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A Luxryne course

Enoch & Enochian

From the Watchers to John Dee

Two traditions that share a name: the ancient Book of Enoch with its Watchers and heavenly journeys, and the angelic language recorded by John Dee and Edward Kelley in the 1580s and revived by the Golden Dawn.

Begin: The Book of Enoch →Enochian hall and alphabet chart

By the end of this course you will

  • Know the five books of 1 Enoch
  • Tell the story of the Watchers
  • Understand Dee and Kelley's angelic conversations in context
  • Read the Enochian alphabet

Curriculum

  1. Module I

    The Book of Enoch

    Its books and survival.

  2. Module II

    Watchers and Angels

    The ancient myth and the Elizabethan magus.

  3. Module III

    The Angelic Language

    Alphabet, Calls and revival.

Course reading list

  • R. H. Charles (tr.), The Book of Enoch (1912)
  • George W. E. Nickelsburg & James C. VanderKam, 1 Enoch: A New Translation (2004)
  • James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790)
  • Meric Casaubon (ed.), A True & Faithful Relation… between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits (1659)
  • Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels (1999)
  • Glyn Parry, The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee (2011)
  • Donald C. Laycock, The Complete Enochian Dictionary (1978)
  • Israel Regardie (ed.), The Golden Dawn (1937–40), including 'Book T'