Never assume anything is automatically right

Not a major preamble here; I mainly just am wanting to say that the arguments I have for what's going on in this Key are less than others. I'll go through the main ideas quickly so we can get to the interesting part: the big reveal at the end!

The text

Enochian

"GAH SDIV CHIS EM, MICALZO PILZIN, SOBAM EL HARG MIR BABALON OD OBLOC SAMVELG, DLUGAR MALPURG ARCAOSGI OD ACAM CANAL, SOBOLZAR FBLIARD CAOSGI ODCHIs ANETAB OD MIAM TAVIV ODD." DARSAR SOLPETH BIEN; BRITA OD ZACAM GMICALZO, SOBHAATH TRIAN LUIAHE ODECRIN MAD QAAON.

Dee's English

The spirits of the 4th Angle. are Nine, Mighty in the firmament of waters: Whome the first hath planted a torment to the wicked and a garland to the ryghteous bring unto them fyrie darts to vanne the earth and 7699: continuall workmen: whose courses viset with cumfort the earth and are in government and contynuance as the second and the third Wherfore harken unto my voyce I haue talked of you and I move you in powre and presence whose works shal be a song of honor and the praise of your God in your Creation

Contemporary adaptation

"The spirits of the fourth angle are nine, mighty in the firmament of waters, whom the first hath planted a torment to the wicked and a garland to the righteous, giving unto them fiery darts to vanne the earth and 7699 continual workmen, whose courses visit the earth with comfort and are in government and continuance as the second and the third."

Wherefore hearken unto my voice; I have talked of you and I move you in power and presence, whose works shall be a song of honour and the praise of your God in your creation.

Analysis

Places, everyone!

The first pair of phrases set the stage for where I think this angle exists:

The spirits of the fourth angle are nine, mighty in the firmament of waters...

There are two possibilities with "nine"—the passage could either be talking about quantity or quality (i.e., "nine" as metaphor). If we take it as quantity, I'm not sure there's much to work with besides comparing it to other spirit quantities in Dee's system (in the final article of this series, I plan to draw some attention to research Michael from Enochian Today¹ has done).

If taken as a quality, "nine" is Yesod on the Qabalistic tree of life, which deals with the personal unconscious, which can be seen as below the surface of bodies of water. The second bolded word, "waters", signals two things to me: this is not "water" generally, as an element; it is plural, suggesting multiple bodies of water. Under non-rainy circumstances and similar, water is below the grounds on which we live.

So, location of the fourth angle: below the surface.

The next passage has a few odd things going on in it, including a word (which I can only imagine is obsolete now) harkening from Middle French.

Separating the good from the bad

… whom the first hath planted a torment to the wicked and a garland to the righteous, giving unto them fiery darts to vanne the earth and 7699 continual workmen…

If you're like me, you'll want to know what "vanne" means to have at least a rough literal understanding of what's going on. "Vanne" comes from the Middle French vanner, which means to separate grain from the chaff using wind.

Separating the wheat from the chaff is clearly a rephrasing of the prior section: a torment to the wicked and a garland to the righteous—bad for the bad, good for the good. To put it another way: assuming righteousness is to be in alignment with God, which we apparently agreed to, those who are not in alignment with God are made to suffer.

Okay, that's not actually a fair way to put it. If we assume the monist/non-dualist perspective, where God is not separate from anything but instead exists as part of and transcends all things, to act not in alignment with God is to act not in alignment with core, inner parts of the Self—which of course will lead to suffering.

Further, consider the alchemical angle: the darts are fiery. Through awareness (the flame) and precision (the darts), we can target and burn away the impurities so only the grain (gold) remains.²

Nice on the inside

I have a few ideas of what's going on with the 7699. The first notion I have, the one my argument hinges on, is that 7 + 6 + 9 + 9 = 31 and 3 + 1 = 4. This is the fourth angle, so this seems appropriate enough.

Admittedly, this is probably the weakest link in the entirety of this series. As I revise this, I hope to improve it, bit by bit, until it stands just as strong as the rest. 😊

I thought to check 7699 for its factors, but it turns out 7699 is a prime number, meaning it's like a "building block" of reality according to gematria.

This got me thinking: if 7699 applies to "continual workmen", it could be that the continual workmen, themselves, are a building block of reality. Given that the Key talks about creation in terms of civilization, such as references industry and agriculture via vanne, or the "work" in "workmen" (one does not "work" in nature—at least not in the same sense), planting garlands and torments, etc.

When something is of artifice, is of structure, the Pythagorean correspondence to this would be four. If nature were a shape, it would be a curve; if industry and civilization were a shape, it would be a square. To work upon nature is to transform it into an artifact—we work to build artifacts, not to grow them. From Pythagoras to Plato to Agrippa and to many others, the square (and thus 90°) has been the nigh-universal symbol of Earth and building upon it.

Sixth Key takeaways

There are obviously things I'm missing here. However, if you're willing to accept that I've sufficiently shown that the fourth angle exists below the surface of the land and that the fourth angle is a 90° like from a square, I've done enough.

If you want to see how this concludes, click here.

Anyway thanks byeee.