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'''Enochian''' magic is a system of [[ritual magic]] based on the 16th-century writings of [[John Dee]] and [[Edward Kelley]] using information delivered to them directly by various [[angels]]. Dee's journals contain the record of these workings, the Enochian script, and the tables of correspondences used in Enochian magic. Dee and Kelley believed their visions gave them access to secrets contained within the Book of Enoch.

John Dee and Edward Kelley connected to the angelic realm by [[scrying]] into reflective surfaces and performing ritual evocations of the angels. During each scrying session, Kelley dictated what was told to him by the angel messengers while Dee wrote down his statements. Their information may be considered divine revelations, as it instituted a completely new form of ritual magic which had no root in previous traditions of ceremonial magic.

Little was known of Dee's work until it was rediscovered by [[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]] of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]] in the 1880s. This led to Mathers developing the material into a comprehensive system of ceremonial magic. [[Magician]]s invoked the Enochian deities whose names were written on the tablets. They also traveled in their bodies of light into these subtle regions and recorded their psychic experiences. The two major branches of the system were then grafted on to the Adeptus Minor curriculum of the Golden Dawn.