Enochian Vision Magick: A Practical Guide to the Magick of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley

By Lon Milo DuQuette and Jason Louv

“The greatest guide ever written—by our greatest living teacher of magick—to the greatest occult system on Earth.” —from the forward by Jason Louv, author of John Dee and the Empire of Angels

Having mastered the arts and sciences of his age, Elizabethan magus Dr. John Dee (1527–1608) resolved that worldly knowledge could no longer provide him the wisdom he desired, and as did so many other learned men of the day, he turned his attention to magick. In 1582 he and his clairvoyant partner Edward Kelley made magical contact with a number of spiritual entities who identified themselves as angels—the same that communicated with Enoch and the patriarchs of the Old Testament. Over the next 3 years they revealed to Dee and Kelley three distinct magical systems of vision magick. The third and last of these incorporated a series of “calls” to be recited in an angelic language in order to raise the consciousness of the magician to a level where angelic contact is possible.

In Enochian Vision Magick, Lon Milo DuQuette introduces the origins of Enochian magick and offers the expert and novice alike the opportunity not only to see the big picture of the full system but also the practical means by which he or she can become attuned in the same step-by-step manner that first prepared Dee and Kelley.

First published by Weiser in 2008, this new edition includes a new introduction and new back matter by the author as well as a new foreword by Jason Louv.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Sep 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781633411579

Lon Milo DuQuette

Lon Milo DuQuette is the author of Enochian Vision Magick.

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THE AUTHOR DEDICATES THIS WORK TO THE MEMORY OF DAVID P. WILSON, THE MOST TALENTED SCRYER I HAVE EVER MET.

Thy Name be mighty, O God, which canst open the veil whereby Thy All-Powerful Will may be opened unto men. Power, Glory, and Honour be unto Thee, For Thou art the same God of all things, and art life eternal.

—PRAYER OF NALVAGE, APRIL 10, 1584

This edition first published in 2019 by Weiser Books, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

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Copyright © 2019 by Lon Milo DuQuette

Foreword copyright © 2019 by Jason Louv

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Interior painting, Dr. John Dee, oil on canvas © 2008 Zefxis The Elder

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Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Jason Louv

Foreword by Clay Holden

Preface to the 2019 Edition

A Note Regarding Original Source Material and Footnote References

Prologue to the Prologue: Something Secret

Prologue: Why Magick?

BOOK I

Don’t Try to Duplicate the Magick Dee and Kelley Did to Receive the System— Just Use the System They Received!

BOOK II

De Heptarchia Mystica

BOOK III

Liber Loagaeth and the Angelic Alphabet

BOOK IV

Enochiana

BOOK V

Putting It Together

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

This book could not have been written without the inspiration and generous assistance of the following friends, scholars, and master Enochian magicians: David P. Wilson (S. Jason Black), Clay Holden, Christeos Pir, David R. Jones, Robin Cousins, Josh Norton (Benjamin Rowe), James Wasserman, Judith Hawkins-Tillirson, Rick Potter, I.Z. Gilford, Poke Runyon, Christopher S. Hyatt, and Robert Powell—and to the regular members of the Monday Night Magick Class of Heru-ra-ha Lodge O.T.O., I give my most heartfelt thanks; Constance DuQuette, who co-hosts this 30-year on-going class (and is my most ruthless heckler); Jonathan Taylor; Mike Strader; Jill Belanger; Olver Althoen; Carlos Casadas; and Sandy, Arto, Cobra, Vanessa, Bret, Michael, Patricia, Coleen, Mary, Evgeniy, Jane, Alan, Danny, and scores of others who throughout the years have brought Life, Love, and Liberty into our home each week.

I would also like to thank Glacier Nitz-Mercaeant, of The Enochian’s Keep in Indiana, for his beautiful gifts of my gold Enochian Ring and Lamen; and the late Cecil Eugene Burns (a.k.a. Frater White Haired Bull) who built and donated the true and faithful replica of the Holy Table that now adorns our Enochian Temple space.

My thanks also go to Brothers Michael Strader, for his rendering of the Ensigns of Creation in the angelic script, and Robert Powell for his beautiful images of the Tablet of Union and the four Elemental Tablets. They are perhaps the clearest black and white renderings of these complex figures ever published.

