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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Tabula Recensa has the following command line parameters (lower-case is
- required for all command line input):
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- -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
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- The available elemental colors are:
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- black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown, lightgray,
- darkgray, lightblue, lightgreen, lightcyan, lightred,
- lightmagenta, yellow, white
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- 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.
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- Example: recensa -air lightblue -fspirit cyan -zodiac -font \enoch\fonts
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- In addition, while the tablets are displayed, the following keys are active:
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Elizabethan Magic - Turner (Element)
- Superb, accurate renditions of Dee's original Enochian material and
- other magical documents of the same period.
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- The Heptarchia Mystica - Turner (Aquarian)
- The standard Heptarchic source in English, with essential commentary
- on the Sigillium dei Aemeth and the Holy Table.
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- The Golden Dawn - Regardie (Llewellyn)
- The original publication of G.D. Enochian material, upon which most
- subsequent Enochian theory and technique is based.
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- Ceremonial Magic - Regardie (Aquarian)
- Valuable for Regardie's 'Opening by Watchtower' and commentary on
- ritual construction in the Enochian vein.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Liber Gradus - Podgurski (Satanas Babalon, but available from Abyss)
- A magickal record along Enochian lines.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The Foundations of High Magic - Denning/Phillips (Llewellyn)
- Contains an interesting dissertation on Elizabethan magic and Dr.
- Dee in particular.
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- 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.
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- Treatise on Angel Magic - McLean (Phanes)
- Interesting for the connections it suggests between the Enochian
- material and goetic practice; contains the Rudd manuscripts.
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- 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.
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- 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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