Experiencing Enochian Aethyrs

It would be foolish to talk about a singular experience of scrying an Enochian Aethyr, but I have offered free scrying sessions, both in person and via teleconference, for the lower Aethyrs, as well as having scried all of the Aethyrs at least twice (and the highest one several times). Here some general observations of what I and others have experienced during an Enochian scrying session:

Lower Aethyrs
  • A sense of peace: For beginners, and during the lower Aethyrs especially, there tends to be a sense of peace that comes.
  • Warmth: Some people experience physical warmth, such as on the side of one’s face.
  • Geometry: Interestingly, even for those with aphantasia, visions with geometry tend to arise.
  • Collective visions: It’s quite common for elements from one person’s vision to be repeated in another’s when there’s a group scrying.

Middle Aethyrs: (Note: The following qualities are the reason why going through therapy with a good (and accepting) therapist during the process of scrying the Aethyrs is recommend; also, these are mainly taken from my own experience):

  • Continued geometry
  • Visions of undoing: Depending on how closely one holds to illusory narratives of oneself, visions of undoing, perhaps in violent imagery, may arise.
  • Feelings of loopiness“: This tends to occur during higher Aethyrs; raw emotion and more difficulty managing them during the vision may happen.

Higher Aethyrs:

  • Progressive sense of peace
  • Balancing of projective/yang (unfortunately, often referred to as “masculine”) and receptive/yin visions in the visions from ZIP to LIT.
  • Progressively spherical visions: For the remaining visions, I noticed visions seemed to go from merely stellated to more and more spherical visions, culminating in the highly spherical vision of LIL.

That’s all for now.

Gebofal, Day 1

Sunrise: So course I was a little sloppier than I would’ve liked, so I was a teensy bit late in starting. No particular dress, but there’s nothing against doing that.

I said the prayer of Enoch as related by the Angel Ave, and then activated the furniture, placed my foot upon the seal of the Heptarchical king CARMARA, then scried TEX. I had the book opened to the front of Leaf 49, but of course I realized it should’ve been the back of the leaf, and I was guided to do so during the vision.

Vision of TEX (30th and lowest Aethyr): so this was interesting; the usual vision of TEX —and I’m spoilering things you may want to be unbiased about when scrying the Aethyrs yourself—relating to the desert landscape was overlaid with smoke arising from Leaf 49, as if the vision was missing this extra layer. The smoke arose and related to the pillars of cloud and fire in Exodus. It’s also like the smoke of what you see at the beginning of the alchemical process, & the pillar of fire is like unto the light of Ain Soph Aur at the end of the alchemical process. They’re saying that gebofal is a process of subtly tweaking what I’ve learned already. Then they ask me to look at the back page, which is two 3×7 tables arranged so that it appears that a middle row is missing. They suggest trying to focus on what sort of flexible symbol might go there to anchor myself to go across the multiple levels of being; they note that the symbol for Kether & the Taijitu symbol both have within them more flexibility in order to relate to the whole. My symbol will ultimately be there (I’m pretty sure I was thinking about a personal symbol last night). They suggest using the Enochian-language heart mantra to aid in this.

The vision ends w/ a preview of the landscape changing, now not merely a desert but one with mountains in the distance & it now being noon (the time of my next ritual today); having taken the 1st step, the landscape shifts. They tell me that using the seal of Carmara is fine for this morning, but to switch to the Sunday angelic king Bobogel for the remaining two rituals today.

Solar noon: At the angels’ direction, I called upon Bobogel; I was careful to also use Stenwick’s method in his Mastering the Mystical Heptarchy book (foot on the seal, which is on the ground).

Then I made the call to TEX again. The angels noted that having the five angels creates a 5-simplex, which begins a process of unfolding into the higher dimensions. The remaining Aethyrs take the initiate into aspects of this dimensionality until, as with Aethyr 14, another dimension arises. So we’re given additional dimensionality & a parallel to the quintessence. This is maximally available when the Heptarchical kings are used, and—here the angels were quite explicit—the Heptarchy should be understood as to always be used with the Aethyrs. Doing a 49-day ritual makes this more obvious, as each king would be called on 21 times, and Carmara/Marmara the final time (my using Carmara is forgiven & Bobogel as mostly having come through).

Next, the angels talked about the Pillar of Light, and they referred back to book, Leaf 49a (front), & showed it as though lightning were hitting it. They suggested I see the pillar as a continuous electric discharge, the massive amount of energy available off at any moment in space as virtual energy, the limitless/Ain Soph of energy manifesting visually as limitless light, Ain Soph Aur. This shows the immense power of any individual person within a space. Any space a person inhabits occupies space, and all of this space is indeed subject to this force of Ain, in the sense of 1 (individual) = 0 (Ain & its power) + 1 (individual) (shout out to Rachel Fell and Filoprax for their elaboration on this). They’re also noting that each day of gebofal can be thought of as introducing a dimension by stages by producing a view, then its shadow, and finally both can be seen from a 3rd side.

Sunset: The angels instruct me to flip back and forth to the front and back of Leaf 49. There’s something of a shimmer or vibrational impression that comes to me from doing this. The angels have me recall the smoke as representing the beginning of the alchemical process and the light as the end. They have me recall that Moses led the children of Israel with the pillars of fire and cloud, and that the pillars that I see are somewhat more toward the extreme of this spectrum in terms of materiality and in terms of shadow and light. There’s the idea of the material basis for energy such as fuel (here they note that nuclear fusion isn’t that far off). What remains after consumption is matter which cannot be broken down into an energetic reaction. Combining that with the flowing of energy implied by the pillar of light, you get the basic idea of what an organism, including a human being, is. The materiality of the energetic system allows for the system to continue and perpetuate itself and to move throughout its existence, and of course we take in material that is consumable and excrete the opposite at the opposite end of our alimentary tube. Human beings move in a relatively intelligent way, much as the Divine moves according to the divine’s ways, with a constant flow of energy in selected parts of the universe.

