ACZINOR – Jupiter Senior of Earth Sunday, March 28, 1999
Today’s workshop1 was a smashing success. My magical partner clearly perceived the torrents of energy flowing through the elemental tablets. My impressions were more muted, being so focused on accurate performance of the evocation ceremony. I failed to observe every detail of my ritual plan but practice will make perfect. The ceremony was a success overall.
My experience with the Aczinor was unusual in that there was little in the way of visual sensation. His voice was very deep, booming, and echoing throughout my psychic space. Usually, my magical experiences are primarily visual, with voices heard with some difficulty. This time, the only vision
was of my field of inner space, tinged throughout with rose pink (the color of the Sephirah Tiphareth in the King scale2), but vibrating as one object to the boom of the voice. It was like a speaker woofer vibrating to a powerful bass beat.
Aczinor indicated that dispensing with the religious aspects of John Dee’s magical system was fine, as long as the entities involved were treated with the same respect as what Dee had. All technical questions of the system should be referred to the Mercury Senior of Air.
Something feels different now as a result of this angelic contact. My psyche has acted as a lens through which higher, superconscious forces focused to communicate ideas to me. I hope this fantastic transcendence of mind strengthens my being to do even greater intensities of magical expression.
In the future, the workshop will deal with the Mercury and Venus Seniors of Earth and after that, Seniors from the other tablets will be evoked. Eventually, the angels of the subelemental quadrants will be called according to John Dee’s system as presented in Geoffrey James’ book, “The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee.”
AHMLICV – Mercury Senior of Earth ALHCTGA – Venus Senior of Earth LZINOPO – Luna Senior of Earth Sunday, April 11, 1999
I just completed a fantastic solo temple working. The Mercury, Venus, and Luna Seniors of Earth were evoked to great effect. I used the Greater Ritual of the Hexagram3 to
invoke the Mercury Senior but, after banishing him, I tried the Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram for the other two. By using the Lesser Ritual, I didn’t have to banish and reinvoke for each new Senior4 – a worthwhile shortcut. It may actually not be necessary to use a hexagram ritual at all since the Senior names are coming from the tablet already activated.
The Seniors appeared to me as conventional angelic images, in white robes and with huge wings, in a black, empty space. The vision itself was not so inspiring but the conversation was revelatory.
The Mercury Senior, AHMLICV, told me that I needed to pass three tests before I could evoke the servient and Kerubic angels without belief in the religious paradigm of John Dee. The first test is to find the beauty within myself. The second test is to discover the joy within myself. The third test was to get rid of the trickster that lives around my feet, which works to defeat me at every turn.5
Essentially, a magician needs to route out all sources of self doubt and shame that continually warp the mind. In order to face the more primal elemental powers without beliefs in religious ideals and protections, it is necessary to have absolute self confidence and the most sublime self image. The God that the magician inherently is, is all that is needed to command any spirit.
The Venus Senior, ALHCTGA, told me to find my soul mate, my other self, and unite with this to achieve true wholeness. She told me a story about a man who was quite happy living alone, self absorbed, when one day he decided to search for a companion. He searched far and wide but couldn’t
find anyone who was satisfactory. Finally, he searched within himself in places he never expected to look and found the object of his search (superconsciousness6). He became whole.
The Luna Senior, LZINOPO, showed me physical examples of unions of opposites to produce holistic synergy. Chemical reactions and quantum interactions are the inorganic correlates to a human’s search for fulfillment in a mate. The soul is one with matter, all deriving from one source and so interconnected. However, the nature of these connections is mysterious. Overall, the union of opposites emulates the interdimensional nature of consciousness and so expands this field to ever greater influence over its surroundings. All is one from a sufficiently transcendent perspective.
This magick is so wonderful. This is how I’ll achieve higher initiation, just like Crowley did. At last, I can truly take my destiny into my own hands. Self reliance is the way to go in the Aeon of Horus.
Wednesday, April 14, 1999
I’ve been carefully contemplating the parable the Venus Senior of Earth told me. The concept of other self, as opposed to not self, is profound and useful in any mystical endeavor. Indeed, there is nothing that is not of Self, merely that which is currently not recognized as such. The key, then, is to continually look in new places for self, to do things different than according to habit, and think in unusual ways.
The most obvious place where consciousness is ignored and affirmed as not self is the physical world. Consciousness
is apparently confined to the central nervous system but my experiences with expansion of self awareness have revealed this to be in error. All that is, is consciousness. The nervous system is just a focuser of the omnipresent life principle.
It seems I’ve already learned this vital lesson to a profound degree, indicating that my best states of awareness I’ve attained so far correspond in the Enochian system to the Seniors. Putting my mystical threshold into an organized context is of great value. My hypothesis, that magical systems like Dee’s open up avenues of superconsciousness rather than calling upon supernatural beings whose existence is entirely independent to that of the magician, has proven to be correct. It makes sense that the planetary natures inherent in material consciousness correspond to my best vision work and mystical realizations. My results have primarily been in Malkuth, the Bride7, everything being comprehensible to the intellect. According to the Qabalah, the next step beyond this involves the celestial world, Microprosopus, the realm of the planets and stars, unsullied by material reflection. To realize consciousness in these superlunary vibrations would exalt me to a significantly higher state of self realization than what I currently experience.
LIIANSA – Saturn Senior of Earth LAIDROM - Mars Senior of Earth Sunday, April 25, 1999
Today’s workshop was superb. As it turns out, the hexagram ritual isn’t necessary to evoke the Seniors but it does serve as a useful amplifier of the stellar energies inherent in material nature. It’s worth doing.
