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Enochian is a name often applied to an occult or angelic language recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England. Kelley was a spirit medium who worked with Dee in his magical investigations. The men claimed that the language was revealed to them by the Enochian angels. The language is integral to the practice of Enochian magic.
The language found in Dee and Kelley's journals encompasses a limited textual corpus, only some of it with English translations. Several linguists, notably Donald Laycock, have studied Enochian, and argue against any extraordinary features in the language.
Dee's journals did not describe the language as "Enochian", instead preferring descriptors like "Angelical", the "Celestial Speech", the "Language of Angels", the "First Language of God-Christ", the "Holy Language" or " Adamical" because, according to Dee's Angels, it was used by Adam in Paradise to name all things. The term "Enochian" comes from Dee's assertion that the Biblical Patriarch Enoch had been the last human (before Dee and Kelley) to know the language.
Enochian is an occult or angelic language recorded in the private journals of Dr. John Dee and his seer Edward Kelley in the late 16th century.
Enochian may also refer to:
- Enochian chess, a four-player chess variant
- Enochian magic, a system of ceremonial magic based on the writings of John Dee and Edward Kelley
- Enochian Theory, a British rock band
Usage examples of "enochian".
The Enochian metagrammar parsers do their thing and the damned souls or enchained demons or whatever on switchboard hiss louder then connect the circuit.
Eliza wondered if it was the Enochian from which letters were inscribed on the back of the lamen.
Allan had made them memorize the series of Enochian words the previous evening.
With the black rod he traced an emblem on the smokey air over the triangle and vibrated a series of barbarous words that were even harsher than the previous Enochian phrase.
The noted English magician of the reign of Elizabeth the First, Doctor John Dee, used a similar set of instruments to initially contact the angels who dictated, through his seer the alchemist Edward Kelley, the letters and writings of the Enochian language.
They, along with the other letters of the Enochian alphabet, were psychically perceived by Kelley on May 6,1583, when they appeared in a light yellow color on the page in front of him, allowing him to trace their outlines exactly with a pen before they faded from his sight.
Along with the Enochian alphabet and language, Dee and Kelley received a set of nineteen different Keys or Calls intended to be used in the evocation of various orders of the angelic hierarchy.
This same Doctor Dee is also credited with creating a language called Enochian because he believed he was in communication with Angels.
But he saw the power in alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Enochian magic, the cabala.
Perhaps Simon did manage to conjure up a spirit or two through the Enochian Aires to help him.
John Dee waiting patiently for an angel to speak to him in any language, even in the obscure Enochian tongue.
Even if you know not the nature of the words, I can translate from the Enochian language.
Simon knew that once Dee started on Enochian magic he could waffle on for hours.
The actual mating, to be sure, would be voluntary and legalized by marriage (at least in the pilot experiment): the whole operation would amount to no more than a sophisticated and programmatic Courtship Counseling, already in its simpler form a popular WESCAC service, and should tend towards improvements in the student body of a sort no right-minded person could object to: better physical and mental health, higher IQ's, intellectual earnestness, Enochian humility, and the like.