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Liber Loagaeth
or

Liber Mysteriorum, Sextus et Sanctus

The Angelic Tables

revealed to John Dee and Edward Kelley

Edited by Joseph H. Peterson

© 1998 by Joseph H. Peterson; updated Feb 2, 2023.

INTRODUCTION
This sixth volume of John Dee's Libri Mysteriorum consists
entirely of a book "in the angelicall language" which was revealed
in the scrying stone. Dee is told it is "a Book of Secrets and Key of
this World". Most of the book consists of tables of letters and
numbers, each having forty-nine columns and forty-nine rows. Dee
is told,
"God shall make clere whan it pleaseth him: & open all the
secrets of wisdome whan he unlocketh. Therfore Seke not
to know the mysteries of this boke, tyll the very howre that
he shall call thee. For then shall his powre be so full
amongst you, that the flesh shall not be perceyued, in
respect of his great glory." (April 18, 1583)

"Oute of this, shall be restored the holy bokes, which haue

perished euen from the begynning, and from the first that
liued And herein shalbe deciphred perfect truth from
imperfect falshode, True religion from fals and damnable
errors, With all Artes; which are propre to the use of man,
the first and sanctified perfection: Which when it hath spred
a While, THEN COMMETH THE ENDE." (May 5, 1583)
I believe that the details of its production reveal a lot about its
nature, so I will recap them briefly.
The bulk of the text from this book is taken from Sloane
manuscript 3189. However that manuscript does not contain the
complete text. The earliest parts of the book are recorded in Sloane
manuscript 3188. They were revealed using an elaborate and time
consuming method: Kelley read the name of each letter one by one,
and Dee wrote them down. Later, they were written out in Roman
letters. Kelley was temporarily endowed with a mystical
understanding of the book for a time, and was able to give notes on
pronunciation and translate some words and phrases. Apparently
part of the problem with this method was that Kelley had not
memorized the alphabet (for which he and Dee were chided by the
angels) and presumably had to refer elsewhere for the names. This
method is later abridged, and Kelley simply read the names (or
Roman equivalents) and Dee wrote them down in Roman letters,
thus omitting the names of each letter. This method was also too
cumbersome, and in the end Kelley wrote the rest down himself
resulting in Sloane Ms. 3189.
An early copy of this ms. can be found in Sloane Ms. 2599,
possibly by Elias Ashmole.
It should be noted that, as the method for receiving the text was
simplified, it deviated from its stated design, i.e. the rows did not
appear to all contain forty-nine letters. These discrepancies were a
great concern to Dee, and he asked frequently for help in
reconciling them. The result was a series of editorial corrections
and complete renumbering. In Sl. 3189 the individual rows do not
appear to have been marked, and "+" and "*" were added later to
denote the ends of rows. The renumbering was not incorporated
into Sl. 3189 for some reason.
On June 18, 1583 Dee records the following details regarding the
book (Δ designates Dee himself):
"Touching the Book, it shall be called Logah: which in your
Language signifieth Speech from GOD. Write after this sort
LOAGAETH: it is to be sounded Logah.
The word is of great signification, I mean in respect of
ther profoundnesse thereof.
The first leaf (as you call it) is the last of the Book.
And the first leaf is a hotchpot without order; So it
signifieth a disorder of the World, and in the speech of that
Disorder or Prophesie.
Write the Book (after your order) backward, but alter not
the form of the letters, I speak in respect of the places.
E.K. Now a beame shooteth through him from the Stone
and so through his head and out of his mouth, his face
being from E.K. toward Δ.
...... Write the 49. You have but 48 already.
Write first in a paper apart
E.K. Said that Galvah her head is so bright fire, that it Loagaeth seg loxi brinc
cannot be looked upon: The fore so sparkleth and
glistreth as when an hot iron is smitten on an Anvil, & Larzéd dox ner habzilb adner Above the ch is "k". -Ed.
especially at the pronouncing of every word. It is to be Above "vors-hirobra" is written: "Now Seas
noted also that upon the pronouncing of some words, doncha Larb vors-hirobra appear."
the Beasts and also all Creatures of the World every one
shewed themselves in their kind and form: But notably exi vr zedmp taüp chinvane
all Serpents, Dragons, Toads, and all ugly and
chermach lendix nor zandox.

