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TABULA RECENSA - The Program - Version 1.0



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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.


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Tabula Recensa is a graphical presentation of the Enochian Tablets of Dr. John Dee, arranged in the form of the Great Table, and derived from the version recorded as having been revised by the angel Raphael in e.v. 1587. This version, the Tabula Recensa, is displayed in Enochian script, and in elemental colors. The display may be customized in various ways.

I, Azoth, the programmer, am solely and totally responsible for the creation of this software, in accordance with my Will. You, the user, are solely and absolutely responsible for any application of said software and anything resulting therefrom. If this level of personal responsibility is unacceptable for any reason, simply put the software back where you found it, destroy all evidence that it was ever in your posession, and carry on with your life. You will remain blameless.

Tabula Recensa is provided only for such purposes as may be suggested by the ingenium of the initiate. All other uses are strictly forbidden, and will not be discussed here. Work with any aspect of the Enochian material requires a measure of forethought and discretion. Users experiencing perceptual anomalies or spontaneous reality shifts, or finding unwanted trans-temporal gateways littering the inner landscape, should not be unduly concerned. All things must pass.



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Tabula Recensa is composed of two components: recensa.exe and recensa.fon.The latter contains the Enochian font. Both must be located in the same directory in order to function, unless the font directory is specified on the command line.

Tabula Recensa has the following command line parameters (lower-case is required for all command line input):

air {air color} : sets elemental color (default: YELLOW)
water {water color} : sets elemental color (default: BLUE)
earth {earth color} : sets elemental color (default: GREEN)
fire {fire color} : sets elemental color (default: RED)
spirit {spirit color} : sets elemental color (default: WHITE)
fair {air color} : sets flashing elemental color (default: BLUE)
fwater {water color} : sets flashing elemental color (default: YELLOW)
fearth {earth color} : sets flashing elemental color (default: RED)
ffire {fire color} : sets flashing elemental color (default: GREEN)
fspirit {spirit color} : sets flashing elemental color (default: BLACK)
zodiac : border uses macrocosmic elemental attributions
flash : remove flashing-color background of each tablet
back : remove background border
mono : remove color attributes
font : font directory (eg, 'c:\fonts', no trailing slash)
roman : use Roman instead of Enochian characters
The available elemental colors are:

black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown, lightgray, darkgray, lightblue, lightgreen, lightcyan, lightred, lightmagenta, yellow, white

Note: The correct flashing-colors are difficult to obtain on the typical PC monitor (eg, VGA), without much judicious palette twiddling. A future version of this software may make such tuning much easier to achieve. Meanwhile, knowledgable users are invited to twiddle at will, in whatever fashion suits.


Example: recensa -air lightblue -fspirit cyan -zodiac -font \enoch\fonts


In addition, while the tablets are displayed, the following keys are active:

q/Q : quit the program
z/Z : set macrocosmic (zodiac) elemental attributions
w/W : set microcosmic (winds) elemental attributions (this is the default)
f/F : toggle flashing-color background of each tablet (default is ON)
b/B : toggle background border (default is ON)
m/M : toggle monochrome color attributes (default is OFF)
r/R : toggle between Roman and Enochian script

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As the utility of Tabula Recensa may not be apparent to someone new to Dee's work, a reading list for Enochian studies, with impertinent comments, follows:

The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee - Geoffrey James (Heptangle)
An Heptarchic/Enochian grimoire, with bad Latin but excellent Enochian grammar. Probably the best Keys available.

Enochian Sex Magick - Crowley/Duquette/Hyatt (New Falcon) Crowley's Liber 84 vel Chanokh, lucid commentary by Lon Duquette, and Enochian tantra by Hyatt. Probably the best general text for the practicing magickian.

Elizabethan Magic - Turner (Element)
Superb, accurate renditions of Dee's original Enochian material and other magical documents of the same period.

The Heptarchia Mystica - Turner (Aquarian)
The standard Heptarchic source in English, with essential commentary on the Sigillium dei Aemeth and the Holy Table.

The Golden Dawn - Regardie (Llewellyn)
The original publication of G.D. Enochian material, upon which most subsequent Enochian theory and technique is based.

Ceremonial Magic - Regardie (Aquarian)
Valuable for Regardie's 'Opening by Watchtower' and commentary on ritual construction in the Enochian vein.

The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic - Regardie (New Falcon)
Largely supercedes both the foregoing, and contains the valuable 'Addendum to the Concourse of the Forces'. Required reading.

Golden Dawn Enochian Magic - Zalewski (Llewellyn)
Great Enochian trivia, and some G.D. data which is unavailable elsewhere (vis, 'The Book of Truth'). A valuable resource.

The Enochian Temple - Rowe (Black Moon)
This work, and a number of supplemental papers, is remarkable for being the result of a number of very successful Enochian Workings, and contains material given by Enochian entities themselves. The techniques are highly instructive, but definitely not for the novice.

Liber Gradus - Podgurski (Satanas Babalon, but available from Abyss)
A magickal record along Enochian lines.

Enochian Magic - Schueler (Llewellyn)
The 'Red' book.
Advanced Enochian Magick - Schueler (Llewellyn)
The 'Green' book.
Enochian Physics - Schueler (Llewellyn)
The 'Gold' book.
Enochian Yoga - Schueler (Llewellyn)
The 'Yellow' book.
Enochian Tarot - Schueler (Llewellyn)
The 'Blue' book.
The Enochian Gospel according to Schueler. These works, though interesting in their own right, should be regarded as suggestive, rather than definitive. They represent a fine creative effort, but unsound scholarship, and should be approached sideways.

Mysteria Magica - Denning/Phillips (Llewellyn)
Contains Dee's original material, as amplified by the Aurum Solis,
and a selection of ritual techniques, including a sort of template for Enochian ritual, the Theban Angelic Formula. Obviously the result of much practical work, it may be studied with some reward.

The Foundations of High Magic - Denning/Phillips (Llewellyn) Contains an interesting dissertation on Elizabethan magic and Dr. Dee in particular.

Gems from the Equinox - Crowley/Regardie (New Falcon) Besides much else, contains Crowley's Liber 84 vel Chanokh, which is a highly condensed handbook of Golden Dawn style Enochian magic, and 'The Vision and the Voice', an arcane magical record of Crowley's Initiatic experiences with the 30 Aethyrs. The latter should probably be regarded as more typical of Crowley than typical of the Aethyrs.

Treatise on Angel Magic - McLean (Phanes)
Interesting for the connections it suggests between the Enochian material and goetic practice; contains the Rudd manuscripts.


All of the above sources are currently in print and more or less readily available. The Enochian dictionaries by Vinci and Laycock may also be of interest, but are becoming quite rare. The Sangreal edition (1972ev) of Crowley's 'The Vision and the Voice' is hard to find, but has Regardie's commentary, which is missing in the 'Gems from the Equinox'. The Casaubon selection from Dee's diaries, 'The True and Faithful Relation', is no longer commonly available in the Askin edition of 1974ev, but is due soon to be republished by Magickal Childe. Inquiring minds want to know.


Responses to this program should be addressed to 'AZOTH' via the usual echoes (MagickNet, ThelemaNet, etc.)

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Love is the law, love under will.

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