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The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee
A grimoire of collected manuscripts of the famous Elizabethan scientist and magus, documenting the complete Enochian system of magic.
Renaissance magician Dr. John Dee developed his groundbreaking system of Enochian ceremonial magic by channeling magic spirits through the body if his associate, Edward Kelly, and recording the results in a series of notebooks. While Dee received three entire systems of magic—planetary, zodiacal, and elemental—he never gathered them together into a single grimoire that would allow another magician to reproduce his ceremonies.
The Enochian Evocation does just that. It puts Dee's magical work into a form similar to the books of magic that formed Dee's prototypes, and includes all of Dee's most important notebook, Sloane MS 3191, as well as the key material from related manuscripts. The result is a coherent and complete presentation of the Enochian system, along with all relevant magical elements, including two versions (original and corrected) of the famous Angelical Calls.
Enochian is reputed to be the most powerful of all the systems of magic and has greatly influenced the work of later occultists like Aleister Crowley, A.E. Waite, MacGregor Mathers, and Israel Regardie. While other texts have attempted to build on Dee's work, The Enochian Evocation is the only book that presents Dee's complete system of magic as he intended it to be practiced.
Renaissance magician Dr. John Dee developed his groundbreaking system of Enochian ceremonial magic by channeling magic spirits through the body if his associate, Edward Kelly, and recording the results in a series of notebooks. While Dee received three entire systems of magic—planetary, zodiacal, and elemental—he never gathered them together into a single grimoire that would allow another magician to reproduce his ceremonies.
The Enochian Evocation does just that. It puts Dee's magical work into a form similar to the books of magic that formed Dee's prototypes, and includes all of Dee's most important notebook, Sloane MS 3191, as well as the key material from related manuscripts. The result is a coherent and complete presentation of the Enochian system, along with all relevant magical elements, including two versions (original and corrected) of the famous Angelical Calls.
Enochian is reputed to be the most powerful of all the systems of magic and has greatly influenced the work of later occultists like Aleister Crowley, A.E. Waite, MacGregor Mathers, and Israel Regardie. While other texts have attempted to build on Dee's work, The Enochian Evocation is the only book that presents Dee's complete system of magic as he intended it to be practiced.
264 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 1983
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September 7, 2011
Pair this up with Turners' Elizabethan Magic and you'll be good to go. I like to think of them as the dynamic duo.
September 12, 2017
An excellent work. James studiously edits the entire body of extant Enochian sources from Dee in order to produce a structure that functions as an Enochian Grimoire. James's preface also provides a wealth of insight into the angelic dialogues and provides a concise dismissal of the notion that Kelley was merely perpetrating a fraudulent scheme upon Dee.
Essential for those interested in Dee or Enochian magic.
Essential for those interested in Dee or Enochian magic.
July 31, 2015
I enjoyed this. Really interesting.
June 12, 2024
It's...okay, but i was disappointed because when i bought this book i thought its layout would be more similar to the original edition and also closer to the translated edition i found elsewhere.
December 23, 2008
Hard to understand, but very intense reading if you can get into the right mindset
July 26, 2009
Despite some errors and typos, recommended for Enochian students.
March 15, 2016
This is probably one of the better books about this topic that I've read.
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