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00:00Um, have you ever wondered if angels have their own language?
00:03Imagine a secret set of words, spoken only by divine beings.
00:08This is the story of Enochian.
00:10It is a language that some people believe came from angels.
00:13The story says it was given to two men in England a very long time ago.
00:18They claimed it was the original language of humanity,
00:21spoken by Adam in the Garden of Eden.
00:23It was lost after the fall from paradise,
00:25but was kept safe by the prophet Enoch.
00:28This is why we call it Enochian today.
00:31It is a complex and mysterious system of words and letters.
00:35The story of this strange language begins in the late 16th century.
00:39The purpose of this language, according to the angels,
00:42was to bring humanity closer to God.
00:45It was a tool for understanding the universe in a new and powerful way.
00:50Dee believed that by learning and using Enochian,
00:53he could heal the divisions in the world and restore a single, true religion.
00:57The story of Enochian is the story of John Dee and Edward Kelly.
01:02John Dee was born in 1527 and was one of the most learned men of his time.
01:08He had a huge library, one of the biggest in England.
01:11He loved science, mathematics, but he also deeply believed in magic and astrology.
01:16He believed the world of spirits was real and that humans could communicate with it.
01:21For years, he tried to contact angels alone, but he was not successful.
01:26He needed someone who could see the spirits and hear the spirits, a scryer.
01:31In 1582, Edward Kelly entered Dee's life.
01:35Kelly was younger, with a troubled reputation.
01:38Some called him a fraud or a criminal.
01:41Kelly claimed he could scry.
01:43Looking into Dee's crystal, he said he saw angels and heard their voices clearly.
01:47Dee was ecstatic.
01:48He finally had the partner he needed.
01:51March 26, 1583.
01:53The first official reception of the Enochian language.
01:57Kelly said an angel named Nalvej gave them 21 angelic letters.
02:01The angel dictated letters one by one, naming each.
02:05Dee drew the strange characters in his diary.
02:07It was their first divine breakthrough.
02:09Over the next years, the angels revealed more large books filled with words and the angelic keys,
02:15poetic verses.
02:15They left England, went to Poland, went to Bohemia, seeking patrons who would support their research.
02:22In Krakow, they received more of the Enochian system.
02:25Angels dictated complex tables and the most famous parts of the Enochian texts.
02:30But their relationship was fraught.
02:32They argued often.
02:34Kelly sometimes wanted to stop the sessions.
02:36Despite tensions, they recorded a massive corpus, the foundation of Enochian magic for centuries to come.
02:42One of the most mysterious parts of the Enochian material is a book called the Liberloageth.
02:48The name means Book of God's Speech in the angelic language.
02:53This book is very strange, unlike any other text.
02:56Not readable like a normal story.
02:59Instead, it is made up of 98 large square tables.
03:03Each table is a grid of 49 rows, 49 columns.
03:06Every single cell is filled with letters or a number.
03:10The book is divided into two parts.
03:12First part, 49 tables read from the front.
03:15Second part, 49 tables read from the back.
03:19Kelly saw an angel pointing to a giant table in vision.
03:23He called out letters one by one.
03:25D wrote them down in order to build the grids.
03:28It was slow and difficult.
03:30It took a long time to fill all 98 tables.
03:34Result?
03:34A massive collection of letters.
03:36Thousands and thousands.
03:38Arranged in perfect squares.
03:40The book looked more like computer code than a book of words.
03:43The angels never gave a translation.
03:46They told D it contained great wisdom and the true names of all things.
03:50It remains one of occultism's greatest unsolved puzzles.
03:53Unlike the untranslated Liber Logeth, another important part of the Enochian system came with a full English translation.
04:02These are called the Angelic Keys or the Angelic Calls.
04:06There are 48 of these keys in total, though the first two are slightly different from the rest.
04:12The angels dictated each verse to Kelly in the Enochian language, letter by letter.
04:16After they finished dictating a key in Enochian, they would then provide a full translation of it in English.
04:24The purpose of these keys, as the angels explained, was to open the gates of understanding.
04:30They were spiritual keys.
04:32Reciting them was supposed to allow a person to access different parts of the spiritual world.
04:37Each key corresponds to a specific part of the complex magical system that the angels revealed.
04:43They are used in rituals to call upon specific angelic forces and to gain knowledge and power.
04:50For example, the first key begins with a declaration of divine rule.
04:54I reign over you, says the God of Justice.
04:58The verses describe a cosmic landscape filled with mighty angels, fiery thrones, the secrets of creation.
05:05Because we have both the Enochian text and the English translation,
05:09linguists and scholars can compare them, figure out the meaning of words, and study the grammar.
05:15Without the keys, Enochian would be almost completely incomprehensible, like the Liber Loagath.
05:21They are the heart of the Enochian system.
05:24The Enochian language has its own unique alphabet.
05:27The angels told Dee and Kelly that this script was the original script used by Adam.
05:32It consists of 21 special letters.
05:35Each letter has a name, such as Un, Ged, Med.
05:39These letters are not like the English alphabet we use today.
05:43They have flowing, elegant shapes, and, um, some people think they look a little bit like other magical scripts from history.
05:51The angels gave Dee the shape of each letter, and he carefully drew them in his diaries.
05:56This alphabet is the foundation of the entire language.
