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Enochian Magic
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Origin 1582 to 1589
Enochian Magic is the ceremonial system built from the angelic conversations John Dee and Edward Kelley recorded between 1582 and 1589, organised around received calls, a governing table and a hierarchy of kings and governors addressed through it. Dee, a devout Christian, understood the material as communication with angels sent by the God he worshipped and set his diaries in those terms throughout. The system passed out of Dee's own hands into later ceremonial magic, most influentially through the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which built the practical curriculum most modern practitioners still use. Scholars are divided on how far Dee's own working can be called a form of Christian religious practice rather than a related but distinct occult undertaking that grew out of one devout man's private experiment.
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Status TodayLiving tradition, practised today 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Christianity, Religions John Dee, who received this material, was a devout Christian and read his own angelic conversations within that faith, addressing what he took to be angels sent by the God he worshipped. The system his work produced grew into a distinct ceremonial practice used across later occultism, and scholars are divided on how far it should be read as Christian religious observance rather than as an adjacent discipline that happened to begin inside one man's Christian framework.
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The working diagram at the centre of Dee and Kelley's angelic system, source of the ninety one governors and the basis for the elemental watchtowers carried into later ceremonial magic.
Binds the four Watchtower tablets of the Great Table into one system, part of the working furniture of the same practice.
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