The Saturn Senior of Earth lent a feeling of purity and sanctity. I was reminded of how the nature of Babalon8 was a fusion of Saturn, Mars, and Venus. When properly understood, the power of Saturn ceases to be dark and foreboding and can be experienced as a pure but impersonal holy presence. As manifested on the plane of earth, Saturn is the process of focusing the vast potential of the universe to create a personalized, ego-centered reality. A great abyss separates the personal self from the impersonal source and so that which is beyond that self often appears as dark and overwhelming to the beginner in magick. A lot of initiation and transformation enables the more seasoned magician to penetrate that veil and look upon the sanctified inner mystery without fear.
The Mars Senior of Earth claimed to be that force of evolution which drives people to form new societies when existing groups become too old fashioned for the new-oriented citizens. Normally, evolution occurs very slowly over long periods of time. However, as with both physical and psychic evolution, there are short intervals wherein very rapid change occurs. An example is the advent of the Aeon of Horus, which inaugurated the remarkable transformations of society in the 20th century and continue to this day. If humanity can survive the backlash to this extreme evolution, it can become something far beyond anything yet imagined. This intense but unknown potential seems as cataclysmic Saturnian darkness to many. Enochian magick can help us make sense of what is going on and what is to come. In this spirit, LAIDROM quoted an inspirational passage out of “Liber Al vel Legis,” Ch. 1, v. 12, “Come forth, oh children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!”9 I wonder what amazing evolutionary transformations will be brought about as a result of contacting
all six Earth Seniors.
The workshop is now ready to evoke the great King of Earth, the solar being on the Watchtower of the North. After that, we’ll evoke the angels of the Air tablet, the great Eastern Quadrangle. Great adventures await!
ICZHIHAL – King of Earth Sunday, May 9, 1999
I have evoked the elemental King of Earth and the North, ICZHIHAL. The vision of this great King was awesome! His force filled the entire temple space in a palpable way, stretching to the beyond region, the borderland between mind and matter, and pervading every dimension from one extreme to the other. Through his all encompassing presence, I felt myself expand beyond the confines of space and time. There is much more to physical existence than length, width, depth, and time. He was inside and outside of this reality, truly an interdimensional being. He projected himself smoothly into my mind as easily as someone walking into a room, appearing as an old, bearded man in black robes. His image, however, looked like a carefully detailed pencil drawing. The scene before my mind’s eye seemed at once unreal and more real than any experience I ever had to this point. A higher being had extended itself into my psychic domain.
To bestow his blessing, he placed a portion of his being, a great spiral force that flowed through this plane and many others, over my head. I felt immense power flow through my mind and body, one dimensional state to another, and back to its source beyond physical reality. My entire being had been
included in a great superdimensional circuit that was everywhere, yet focused in a current I was now a part of. The influences of the Seniors were mere drops in this ocean of cosmic expansion. The great King bestowed on me the ability to command the Powers of Earth.
ICZHIHAL taught me that movement through space and time is an illusion. All that is changing is the way in which the wholeness of reality focuses itself through the domain of the expanding physical universe. That potential from which it expands has many other dimensions and domains of realization. To understand how magical energy cycles through this space-time arena, the entire circuit must be perceived at once. Complete receptivity is needed to appreciate the holistic process of moment-by-moment realization of possibility. The key to influencing this course of creation is to receive it fully and then change the state of self in such a way as to impress a desired change onto the circuit, altering the way it unfolds through space over time. Much magical training is needed to integrate the magician’s psyche and nervous system to the point where such a holistic signal can be transmitted.
I closed the temple, giving license to depart to any and all spirits that may have been attracted by my rite of evocation. The forces of the King of Earth were effectively banished and my living room returned to normal. The Enochian system of magick works, not only in summoning but also in banishing tremendous cosmic and psychic energies. In this way, psychedelic experiences can be enjoyed at will, without the use of illegal drugs. The legacy of John Dee and Edward Kelly is a fantastic Path of evolutionary and initiatory acceleration.
LZINOPO – Luna Senior of Earth ICZHIHAL – King of Earth Sunday, May 23, 1999
Today’s workshop was fantastic. My partner and I have finished evoking the major angels of the Earth tablet, and are ready to move on to the Air tablet next workshop. My partner mentioned during a discussion before the ceremony that her consciousness has been changing in ways similar to my own. Our visionary experiences, had by magick done outside the workshop, were producing similar breakthroughs. We’re reaching many of the same philosophical and metaphysical conclusions. Our work together is producing a remarkable synergy.
My vision of the Earth King was purely metaphysical, without voice or person. I inwardly saw a great ring of pure psychic energy expand outward from my head at the level of my eyes. This became a series of concentric rings that clarified into tori. A torus is like a bagel in shape, a circle rotated around a center outside of it, forming a greater circle, a circle of circles.10 I could feel my expanded psychic energy flowing through each ring and out from my brain to each ring. From the edge of the outermost ring, the current instantly reappeared in my brain as if it moved through some higher dimension. This experience reminded me of the planet Saturn with its concentric rings. This is an important cosmic geometry that directly relates the innermost mind with celestial objects.
The Luna Senior showed me another such geometry, one involving a spherical formation with energy accruing to it like the formation of a planet or a star. This was like a simple gravitational attraction. This was a female formula in
comparison to the King’s male formula of cosmic geometry. Consciousness is a cosmic force that is focused on and channels through the human mind and nervous system. Every scale of the universe works by the same basic energy structures.