hideous shapes of beasts; which all made most ugly

countenances, in a manner assaulting E.K. but contrariwise
coming to, and fawning upon Galvah. It is to be noted also
that by degrees came a second beame, and a third beam of
light into Galvah from the Stone, and all the three together
appeared: the third participating of the other two.
The second beame came at the word Larb, pronounced;
when also Frogs and Serpents appeared, &c. The third
beame upon the word Exi pronounced. Note also, that the
manner of the firy brightnesse was such, and the grisely
countenances of the Monsters was so tedious and greivous
and displeasant to E.K. that partly the very grief of his
minde and body, and partly the suspecting the Creatures to
be no good Creatures, neither such greivous sights
necessary to be exhibited with the Mysteries delivered unto
us, had in a manner forced him to leave off all: But I again
with reasonable exhorting of him, and partly the
providence and decree Divine, wrought some mitigating of
his grief and disquieting.
Gal. ...... These are these seven.
Δ... . What shall I do with these 21 words now received;
Gal. ..... There are onely the words of the first leaf.
Δ. I pray, how shall I bestow them, or place them.
Gal. ..... In them is the Divinity of the Trinity.
The Mysterie of our Creation,
The age of many years.
And the conclusion of the World.
Of me they are honoured, but of me, not to be uttered:
Neither did I disclose them me self: For, they are the
beams of my understanding, and the Fountain from whence
I water.
Δ. I beseech you, how shall I write these names in the
first leafe.
Gal. ..... They are to be written in 5 Tables, in every
Table 21 Letters.
Δ. How shall I place the 5 Tables upon two sides: three
in the first, and 2 in the second, or one in the first, and 4 in
the second, or how else?
Gal. ..... As thou seest cause.
Δ. Shall I write them in Letters of Gold?
Gal. ..... The writing hath been referred to thy discretion
with collours, and such things as appertain to the writing
thereof. Upon the first side write three Tables, and on the
second two."

Notes from Sl. 3188:

"In tyme thow shalt finde it, in ADAMS Treatise from Paradise."
The alphabet is referred to as "those letters of our Adamicall
Alphabet". They "represent the Creation of man.... They represent
the Workmanship wherewithall the sowle of man was made like
unto his creator." (Apr 28. 1583). It is "a language towght in
Paradise .. by infusion, to Adam. ... Nothing remayned of Enoch
but (and if it please your mastership mowght haue byn carryed in a
cart. I can not bring you the brass, but I can shew you the bokes.
Sleep 28* dayes, and you shall fynde them, under your pillow
whan you do rise." (Apr 18.) Since the time coincided with the time
Liber Loagaeth was to be completed, Dee took this to mean Liber
Loagaeth was the book of Enoch referred to by the angel.
"Enoch's tables", however, refer to the four tables described in
TFR.
---
I have provided the numbering of leaves, rows, and columns for
convenience. They are not included in the original manuscript. Dee
is told the first transmitted leaf is the last, which implies they
should be renumbered 49b, 49a, ... 2b, 2a. This lack of numbering
makes it harder to understand the complex method of extracting the
so-called Enochian "keys".
The orthography seems too close to English for a language that is
preported to be ancient, e.g. use of 'th', 'ch', 'ph' as presumed
graphemes. It also seems odd that it was transcribed in English
letters, when the original letter shapes were known early, and it
would seem easier, less error prone, and to better satisfy the intent
to copy what was seen than transcribe into a more ambiguous
script. Kelley's handwriting in particular makes it difficult or
impossible to distinguish u and n, and occasionally e and l, c and r,
x and p, c and t, and others. There is another observation of the
manuscript's peculiarity that might add evidence to the theory that
it was not copied letter-by-letter from a prototype. This is the
multiple series tables where it is clear from the size of the letters,
the slant, and the continuity of pen strokes that the paper was
reoriented.
One possibility is this: The angels told Dee the book must be
finished in a certain number of days. From the orientation of the
letters on the 8 central leaves and the observation that the series
seem to have been done at different times, it seems possible that
Kelley started skipping every other letter to save time, and make
the committed date, and then went back to fill in the missing
squares as time afforded.

