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There are nineteen of these Keys: the first two conjuring the element called Spirit; the
next sixteen invoke the Four Elements, each subdivided into four; the nineteenth, by
changing two names, may be used to invoke any one of what are called the thirty “Æthyrs”
or “Aires”.
What these are is difficult to say. In one place we are told that they are “Dominion
extending in ever widening circles without and beyond the Watch Towers of the Universe”,
these Watch Towers composing a cube of infinite magnitude. Elsewhere, we find that
the names of the angels which govern them are contained in the Watch Towers themselves;
but (most disconcerting disenchantment!) they are identified with various countries of
the earth, Styria [sic], Illyria, etc, as if “aire” simply meant clime. I have always maintained
the first definition. I suspected Kelly of finding Dee unsupportable at times, with his
pity, pedantry, credulity, respectability and lack of humour. I could understand that he
broke out and made fun of the old man by spouting nonsense. [Confessions, p 612]
I have compared this statement with the G∴D∴ “Book of the Concourse of the Forces”,
and can find no precedent, nor is there any indication of changing two words in Crowley’s
notebook, “The Forty-Eight Calls or Keys”, which I am led to believe he had with him
in Algeria as mentioned in The Hag [Ibid, p 611]. It appears upon inspection to be a
straightforward transcription of the G∴D∴ instruction as he would have received it,
with some relatively minor glosses, emendations, and additions.
From a textual standpoint, at least as I read it, Tyson hasn’t a leg to stand on. Crowley
uses the word “Enochian” to denote the language, not as a general term for the system
as a whole, as is common today. The word appears twice in The Hag prior to his
description of the general method used to invoke the Æthyrs:
These Keys or Calls being rewritten backwards, there appeared conjurations in a language
which they called “Enochian” or Angelic. It is not a jargon; it has a grammar and syntax
of its own. It is very much more sonorous, stately and impressive than even Greek or
Sanskrit, and the English translation, though in places difficult to understand, contains
passages of a sustained sublimity that Shakespeare, Milton and the Bible do not surpass.
To condemn Kelly as a cheating charlatan—the accepted view—is simply stupid. If he
invented Enochian and composed the superb prose, he was at worst a Chatterton with
fifty times that poet’s ingenuity and five hundred times his poetical genius. [Ibid, p 612]
Comparing this with the methodology he later describes, “… I would take this stone
and recite the Enochian Key…” [Ibid, p 616], it seems obvious to me that by “Enochian
Key” he intends “Enochian version of the Key”, as opposed to the English.
Y’know, sometimes I impress even myself. Wandered downstairs to stuff a pill down
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