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The first thing we must consider in discussing the Golden Dawn version of Dee’s “Enochian”
System is their innovation on Dee’s “Black Cross” (the area dividing the 4 Watchtowers into
quadrants on the “Great Table”), called by them the “Tablet of Union.” By taking the 20 unique
letters given by Dee in the “Black Cross” and arrangeing them on a grid of 4 X 5 squares, the
Golden Dawn give us their “palette” for working with the “Concourse of the Forces” attributes.
To read the table, above left, given by the Golden Dawn for constructing the “Tablet of Union” we
must refer back to the first “Concourse of the Forces” chart given previously, “the 3 types of 12
essential Quadruplicities.” Here we will be dealing not with the elemental attributes on the right
column, but only with the attributes of the “Aces” given between these and the Zodiac signs on the
left. To the “Aces” thus, we assign the attribute of Spirit, depicted as the 8-cruxed circle, or
sometimes as the pentacle star. Now, an “Ace” for any suit corresponds in the preceding chart to a
particular arrangement of the 4 elemental forces, a specific so-called “quadruplicity.” However
here, the “Aces” all relate to the elements as they are given in the same order, following Spirit on
the far left, as AIR, WATER, EARTH, FIRE, and the reason for this order of these attributes is
assumed to be understood as a derivation of elemental “quadruplicities” from their total
permutative set of 16 different squares (each of 4 X 4), such that there could, rightly, be fifteen
other such arrangements for the “Table of Union,” even given permutative variations on this same
sequence for the letters / elements. In subsequent literature to this initial arrangement, the
choice has been made to follow the same order for these elements as given here, without question
or any exemption. I have found this ordering of the elements to be arbitrary and, ultimately,
unsatisfactory, however I am not prepared in this session to discuss my own findings applying
these attributes. It will suffice a student here only to know that better arrangements do exist, and
that these should be used, when and if possible, in favour of the earlier errors in attribution
made by the Golden Dawn.
What we will deal with here are the Golden Dawn’s unique contribution to the “Enochian” System
of Dr. John Dee, that being the so-called “truncated pyramid” design for each “Kherubic” base
square. To the lower-left here you can see the “Tablet of Union” transcribed into this “truncated
pyramid” motif, with the Enochian letters in the centre of each, at the “top” of the figurative
“truncated pyramid.” Thus, surrounding the central letter in 4 quarters, are the 4 “sides” of the
“truncated pyramid.” On each “side” we see a re-combination of the elemental traits listed above-
left as they relate to the columns and files of the “Tablet of Union.”
On the upper-most and lower-most “sides” of the “Tablet of Union,” we will always have the
element of “spirit,” however in subsequent applications of this method to the 4 Watchtowers, we
will also be working with using these “sides” to represent various elements or other attributes as
well. We see here that the left “side” is always derived from the elemental symbol given “above”
the column, while the right “side” is always derived from the elemental symbol given “beside” the
file or row. Thus, for each aspect of “duplicitly” re-combined elemental attributes, we find the
placement of its “purest” aspect shifts diaganolly from one row and column to the next. Thus “air
of air” is in the upper-left beside Spirit, while “fire of fire” is in the lower-right. Each
combination is read “left to right,” such that the column-attribute is read first and the line- or
row-attribute is read second; for example, the attributes assigned to the “Queen of Pentacles” we
would read as “water of earth;” etc.