Enochian from the ground up: names, tools, evocation, and practical magic

Why Enochian asks to be learned from the ground up

Enochian magic is often approached backwards. A practitioner hears a Call, or sees a tablet, or reads a dramatic account of an evocation, and tries to start there, at the most impressive end of the system. That is like trying to read a book by opening it at the last chapter and expecting the story to make sense. The Enochian system is a system, and it rewards the practitioner who learns it in order: first the names, then the tools, then the evocation, and only then the practical magic that the system makes possible. Each step depends on the one before it, and skipping a step does not save time. It creates confusion that has to be undone later, usually in the middle of a working where confusion is least welcome.

The teaching offered here is built in that order, and that order is worth understanding before you begin. Learn everything from how to derive names, to how to make various tools, to how to perform Enochian evocation. The course will also cover practical magic with the Enochian system. Those four parts, in that sequence, are the whole shape of the teaching: names first, tools second, evocation third, practical magic as the fruit of the other three. If you are looking for a single dramatic rite, this is not it. If you are looking for a system you can actually work, in order, and build on, that is what this order is for.

That order also tells you something about the teacher's expectation. This is not a teaching that hands you a finished set of names and tools and asks you to trust them. It teaches you how to derive the names yourself, and how to make the tools yourself. That is a slower kind of teaching, and a more demanding one, but it is the kind that leaves you able to work after the teaching ends. A practitioner who can derive a name can work with a new case. A practitioner who can make a tool can replace, repair, and adapt. Those are the skills that make a system live in a person's practice, rather than sitting on a shelf.

Deriving names: the first discipline

Deriving names is the first discipline of Enochian work, and it is also the one most often skipped, because it looks like paperwork. It is not paperwork. It is the logic of the system, made visible. The Enochian tablets are grids of letters, and the names of angels, and of the beings governed by them, are drawn out of those grids by rules: by rows, by columns, by squares, by the positions of letters in the tablets. Learning to derive a name means learning those rules well enough to do it yourself, by hand, and to check your own work.

Why does that matter, when the names are already printed in books? Because a printed name is a claim, and a derived name is a result you have verified. When you derive a name yourself, you know where it came from, which tablet it came from, which rule produced it, and what it governs. When you only copy a printed name, you know none of those things, and if the printed name is wrong, or variant, or drawn from a different tablet than you thought, you will not know that either. Deriving is therefore not a scholarly extra. It is a practical safeguard, and it is the foundation of everything that follows.

Deriving names also teaches patience, which is a working virtue in Enochian magic generally. The tablets are large, the rules are exact, and a single letter misplaced changes the name. Work slowly, check twice, and keep your derivations written down, in a notebook that stays with your practice. That notebook, over time, becomes a personal grimoire of the system as you have actually worked it, not as someone else printed it. That is worth more than any printed table, because it is yours, and you know how every entry in it was reached.

Making tools: the second discipline

How to make various tools is the second part of the teaching, and it follows naturally from the first. Once you know the names, you need the instruments through which the system is worked: the tablets themselves, the implements of evocation, and the various tools the system calls for. Making them yourself, rather than buying finished versions, teaches you the system in a way buying cannot. A tool you have made, you understand. You know its materials, its proportions, its inscriptions, and why each part is there, because you put it there.

Making tools is also a craft discipline, and it should be approached as one. Work carefully, measure twice, and do not rush the making for the sake of reaching evocation sooner. A tool made hastily will trouble you in every working that uses it, and you will either live with that trouble or remake the tool, which costs more time than making it properly once. Set aside proper time for the making, in a clean space, with the materials gathered before you begin, and treat the making itself as part of the practice, not as preparation for it.

There is a further point, which matters for Enochian work in particular. The tools of this system are not generic magical tools with Enochian names painted on. They are specific instruments, with specific forms, inscriptions, and uses, drawn from the system's own sources. Learning to make them, in the teaching's order, means learning those forms and uses together, so that when you come to evocation, you are not wondering what a tool is for, or holding it wrongly, or missing a part you did not know you needed. The tool, the name, and the rite belong together, and the teaching keeps them together by teaching them in order.