Finally I offer my heartfelt gratitude to Clay Holden for his encouragement and support of this project. I am also deeply indebted to him for allowing me to use his magnificent recreations of the original angelic alphabet and his images of the Forty-nine Good Angels, the Holy Table, the Sigillum Dei Aemeth, and Golden Talisman.

I also draw the reader’s attention to Brother Holden’s original image of John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica that adorns the cover page of each of the five books that make up Enochian Vision Magick. This image is in itself a most profound and historic element in the entire book for it represents a solution of a geometric puzzle going back to ancient Greek mathematical texts—that is, the production of a regular heptagon in a circle using only a compass and ruler. Please pay special attention to Clay’s foreword to discover more.

Finally I offer very special thanks to Jan Johnson, Brenda Knight, and Amber Guetebier of Weiser Books who patiently (and graciously) forgave several deadline breaches.

Foreword

Sound and Vision

What you now hold is the greatest guide ever written—by our greatest living teacher of magick—to the greatest occult system on Earth.

Enochian magick is the core of the Western esoteric tradition. It supersedes all that came before and is the root of all that came after. Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Golden Dawn, Thelema—all of these are training wheels meant to prepare candidates for contact with what you now hold.

Enochian Magick is Western magick’s enlightenment engine. It will destroy everything you hold dear. It will erase everything that you call you, as if you never existed at all. And it will cremate the remains, leaving nothing but ash in the infinite, featureless desert. Souuuunnnnnd good?

Now, if you’re still with me and haven’t run off to some other, more comforting occult book that promises you a shiny new car and Real! Ultimate! Power! in thirty days or less, and by dint of masochism or of faith you’re still sitting on the temple doorstep, let’s press on.

Enlightenment is the resetting of consciousness to its pristine, original nature. It is available to all sentient beings at all times. Various systems exist across various cultures that promise to get you there. Yet, despite its omnipresent availability, few pursue it. Of those rare individuals who do, few attain, because most just end up playing the pretending to wake up game for the purpose of gathering various forms of social currency. Of the remainder, still more fall off due to flagging energy or the pull of the various games of the world of sleepers—and, most of all, because they are unwilling to pay the cost. Which is everything.

But those who attain, attain.

Of the world’s numerous vehicles for attainment, Enochian Magick is paradoxically the most complex in theory and the simplest in practice. In theory, it consists of a schematic for assembling a four-dimensional mandala representing the entire universe that will have even the most adept scratching their head for years. In practice, it consists of reading a few lines of angelic language out loud at a time. These few lines, if applied correctly, will not just initiate the process that can lead to the enlightenment experience, but will plug the aspirant directly into the electrical current that powers the light in the first place—and I mean that viscerally and tangibly.

This practice has the useful effect of short circuiting all of the aspirant’s ego games, their guru transference (as there is no guru), their grotesquely cobbled-together map of book learning, and their entire constructed personality, to boot. If it short circuits the aspirant, too, well . . . nobody promised you a Rose Garden.

Beyond this effective (if unbelievably fierce) teaching approach, Enochian Magick has a number of additional features that make it a desirable enlightenment practice.

First, is that it is perhaps the most truly universal magical system we have. Despite its origins in Renaissance Europe, it will work for you regardless of your background. If you are Hindu, the angels will likely appear to you as Hindu gods; Buddhist, as fearsome bodhisattvas; an atheist science fiction fan, as Star Trek aliens and spatial anomalies; and so on. The Enochian entities will likely communicate with you using the language and symbols you understand. And while the system springs from the English language and the narrative of Christianity—the most widely spoken language and widely practiced religion on Earth, which is not an accident—the system can be used by anybody, regardless of their background or language. This was the plan of the angels—to provide a Rosetta Stone system for enlightenment that could be used by the entire planet, completely bypassing the need for human priestcraft or church authority, a plan no less revolutionary today than it was in the 16th century.

Additionally, it is a top-down delivered system, rather than a bottom-up, human-invented one. The angels—whatever you believe they were—told John Dee and Edward Kelley that the Enochian system is the true and complete system of magick, and that everything else (Agrippa, the grimoires, Neoplatonism, Qabalah, and all the rest of it) was only a crude attempt by simian humanity to approximate the methods of the angels. Nothing in the intervening centuries has changed that. And the Western magical systems that have been developed since are just packing foam to deliver Enochian Magick in.

