LOE is the twelfth 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, LOE, 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
LOE's three Parts are Tapamal, ruling a Part called Onigap with no known geographical referent, under King Zurchol of the tribe of Simeon; Gedoons, ruling India, under King Cadaamp of the tribe of Benjamin; and Ambriol, ruling Orchenii, the district of Orchoe in southern Mesopotamia, under King Ziracah of the tribe of Reuben. Dee's geography reaches no further east than India; his sources were Ptolemy, Pliny and Strabo, and the Americas, ninety years after Columbus, appear nowhere in the ninety-one. The tribal associations of the Kings belong to the received material; the zodiacal signs now attached to them are a later addition, and keeping the two layers apart matters more than any other single fact about this set.