This is an excerpt from his book Angels and Archangels
I find it very interesting but am a bit annoyed that he doesn’t provide resources at the end of the book to verify the info, so you don’t know whats UPG and what is historical fact. If anyone has academic corrections, I’d love to hear them.
Regardless, I’d love to get your thoughts on this:
HISTORY OF MAGICK: THE CURRENT OF ENLIL
High magick is a current of energy that extends all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia. For thousands of years, the city of Nippur was considered a sacred site where rulers from around the known world would travel to undergo initiation and receive empowerment at Ekur, the temple of Enlil.
If a ruler left the temple without bearing the current of Enlil’s energy, they were not seen as a legitimate king. This initiation process was created to assist kings in ruling their lands benevolently and to help them shape the evolution of humanity, and the more current the king carried, the more prosperous his lands would become.
Needless to say, whenever the king brought the current back to his kingdom, it underwent cultural modifications of all sorts, until what was once called Enlil became known by thousands of other names throughout the world.
The Hebrews received this current as the tetragrammaton YHVH—a name regarded as too sacred to be uttered. Over time, those initiated into the current became more territorial about it, seeking greater control over its usage. Anyone found to be practicing magick without approval would regularly be executed, although the current itself is far less discriminating. Since the time of Enlil, the current was designed to be passed on, and it always finds ways to circumvent human restrictions and structures, especially if its recipient has been made receptive by the practice of magick.
That being said, as the current spread throughout the Middle East and Europe (by way of the Knights Templar), its outward forms became increasingly diluted, much like in the game known as Chinese whispers or telephone, in which the first person whispers something into a person’s ear, and that person whispers what they heard into another person’s ear, and so on and so on. And so it was with magick. The mangled result of centuries of dilution is the magickal system presented by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