Finally, Enochian Magick is fast. The Eastern methods—for instance, raja yoga and vipassana—give you tools to slowly attune your consciousness in the direction of enlightenment. Enochian magick simply drops you directly into the enlightened state—upon reaching the first Aethyr—and forces you to capacitate it, now, with no safety net or guarantees.

Now, this is not necessarily a sales pitch, because there is a catch—more than one, actually. Catch the first: Enochian Magick is a subtractive, not additive, process. It teaches by removing, not giving. As I describe at length in John Dee and the Empire of Angels, my comprehensive and centuries-spanning history of Dee and the Enochian system he delivered, Enochian Magick works by two methods: Sanctification and Illumination. Sanctification means purification by fire—fire that burns off your lower nature, complexes, delusions, bad behavior, and anything else keeping you chained to your animal, demonic, and maybe even human nature rather than reaching for the level of the angels. Illumination, or enlightenment, is the carrot to that stick.

Catch the second: Lack of support. The Eastern meditative systems are slow for a reason—to allow you to fully capacitate and stabilize the enlightenment experience when it finally happens. They also tend to come with wide-scale support systems. In the case of Hinduism and Buddhism, these generally mean not just groups of spiritual practitioners but whole cultures in which these types of experiences are considered commonplace and part of the general social fabric, rather than flagrant disregard of the rules, as they are in the West. The Western esoteric tradition is far behind in this regard. We have a handful of lodges, orders, and online collectives of one type or another, but nothing approaching unbroken tradition or wide cultural support. Occultists in the West are all outsiders. This largely means that intrepid would-be adepts—even those that belong to magical groups, which come with their own set of entanglements and impediments—are mostly on their own, making the Great Work a profoundly solitary and lonely pursuit. There will be no great reward, no accolades at the end of the rainbow. Just look outside—our culture is barely more evolved than it was in Dee’s time, perhaps even less so. Consider, as the late magician E. E. Rehmus did, how few English speakers are even capable of understanding Shakespeare now, in our supposedly hyper-advanced technological utopia. How much less the utterances of angels? The adept walks alone.

And this leads us to catch the third: Enochian Magick makes it phenomenally easy to confuse the planes of existence. There is next to no overlap between this system and the material world, something Dee and Kelley struggled with for years. And while the many alleged dangers of Enochian Magick that occult people love to gossip about second hand are mostly nonsense, one very real danger is that the system can become an all-consuming hobby that can easily distract you from your real-world duties. Enochian Magick is concerned with the world of angels, not humans. It will not pay your rent, it will not keep you employed, and it will not keep your partner engaged and satisfied. Do not confuse the planes—the Holy Table is an Elizabethan-era PlayStation. Points accrued in the game cannot be carried over into the real world. So: Keep your life in order. Do not mix the system with drugs. Exercise regularly. Keep a sense of humor and a tight leash on your cognitive biases. Maintain a day job and healthy relationships. Magick may carry you up to the heights of consciousness to speak with angels and down to the depths to contend with demons, but it does not excuse you from the work of being a human being.

Now, if I have not sufficiently dissuaded you, then be of good cheer. You are on the verge of a great adventure—and in Lon Milo DuQuette, you are in very good hands indeed. This guidebook is all you need to assess the Enochian system. Without argument, it is the best, most accurate, most comprehensive practical guide ever published on the subject. You need nothing but this book to begin, and end, not only your practice of Enochian, but your practice of magick as a whole. St. Lon, who has now spent nearly five decades quietly and persistently initiating generation after generation of seekers into the mysteries, and who should be rightly regarded as the absolute world treasure that he is, has laid everything out for you. All that remains is for you to begin the actual work.

So press on, and know that nothing lasts except the most seemingly transient and impermanent things, like the love and light you give to the world . . . all else will be dust, swept into the ashtray of history along with the pyramids full of toys the pharaohs hoped to bring with them to the Western Lands, or the ornate gold-leafed Masonic lodges of the Enlightenment adepts, or the lifelong Grand Guignol performance of the Great Beast—all gone away, away, into the desert stretching far away.

But the light remains, so strenuous that it is not perceived as light, but black to the blind. Absorbing all. Dissolving all.

And this manual—which, I assure you, looks like an electrician’s handbook for a reason—is how we turn on the lights.

Fiat Nox.

—Jason Louv

Author of John Dee and the Empire of Angels:

Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World

and Head instructor and teacher of magick at www.magick.me

Foreword

This is the book I would have given my eyeteeth for twenty-five