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this represents deliberate obfuscation on his part, as the Golden Dawn used this funky
schema whereby all “n”s were pronounced as “nu”.
You ask, “What books would you recommend on Enochian stuff ?”. I told a friend
just last night that if you read all the extant source material, and all the books that have
been written about the material and related issues, making careful notes of cross reference
with an eye to determining points of correspondence, and noting the differences, over
the course of a year or so you might come up with a fairly decent understanding of the
system.
But I’m pretty certain that’s not the answer you want, since in your situation it’s
more smart-assed (though honest), than helpful.
My first introduction to the material was through Israel Regardie’s The Golden Dawn,
though it’s certainly not the best place to start. My first working text was The Enochian
Evocation of Dr John Dee (Edited and translated by Geoffrey James. Gillette, New Jersey:
Heptangle Books, 1984), which I am told is still in print in paperback under the title
The Enochian Magick of Dr John Dee: The Most Powerful System of Magick in Its Original
Unexpurgated Form. This is a really good text, constituting an attempt to assemble the
material into the form of a grimoire.
In 1989, a new book appeared: Elizabethan Magic: The Art and the Magus (Robert
Turner. Longmead, Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books, 1989). This is an excellent
text, giving a good introduction to both the material and its historical setting. David
[ Jones] and I worked from it extensively in 1990.
Much as I love these two references, they still fail to give the full picture as I have
come to understand it. I could answer your question a little better, tailoring my response
to your needs, if you could tell me what aspect of the system you wish to investigate
(historical, theoretical, mechanical, consequences and influence, or what have you). I
like the work of Dame Frances A Yates for historical context (The Rosicrucian
Enlightenment and The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, are the most relevant).
She was a “real” historian, and the first to rehabilitate Dee, and show the profound
impact he had on the course of European thought.
So, assuming for the moment that you don’t know which direction you’d like to go,
I’ll give you what I think might be relevant.
Crowley’s synopsis is given in two parts, in two numbers of Vol. I of The Equinox,
both available online at:
http://www.the-equinox.org/vol1/no7/eqi07021.html [Part I]
http://www.the-equinox.org/vol1/no8/eqi08012.html [Part II]
This is as good a place to start as any, and obviously forms the framework for the
work Jones was doing, and to which I myself made some small contribution. This online
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