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Weiser 1998 edition of The Vision and the Voice these notes are p 217 n1, n4, and p 219
n5, respectively—Ed]
The only other Æthyr in which Lilith is named is the 2 nd , but I’m not sure I understand
the reference there.
JOEL
[Ed’s note—The circumflex given in James on the middle “a” of bábâlond is a
typographical convenience. In Sloane ms. 3191, which contains the Angelic Keys in
Dee’s handwriting, on folio 13 r the mark is actually a breve (∪), intended to indicate a
short vowel. In the original ms. two further words are accented that are not indicated by
James: tiánta and telócvovim. In the original ms. abábâlond (“of an Harlot”) appears
with a hyphen: a-bábâlond. In Sloane ms. 3191, above and between “telóc” and “vovim”,
Dee has written “tch”, indicating that the word is pronounced “telotch” rather than
“telok”. Teloch, meaning “death”, appears on its own three times in the Keys in variant
forms, in the 3 rd (teloch), the 8 th (téloah), and the 11 th (telóch), and once as the compound
telócvovim found in the Call of the 30 Æthyrs. Telocvovim appears to be a contraction
of teloch (death) and vovim (dragon) to form “him that is faln”, about which I write
more later.]
Hi Joel!—I’m glad you liked the email: I tried to rise to my scholarly best, and hoped
that I’d succeeded, and was aware of a certain degree of inspiration at the time. If you
wish to reproduce it, I should be honored, and by all means do so. I’m afraid I hold no
such hopes for this rambling, stumbling little number.
In the note on Æthyr 24—“Now appears his mate…”—“his” appears to reference
the entity in the 25 th . He, in the note on that Æthyr, is described as “the Lion God of
Horus, the child of Leo that incarnates him”. I don’t think this makes things any clearer,
but it does at least hint that it is some “divine” aspect of the Beast. Jones used to claim
that the 25 th was somehow related to methamphetamine. The “lion” might even refer to
the demiurge of the Gnostics, and cognate symbols, as well.
As for “And this is the Mystery of the incest of chaos with his daughter.” I’m not
entirely sure myself. chaos begets a daughter upon babalon, whom he then deflowers
in the 4 th Æthyr. Seems like a funky version of the formula of Tetragrammaton, which
I suppose it is in some sense. The vision of her is in the 9 th , I think, where the daughter
is set upon the throne of the mother. The consequence of that is the sex scene in the 4 th .
She also appeared, or at least a form of her appeared, to John Dee and Edward Kelly:
http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/kelly.htm. [Ed’s note—the webpage reproduces an
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