Sefer Aemeth: The Enochian Aethyrs

The Enochian Aethyrs have been part of Western magick since their ‘discovery’ in the 1580s by the Elizabethan magus John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley. But it is largely to Aleister Crowley, in the early twentieth century, that we owe the main concepts and practices surrounding the aethyrs within the tradition of magick today. This book records 30 visions of the aethyrs by a contemporary magickian, his attempt to interpret them, and the methods he employed to obtain them, during his six-year investigation into this magickal operation, which has teased and challenged every generation of magickians since Crowley. Aiming to extend Dee, Kelley and Crowley’s discoveries, Barford shows how the scrying of the Enochian aethyrs offers a metaphysical mirror, exposing the structures and dilemmas of the magickian’s ongoing spiritual development. He describes how even in the highest grades above the Abyss (which Crowley had not attained at the time) there are new and significant insights to be gained.