2018 · Inner Traditions

John Dee and the Empire of Angels

Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World

By Jason Louv

Western civilization's long obsession with the Apocalypse, traced through three magicians: John Dee, astrologer to Elizabeth I; Aleister Crowley; and the rocket scientist Jack Parsons. The story of the Enochian angelic system, from Dee's scrying sessions at Mortlake to the founding of the British Empire and beyond.

"A mind-spinning, glorious work of occult genius."

ISBN 978-1620555897

Further reading and talks

• The Source of Reeds's Function (2026)

  Jason's follow-up research: the Book of Soyga, a cipher manuscript in Dee's library, generates its own tables.

• John Dee and Enochian Magick, Esoteric Book Conference (2017)

  Recorded talk on the book.

• John Dee Was the 16th Century's Real-Life Gandalf

  Boing Boing, 2015.

• Meet the occultist behind the online school for witches

  DAZED interview, 2018.

• Review at Spiral Nature

  2018.