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to make a reasonable guess as to what to extract. I will send the Assyrian transliterations,
the German translations, and the text of the relevant footnote, for starters, just as soon
as I get them keyed-in.
Take care, my friend, SATYR
[Ed’s note—Satyr’s “pseudo-essay” on Lilith, entitled “Here beginneth the worke of
the demonesse Lilith”, has not been included in KAOS, but is available to interested
parties from the author (satyr418 @hotmail.com). I would, however, like to quote its
final paragraph:
In conclusion, I feel we may assert that Lilith is found embodied among us. She is
strong and defiant, a wielder of the forces of the Tetragrammaton. An enchantress of
profound beauty, she is capable of draining the life out of any who approach her (at least
one who does so passively), receiving and gestating that life into fantastic and demonic
forms. Sex, for her, is not for procreation, but a tool of great power for her magick, and
is the sacrament of divine rapture. Though defiant, and ostensibly refusing to submit,
she is, at the same time, a full physical manifestation of her Mother, Babalon, and as
much the embodiment of her as any woman, and as capable of fulfilling her Holy Office.
The old Rabbis may have cursed, feared, and shunned her, but among us in this latter age
she may be honored among the “Magi”, standing coequal with her male counterparts.
On Geoffrey James’s book, Robert Turner in Elizabethan Magic (p 89) has pointed out
his error in thinking the “8 viols of wrath” in the 9 th key could have been a reference to
a violin, apparently missing the allusion to the “7 vials” in Revelation 17:1. “Wormwood”
is also mentioned in the 9 th key, a clear allusion to the Apocalypse.]
Because Hers is the bed of Babalon
Just as cryptography can provide a “proof ” of the genuineness of spirit communication
(see the notes on the Steganographia), the method by which Dee and Kelly obtained
Enochian attests to the angels’ inclination to communicate in such a way as to rule out
that the “messages” were a mere fantastic projection of the human mind, the main
problem when considering “channelled material” for scholarly use. There were 2,401
letters and numbers on each 49 by 49 table, one or more tables would be used, and
apparently there were 49 tables in total; some tables contained whole words rather than
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