Enoch
The Enocian World of Alister Enochian World of
Aleister Crowley
Enochian Sex Magick
How do you know when you are really beginning to understand a
subject?
When you come to the realization that it is basically much easier than you ever imagined.
For years I avoided an in-depth study of Enochian Magick, believing it to be not
only too ponderous a task but also anachronistically irrelevant. I considered it a quaint
dead-end of Elizabethan magic, elements of which have trickled down the centuries and
lodged themselves in modem ceremonial magick.
I admit that I had a certain level of curiosity and fascination, especially when I saw
the painted tablets and Enochian "chess" equipment that Israel Regardie would display on rare
occasions to his friends. But the idea of actually taking the time to make sense of this collection
of complex and fragmentary material was totally intimidating. And the thought of having
to learn an "angelic language" did not thrill me at all. I was quite happy to file
Enochian Magick in the same drawer of my mind where I keep "Secrets of Aztec Cardiology" and
"Cooking with Barbed Wire." Then several years ago I was pleasantly disabused.
I had asked Crowley expert, Lon DuQuette, to write an epilogue for my book. Secrets of Western
Tantra, (Falcon Press, 1989) and in the course of our discussion he asked me if I
had ever utilized Enochian Angels for operations of Sex Magick. He was genuinely amused
when I revealed my reasons for avoiding the subject and he suggested that if ever I wished to
learn how to immediately perform Enochian Magick, I should simply read Crowley's Liber Chanokh and
get started.