The thirty Aethyrs, or Aires, are the concentric heavens of the Enochian system received by John Dee and Edward Kelley in a series of scrying sessions between 1582 and 1589. Each is named by a short call and governed by a set of angelic governors. Aleister Crowley's The Vision and the Voice, recording his scrying of all thirty, is the source of most modern interpretation.
Facts
Overview
- Entries in the Atlas
- 30
- Size of the Traditional Set
- Thirty Aethyrs, from TEX nearest the earth to LIL the highest 1
Origins
- Origin Period
- 1582-1589, the Aethyrs in 1584 John Dee and Edward Kelley: the angelic sessions 1
- Origin Period
- 1888-1909 Golden Dawn and Crowley: the modern working 2
- Place of Origin
- England and central Europe: the sessions ran at Mortlake and, for the Aethyr material of 1584, at Cracow. 1
- Origin of the Name
- Aethyr, also written Aire, is Dee and Kelley's own word for the thirty heavens. Enochian is not: Dee calls the language Angelical or Adamical in his diaries, and the label Enochian, after the patriarch Enoch, is later usage. 1
- Whose Classification This Is
- The thirty Aethyrs come from the records of John Dee and Edward Kelley's angelic sessions, the Aethyr material being received in 1584 while the two were at Cracow. John Dee and Edward Kelley (the reception) 1
- Whose Classification This Is
- The form in which the Aethyrs are worked today is not Dee's. It is the Golden Dawn's reworking and Aleister Crowley's, who scried all thirty in 1900 and 1909 and published the record as The Vision and the Voice. Golden Dawn and Crowley (the modern working) 2
Structure
- Structure
- Thirty Aethyrs in a graded ascent, from TEX nearest the earth to LIL the highest, each entered by its own call and each governed by three angelic governors - four in the case of TEX. 1
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The thirty Aethyrs
The thirty Aethyrs, or Aires, are the concentric heavens of the Enochian system received by John Dee and Edward Kelley in a series of scrying sessions between 1582 and 1589. They are arranged as thirty successive realms, from TEX, the lowest and nearest the earth, up to LIL, the highest, each named by a short call and governed by a set of angelic governors distributed among them.
The Aethyrs are entered, in the practice, by reciting a call in the Enochian language and scrying the vision that follows, and they form a graded ladder of spiritual realms through which the magician ascends.
Dee, Kelley and Crowley
The Aethyrs come from the records of Dee and Kelley's angelic communications, but it was Aleister Crowley who, in 1900 and 1909, famously "worked" the thirty Aethyrs, recording his visions in The Vision and the Voice and making them central to the modern practice of Enochian magic. The atlas distinguishes the original Elizabethan material from Crowley's later elaboration.
The atlas gives each Aethyr its call, its governors, and its place in the ascent. The ninety-one governors distributed among the Aethyrs are treated in their own category, within Ceremonial & Esoteric Magic.
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