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Practical Angel Magic of John Dee’s Enochian Tables from four previously wipubished manusriptson Angel Magic {ing a complete trnscrition 9 Tabla Bonorum Angeloram lnvocstiones Jn mayucsripts BL Slane 307 ani 382 ond Bodleian Rawlinson D 1067 aud D 1363, 1 usa by Wyn estet, Alun Bernt, Revel Ayton, Freeh Lig Garde, aad ‘other senon memes oj the Fermetc Orr of he Glden Daten Stephen Skinner & David Rankine (GOLDEN HOARD Press 2004 Published by Golden Foard Press BM Avalonia London WCIN 3XX, UX. ‘were Galdenitoard net First Edition ‘© 2004 Stephen Skinner & David Rankine ‘All rights reserved. No pert of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electroric or mechanical, including photocepying, recording, or by any inormetion storage and retrieval system, or Used in another beok, without written permission from the suthore. Britis: Library Cetuloguing int Publication data Dee, John, 1527-1608 ‘The praccical angel magic of John Dee's Enochian tables: from three previously unpublished manuscripts on angel ‘magic, being a complete trarscription of Tazula Boncrum Angelorum lnvocationes in manuscripts BL Sloane 307 and Slosne 3821 end Bodleian Rawlinson D1067. — (Sourseworks of (Ceremonial magic: v. 1) 1. Enochian magic 2. Angels J, ile Tl Skinner. Stephen TH, Rankine, David ISBN 0954763004 (Cover Design by Vaentira Kim Printed in Singapore “Whilst heaven endureth, and earth lasteth, never shall be rezed out the memory of these Actions” ~ tae Angel Raphael speaking to Jolin Dee 28 March 1583 Dedicated to the memory of Alan Bennett ‘who carried the flame of the Trediticn Contents Introduction ‘Traditional Approaches to Western Magic Definition of Magic Dualis: View of Magic Arlstocratic Connections Pert 1- A Short History of Angel Magic in England Sources of Angel Magic in the Grimoiree John Dee, Elizabethan Magus Aristocratic Magic after the Sixteenth Centary Resurgence of Magic - Tke Impact of the Golden Dawn Part 2 - The Manuscripts ‘The Manuscripts Netea on Style used in the Manuscript Transcription, Part 3 - The Practice of the Tables ‘Tabula Bonorum Angeloram Invocationes Clavicula Tabularum Enochi {A Brief Introduction to the use of the Tables ‘The Hierarchy of Angels East Quadrangle The Table ef Union Evil Angels itt dhe Table of Union Method to Invoke the Angels zo Visible Appearance Of the Evil Malicious Spirits ‘The General Use and Significatior of the Tables ‘The Book and the Procedure ‘The Practice of the Tablee ‘The Practice of the East Table ‘The Practice of the West Table ‘The Practice of the North Table ‘The Practice of the South Table ‘The Title of the Following Prayer [before Invocation] Practical Angel! Magic ‘The Invocations of the Kings, Seniors, Angels and Spirits Invocation ef the East Invocation cf the West Invocation ef the North Invocation cf the South, ‘The Keys to the Portals Janua Orientalis Keserata, or the Key..of the Kast Janua Occidentalis Reserata, or the Key..of the West ‘Janua Septentrialis Reserata, or the Key..of the North Janua Meridienelis Reserata, or the Key..of the South Ashmole’s Prayers Humble Supplication to Almighty God Enoch Prayer Appendices 1 — Angel Function Table 2- Golden Dawn Book H: Clavicule Tabularam Enochi 3 ~ Angel Magic irom Alan Bennett's magical diary 4 -Table of the Kings, Seniors and Angels Bibliography List of Tables & Illustrations: Msp of the City of London in 1593. ‘A sample page of Sloane MS 307 showing the red ruling. ‘The final form of the Enochian Tables from Sloane MS 307. ‘Anote in the back of the Golden Dawn Flying Roll Book H. Cover Page of F.L. Gardner's copy of Book H. 447 165 182 199 216 227 258 249 260 263 267 269 on 278 283 32 52 58 268 270 Acknowledgements We wish to thank the staff of the British Library and Bodleian Library for their assistance in preparing this volume. Folios from Sloane MS 307 have been reproduced with permission from the ‘Trustees of the British Library, for which we are duly grateful. the nature of angels and spirits..is neither inscrutable nor interdisted. ..it ie no mere unlawfal t> nnquire the nature of evil spirits, than to inquire th: force of poisons in nature, or the nature of sin & vier ‘n morality.” The Advancement of Learning, 2nd 300k, Vi, 2, Bacon 1605 Introduction The four manuscripts transcribed in this book are highly significant manuscripts in the history of magic. In researching them we have come to a number of conclusions abo fa) The precise methods used in angel magic both by Dr John Dee and other practitioners both before and after him. b) The origin of these metiods, which shows little or no practical line of demarcation between evocation and invocation. ©) _ The line of transmission from magician to magician of these techniques which appears to partly re-write the history of Western Magic, specifically with reference to the :ransmission of the final angelic invacations of Dee 4) In tracing this tine of schelar magicians we have discovered that in every age scme of the most prominen: plavers wer mejor members of the establishment, politeians, lerds, legislators, end even revalty ©) 4 amall part of just one of these manuscripts (Sloane MS. 307) was used as Book H, the key to the Enochian system, by Tounding and higher-grade members ef the Gollen Dawn. Even this small extract was later suppressed. The Golden Dawn only used part of Dec's magical techniques. Here for the first time is printed the whole key to the Enochian system as originally discovered by the senior initiates and founders of the Golden Dawn. rt Practical Angel Megic Traditional Approaches to Western Magic First. we need to look at how the history of magic has been viewed in Western Europe over the last thousand years. It has almost always bea explained or examined in one of five basic ways: L.__ By assembling a callection of biographies of magicians o: isolated historical events like Faust’s pacts, Cellini’s evocations 0° Mesmer's parlour tricks, 2. By associating magic with Neoplatoniom or the Hermetic texts that circulated in Europe during the Renaissance. This academic approach looks at magic as if it was a cultural trend, a poor relation of science, or the discredited remains of pagan practice and philosophy. 3. By associating magic with movements like Rosicrucianisim, the Hluminati or Freemasonry, and ‘rom that association implying a continuous history of hidéen’ brotherhoods up to and beyond the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This was a popular Victorian new. 4. By looking at magic from the perspective of its persecutors, as exemplified in the witch tricls. This approach also includes the Faustian view that magic consists of selling one’s soul to the devil, a view popularised and promoted by the church, and a theme that was later taken up in Lterature. 5. By examining the craft of village cunning men and wise women, and the development of local witchereft and leech-raft From the mid 20th century this strand blends inte modern witchcraft, which drawo its eubstance from a number of other sources as well. None of these approacies with the exception of modern witchcraft) says much about the actual magical practices used by magicians, what happened to their workbooks, what practical results they obtained, and how they handed this knowledge on. Let us examine each in turn: 1, The first approach consists of simply supplying a series of biographies of well-known real and fictional magicians such as Faust, Abramelin, Dee, Barrett, Crowley or even Casanova. This ives the impression that romantic individuals cropped up every 80 often, and that there was no continuous history of the subject. in