The angels highlight that with a close inspection and relatively aspiritual reflection on the nature of things, we still get this beautiful idea of divine-like movement throughout the cosmos and nature. We associate the divine with a process, a plan, and an intelligent and elegant (often taking the form of a mathematical) unfolding in ways that defy a mere human’s ability to plan. What matters as far as humanity is concerned is to be more intelligent with its use of natural resources, caring for individual people, and to understand our relatively matter-bound nature. This extends to aliens and understanding that life on other planets has to deal–or has already dealt–with similar issues.

After this “download” or what we used to call a message, I’m taken to the vision proper. It is nightfall in the vision; I’m taken to the center of the valley which I saw in the previous vision. Now I can see clearly a crystalline-like square pyramid, or perhaps it’s fairer to say an invisible pyramid with outlines of light. The angels tell me to consider Binah and how only through the experience of darkness was Babalon to be seen clearly. Now through the clarity of having gone through the process of making Amzes Naghezes Hardeh, of having seen the deluge of possibilities of how these leaves could be arranged meaningfully in someone’s life (mathematically: 49 factorial), let alone the specific meanings of why the leaves would be arranged in this way, there’s a sort of blinding level of possibility for the mind to reckon with. This is only to be expanded by considering the elemental circumference of the heart for the individual to measure out by the Watchtower tablets, relative influence and strength of subdivisions and angelic influence here.

Nonetheless, there emerges the structure of a square pyramid, which can be thought of as an octahedron with chthonic spirits below, one can see different stairs, classes, or levels of possibility which narrow as the heart balances itself elementally (e.g., with holy guardian angel work) and attunes oneself to the arrangement of the leaves as given in this transmission. Eventually the emergence of the point of spirit and each individual’s orientations towards a unique set of fixed stars towards which the pyramid points in the sky. First one must reckon with the equal universal nature of possibility–the “sphere” of the fixed stars as they appear to us on Earth. In other words, an emergent structure appears and the elements leads up to it, and there is a singular direction–such as the True Will–to which an individual becomes oriented.

Here my mind alights on the septenary nature of Enochian. The angels note that the Zodiac is a circular/360-degree slice out of this sphere, but generally say they will talk about a missing piece relative to all of the previous posts on this on my blog. The pyramid, they come back to, is somewhat symbolic of humanity’s progress on the planet and also the union of earth with heaven. There’s some clarity which happens when one aligns with the directionality of a pyramid–here my mind alights upon how the square pyramid unites with a previous scrying session in which I saw an infinite cylinder which pointed in the direction of the aforementioned set of fixed stars. Again, the angels put me off on this question: “You’re approaching Atziluth with this question,” they ask (TEX is far below but of course has it within it). But it relates to being aware of the perimeter of the planet at the sphere in which one moves.

Regarding the personal symbol of the center of such a sphere or circle, the angels offer suggestions, but I won’t present mine until it’s complete.

How to Progress through Enochian

Enochian is, to be clear, fairly advanced, but it need not be unapproachable. Even someone just exploring magick can get a benefit from exposure to Enochian (this is why I have taught Enochian classes before at Unlimited Thought, so people of all ability levels can see that Enochian needn’t be held in an arcane tower).

Where to begin? I recommend going to a live or virtual class held by someone who has worked with Enochian before (these are the days of Covid-19, so virtual is preferred). A TEX scrying should probably be on the agenda, because this starts evolving your consciousness to work in the celestial realm. Next, I recommend Lon Milo DuQuette‘s book Enochian Vision Magick. It’s simple, straightforward, and to the point of getting you understanding the systems and starting to work with it. You can begin with printed or hand-made versions of all the materials on paper. The only issue I have with it is that he refers to the Parts of the Earth as Governors (use the Zodiacal Kings instead) and his SDA has a typo in it (Ized instead of Izad)–use the table when constructing the names and you won’t go wrong.

The next steps depend on your preferences, so I’ll list them in no particular order. Jason Louv has the definitive history of the system, and this contextualizes things like its apocalyptic imagery. Louv frequently cites Professor Deborah E. Harkness’ earlier, more academic analysis, and I’ve seen her cited elsewhere, so check it out. Scott Stenwick has excellent books on the Heptarchical system as well as the Elemental system; the latter, the book on the watchtowers, informs you how to work the watchtower kinds, seniors, kerubs, and “lesser” angels (only “lesser” by comparison!). Moreover, Aaron Leitch has released a first and second volume on the Enochian language.

Last, I will recommend Aaron Leitch’s Enochian Grimoire for the use of gebofal in magick. The rest of the grimoire is a fine introduction and covers most of the topics above, but I just didn’t use it, so I cannot review the book in its entirety. I would note the strongly Renaissance feel of his treatment of the material (to be expected, given Enochian’s origins), which unfortunately includes the high volume of magickal equipment to be used. Still, gebofal is next on my list of Enochian magick to work through, and I know of no other writer who has offered writing on it, and Leitch’s instructions on it are straightforward.

Enjoy!