Are the Enochian Angels out to get us? Do they want to bring about another Apocalypse? Are they the evil Watchers, Grigori, pretending to be the good angels that taught Enoch their wisdom in order to lead us into bringing about the next recreation of the Earth?

Donald Tyson seems to think so.

For years I have thought that Tyson is a great researcher, but his apocalyptic theories were a bit over the top. I have a few of his books, including his translation of Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Enochian Magic for Beginners, and The Power of the Word. Say what you like about Tyson and his theories, but you cannot condemn the man’s researching capabilities. The notes in Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy are solid gold. And regardless of what he is writing, he always clearly indicates when he is reporting facts and when he is expressing his opinions. He never implies that his conclusions about the Enochian Apocalypse are based on information he has found in his research. It’s always expressed as an opinion.

Although, he did write an essay called “The Truth About Enochian Magic” (linked above) wherein he details all his theories. Hmmm.

Anyway, at least he is consistent. In all his books that I’ve read, he has stayed his ground regarding the Enochians. For years, as I said, I shrugged off his warnings as delusional paranoia. I recently chanced upon someone claiming intimate knowledge of Tyson’s personal beliefs. It seems he is at least allegedly a Gnostic Christian. The warnings of the apocalypse are not, in his world-view, a bad thing at all. It would return us to a right relationship with God.

Now, Tyson’s theology is weird, based on what I’ve seen in his books. I don’t understand how he could have painstakingly worked his way through Agrippa and not have come away with a more cohesive stance on Christian beliefs, past and present. The “right relationship” with God is established through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. Furthermore, Jesus says in his parable about the Good Shepherd:

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd. (John 10:16)

Most Christians say he’s talking about the Gentiles that will convert to Christianity. I personally think he’s talking about Pagans, Neoplatonic Philosophers, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and anyone else that sees past their religion’s B.S. and gets into a direct relationship with God based on what God has revealed to them. Thelemites say it’s discovering their True Will and following the guidance of their HGA. To me, it’s all the same thing in different wrappers.

What does that have to do with Enochian Apocalypses? God has a plan for everyone. Part of that plan includes Christians and Jews. They received the parts of God that were appropriate for them for God’s plan… for them. If you’re in another pen, you’ll hear the voice of your good shepherd calling you into a right relationship with God in your own language. If you’re stuck in the material realm and are unable to hear the voice over the cacophony of voices of the radio, television, media, internet, bloggers like myself… then you’re doomed. Doomed to go through your own apocalypse. And I’m sure the Enochian Spirits will happily oblige you.

If you’re in a right relationship with God, even if He manifests to you as a bunch of Pagan deities or sprites and gnomes or whatever, then you’ll be able to hear the difference between the seductive distractions of the spirits that would take you away from this relationship.Furthermore, God (in whatever form) wouldn’t be tempting you away from himself. He’d be keeping you close. You just have to pay attention to Him (or Her) first and foremost.

The Enochian Spirits are, in my current opinion, Terrestrial Spirits. They are not Celestial, designed to get you into a right relationship with God. Contrary to the assertion that Tyson begins his essay with, they are not particularly Theurgic spirits. In my visions, and in those of Fr. POS and Sr. Gimel, I see evidence that they are the spirits that manifest the physical realm. The visions we’ve had go back to the beginning of time, the big bang, but they remain within the confines of the earthly realm.

I haven’t read Ben Rowe’s plethora of writings, but I started to once. From what I remember and what I’ve heard mentioned by others, his work with them extended into the Astral Realm. While this may appear to be at least within the realm of the Moon, which would be in keeping with Tyson’s declaration of their lunar nature, the Astral Realm is not, in my opinion, really beyond the realms of the Earth.

The Realm of the “Earth” includes all of manifest reality, everything that can be said to be made up of the four elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. This includes the physical planets. The Planet Mars is a rock. Mercury too. Their locations in the sky relative to the Earth and observed for astronomical purposes are signposts, indicating the spiritual forces that are affecting the manifest realm at any given moment. Astrology has been revealed and developed to help us in identifying what is going on (in general) at any given time. This is a hit-and-miss kind of thing, because there are variables that are still debated and misunderstood. We can see the signs, and can read some of their meanings, but we don’t understand what it all means and how it all fits together.

