Learning Enochian: The 101 and 201 Course

What Enochian is, and why it needs a course

Enochian is a system of magic received, in the sixteenth century, by John Dee and Edward Kelly, and recorded in their journals and manuscripts. It is not a single rite, a single angel, or a single call. It is a complete system, with its own alphabet, its own tables, its own names derived by set methods, its own tools, and its own forms of evocation and practical work. That completeness is why it rewards study, and why it frustrates people who try to pick it up from a single page or a single call copied out of context.

A course exists for this system because the parts depend on each other. You cannot make the tools properly if you do not understand the names they carry. You cannot perform an evocation properly if you do not understand how the names were derived, and what tables they belong to. And you cannot do practical magic with the system if you have only learned the theory and never made a tool or spoken a call aloud. The course described here covers that whole arc: learn everything from how to derive the names, to how to make the various tools, to how to perform Enochian evocation, and practical magic with the Enochian system.

That arc is also why Enochian study takes time, and why a course that promises instant results should be treated with suspicion. The system was received over years, recorded in detail, and worked with over a lifetime by Dee himself. A student who approaches it steadily, part by part, will learn more, and retain more, than a student who rushes to the most dramatic operation first. The course is structured for that steady approach, not for a shortcut.

Deriving the names: where the system begins

Deriving the names is the foundation of Enochian work, and it is where many students first realise how systematic the system actually is. Names are not chosen because they sound impressive. They are derived, by set methods, from the tables, letter by letter, and each derivation carries its place in the system with it. Learning to derive a name yourself, rather than copying a name from a list, teaches you where that name lives, what table it belongs to, and how it relates to the names around it.

That learning is slow at first, and it should be. Work through derivations by hand, on paper, checking each letter, rather than relying on a table that does the work for you. The hand work is not a nostalgic preference. It is how you learn the structure, in the same way that working a sum by hand teaches you arithmetic in a way that a calculator does not. Once the structure is in your hands, the tables become tools you can use fluently, rather than mysteries you have to look up every time.

Keep a notebook for derivations alone, separate from your ritual record. Write each derivation out fully, with the table it came from, and check it twice before you use the name in any working. That habit, dull as it sounds, prevents a whole class of errors later, when a mis-derived name would otherwise sit at the centre of a tool or an evocation, unnoticed, for months. Precision at the beginning saves confusion later, and confusion in Enochian work is expensive in time and attention.

Making the tools

Enochian tools are not decorations. They are working instruments, made to the system's own specifications, and used in evocation and practical work. Learning to make them is part of learning the system, because the making teaches you what each tool is for, and why it is shaped and lettered as it is. A tool you have made yourself, slowly, with attention to the names and tables it carries, is a different instrument from a tool you have bought ready-made and never examined closely.

Make the tools in the order the course gives them, rather than jumping to the most impressive one first. Each tool builds on the understanding gained from the previous one, and each one gives you a chance to practise deriving and lettering names correctly before the stakes get higher. Work cleanly, check your lettering, and do not rush the finishing. A tool made in haste, with a mis-lettered name, is worse than a tool not yet made, because it will be used as if it were correct.

Keep the tools in their proper place when they are not in use, clean and protected, and do not lend them casually or let them be handled as curiosities. That is not about secrecy for its own sake. It is about keeping working instruments in their proper role, so that when you take them out for a working, they carry the association of that working, and not the association of being passed around a room. Tools that are treated well last, and they teach you, over time, how they are meant to be handled.

Hearing the Calls: audio and video in the course

Enochian Calls are meant to be spoken aloud, and they are notoriously difficult to pronounce from the page alone. The letters look unfamiliar, the rhythm is not the rhythm of ordinary speech, and a student working only from a book can spend months pronouncing a Call in a way that would not be recognised by anyone else who works the system. That is why this course now includes audio and video, as the title states, and why that addition matters more than it might first appear.

The course includes several audio recordings of Athena herself performing the Enochian calls, as well as a few videos describing the Enochian system. Hearing a Call performed, by someone who works the system, gives you rhythm, emphasis, and pace in a way that a written pronunciation guide cannot. Listen to a recording several times before you try to speak the Call yourself, then speak along with it, then speak it alone, and then listen again to check yourself. That loop, listen, speak along, speak alone, listen again, is how pronunciation is actually learned, in any language, and Enochian is no exception.

