Practical Angel Magic of Dr John Dee's Enochian Tables - Hardcover

Dr Stephen Skinner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954763904 ISBN 13: 9780954763909

Publisher: Golden Hoard Press (SI), 2004

Synopsis

Stephen Skinner has been interested in magic for as long as he can remember. He wrote, with Francis King, the classic Techniques of High Magic in 1976. He followed that with Oracle of Geomancy and Terrestrial Astrology which has become the standard work on Western divinatory geomancy. Books on Nostradamus and Millennium Prophecies followed in highly illustrated editions. Stephen is also the author of eight books on feng shui, including the first one written in English in the 20th century. In the 1970s he was responsible for stimulating interest in John Dee and Enochian magic by publishing the first reprint of Casaubon's True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers between Dr John Dee and some Spirits. and Dr Donald Laycock's key reference book on the angelic language The Complete Enochian Dictionary. With David Rankine, he discovered what happened to Dee's most important manuscript, his personal book of angelic invocations which he kept in Latin, and how it was preserved and developed in the 17th century into a full working Enochian system. Only ten percent of this material reached the unpublished archives of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and even this was then suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, so it did not appear in Israel Regardie's monumental work on the Order rituals and documents. They have also traced the routes down which were passed the classic techniques of invocation and evocation from late mediaeval grimoires, through Dee's magic, via Ashmole, and the aristocratic angel magicians of the 17th century, and Frederick Hockley to the senior magicians of the Golden Dawn.

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Author of more than 50 books on magic.

David Rankine is an author who has been practising magick for 25 years, and is best known for his lively lectures and workshops. He has been involved with a wide variety of magickal groups and traditions, and draws on his extensive experience to convey the essence of magick in simple terms.

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Stephen Skinner has been interested in magic for as long as he can remember. He wrote, with Francis King, the classic "Techniques of High Magic" in 1976. He followed that with "Oracle of Geomancy" and "Terrestrial Astrology" which has become the standard work on Western divinatory geomancy. Books on "Nostadamus" and "Millennium Prophecies" followed in highly illustrated editions. Stephen is also the author of eight books on feng shui, including the first one in English in the 20th century.

In the 1970s he was responsible for stimulating interest in John Dee and Enochian magic by publishing the first reprint of Casaubon's True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers between Dr John Dee and some Spirits He also published Dr Donald Laycock's key reference book on the angelic language The Complete Enochian Dictionary.

With David Rankine, he discovered what happened to Dee's most important manuscript, his personal book of angelic invocations which he kept in Latin, and how it was preserved and developed in the 17th century into the full working Enochian system. Only ten percent of this material reached the unpublished archives of the Golden Dawn, and even this was suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, so it did not appear in Israel Regardie's monumental work. They have traced the routes down which were passed the classic techniques of invocation and evocation from late mediaeval grimoires, through Dee's magic, via Ashmole, and the aristocratic angel magicians of the 17th century, via Frederick Hockley to the senior magicians of the Golden Dawn.

David Rankine has been practising magic for the last 25 years and writing about it for the last 17 years.During that time he has been involved with Golden Dawn, Qabalistic and Thelemic groups, and gives regular talks and workshops around Europe. He has also written Becoming Magick, Magick Without Peers, and Crystal Healing and Folklore, as well as being a major contributor to the Enhancing Your Mind, Body, Spirit partwork. David lives in London, and Stephen lives in Johor Bahru, near Singapore.

Edition details

• Publisher: Golden Hoard Press (SI)
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954763904
• ISBN 13: 9780954763909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296