Origin 1582-1589, the governors with the Aethyrs in 1584
The ninety-one governors are the angels distributed across the thirty Enochian Aethyrs, each with a name, a sigil traced on the Great Table, and a region of the earth attributed to it. They come from the records of John Dee and Edward Kelley's scrying sessions of the 1580s, and are used in ceremonial work descended from the Golden Dawn and from Crowley.
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Origins
Origin Period1582-1589, the governors with the Aethyrs in 1584 1Tradition: John Dee and Edward Kelley: the angelic sessions Origin Period1888-1909 2Tradition: Golden Dawn and Crowley: the modern working Place of OriginEngland and central Europe: the sessions ran at Mortlake and, for the governors received with the Aethyrs in 1584, at Cracow. 1 Origin of the NameEnochian is a later label. Dee calls the language of these names Angelical or Adamical in his own records; the name Enochian, after the patriarch Enoch to whom the angels were said to have given it, belongs to later usage. 1 Whose Classification This IsThe governors reached modern practice through the Golden Dawn and through Aleister Crowley, not directly from the manuscripts. 2Tradition: Golden Dawn and Crowley (the modern working) Whose Classification This IsThe ninety-one governors, their sigils on the Great Table and the regions of the earth attributed to them come from Dee and Kelley's scrying records of the 1580s; the geography reflects the Elizabethan map of the world. 1Tradition: John Dee and Edward Kelley (the reception) Comparison
Cultural OriginEnglish Renaissance (Enochian) 3 Era of Origin Overview
Size of the Traditional SetNinety-one governors: three to each Aethyr, and four to TEX 1 Learn More
The Ninety-One Governors
The ninety-one governors are the angels distributed across the thirty Enochian Aethyrs, three to most Aethyrs, four to a few, each with a name, a sigil traced on the Great Table (the grid of letters at the heart of the Enochian system), and a region of the earth attributed to it. They come from the scrying records of John Dee and Edward Kelley.
Each governor rules a portion of the world and is invoked as part of the working of its Aethyr, so that the ninety-one together map the whole earth onto the Enochian heavens in an elaborate correspondence of angel, place and call.
Names, sigils and lands
The governors' names and sigils are drawn from the letters of the Great Table by paths that Dee recorded, and each is linked to a geographical region in a scheme that reflects the Elizabethan map of the world. The governors are among the most detailed features of the Enochian system and are used in its practice alongside the calls of the Aethyrs.
The atlas gives each governor its Aethyr, its name and sigil, and its attributed region. The Aethyrs the governors are distributed among are treated in their own category, within Ceremonial & Esoteric Magic.
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Sources
1. John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
Deborah E. Harkness, Cambridge University Press, 1999on the reception of the Aethyrs and the parts of the earthView the Source 2. Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism
Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2012on Crowley's Enochian workings
3. Wikipedia: Enochian
WikipediaWikipedia lead section, Governors culture
Enochian is an occult constructed language, said by its originators to have been received from angels, recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England.
Wikipedia lead section, Governors era
recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England
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