But to think that the Archangel of Mars lives on the planet Mars and that their spiritual realm is maybe like Heinlein’s fantastical inhabitants of the planet is silliness. Would an asteroid from Mars be more potent as a Martial Talisman? Maybe. But if it’s made of iron, it’s made of iron. The four elements come together to form it into a matrix that is identical (pretty much) to what we find on Earth. So even the planets are Terrestrial, spiritually speaking.

The Astral Realm seems to reside between the Lunar realm and the Earthly realm on  the cosmological scale. It’s sort of the borderlands between the Celestial realms and the realm of matter. Magicians have gotten lost exploring this realm at the guidance of odd spirits before. I’m not saying Rowe was mislead or anything, but I don’t think astral visions should ever be taken without some large nuggets of sodium chloride.

I don’t know Rowe’s history, or whether he ever went through attaining Knowledge and Conversation with his Holy Guardian Angel. I don’t know if he ever had a spiritual experience with which to compare and test the results he received with the Enochian Entities. Regardless, I have both.

These spirits I’ve worked with so far haven’t popped up large quantities of Gold. In case you were wondering. (Yes, it’s still on my list. I want at least ONE gold brick.)

That said, of the spirits I’ve worked with so far, these seem to be the best suited for manifesting quantities of material objects. They seem to be directly on the bleeding edge of manifestation here in the physical realm. The Goetic entities I’ve worked with are removed from the actual processes of manifestation, but they can manipulate these processes through whatever authority they’ve been granted. The Angelic (Celestial) spirits I’ve worked with have been even further removed from manifestation, and by the time the orders trickle down through the ranks, it seems like they’ve either lost their punch, or were never really understood to mean what I thought I meant when I was talking to the Archangels.

The healing technique I got from working with EHNB has yielded some promising results. I’m looking to expand on that type of technique, or find others, while working with the other spirits of the four Elemental Tables. I’d like to be able to build a brick of gold, one elemental block at a time. I’ve started experimenting, but so far everything I’ve made from scratch just falls apart when I try to make it manifest.

For the record, I do not think the Enochian Angels are any more dangerous or out to deceive mankind than any other spirit. I think they understand what would distract us from seeking our Source, however it has revealed itself to us, better than some other spirits. I am thankful that I waited until now in my magical career to begin working with these entities. Having already experienced the Seven Governors of the Seven Heavens, and having already attained (at least began attaining, it’s nowhere near complete) Knowledge and Conversation with my HGA, I have other experiences with spirits that mean me well with which I can compare my Enochian experiences.

There are Angels and then there are Angels. Pretty much all of the spirits I deal with are “angels” in the strictest sense of the word. The strictest sense of the word itself is “Messenger.” Angeloi, in the original Greek, was used to indicate a messenger. As theology mutated and transformed across the centuries, the word “Angel” became specific to the messengers from God who were doing only what we humans would consider good. At least, those of us humans that benefited from thier actions. I doubt the Angels that visited Lot in Sodom or Gamora would be considered particularly beneficial to the Sodomites or Gamorians. The Egyptians probably weren’t too fond of the Angel of the Lord after their firstborn were slaughtered either.

Nevertheless, when I started getting into conjure magic, I went after Angels first, rather than demons, because they had a better reputation in my mind. Even if they weren’t particularly nice all the time, at least, I felt, I could remain confident that anything they brought about in my sphere would be for the good in the long run. The same, of course, couldn’t be said for demons, right?

A few years later, I’m faced with the truth that the spirits I call Angels aren’t that different than the spirits I call demons. Or elementals. Or Sirits. In fact, they can all be called angels or daimons, it means about the same thing.

So when I started with the Enochian Angels, I didn’t go into it believing that just because they have the word Angel in there that they necessarily were celestial beings that traverse the seven heavens. Nor do I think they are particularly interested in making my life great. Judging by what they had Dee and Kelley doing for a while, and what they tend to tell people (“You’re great, I have a mission for you… SPREAD THE WORD!”) in general, I am careful with them. They wouldn’t be the first “angel” that tried to do harm to someone.

