Enochian

The figures

Every plate here is a scan or a photograph of a sixteenth or seventeenth-century original, with its source and licence beside it. None of them is our drawing. A figure invented from memory would look exactly as convincing as a real one, which is the whole reason for the rule.

  1. The Holy Table The Holy Table

    The table the sessions were held over: a border of Enochian letters on all four sides, twelve more in a panel at the centre, and the seven Ensigns of Creation set around them.

    Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Wellcome Collection — A True & Faithful Relation (Casaubon, 1659), leaf 78

  2. The four Watchtowers The four Watchtowers

    The four Watchtowers drawn as a camp: gated towers at Septentrio, Oriens, Meridies and Occidens, each with one Trumpeter, three Ensign bearers, six Seniors, a King and his five Princes, and the sixteen Dispositors around them.

    Public domain · John Dee — Wikimedia Commons

  3. Sigillum Dei Aemeth Sigillum Dei Aemeth

    The seal of God: a heptagon and heptagram carrying rings of letters and numbers, which Dee had cut in wax in one large disc for the table and four small ones for its feet.

    Public domain · John Dee — Wikimedia Commons

  4. The wax Seal of God The wax Seal of God

    One of the surviving wax seals, now in the British Museum — the object the diagram was made for.

    CC0 · Vassil — Wikimedia Commons

  5. The letters, 6 May 1583 The letters, 6 May 1583

    The diary page on which the twenty-one letters are set down, which is where the script in this section comes from.

    Public domain · Dr. John Dee — Wikimedia Commons

  6. The Order of the Inspirati The Order of the Inspirati

    The engraved frontispiece of the 1659 edition: Kelley as "Prophet or Seer to Dr Dee", and Dee himself, who "avoucheth his Stone is brought by Angelicall Ministry".

    Public domain · John Dee — Wikimedia Commons