Enochian Chess One facet of the rediscovery is Enochian chess, a four handed variant of the game developed by S.L.
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This article wishes to report on this lesser-known system of Hermetic divination, giving a quick overview of its history, symbolic attributions and operation, as well as discussing its peculiar casting and interpretation methods. A complete complete set of Golden Dawn Enochian Magical Tablets (Elemental, Planetary, and Zodiacal) including the Sigilum Dei Aemeth are available for download from this website.
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Being a divination system in which four magical adepts actively participate in, and later interpret, also in tandem, each individual move – scrupulously recorded during game-play – it constitutes quite a unique case in Western divinatory practices. Yet during its use in the curriculum of the Adeptus Minor of the Golden Dawn magical system it moved beyond its obvious possibilities as an aid to study, contemplation and meditation of Hermetic symbolism, and developed a different system of play that allowed using it as a divination tool.
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It also has – as its name implies – important connections to the Enochian system of magic originally channelled by the Elizabethan Magus John Dee and his seer the alchemist Edward Kelley in the 1580s, and later modified and “Hermeticized” by Samuel Lindell MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, at the end of the nineteenth century. Apart from being able to act as a form of erudite entertainment for knowledgeable Hermeticists, it can also be used for informal, ludic group meditation and contemplation of the various elemental, geomantic, astrological and tarot symbolism its boards and pieces represent. They used four chessboards without symbols on them, just sets of colored squares, and each board is associated with one of the four elements of magic. Enochian Chess, originally named “Rosicruician Chess”, is a board game for four players comparable in some aspects to traditional chess, but adapted from the Indian four-handed Chaturanga. According to Chris Zalewski's 1994 book, the Golden Dawn also invented the game of Enochian chess, in which aspects of the Enochian Tablets were used for divination.