I’m finding that the angels of Enoch ermind me a lot of the spirits of the Goetia. Both are angelic, but they are both also concerned with things of this world. Things of this world. I’ve been waiting for a sign, even asking for one directly, that the Angels of Enoch are more than spirits of the realm of the Earth. A neat system that provides a direct channel into the realms of the elemental spirits.

I don’t know right now though. They haven’t “done” anything yet. I’ve had neat dreams and visions, interesting insights about healing, and things like that, but there hasn’t been anything dramatic that would convince they are worth more than the mental stimulation I get from working with them.

The other night, I brough Bune along with me. While Adoeoet was there, I asked Bune if it was a Goetic Spirit. He said it was not. I asked Adoeoet what he thought of Bune. He didn’t really see him. They were obviously of different “species” of spirit. Bune wasn’t uncomfortable in Adoeoet’s presence, and Adoeoet didn’t even notice Bune there.

But what kind of spirit cares about how clean things are, but can’t see another spirit? Soror Gimel’s visions of them being “busy” during storms and othersmake me thiink they’re like the spirits within the elements, right, but they just seem to lack something. There’s a hollowness to them that I can’t quite pin down.

Well, I haven’t worked with many, that’s for sure. So far it’s an interesting journey, but it’s way too early to do more than wonder. Conlusions reached now are sure to be meaningless.

Fun stuff. I just finished conjuring ADOEOET, the Senior attributed to Jupiter from the Tablet of Fire.

I conjured him by reading the First Call, the Second Call, the Sixth Call, and then called him by name. I felt a bit of his presence, but I continued anyway. I conjured using the name BITOM, in the names of God Oip, Tiaa, and Pdoce, and in the Name of the King Edlprna. By the time I finished and checked my quartz, the bottom, furthest-away side of the ball was “glowing” white. I couldn’t see any distinct details, but the parts that were normally milky and somewhat transparent were instead white. I asked a few questions (it smells like Cinamon, or Dragon’s Blood incense), and closed my eyes to hear the answers. It tried to take me on an astral voyage of the realm of Fire. I asked if it could go up through the Spheres beyond the realms of the elements. It said it could not. I was disappointed a bit.

The thing looked like a fire-fairy. Like a cartoon image of a fire-sprite. Like a cousin of Tinkerbell with red hair and only three inches high with butterfly wings, a Monarch butterfly’s wings. I was like, “This is a Senior!?” It insisted it was, and that it really was looking like that on purpose. It tried to take me on another tour of the elemental realm of fire. Again I refused.

I should explain. I was tired. The power from the rite was big, but I was still sleepy. I kept closing my eyes and listening for the spirit’s “voice”, and when I did it tried to take me off on a visionary quest with my eyes closed. I know I’d end up falling asleep, and I didn’t want to just drift off to sleep during the rite.

And besides, a fairy? Come on. That’s so… not what I expect from an Angel ranked “Senior” and described as a pillar of the tower of the Golden Tablet thing. The Seniors are like the 24 Elders before the throne in Revelations. They offer the prayers of the Saints to God as incense, if I remember right.

So I vibrated its name at it. It didn’t change into a bearded old guy with a censor. I called on the spirit by all he names of the hierarchy again. Still it was a fairy. By this time, it was a very obvious fairy in the crystal. There was nothing I could do about it.

So I talked to it, asked again about whether it could go beyond the realm of Fire into the celestial spheres. It indicated that it could not. I asked if any of the Enochian angels could, and it indicated they could not. I didn’t understand this, but it could just be because I’m working with the angels of the Elemental Table. I may find something different when I get to the Aethyrs and the Parts of Earth. Again though, the Seniors are supposed to be in Heaven with God, so it doesn’t make much sense, unless they’re like the gnostic spirits under Ialdabaoth.

I did the conjuration yet again, just to make sure it was who it was supposed to be, and finally it was no longer a sprite, per se. I saw that it was like a sprite, but not as cartooney or Disney-fied. It was in two parts, one part that looked like a set of wings through the crystal, and one part that looked like a body with a head and red hair through the crystal. After the third conjuration using Bitom, Oip Teaa Pdoce and Edlprna, at last I felt like I was “seeing” it in a form that made more sense for the Jupiterian aspect of Fire.

