Essential Enochian Grimoire Artwork 2

Greetings Angel Workers!

James Clark, the artist behind the diagrams and images in The Essential Enochian Grimoire, has released a second image from the book:

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. – Rev 21:2

 

This is a very important diagram from Dee’s journals (though this one has been elaborated from the original), as it reveals the basic cosmology of the Enochian system.  The Holy City (representing the physical universe – see Reveltation 21) has twelve gates through which the Sun enters and exits – each one designated by a sign of the zodiac.  Interestingly, these 12 Solar Gates are described in detail in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, a text which was lost for thousands of years – including Dee’s lifetime.

Dee’s original diagram did not include the zodiac signs, only the names of the Hebrew Tribes and the numbers 1-12.  If we look in Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, the “Scale of the Number 12“,  we find Dee’s numbers relate to zodiac signs: 1 = Aries, 2 = Taurus, 3 = Gemini, etc.  Thus, we see in Dee’s diagram that the Tribe of Dan (in the east) is given the number 1, and sure enough Agrippa tells us that Dan relates to Aries.  Dee gave the number 2 to the Tribe of Reuben (in the south), and Agrippa tells us that Reuben relates to Taurus.  And so on for the remaining Tribes and zodiac signs.

Once we add in the 12 signs, it becomes apparent that Dee did not intend the zodiac in this diagram to run in proper order.  Instead, he grouped them by Elemental triplicity – Fire in the east, Earth in the south, Air in the west and Water in the north.  (This is the zodiacal ordering of Elements, based upon where the Cardinal signs naturally fall on a horoscope:  Aries in the east, Capricorn in the south, Libra in the west and Cancer in the north.)  This is a completely different association of Elements to directions than would be used in the later Golden Dawn Enochian system.

It is interesting to note that this grouping by triplicity is a traditional method of classifying the Shem haMephoresh. – and through it the 24 Elders of the Apocalypse.  Those Elders figure into Dee’s Watchtower hierarchy of angels – and I’ve discussed the links between all of these things in a previous essay.