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Enochian Magic: A Practical Manual: The Angelic Language Revealed (Llewellyn's High Magick Series)

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Enochian is a horribly complicated subject. Even within the field of magick, it remains the province of specialists. The vast majority of people avoid it, and stick with the more popular subjects of Qabala, Tarot, Astrology, etc. Enochian itself is highly rewarding to study. But you really need to have several years worth of magickal PRACTICE under your belt before you will be ready for even a beginner's book on the subject.

Now having said all of that, Llewellyn books (with a few notable exceptions),are notorious for being full of fluff, and aimed at the "gee whiz we're really new age" crowd. Not really what you want for such a complex subject as Enochian. I bought several of Schueler's books before knowing any better. And I am convinced that he has put as little time as possible into his research. And zero time into actual practice. Whole sections of his books are lifted straight out of other books, and passed off as his own material. I'm surprised he hasn't been sued. As another reviewer notes, he doesn't even understand the point of the Hexagram ritual, and his rearrangement of it demonstrates this.

Pass this book up. It's another one of those supposed "practical manuals" written by an arm-chair magician. There are better books out there by Duquette, Tyson and James. 'A True and Faithful Relation' by Casaubon is also fascinating to study for the advanced student.

This book is full of informations, but many of them are taken from other books and not from autors own expirience. This is most obvious in the chapter about projection into Aethyrs, which is adapted from A.C. "Vision and Voice".

Good Practical manual, but you definitely need to be well versed in magic theory and practice way beforehand.

Enochian Magic: A Pratical Manual makes a wonderful reference book for Enochian Magick. It must be noted that Schueler teaches the Golden Dawn system and integrates other non-Enochian ideas into his version. Also, this book isn't that good for beginners as it isn't laid out very linearly or with many descriptions [for a beginner]. It does contain a wealth of information and has the pronunciation of every angel beside their name [yay!].

Yes this book rocks,It's full of info,very easy to understand and makes you feel comfortable almost right away,it's so far one of the safest books I have found about this complex magick system

Don't get this book...such a waste of money. It doesn't show you (in great detail) what to do with enochian magick. Although, it shows the purpose of each angel with gematria. But the original magick system had no relation whatsoever with gematria (the golden dawn included that part). This book has made me more confuse about this magickal system and it is a useless reference! This reference may be an asset to the golden dawn practitioners but as for me....I'm trying to look for references to the the genuine, authentic, orignial enochian magick system....and this book doesn't seem to help at all......

This is a good book to learn the basics of enochian magick. This system is quite complicated but well introduced by the author. The second book is great (A Guide to Enochian magick) but unfortunately, out of print. I think that it is a great place to start to learn the foundations of the enochian system.

(Sigh)Schuelers books are a perfect example of why I despise llewellyn. This author makes no effort at research or commitment of time and publishes these wholly value-less works on Enochian Magick which serve only to mislead the student by obfuscating one of the most powerful systems of Magick available. If you are looking for an Enochiana primer, try any of these

Leitch, Aaron - Angelical Language
Causabon, Meric: A True&Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits
James, Geoffrey: The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee: The Most Powerful System of Magick in Its Original, Unexpurgated Form
Regardie, Israel: The Golden Dawn:
Laycock, Donald: The Complete Enochian Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Angelic Language as Revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley:
Crowley, Aleister: Liber Chanock
Denning&Phillips: Mysteria Magica
DuQuette, Lon Milo: Enochian Vision Magick:
Crowley, Aleister: The Vision and the Voice
Zalewski, Pat: Golden Dawn Enochian Magic
Stephen Skinner; David Rankine: Practical Angel Magic of Dr. John Dee's Enochian Tables

Ok this is a good book but its not the best one out there. I did learn how to pronounce and understand some of the words with the help of this book and another one by the Schuelers. But their pentagram ritual and hexagram ritual is not that good. especially their hexagram ritual as they put lets say the hexagram of air in the east. WRONG! when on a higher level as the hexagram ritual originally is the hexagram should be placed in the west. Let me explain when you want to stay on your earth realm and skry the east fine face east. But when you want to travel the watchtower of air you need to face west. This is because on the astral which is a higher less dense realm fire is in the east, earth is in the south, air is in the west, and water is in the north. Now for their pentagram ritual look at the star you thrace on your self it does not complete the circuit. an open circuit will not work right. When you need to do the LBRP or BRH follow the OTO or Golden Dawn way. As for their rituals I have done it. But as for me I prefer Sir Aleister Crowley's way. Now on to the good stuf. The book has accurate information. I have learned from this book and i do not regret buying this book. When a copy was stolen from me I brought another one regardless of the fact i am not a mere beginner in this system of magick. I also like the writting style of the Schuelers as they do not play loads of head games with the readers. Even though Enochian is a complicated system thet make it more easy to understand.

I found this particular title to be of interest. But some what disjointed. I only retained it because it's a title that is getting hard to find.