Donald Tyson
Magia Enochiana

"The beliefs of the ancients were made of wood"

After this pseudo-ironic slip taken from the classic comedy "Anche le Formiche nel loro piccolo s'incazzano", I am about to propose to you an incredibly complex and dense reading that you have probably never heard of, "Magia Enochiana - The Original System of Angelic Magic" by Donald Tyson.

A book published in Italy by Edizioni Mediterranee, an exceedingly excellent publishing house, which, however, offers readings absolutely not for everyone, not even for those who pretend to be serious readers while hiding the latest Fabio Volo novel under a Guttenberg Bible placed on the coffee table.

A reading as interesting as it is challenging, and that primarily collects the history and experiences of Edward Kelley and John Dee, a duo of "sorcerers" from another time (one a mystic and "channeler", the other a mathematician, astrologer, physicist, and alchemist) who, through specific rituals, claim to have captured the knowledge of what we can define as the angelic world, which is the owner of the famous Enochian language.

Without going too much into detail, the book unfolds in various chapters illustrated by different disturbing graphic forms, but it remains a work perhaps written more for expert esotericists than for the general audience to which it would theoretically be directed: the book indeed reads with great difficulty, there are few moments of "breath" and despite the theme being very interesting and fascinating even for someone unversed in the subject, at least for me, the idea often came to mind to give it all up and dedicate myself to less demanding reads.

Surely written with expertise, however, the book does not represent the best example of esoteric publication on the subject due to the excessive difficulty in digesting such a "feast"; everything is salvaged thanks to the beauty of its contents and the depth of the author's investigation, combined with really well-done illustrations that are sincerely fascinating in their evocation of ancient time dimensions far removed from today's hyper-technological world.

I finally recommend the reading to a "Die Hard" fan of the topic; for everyone else, I suggest starting with more "simple" and better-written publications, which I might propose in upcoming reviews.