I asked what its essence was, and it said Joyful. I asked if it wasn also Health of Fire, in some way, and it said yes, but secondarily. It was Fun, it explained, fun that was clean. What it meant by “clean” was that it was a flame that completely consumed its fuel. It didn’t leave any ash or smoke, and it didn’t burn up more than it was alloted. I got the feeling it was like the entertainment part of a budgeted lifestyle that wouldn’t dip into the grocery or rent funds just to go see one more movie this month.

Eventually I let it go, and closed out the rite. When I turned around from my altar, my face felt hot, and my eyes were very dry, as if I had been sitting near a bonfire or campfire for a while. My skin felt almost sunburnt and radiated heat. I thought at the time it was because I went through three full conjurations of the spirit’s hierarchy. Packed a bit of a punch.

Last week sometime, I began my Enochian Experiment. I conjured up EHNB.

For those who aren’t in the know, the name of the Enochian Angel EHNB is derived from the “Tablet of Union.” I’m pretty sure the Tablet of Union is primarily from the Golden Dawn, from what I’ve seen on traditionalist Enochian sites. Dee had drawn the Table of Union in the margins of his diary, but had not apparently received it as a specific separate Table to be made as part of your tools. There’s not even any indication that the Great Table was to be literally created. Regardless, the Table of Union, as it has come to be known, is still useful. This is a table that has five columns and four rows. The four names of from the central cross of the Great Table are arranged thusly:

	Spirit	Air	Water	Earth	Fire
Air	E	X	A	R	P
Water	H	C	O	M	A
Earth	N	A	N	T	A
Fire	B	I	T	O	M

The elemental attributes are derived from context clues in the writings. According to DuQuette, EHNB is the Archangel of the the other four Archangels. Within the E of EHNB, Exarp dwells, and within the H of EHNB, HCOMA dwells, and so forth.

When I conjured EHNB, I didn’t have much happen. I didn’t feel a great presence fill the room. For one thing, you have to read the First and Second Calls in Enochian, and for flip’s sake, I might as well have been reading Russian. I had no idea what I was saying, or how to say it right. It was unpleasant. Most of the time when I say my prayers before a ritual, I say them in straght-talk. I don’t do too many thees and thous, except when I’m lighting the candle that represents the light of the First Father that contracted to form the void into which the Word went to work creating….

Anyway, point is, I usually keep it simple and straightforward. I was listening tonight to a talk given by a friend on Angel Magic. I’d post a link, but I don’t know if it’s ready for public consumption. (update: click the link to the left/above.) He talks about how Trithemian magic, which he attributes Enochian magic to as well, is so much easier than Solomonic magic. I started with the Trithemian system, and then applied the lessons learned there to the Solomonic traditions, and had a lot of success. If Michael shows up on a Sunday dawn with “Lord, send Michael to commune with me in this crystal,” then the demons had damned well better hop to at a few words as well. And they do.

So Enochian is definitely different. The First and Second Calls were terrible. I almost laughed at how badly I was pronouncing the words, it was so bad. When EHNB didn’t show up in any discernable way, I wasn’t much surprised. But I listened anyway.

There was a darkness, a void, sort of, but it wasn’t empty. I sensed it above the middle of the SDA. I didn’t know if it was there because the angels that are inscribed on the SDA were empowering it, or if EHNB was there. I figured I’d trust my magic, and with a quick word to my HGA asking for the presence of EHNB, I went ahead with the conversation.

Duquette recommends asking the spirit what it’s scent is, what it’s color is, what its role is, and so on and so forth. I hadn’t paid enough attention to it before preparing to remember all the questions, so I went ahead with my standard Angel thing. “EHNB, reveal to me what Enochian magic will do to draw me closer to God, how I will find a practical application for it as a magician, a child of God made in his image, and reveal the role Enochian magic will have for me.” It’s a lot like what I ask for when working with the archangels of the planets, “Attune my sphere and tell me what I need to know.”

I heard a voice, or many voices speaking in unison, but extremely quietly. The conversation was nothing great or prolonged. It was free of the haughty tones the archangels have with a lot of magicians. There were no scriptural-sounding proclamations or anything. Just a quiet, still small voice having a straightforward conversation. I can’t remember any details, per se; in fact, I’d forgotten the conversation entirely until Fr. POS reminded me of it yesterday.

