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original corpus, but rather the attempt by a person, or persons, to map a known system
onto Enochian. I was first exposed to this years ago, and rejected it for lack of evidence,
and other prejudices. It appears in Pat Zalewski’s Golden Dawn Enochian Magic.
Thanks for your Goetic notes regarding sex and demonic powers. I’ve often looked
to them to solve such difficulties, but never availed myself of their offices. Is this a
debased use of the system, do you think?
[Ed’s note—The Rudd material (Harley ms. 6482 in the British Library), showing a
secret tradition relating the Enochian of Dr John Dee to the demons of the Goetia, is
presented in A Treatise on Angel Magic (edited by Adam McLean, Phanes Press, 1990).
This Goetic connection is also mentioned in Enochian Sex Magick by DuQuette and
Hyatt, but these authors suggest (p 32) that John Dee himself attempted to incorporate
the Goetia into the Enochian system, for which there is no evidence. Adam McLean
speculates that Dr Rudd may have come by John Dee’s Enochian material via his son,
the alchemist Arthur Dee, he whose famous comment about a mysterious manuscript
possessed by his father contributed to the popular notion that John Dee had the Voynich
manuscript before he supposedly sold it to Rudolf II of Bohemia. I’ve checked Dee’s
library catalogue, incidentally, and I couldn’t find anything resembling the Voynich
ms.]
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