ATDTDA 719

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

> > My undestanding is that the Occult and Cryptography really got rolling > with John Dee.
>
 
I don't know, perhaps this is too ethnocentric as far as the occult is concerned.
Anyway, Dee is quite up-to-date these days, no? My daughter who will be 11
years old next week she just read Livi Michael's "The Angel Stone" (dtsch. 
"Das Flüstern der Engel") and already knew about Dee from another novel. 
I gave her some further information. Explained the sigill, told her about the
Enochian chess game. Since your magick-ear-listening of CoL49 (its 
play-in-play COURIER'S TRAGEDY can perhaps be read as being about the
failing of the new communication between Angels and humans) makes some
sense to me, it would be important to actually find that "Enochian material
in AtD" you promised us. If one could, this would indeed be a strong indicator
that "long-practiced, all-out, contrary-to-fact, capital M Magic" (TRP: SJ intro)
is among Pynchon's primary concerns. In all of his books.  
 
> Just the other day Thelma, my Ceremonial Magician > of a niece-by marriage, was complaining about how hard it was to utter> the Enochian names John Dee had cooked up on account of them > having been so devilishly encrypted.> 
 
In part X of his edition of the Golden Dawn documents Regardie gives useful hints.
Take for example the first call:
 
OL SONUF VAORSAGI GOHO IADA BALTA. LEXARPH, COMANAN, TABITOM, ZODAKARA
EKA ZODAKARE OD ZODAMARAN. ODO KIKLE QAA, PIAPE PIAMOEL OD VAOAN.
 
Mathers & Westcott gave some advice largely orientated at the pronunciation of the
Hebrew language (which plays, as you know, via the QBL an important role in Western
occultism). However, "there is no final version of authoritative character", as Regardie
writes, and like in other comparable cases the proof of the pudding is in the eating. If
you wanna play around a little with the first call (on your own responsibility, that is), I'd
start like this:
 
O-el Zo-nuf Ve-o-ar-sa-dschi, Goho I-a-da Balta. El-ex-arpe-he. Ko-ma-na-nu. 
Ta-bi-to-em. Sod-a-ka-ra e-ka sod-a-ka-re o-da Sod-a-mer-a-nu. Oh-da ki-kle ka-a.
Pi-a-pe pi-a-mo-el o-da ve-o-a-nu.  
 
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"In 1932 Crowley went off to Europe to show his paintings in Berlin, where subsequently they
were destroyed by the Nazis. Anyway, he was gone several years ..." 
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Kai
 
 
 
 
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