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274 THE TREE OF LIFE
point with a wand to letters on one of these charts in succession.
To Dee would Kelly report that the Angel points, for example, to
column 4, rank 29, of the chart, and so on, apparently not mentioning
the letter, which Dee found on the table before him and wrote
down. When the Angel had finished his instruction, the message
was rewritten backwards. It had been dictated the wrong way round
by the Angel since it was considered too dangerous to communicate
in a straightforward manner, each word being so powerful a coniuration
that its direct ~ronunciation and mention would have
evoked powers and forces not wanted at that moment.
Rewritten backwards, these invocations appeared written in a
language which the two Magicians called Enochian. Far from being
a meaningless jargon it has a grammar and syntax all of its own, as
may be seen by consulting Casaubon who gives a translation of many
of the keys. By many it is considered far more sonorous and
impressive than even Greek or Sanskrit, and the English translations,
though in some places difficult to understand, contain marvellous
passages of a sustained sublimity and lyrical power that many
poets and even the Bible do not surpass.
For example : " Can the Wings of the Wind understand your
voices of Wonder 0 ye the Second of the First, whom the burning
flames have framed in the depths of my Jaws ! Whom I have
prepared as cups for a wedding or as flowers in their beauty for the
chamber of Righteousness. Stronger are your feet than the barren
stone : and mightier are your voices than the manifold winds 1
For you are become a building such as is not, save in the mind of
the All-Powerful."
Nineteen of these Keys exist ; the first two evoke the element
called Spirit; the next sixteen invoke the four elements, each
having four subdivisions ; the nineteenth may be employed to
invoke any of the so-called Thirty Aethyrs by the change of one
or two special words. I propose quoting another of these Keys in
Enochian followed by an English translation :
" 01 Sonuf Vaoresaji, gohu IAD Balata, elanusaha caelazod;
sobrazod 01 Roray i ta nazodapesad, Giraa ta maelpereji, das hoe1
ho qaa notahoa zodimezod, od comemahe ta nobeloha zodien;
soba tahil ginonupe perje aladi, das vaurebes obolehe giresam.
Casarem ohorela caba Pire : das zodonurenusagi cab : erem
Iadanahe. Pilae farezodem zodernurezoda adana gono Iadapiel
das homo-tohe ; soba ipame lu ipamis : das sobolo vepe zodomeda