Evocation: the third discipline, in its proper place

How to perform Enochian evocation comes third, after names and tools, and that placement is deliberate. Evocation is the calling of a being, in the Enochian system, by its derived name, with the proper tools, in the proper form. It is not the beginning of the system. It is the point where the first two disciplines are put to use. A practitioner who has derived the name and made the tools knows, when he comes to evocation, whom he is calling, by what authority, and with what instruments. A practitioner who has skipped those steps is calling a name he has not verified, with tools he does not understand, and that is a poor foundation for any working.

Evocation, in this system, is a formal discipline. It has a structure, a language, and a set of actions that belong together, and it should be learned as a structure, not improvised from dramatic accounts. The Calls, the tablets, the tools, and the order of actions each have a place, and learning that order, step by step, is the work of this part of the teaching. Do not rush it, and do not perform an evocation before you have learned the form. Practice the form first, in study, until you can walk through it without hesitation, and only then bring it into a real working.

Preparation for evocation is most of the work, as it is for any serious working. Clear the space, set out the tools you have made, have the derived name written correctly before you, and prepare yourself as you would for any working: washed, changed, clear-headed, with the purpose in one clear sentence. Know what you are going to ask, in your own words, and know what you are not going to ask. 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.

Practical magic with the Enochian system

The teaching will also cover practical magic with the Enochian system, and that phrase deserves attention, because it marks the difference between learning a system and using it. Practical magic, here, means bringing the Enochian system to bear on real matters in a practitioner's life: on questions, on decisions, on protection, on healing in the magical sense, on the ordinary difficulties that are the reason most people learn magic at all. It is the point where the system stops being a study and becomes a practice.

Practical magic with a system as large as Enochian should be approached in small steps, not in grand gestures. Begin with a single, specific matter, worked through the system you have now learned: a name derived for that matter, tools made and ready, an evocation performed in proper form, and a petition in one sentence. Do that working properly, once, and record it, before attempting a larger or more complex working. A system learned in order, and used in small steps, grows steadily. A system used in grand gestures, before its order is learned, produces dramatic stories and muddled records, and teaches little.

Record keeping is especially important for practical Enochian work, because the system is large and the workings are complex. Write down the name derived, and how it was derived. Write down the tools used. Write down the form followed, the petition in one sentence, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. That record is what turns a series of workings into a practice, and it is what lets you tell, months later, which parts of the system you actually use, and which parts you have only read about. A practitioner who keeps such a record knows his own system. A practitioner who does not is guessing, even about his own work.

Who this teaching is for, and how to approach it

This teaching is for the practitioner who wants to learn Enochian magic as a system, in order, from names to tools to evocation to practical use. It is not for the practitioner looking for a single rite, or for a shortcut to impressive results. It asks for study, for handwork, and for patience, and it rewards those with a system that can actually be worked, and built on, after the teaching ends. If that is what you want, the order of the teaching is itself a promise: nothing will be asked of you before you have been given the step that prepares for it.

Approach it, then, in its own order. Do not skip to evocation. Do not buy finished tools before you have learned to make them. Do the derivations by hand, keep the notebook, make the tools carefully, and practise the form before you perform it. That is slower than reading a book of Enochian rites, and it is more work. It is also the difference between knowing about Enochian magic and knowing Enochian magic, in the sense that matters when you are standing in the room, with the tools you made, calling a name you derived, for a matter you have stated in one sentence.

Work from the teaching you receive, and from the system's own sources, as the teaching presents them. A general article like this one is not a substitute for the teaching itself, and it should not be used to invent derivations, tools, or rites. What this article can do is show you the shape of the teaching, and the order in which it is built, so that you can decide, honestly, whether that order is the one you want to learn in. If it is, begin at the beginning, with the names, and let the rest follow in its proper time.

Enochian teaching: names, tools, evocation, and practical magic

Learn the system in order, so that you can work it yourself, after the teaching ends, rather than borrowing someone else's finished pieces.

This teaching covers how to derive names, how to make various tools, how to perform Enochian evocation, and practical magic with the Enochian system. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it teaches the system in that order, from the ground up.

If you want that teaching, this is the one I offer: Enochian teaching, deriving names, making tools, performing evocation, and practical magic with the Enochian system, $216 CAD. View the product

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