A Brave New World: Aeonics and the Western Tradition

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27 A Brave New World Enochian magick and arguably created the Rosicrucian movement th th 8 that flourished in Europe in the 16 and 17 Centuries . Most interestingly, it is in Dee’s communications with a number of beings purporting to be the angels that conversed with the Biblical prophets that we come across perhaps the first written account of the beginning of a new aeon. Between 1582 and 1587, these entities, who have since become known as the Enochian angels, dictated an incredibly complex magical system of tables, sigils and equipment, a language that exhibits syntax but defies analysis, and a book called Liber Loagaeth, which, according to the angels, was intended to usher in a new aeon. Here we have supposedly divine entities claiming the beginnings of a new temporal emanation. Previous to this event, we only have 8

See The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Francis Yates.

Alan Chapman

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