John Dee and the Enochian Material
Dee’s own works, the angelic records and their later adaptation.
The Monas Hieroglyphica (1564) predates Dee’s angel conversations and belongs to his natural philosophy. The Enochian material comes from the sessions with Edward Kelley in the 1580s. Much of it stayed in manuscript until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Golden Dawn and later occultists reworked it substantially, so those versions are labelled as influence rather than as Dee’s text.
The Lineage
Listed in approximate chronological order. The label above each title states how it relates to the rest of the family.
Monas Hieroglyphica
Dee’s symbolic treatise; earlier than and separate from the angelic sessions.
Liber Loagaeth
The “Book of the Speech from God”, tables of letters received in the sessions.
De Heptarchia Mystica
Dee’s own arrangement of the Heptarchic angelic system.
Compendium Heptarchiae Mysticae
Companion summary of the Heptarchic system.
The Angelic Alphabet
The Enochian letters as recorded in the diaries.
Liber Chanokh (Enochian Magic)
Later ceremonial reworking of Dee’s material.
Relationship Labels
Similar tradition: Belongs to the same current or genre; no textual dependence is claimed.
Root text: The earliest surviving text the family is organised around.
Direct textual relationship: Shares or reworks text, or is a translation or edition, of an earlier member (supported by manuscript or textual scholarship).
Influence: Draws on ideas, names or structures from earlier members without reproducing their text.