one could
accomplish if one would only take the time to learn a language that
transcends human thought.
I wish also to thank those from my personal life who allowed me
access to Dee's records (before The Magickal Review gave them to the
worldl). Thanks to Steve for swelling my head just enough to keep plug
ging away at this weirdness, as well as for helping me get the images
and diagrams in order. Thanks to Austin. without whom J would never
have had the computer equipment to get onto the Internet ten years
,1gO, nor to write this material. Of course, thanks must go to Carrie,
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