Enochian Magic

Loagaeth

Loagaeth is derived from the Angelical language, which was revealed to John Dee and Edward Kelley in the late 16th century. The term itself can be interpreted as "Speech given at creation" or "Speech concerning creation." This suggests a profound connection to the origins of existence and divine communication.

Liber Loagaeth, which translates to "The Book of the Divine Speech of God." This text is central to the Enochian system of magic, which Dee and Kelley claimed was a language of angels.

Loagaeth, which is the name of the 6th text of Dee’s Liber Mysteriorium work, written entirely in “angelic” language.

When receiving this book, Dee was told the following by the angels: ”God shall make clear when it pleaseth him: & open all the secrets of wisdom when he unlocketh. Therefore seek not to know the mysteries of this book, til the very hour that he shall call thee. For then shall his power be so full amongst you, that the flesh shall not be perceived, in respect of his great glory." (April 18, 1583)

"Out of this, shall be restored the holy books, which have perished even from the beginning, and from the first that lived And herein shall be deciphered perfect truth from imperfect falsehood, True religion from false and damnable errors, With all arts; which are proper to the use of man, the first and sanctified perfection: Which when it hath spread a While, THEN COMMETH THE END." (May 5, 1583)

The whole Enochian system is a picture of the throne room of God.

“One of the very first things I ever published on magic was an essay titled A Discourse on the Enochian Watchtowers. It was given to me by an angel. When I say given to me by an angel, I was asleep and the angel approached and just said one word. I snapped awake and had to jump out of bed and go write the entire essay down before it left my head. It was that intense. What was pointed out to me in that moment was that Dee's system is a ma’ava system. The four great watchtowers are literally structured after the four chayot in Ezekiel's vision and in St. John's vision. The Heptarchia are the seven spirits who stand before the throne of God that are described by St. John. The whole Enochian system is a picture of the throne room of God. So when you're dealing with the Enochian system, the reason why people say it's so powerful and so dangerous is because you are messing around with the holy host. If you don't know who those are, those are the angels who serve directly to the throne of God. These are the angels who can trod right over you and crush you and your entire city and not even know they've stepped on you. These are extremely powerful beings that do not take kindly to being pestered by apes from a dirt ball in the middle of the Milky Way. So, yeah, it is powerful. It is dangerous, but it is a ma’ava system. That is one of the things that people overlook.” - Aaron Leitch, from Angela’s Symposium Interview

What the Enochain Angels are

“Now taking that over to the Enochian stuff, the Enochian angels are the angels of the stars and the planetary heavens. I read a lot of sources where people want to see the Enochian angels as something other, you know like they're Hebrew angels and Christian angels, but then there are the Enochian angels, and this is a whole different group of angels, but in reality that's not true. The way John Dee and Edward Kelley did their work to receive that magical system was they first contacted the angel who governs the entire universe, which that changes every 490 years, in Dee's day it was Anael, the archangel Venus was the head honcho in charge of the seven archangels, Anael introduced Dee to the four archangels, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel, those four archangels are the ones who revealed the entire Enochian system to Dee and Kelley, it was them, an angel subordinate to them, so there is no practical difference between the Enochian angels and any other angels from any other grimoire, whether it's the seven archangels from the Heptameron or the Arbatel spirits, the Olympic spirits from the Arbatel or the seven planetary intelligences, these are all angels, and so are the Enochian angels, they are in charge of the 12 signs of the zodiac and the seven planets and the four elements, and they are what Gnosticism would have called the Archons, they are the rulers, the ones who are in charge of everything that happens in the world, and beyond that, they are what I call Merkava angels, and this is why they are so much more dangerous than working with like Michael or Gabriel. These guys attend directly to the divine throne, so when Ezekiel saw the heavens open and he saw the divine throne being held up by those four massive archangels with the faces of men, oxen, lions, those were the Enochian angels, those were the Merkava angels, they're called the Hayyot, the holy hand, and that's what you're dealing with in the Enochian system, so you're kind, they are still angels, but they're way at the top of the hierarchy, they're the ones you don't want to pester unless it's for a really good reason that affects a large portion of the earth, you don't call an Enochian angel because you need to make rent this month or you want a new car or a friend of yours is spreading gossip and you want them to stop, you call them because well there's a pandemic going on or you call them because there's a tyrant about to take over your country or for those kinds of things, they're for the big things in life.” - Aaron Leitch, from Interview

