ASP is the twenty-first of the thirty Aethyrs, or Airs, of the Enochian system, the thirty spiritual regions delivered to the mathematician John Dee and the scryer Edward Kelley in 1584, and named in the record Dee compiled from those sessions. Its three-letter name, ASP, was received letter by letter through Kelley's scrying.
Place in the system
Each Aethyr is said to contain three Governors among whom the ninety-one Parts of the Earth are divided.
The thirty Aethyrs are the raw gift of the Dee-Kelley sessions; the elaborate visionary content attached to them in modern practice belongs to a later layer, above all Aleister Crowley's The Vision and the Voice, his record of scrying all thirty Aethyrs in 1900 and 1909. The Aethyr is described here as an element of that documented historical tradition, studied as such, its entities not reified.
The three Governors
ASP's three Parts are Chirzpa, ruling Brytania, Britain, Dee's own country, under King Arfaolg of the tribe of Ephraim; Toantom, ruling Phenices, Phoenicia, under King Cadaamp of the tribe of Benjamin; and Vixpalg, ruling Comaginen, Commagene, the small client kingdom on the upper Euphrates, under King Zurchol of the tribe of Simeon. Dee is generally credited with coining the phrase British Empire and spent his career advancing England's imperial claims, yet the table treats Britain as a single Part, no more finely divided than Spain or Germany, with no sign of any special standing.