Tesseract Magick Part IV: Tesseract Magick and the Enochian System

In recent months, I was introduced to a gentleman online who was interested in exploring the concept of Tesseract magic in the context of the enochian elemental tablets. An adept of the method pioneered by Benjamin Rowe in his excellent essay Enochian Temples, he was interested in expanding on the original method to fully encompass some potentialities of the system. I was intrigued by the idea, as my personal Great Table introduced in a previous posting had not been fully realized.

After some experimentation with the enochian elemental tablets, I was contacted and the failures he had encountered were detailed. It was resolved that he would continue to experiment, but that both of us would continue to explore the reasons for the difficulties being encountered. Having a general familiarity with the system, I began a systematic analysis of the enochian elemental tablets. In the course of my research, I undertook a mathematical analysis of the elemental correspondences of each of the squares in all four elemental tablets.

The enochian tablets in total are by definition a representation of a magical universe, presumably balanced among elemental forces of air, earth, fire and water. They are not. This is a bold statement, so I will explain in more detail. Mathematically, a balanced representation of four elemental forces where repetition is allowed (for example, a square with two faces being associated with Earth) but there the order in which those faces are colored is a type of combination. Mathematically, the number of combinations of four elements in sets of four where repetition is allowed but the order is important is 256. That is to say, a 16x16 grid of 256 squares is necessary to contain all possible combinations of elemental forces. By way of contrast, each enochian elemental tablet consists of a 12x13 grid of 156 combinations, which is approximately 60% of the number of squares required. Similarly, the entire enochian tablet containing all elemental tablets is likewise far too large to represent a balanced magical universe. Similar review of the Tablet of Union does not correct these errors. By definition, I submit that the underlying premise of the elemental tablets is flawed; it does not represent a balanced conception of the universe, and anyone with a tablet of paper and a free evening can verify this.

This discovery led to the creation of what is now referred to as the tesseract Great Table. Essentially, the Great Table is a 16x16 grid of tiles, with elemental forces associated with each face of each individual tile and consequently a balanced representation of the elemental forces of the universe. The Great Table is conveniently broken into four subtables with each subtable having lesser elemental angles like their enochian counterpart (fire of fire, water of air, etc.) and also inherently follows the mathematical and mathemagical connectivity structure of a tesseract.

As always, I invite discussion.