“A lot of the things that people overlook is just because of Neo-Enochian. They think the four watchtowers are the elemental tablets. They think that the watchtower of the east has angels of air and the watchtower of the south has angels of fire. That's not how it works at all. There are elemental angels among the angels in the tables, but the angels in those tables are primarily zodiacal. That's also something I wrote in the discourse on the Enochian watchtowers, the relationship between the tables and the signs of the zodiac. God, I could just go on coming up with examples of stuff, and it's just like I said, Dee was trying to make a Christian Kabbalah. If you understand that that was his intent, it really makes the system come across different. People, especially starting back in the 1990s, had this view of it as just this weird alien system, like it contacted aliens from other planets or other dimensions and it was this weird technology. It's not. I mean, it is a weird technology but not in the sense they were viewing it. It is a Renaissance angel magic system and it just happens to be geared toward the highest and most powerful angels. I think if people would study Dee's history, like what his perspective on it was, then that would change their perspective on it as well. I've literally had to write entire essays trying to convince people that the Enochian angels, first of all, there's no such thing as Enochian angels. The angels in Dee's journals are angels like any other. He was talking to Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel. The four main archangels mainly were the ones in charge of delivering the entire system. So, you know, these were not aliens, these are angels. Just the perspective that has been lost on Dee's system mainly thanks to the Golden Dawn and of course Crowley and then of course along came Chaos Magic and all that stuff that just ate it up and took it off in their own direction. A perspective I think is what gets lost on Dee's original system and what he was really trying to do and who he was really trying to contact. They're just angels. Michael delivered all the tools and furniture and the ring because he's the one who gave that to Solomon in the first place. Raphael of course brought the book of Loagaeth and he described the book and the language of course in it and he described it as a medicine because he's the physician of God. Gabriel is the one who brought the parts of the earth and a lot of the subsystems that came after Loagaeth was given. He brought all of that. The traditional Hebrew angels are 100% present and in charge of the entire Enochian system. They're not just weird interdimensional aliens who are contacting us with some kind of weird machine or anything. This is magic. This is mysticism 100%.” - Aaron Leitch, from Angela’s Symposium Interview

50 Gates of Binah

it goes back to that you’re dealing with the throne angels thing. It comes very much down to Liber Loagaeth. If you look at the other aspects of the system, the Heptarchia deals with the seven archangels and their entire hierarchy of royal angels. That’s fairly standard Solomonic stuff. All the powers that the angels are given in that system are things you’ll find in the grimoires. It’s not unusual. The same thing with the watchtowers. The great table of the earth is kind of an alchemical tablet, and most of the angels in there have alchemical powers, like transmutation of substances and knowledge of stones, gems, and minerals. So there’s nothing so unique there. But then you have Liber Loagaeth, and the book of Loagaeth, like I said, is a collection of what’s supposed to be the tables of heaven. They’re not a book you can just read. It’s a collection of 49 tables of 49 by 49 squares, front and back of each page, so 98 squares per leaf. They are filled with letters purportedly in the angels’ language. These tables are the gates of heaven. You look at the 12 signs of the zodiac and divide them up so you get 48 gates. Each of the 48 angelical keys, those poems, those invocations, you have to sing or recite those to open the tables of Loagaeth. When you open them, the angels come out and will either teach you about the mystical forces contained in the tables or, as briefly mentioned by one of the angels, you can step through the gate you’ve just opened and visit their cities like Enoch did. I don’t know, unless you’re going to go back into old Ma’ava mysticism, which is very difficult because we don’t really know about all their techniques and practices. The Gnostics did ascension, but again, we have some of the rituals but not really all the instructions. You know, they did these baptisms that took you up and up through the heavens, but we don’t actually know what the ritual looked like. There are other systems of Ma’ava-style or Marava-style ascension where you actually go into the heavens and explore them. But within our modern western systems, I don’t know of any other system that really does that. So that’s your main thing that’s different: you can actually go into their cities or learn what the angels have to teach about these realms of heaven. That is unique, at least within our modern systems. I think Loagaeth itself and the ritual that we call Jebopal—which is the ritual of using the 48 keys to open the 48 gates—are very unique and very powerful and potentially dangerous. I don’t know how familiar your audience will be with Jewish practices, but they have a thing called counting the Omer. The ritual we call Gebofal That ritual is Dee’s version of counting the Omer. This goes back to the fact that Dee was trying to create a Christian Kabbalah. The 48 is a 49-day ritual, which is just one day short of the 50 that counting the Omer is. Counting the Omer is about opening the gates of understanding and the gates of wisdom. In counting the Omer, you have to sit and do meditations every single day for 49 days. Every day, you’re meditating on a different sphere of the tree. They do it through meditating on the acts of the prophets. For example, divine mercy is associated with Abraham because Abraham almost killed his own son, but God stopped him at the last minute and showed mercy. You’re supposed to contemplate that biblical story and what it has to teach you about divine mercy. You do this for 49 days over different prophets, different gates. Then on the 50th day, you can go all the way up from Malkuth. When they’ve opened all 49 or all 50 of those gates on the last day, the 50th gate is Binah. It just parts a little teeny bit. Only Moses was allowed to go through that gate. Later Christians said Jesus did it too; he came through that gate. But we mere mortals can’t do that. So it just opens it just cracks a little bit to let a little beam of light from God shine on us, and that’s where we get our wisdom and our inspiration. You can have all sorts of knowledge at the end of those 50 days. Dee created the same thing, only using these tables of Enoch, these tables of Loagaeth, and it’s a 49-day ritual. You spend 48 days opening up each gate of heaven. You don’t have to contemplate prophets or anything. It’s more of a Renaissance angel magic kind of ritual where you’re an invocation to God where you ask for certain things, and then you invoke the angels and ask them for certain things, and it goes on and on. Then on the 49th day, just like in counting the Omer, you go in, and that last gate—the one you’re not allowed to open—kind of pops open a little bit, and divine revelation comes through. Anytime you’re talking about opening all of those gates of heaven and letting the light of God shine on you, you’re dealing with dangerous stuff. Just like Yahweh told Moses, “If you see my face, you’ll be incinerated, so I can only show you my back.” Another example is when Gabriel was sent against the forces of Sennacherib, and they were all sleeping at night, and Gabriel came into the middle of their camp and parted one of the gates of heaven so that they could hear the angels singing, and they were all incinerated in their sleep. So opening those gates to the throne room is inherently spiritually dangerous. You can read Ma’ava literature; they talked about it a lot. You could come back insane. You could come back an apostate. Or you could come back a heretic. Only it was one rabbi that famously was able to make the ascent and come back and be okay and actually have received the wisdom and made good use of it, Rabbi Akiva. Everyone else just kind of went nuts. So that’s your danger: you’re dealing with massive physical or natural forces. It’s the spiritual version of toying around with a hadron supercollider, basically. - Aaron Leitch, from Interview

