The Complete Enochian Dictionary

Laycock, Donald C., John Dee, and Edward Kelley.  The Complete Enochian Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Angelic Language as Revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley.  3rd edition.  Preface by Stephen Skinner.  Foreword by Lon Milo Duquette.  Newburyport, MA: Weiser Books, 2023.

Book--Enochian; Book--Angels

Originally published in 1978 and revised in 2001 (which included a foreword by Lon Milo Duquette), this new (third) edition of Laycock’s work includes a new preface by Stephen Skinner that sets the tone and historical context for today’s readers. Lon Milo DuQuette’s foreword (reprinted from the second edition) gives a delightful and edifying description of how he and his students put The Complete Enochian Dictionary to the test with astonishing results.

This book is a must-have for any serious magician’s library because it is the complete reference for understanding the Enochian language (“the language of the angels”), the proper pronunciation of the letters of the Enochian alphabet, and the use of evocations to call forth celestial beings and perform Enochian magic.
 
In 1581, Dr. John Dee, an advisor in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, began a series of scrying experiments intended to explore the ability to contact the spirit world. With Edward Kelley acting as the medium through whom the spirits would speak, Dee was able to record these communications as they were transmitted in the Enochian Language, the language of the angels. Dr. Dee’s efforts furthered the development of the system of Enochian magic and his methods of invocation have been taken up and expounded upon by Aleister Crowley and many other magicians.
 
Donald C. Laycock has thoroughly analyzed the work of Dee and Kelley. In this volume, he recounts the history of their experiments, provides a pronunciation guide for the twenty-one letters (which is, significant to the magician for untangling both the meaning and the derivation of the messages handed down from Dee and Kelley), and an essential Enochian/English and English/Enochian dictionary. The result is a fascinating linguistic and magical mystery story integral to any study of the Enochian tradition.

Donald C. Laycock (1936–1988) was was a doctor of linguistics at the University of Canberra, Australia.  He gained notoriety for his study of the languages of Papua New Guinea.  But his interests were far-ranging, even into the esoteric.  This was his only published work on the occult.

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