John Dee (pictured) recorded the Enochian corpus in his journals with the assistance of Edward Kelley as his scryer and collaborator.Īccording to Tobias Churton in his text The Golden Builders, the concept of an Angelic or antediluvian language was common during Dee's time.
The term "Enochian" comes from Dee's assertion that the Biblical patriarch Enoch had been the last human (before Dee and Kelley) to know the language. He also referred to it as " Adamical" because, according to Dee's angels, it was used by Adam in Paradise to name all things. ĭee's journals also refer to this language as " Celestial Speech", " First Language of God-Christ", " Holy Language", or " Language of Angels". Some Enochian words resemble words and proper names in the Bible, but most have no apparent etymology.
The phonology and grammar resemble English, though the translations are not sufficient to work out any regular morphology. This language was called Angelical by Dee and later came to be referred to as 'Enochian' by subsequent writers. Dee did not distinguish the Liber Loagaeth material from the translated language of the Calls, which is more like an artificial language. The untranslated texts of the Liber Loagaeth manuscript recall the patterns of glossolalia rather than true language. Linguist Donald Laycock, an Australian Skeptic, studied the Enochian journals, and argues against any extraordinary features. The language found in Dee's and Kelley's journals encompasses a limited textual corpus. The language is integral to the practice of Enochian magic. Kelley was a scryer who worked with Dee in his magical investigations. Enochian ( / ɪ ˈ n oʊ k i ə n/ ə- NOH-kee-ən) is an occult constructed language - said by its originators to have been received from angels - recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England.
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