
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Enochian Chess subsumes other Passive systems of divination such as Tarot and astrology, and has powerful prophetic properties. Originally it was only taught to Golden Dawn initiates who had risen to the rank of Zelator Adeptus Minor, and required a comprehensive knowledge of Tarot, Geomancy, Kabbalah, various magical formulae, the symbolism of the Candidate, the Ceremony of the Neophyte Grade, the art of Invocation and Banishing, Pentagram and Hexagram rituals, formation of Telesmatic Images, Sigils, and the Enochian Tablets. Notes and illustrations by Ithell Colquhoun (some previously unpublished) help explain this advanced system of magick in its own right. This book includes a complete facsimile and commentary of Moina Mathers’s Alpha et Omega Enochian Chess papers together with a brief history of the game, notes on play and strategy, and instructions for Active divinatory methods utilised by this system. It was developed into its current form in Victorian times by SL MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott. Enochian Chess in part comes from the Elizabethan system of Enochian Magic originated by the Court Astrologer, Dr John Dee. His is the first in a trio of books that together form The Complete Enochian Chess.

John Dee, which was later adapted by Victorian members of the Golden Dawn into 'a complete system of training and initiation. The name comes from the Enochian system of magic of Dr. This book includes a complete facsimile and commentary of Moina Mathers's Alpha et Omega Enochian Chess papers together with a brief history of the game, notes on play and strategy, and instructions for Active divinatory methods utilised by this system. Enochian chess is a four-player chess variant, similar to Chaturanga, associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In Rosicrucian Chess, Isis is the Queen, and. Isis, an enthroned Goddess with a Throne symbol mounted on the vulture head-dress. It was developed into its current form in Victorian times by SL MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott. Enochian chess is a four-player chess variant that is linked to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He is the Knight of Enochian Chess and represents the operation of the ten-squared Sephirotic Cross in the Fire Angle of any Tablet or Board, and corresponds to the King in the Tarot, the figure astride a horse.

his is the first in a trio of books that together form The Complete Enochian Chess.