05:59Unlike English, which is written from left to right, Enochian is written from right to left.
06:06This is the same direction as other ancient languages, like Hebrew, Arabic.
06:11The letters are sometimes written with accents or dots above them.
06:15Dee did not leave clear notes, so their purpose is debated.
06:19Each of the 21 letters maps directly to a letter in the English alphabet.
06:23Un correspond to A, Ged corresponds to G.
06:26There are quirks.
06:28No separate K?
06:30C covers both.
06:31I-J-Y overlap.
06:33U-V overlap.
06:34Most people write Enochian via transliteration today.
06:38Section 6.
06:39How to speak Enochian.
06:41Learning to speak Enochian is not simple because we do not have perfect instructions, um.
06:46John Dee wrote down how the angels pronounce some letters, but his notes are not always clear.
06:51The pronunciation system seems based on 16th century English.
06:56Some letters would have been pronounced differently than today.
06:59For example, the letter I might have sounded more like the E-E in C.
07:04There are different ideas about how Enochian should sound aloud.
07:07The sounds are very similar to English.
07:10There are no strange clicks or tones.
07:12Most sounds are easy for English speakers.
07:14But there are difficult consonant combinations.
07:18Zakar.
07:19Move.
07:19Gohus.
07:20I say.
07:21Act.
07:22Can.
07:22Nazpsad.
07:24Sword.
07:25Donald Laycock studied Enochian in the 20th century.
07:28He created a pronunciation system from Dee's notes and word structure.
07:33Zed.
07:33Pronounced Zod or Zod-uh.
07:36R. Pronounced as a strong, rolled R.
07:38He also gave vowel guides.
07:41A.
07:42Like the A in father.
07:44A.
07:44Like the A in man.
07:46Even with guides, there's no single correct pronunciation everyone agrees on.
07:51Kelly repeated what he heard from the angels.
07:54He wasn't a linguist and didn't write phonetic rules.
07:57Dee tried to record everything accurately, but he worked with a language no human had spoken before.
08:03Practitioners today often develop their own styles.
08:05The true sound of the angelic tongue remains a mystery.
08:10Section 7.
08:12The Rules of Angelic Words
08:14The grammar of Enochian is very simple with few small words.
08:19No articles like A and The.
08:21Few prepositions like In, On, At.
08:24Section 8.
08:25The Words of the Angels
08:26The vocabulary of the Enochian language is very small.
08:30Um, if we only count words with an English translation from the angelic keys,
08:35there are only about 250 different words in the entire known Enochian corpus.
08:41Many Enochian words appear only one time, making meanings uncertain.
08:45The word for God is mad.
08:46The word for angel is marif.
08:49The word for fire is purge.
08:51The word for light is mi'kma.
08:53A simple phrase.
08:54The praise of your God.
08:56Bus de iadpil.
08:57Which is glory of your God.
09:00A command.
09:01Open the mysteries of your creation.
09:03Odo Ciclidaka'a.
09:05The biggest source of Enochian words is the untranslated Lieber Loageth,
09:10with thousands of letter strings that look like words.
09:13But we have no idea what they mean.
09:15These could be words, names, or parts of a code.
09:19Because no translation was given,
09:21this huge body of text is effectively silent.
09:25A massive, untapped vocabulary locked away.
09:28Writers struggle to create new texts with such a limited lexicon,
09:33mostly focused on God, angels, power, and creation.
09:37Not everyday objects.
09:39The language wasn't meant for conversation.
09:41It was a special, holy language designed to communicate with angels and perform magic.
09:47Its vocabulary reflects that spiritual purpose,
09:50focusing on the cosmic and the divine rather than the mundane.
09:53Section 9.
09:55A divine language or a human creation.
09:58Not everyone believes that the Enochian language truly came from angels.
10:03Many scholars and linguists have studied the texts.
10:05One of the most famous critics was Donald Laycock, an Australian linguist.
10:10He studied the Enochian system in great detail,
10:13and suggested that parts of the language,
10:15especially the untranslated Lieber Loageth,
10:18show strong similarities to glossolalia, speaking in tongues.
10:22It's when a person produces speech-like sounds that are not a real language.
10:26Laycock pointed out that the sounds and letter patterns in the Lieber Loageth
10:30are very similar to English, John Dee's native language.
10:34The syllables can look like someone inventing words by the rules of their own language,
10:38but without consistent meaning.
10:40He thought Kelly might have been producing those sounds in a trance-like state,
10:44and Dee, eager to believe, organized them into complex tables,
10:48a product of human psychology, not the divine.
10:53However, the angelic keys are different.
10:56They show more structure and regularity.
10:58The grammar, while simple, seems more consistent.
11:02The words match their translations.
11:04Laycock proposed,
11:06Dee may have polished and structured raw glossolalia into the poetic calls.
11:11In this view, Enochian is a skillfully constructed language,
11:15a piece of art by Dee,
11:17so we are left with a conflict between story and evidence.
11:21The myth claims Enochian is a real, ancient language from angels,
11:26the language of Adam, the language of Enoch.
11:30The linguistic evidence suggests a sophisticated form of glossolalia,
11:34or a constructed language,
11:35with features of a real language,
11:38many quirks,
11:39and a very limited vocabulary.
11:40the mixed imagery.
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