Because I’m so far behind Fr. POS and Sr. Gimel, I conjured all four of the other spirits that make up EHNB at the same time. I didn’t get much out of each individual, nothing more really than I got from EHNB. I figured Enochian wasn’t that big of a deal after all, and closed out the rite, asking the angels to reveal to me in dreams the roles theyplayed in more detail.

Ever since, I’ve had really incredibly vivid dreams about how everything is united and how time is kept for each thing you do. It’s been really detailed and lucid in the dreams, but the “lessons” weren’t new. I felt sort of ripped off. I went to all that trouble, and all I got was a Vision of Yesod, the mechanical nature of the universe.

Then it all culminated while I was lying down on the couch with my two sick kids last week. I figured I should do something magical for them, because I want them healed, I’m a magician, and I would totally trash any magician who didn’t try to help their kids when they were sick, you know?

I started with a simple chakra visualization I’ve used for years. Green heart-chakra “energy” expanding from my chest and encircling the kids as they laid beside me watching TV. Your basic stuff.

Then WHABAM! Everything made sense. I had a flash of EHNB, Exarp, Hcoma, Nanta, and Bitom encircling me, fillign me, being at one with my will and the will of God and how they were busily doing their jobs maintaining everything (EVERY THING), and yet at the same time waiting for me. I saw everything was made of cubes. It was like pixelation. Each cube was elemental in nature. They all worked together in harmony to make up experiential reality. And then I saw I had a way to move the blocks around.

I “saw” my kids’ hearts, their bloodstreams, their mucous systems, the fluids and blood cells fighting the disease, and I saw the diseases as well, little black cubes in the pixelated world. The immune systems of the kids were working on cleaning out the kids’ bodies. I started helping out the immune systems, getting everything that was already doing its work tuned up and working in better harmony, because it was tired. then I got this nudge, or inspiration, and just started pointing at the cubes of disease and removing them. “Be not.”

The next day, the kids were noticeably better. My daughter had an ear infection one day, and it was at its worst, and then the next day it was just gone. My son is still draining some mucous, but his sore throat’s gone. Neither have any trace of a fever.

So not only is Enochian magic a sweet system, it’s actually useful. My doubts that it would be all vision magic(k) and nothing practical are allayed.

I finished the first set of Enochian tools. Pics are below. I’ll be making more as time goes by, more authentic, but I’m kinda eager to get started.

When we heard DuQuette’s Enochian Vision Magick was out, Fr. POS and I decided to work on it at the same time, so we could compare notes. He and his gal have done some neat work on the Tablet of Nalvage. I mean, really neat. The letters are all carved by hand. Look at them. That’s really good work.

So now I have to catch up. I got started on the Ring of of Solomon yesterday. Soror Gal gave me some pointers on how she made her rings out of Sculpey. I followed most of her advice, but I made my ring in two parts, and then when it was finished baking, I filed one side down of the ring part until it was flat. After gold-leafing it (and gluing the ring part back together where it broke because I was using “Ultra Light” Sculpey), I glued the square to the ring using wood glue.

It’s not the most sturdy thing, but it will do until the paychecks start rolling in and I can buy some real equipment for making magical talismans out of the proper ingredients. I may not be Wade Coleman, or at least not for a while, but I’ll be getting the stuff to do the work he does. Maybe “Ugly Works” won’t have to be my motto for much longer.

Anyway, I’ve got two pounds of beeswax and a nine-inch pie pan. I’m going to see how thick one pound is, and I hope I’ll have enough for both the Tablet of Nalvage and the Sigilum Dei Aemyth (SDA). Or however you spell it. I’m thinking of making the Tablet of Nalvage smaller if necessary. Nine inches of wax is cool for the SDA, but I’m only making a 12″X12″ table, I hope.

While I really love DuQuette’s book, I’d rather use an SDA from an older manuscript. They’re much easier to draw. I don’t think Fr. POS would let me get away with that though. It would throw off our ability to compare notes as we go along.

One nice thing about doing Work with other magicians is that you are kept to a particular standard. He and Soror Gal have set the standard pretty high with their meticulous recreation of the Tablet of Nalvage. I don’t want to learn the Enochian Alphabet. It’s graceful, and I can barely print legibly. But I will, for the sake of SCIENCE!!! Or at least for the sake of having something comparable to their excellent work.