The videos describing the system serve a different purpose. They let you see, as well as hear, how the parts fit together, and they give you a chance to ask, in your own mind, the questions that arise when you watch a working described step by step, rather than reading it as a list. Watch them in order, take notes, and return to them after you have tried the work yourself. A video watched twice, once before and once after practice, teaches more than a video watched once and set aside.

Performing Enochian evocation

Evocation, in the Enochian system, is not a matter of shouting a name and waiting for a dramatic appearance. It is a structured operation, with preparation, tools, Calls, and a clear purpose, performed in order, and closed properly afterwards. The course teaches evocation in that structured sense, building on the names you have learned to derive and the tools you have learned to make, so that when you come to perform an evocation, you are not improvising the foundations at the same time as you are trying to do the operation itself.

Prepare for an evocation as you would for any serious working: clear the space, wash, settle yourself, and know, in one sentence, what you are asking and why. Prepare the words you will use, in your own practice, and know what you are not going to say. A petition that tries to cover every possible outcome usually covers none of them well. Keep it direct, keep it honest, and keep it to the matter at hand. Do not begin an evocation when you are exhausted, drunk, or already agitated. A clear head is a working tool, just as much as any Enochian tool is.

After an evocation, close properly, in whatever way your practice and the system require, and put the tools away in their proper place. Then write down what you did, when you did it, and what you noticed, in plain language, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. That record is what lets you tell, weeks later, whether anything changed, and whether that change had anything to do with the work. A working without a record is a story you will retell differently every time, and a retold story is not evidence.

Practical magic with the system

Practical magic with Enochian is the application of the system to ordinary matters: to a decision, a difficulty, a piece of work, or a situation in daily life, using the names, tools, and Calls you have learned, in a structured way. It is not a separate, simpler system bolted onto Enochian. It is Enochian itself, used for practical ends, with the same care about derivation, tools, and closing as an evocation. That continuity is the point. A system that can only be used for grand operations, and not for daily life, is a system you will rarely use at all.

Start practical work small, with matters you can observe clearly. A decision with a clear outcome, a piece of work with a clear deadline, a situation where you will know, afterwards, whether anything changed. Small, observable workings teach you more than large, vague ones, because you can actually read the result. Do the work properly, once, observe, and then decide, calmly, whether a second working, a different approach, or no further working is the right next step. Repetition without reflection is not persistence. It is noise.

It is also worth remembering that Enochian work does not replace ordinary action. If the matter is legal, medical, or a matter of safety, deal with it in the ordinary world first, or at the same time. Ritual work is not a substitute for a lawyer, a doctor, or for leaving a dangerous situation. If you are unsure whether a working is appropriate, wait, ask a teacher you trust, or choose a simpler practice first and see how that sits. Waiting, in that case, is part of the practice, not a failure of it.

Studying steadily, and knowing when to ask

The students who learn Enochian best are rarely the fastest. They are the steadiest: the ones who derive names by hand, make tools in order, listen to the Calls repeatedly, practise evocation in its proper structure, and keep a record they actually re-read. If you study in that steady way, you will have questions, and good questions are a sign of learning, not of failure. Note them as they arise, and bring them to the course material, to the recordings, and to the videos, in that order, before you look elsewhere. The course is designed to answer them in sequence, and a question answered too early, out of order, often creates two more questions behind it.

Do not compare your progress to other students' dramatic stories. Enochian work, done properly, is often quiet: a name derived correctly, a tool finished cleanly, a Call spoken with steady rhythm, a working closed properly and recorded plainly. Those quiet successes are the real progress, and they accumulate, over months, into fluency. The dramatic story, told without a record, is worth less than a quiet month of steady work with a notebook full of checked derivations.

I make no promise about what studying Enochian will do for you, only that this course covers, as described, how to derive the names, how to make the various tools, how to perform Enochian evocation, and practical magic with the Enochian system, with audio recordings of the Calls and videos describing the system included. What follows from your study and practice, in terms of magical result, is yours to observe, not mine to guarantee. That is about the work itself, not about delivery dates for physical items.

Enochian 101/201 course

If you want to learn Enochian from the foundations up, this is the course I offer.

Learn everything from how to derive the names, to how to make the various tools, to how to perform Enochian evocation, and practical magic with the Enochian system. The course now includes audio and video: several audio recordings of myself performing the Enochian calls, as well as a few videos describing the Enochian system.

Enochian 101/201 course now includes audio and video!, $216 CAD. View the product

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