Enochian is a Solomonic System

“The Enochian magic—now, like I said, the angels told me, “Don’t call us again until you’ve got all the tools.” So I have put them largely on hold, but not entirely. Because this is something I should have said when you asked me what people misunderstand and that I wish people understood about Enochian magic is that magic was never intended to be restricted to just the what we call the Enochian system, the watchtower, the Heptarchia. Dee was given those tools to use for all angels. They are angelic scrying tools. You can use them for any celestial entity you want to contact. People don’t understand that. Like in the Heptarchia, the angels in charge of the Heptarchia are the same seven angels as listed in the Heptameron. So even though I’m not using a holy table and doing specifically Enochian scryings of the specific watchtowers, I am a Solomonic practitioner, and as a practitioner, I have seven altars scattered throughout my house. Each one is in an area that is correspondent to the angel’s planet. I have seven altars to all seven archangels. Each one of those—you know these are the same angels I’m working with in the Enochian system. So I have like the seven ensigns of creation, which are talismans in the Enochian system representing those angels. Those are on those altars. So I am still working the system even though I’m kind of going afield from what Dee was doing specifically in his journals. And remember, we don’t have any records of Dee actually using the Enochian system. So we just have the material. So I’m actually applying it. I’m kind of taking a page from his book and I’m using kind of Heptarchic-style methods with these particular seven angels but I’m incorporating the material he got in his Enochian system as well. So there’s no point when the Enochian system does not underlie what I do. With the exception of Abramelin—Abramelin is pure Abramelin. I mix nothing ever gets mixed into that. So yeah, it’s always there. Those angels are always there with me. And yes, they want me to finish the tools so I can get back to playing around with the watchtower angels and that kind of stuff. But yeah, it is very—I wouldn’t say central, but Abramelin is central, but it definitely underpins pretty much everything I do in the Solomonic system because I do consider the Enochian system a Solomonic system. Why is that? Well, because Dee used Solomonic methods to contact the angels, and he was contacting angels from the Solomonic system with Anneal and the four archangels and all of them. The Heptarchia and the seven archangels from the Heptameron. They simply gave him a better, new and improved version of all of that. It is still a standard Renaissance angel summoning system and scrying system, I should say. So in that sense, there’s nothing unique or different about it. What’s unique or different is that the tools themselves have all been improved and made more powerful. So yeah, it is its structure, its origin, and even its content is still very Solomonic and not Solomonic as in having to do with King Solomon but Solomonic as in coming from that grimoire tradition because it’s called Enochian because it has to do with the prophet Enoch. “ - - Aaron Leitch, from Angela’s Symposium Interview