The Book of the Concourse of the Watchtowers - by Sandra Tabatha Cicero
An Exploration of Westcott's Enochian Tablets
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At the 1997 International Golden Dawn Conference in London, four large enigmatic canvas paintings were unveiled for the first time to public view: paintings that had been removed from their original frames and stored in a cabinet for several decades. Once owned and possibly painted by Dr. William Wynn Westcott, the founder of the Golden Dawn, these paintings depict the Four Elemental Tabletsthe cornerstone of the Order's system of Enochian Magic. However, Westcott's Enochian Tablets are unique in that they are the only known examples of Enochian Watchtower Tablets that use all four color scales of the Golden Dawn.
The Book of the Concourse of the Watchtowers: An Exploration of Westcott's Enochian Tablets by Sandra Tabatha Cicero examines every aspect of what the author calls the "Full Color Scale Enochian Tablets" and provides graphic color keys and a complete color-coded breakdown of the nearly 3,000 triangles that make up the pyramid squaresof the four tablets. It is a first-class textbook on the Color Magic of the Golden Dawn. Contents include:
· The evolution of the Enochian System from the legends of Enoch and the foundational work ofJohn Dee through the innovations of Enochian material by Westcott and the Golden Dawn.
· A complete analysis of the Watchtower Tablets and their component parts.
· An examination of color theory and the four color scales of the Golden Dawn.
· The various rules used to determine the astrological and color correspondences of every Enochian pyramid square on Westcott’s Tablets, including a graphic color key for the sub-angles of each tablet.
· A complete breakdown of the colors as applied to every pyramid square.
· An explanation on how the tablets relate to the Laws of the Convoluted Forces (the Golden Dawn's Dragon Formulae).
· A number of appendices containing original documents and materials selected from the private archives of the modern-day HOGD, including Notes on the Color Scales by J. W. Brodie-Innes and Florence Farr, ThAM-level material on Higher Astrology, the Ring and Disk, the LVX Signs, and the Convoluted Forces, and the Golden Dawn’s 6=5 Ritual of the Adeptus Major.
"The discovery of these tablets provides yet another example of the fact that the Golden Dawn system remains as vital today as it was in the Victorian era. We have the enigmatic tablets themselves as evidence that the Golden Dawn’s system of Enochian Magic was not a static creation, but is alive and buzzing with new possibilities and new directions of thought and knowledge."
Published by H.O.G.D. Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9795177-1-6
ISBN-10: 0-9795177-1-0
The Book of the Concourse of the Watchtowers
The Golden Dawn and its members have had the most impact upon the course of occultism in the 20th Century, and now into the 21st Century. Much has been written and published about this occult order, its teachings, and its influence, but still after over 120 years since the founding of this august magical order it is still teaching and shedding new light onto aspects of Western occultism.
Sandra Tabatha Cicero, a Senior Adept in the Golden Dawn tradition, unveils to the public for the first time some of the most complex magical tools used and developed by Dr. William Wynn Westcott, the founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. These advanced Enochian Tablets will provide new dimensions in magical theory, as well as in practical magical work itself. The theory and practical applications associated with these Enochian Tablets, which are the synthesis of all the GD teachings, are explained and expounded on in a way that clearly shows that Sandra Tabatha Cicero has the key to understanding these rich and elegant magical tools; expanding the understanding of the legendary Enochian system of magic as used by the Golden Dawn.
Samuel Scarborough
Senior Adept of the Ordo Stella Matutina