The following notes appear in the manuscript in various hands:

Ms. A.650.
3189
XVI J

This is the original Ms. in Dr.Dee's Edward Kelley's

handwriting. It formerly belonged to the Cottonian
collection as appears by a note of Ashmoles in Ms.
Sloane 3677. f. 328*. -JM
A copy of this Book may be found also in Ms. Sloane
2599. -JM
See Ms. Sloane 3188. fol. 80 for some account of the
writing of this volume, die 6 April 1583. -JM

{I bou}ght this booke of Dr. Biggs for a Guinea

The Book of Enoch,

revealed to Dr. John Dee
by the Angels.

This writing begining (not at [Arney Vah] etc. but) at Oxar Varmol is the 2nd Page of the
first leaf of the famous Book shown in the stone, which consisted of 49 lines or Rows &
every Row of 49 words or letters. The first 40 of this Page have a word in every little
square which could not wel be contained in the little Cells of a square table in this Book —
Therefore they are writ thus at large as you see. But the 9 last Rows of this Page had but
one Letter a piece, & are accordingly set down at the end hereof, pag. 5. All the other
leaves of that Book had but a single Letter in each little square & so they are set down, as
here after follows in this Book. Vide l.5 Ms. pag. 142, 143 etc.
The first Page of that first Leaf is not (it ought to be) all transcribed here before this 2nd
Page save only the 49, or last, Row beginning (Arney Vah etc.) But they may be seen (& (if
thought fit) copied out thence) in l. 5to Ms. p. 150, 151, etc. [The preceding note is by Elias
Ashmole.]

Liber Mysteriorum, Sextus

et Sanctus

Liber 8us

Leaf 1a [zu-resch od adaph mal ses geno au marlan o]

Leaf 1b [Oxar varmol pan sampas os al pans orney]
Leaf 2a alla opnay qviemmah.
Leaf 2b zvrebth aho dan lanfal cramza
Leaf 3a pandobna ox adroh azimcholdrux.
Leaf 3b dlod Alged zvrem. ["dlod allged zvram"]
Leaf 4a Zvbla ox arnogan Algers aclo.
Leaf 4b Danfal gest Axamph acrosta.
Leaf 5a Gonzahoh alch arge oho Adanch.
Leaf 5b Zvchastors plohodmax argednon acho
Leaf 6a Sancgonfal aldex, Ave goh adatqvan,
Leaf 6b pvrcha ges maxgem adroth vaxox ahó
Leaf 7a Dam lethgath onzar avoxalgeth
Leaf 7b chvmaxchaberexmapha
Leaf 8a algebadreth
Leaf 8b Oylzongs
Leaf 9a pagesgem
Leaf 9b Avallacax
Leaf 10a Gorvemgemps
Leaf 10b Bacap Laffos
Leaf 11a Ozimba londorh
Leaf 11b ylchvzzapg
Leaf 12a Nopham
Leaf 12b Signeh gax
Leaf 13a t-lallaah gethnoh
Leaf 13b Iaialgh lercol zinrox
Leaf 14a Pincal vexlan
Leaf 14b Phin potagar giron
Leaf 15a Se ger pcopalph
Leaf 15b Oroh Zvn.compvxoh
Leaf 16a Dadavar gedrong
Leaf 16b varahhatraglax pligeo
Leaf 17a Hidrahah glazipvagel
Leaf 17b Engidexol; neolchiph
Leaf 18a Polacax cvbagod
Leaf 18b Zad, ron anchal
Leaf 19a Gedmarg alpon
Leaf 19b Bvzalg long arnap
Leaf 20a Zicha lezach.
Leaf 20b Drem phingel oxah oho
Leaf 21a algonzib virbalox
Leaf 21b Avriz ommaphily geld
Leaf 22a Cehergol naoal
Leaf 22b Fál mexicamps vrom
Leaf 23a Conar vomfagal
Leaf 23b Toxarxh nerhoh gel podnon
Leaf 24a Zichidpha lvziph
Leaf 24b Nervag pranclan
Leaf 25a Demphoz prang oho
Leaf 25b Harodan lempric dohoh
Leaf 26a Chy pled sagnaronph
Leaf 26b Draxph intayfalg
Leaf 27a Vlnen razo vilcomb
Leaf 27b Vincal leorna rvh
Leaf 28a Dababel gel zozaah
Leaf 28b Larvh gohonp babbabor
Leaf 29a ["The first of the leaves"] Famfax lep axax.
Leaf 29b Zirzach bvmazon.
Leaf 30a Tar, vin gabax orho.
Leaf 30b Glonz alnoptd.
Leaf 31a Gemnarv Hvncol.
Leaf 31b Rynh zichzor chalan.
Leaf 32a yayger balpaoeh.
Leaf 32b Car vanal geldons.
Leaf 33a Vio nilg onpho.
Leaf 33b Toxhencol ylnorox ziborh.
Leaf 34a Balvomph chiphan.
Leaf 34b Vingelg laxih parcan.
Leaf 35a Zvda vig pancar.
Leaf 35b Dexvlng chirony gavv.
Leaf 36a Qnabazeb vil pvdar.
Leaf 36b Xanpa phaphingeth.
Leaf 37a Ronlox bapvabap orh.
Leaf 37b Calbahhah genrox.
Leaf 38a Dohvnam gethgol axah.
Leaf 38b Vantavong nargax.
Leaf 39a Pvlgaao ner gisch.
Leaf 39b Archi septh lorox.
Leaf 40a Damponpha nexo gel.
Leaf 40b Dexph geld onchen.
Leaf 41a Ellaxor Natoglan
Leaf 41b Fam filgisch larvouch
Leaf 42a Cemgealg ralphos
Leaf 42b Zodagrap zilpob
Leaf 43a Necprilga lvpvarn
Leaf 43b Depsah onge phialox
Leaf 44a Nelziar pol dolgon
Leaf 44b Parni volchemph
Leaf 45a Acvirzilg chiparal
Leaf 45b Alged on chipráxal
Leaf 46a Clarn nancal
Leaf 46b Lexrox pingh lardol
Leaf 47a Zvrzvh genvox
Leaf 47b Chiromonph zarchan olinorg
Leaf 48a Calgs sedph panglox
Leaf 48b Bapporgel bvrioldepnay
Tables of Soyga:

The first table [ndizbdizbdiz]

2d Table [Retdixbdixbdix]
3d Table [izbdizbdizbdiz / ohGkAbdizbdiZb]
4th Table [izbdizbdizbdiz / sbGkAbdizbdizb]

This title is
in Dee's
handwriting.
In the middle
Liber Mysteriorum Sextus et Sanctus of the page,
"Liber 8us" is
written in a
different hand.

According
to Sl. 3188 fol.
79v, these
words are to
appear on the
cover on blue
silk sendal, in
letters of gold.

This text is
Loagaeth seg loxi brinc not found in
Sloane 3189,
Larzéd dox ner habzilb adner but is supplied
here per
doncha Larb vors-hirobra instructions in
BL MS Cotton
exi vr zedmp taüp chinvane Appendix
chermach lendix nor zandox. XLVI (see
above). -Ed.

[LEAF 1a]
From Sl.
3188 fol. 68v.

1. Sl. 3188
69r gives a
phonetic
rendering, as
read by the
spirit "Me":
"zuresk od
adaph mal zez
geno au marlan
oh muzpa
agiod pan ga
zez
gamphedax
Kapene go[le]
1. zu-resch od adaph mal ses geno au marlan o muspa agiod pan ga ses gampedaz capcneh go od semelabugen domna phiam ga uancran od
Semelábugen
urepres adepd aze druz tardemah ua cests grapad sed unbar domiol adepoad daph osshe mah cheuach onizdar pangephi odamh gemedsal a donkna fian ga
vankran
dinoza hoxpor adpun dar garmes1 vreprez ádeph
arxe drux
Tardemah va
tzests grapad.
zed unba
domiól
adepóad
chieuak mah
oshe daph
Onixdar
pangepi adamh
gemedsol a
dinoxa hoxpor
adpun dar
garmes."
2. As read
aloud on fol.
70r:
"Ihehusch
Gronadox
arden, o na
gémpalo
micasman
vandres orda
beuegiah noz
plígnase
zampónon
aneph Ophad a
medox marúne
2. ihehusch gronhadoz arden o na gemp-alo oicasman uandres orda ueueiah nos plignaphe zamponon aneph ophed a medox marune gena gena pras no
pres no dasmat uorts manget a-deune damph naxt os uandemhnaxat orophas uor minodal amudas ger pa o daxzum bances ordan pa pres dasmat. Vorts
manget a-

umblosda uorx nadon patrophes undes adon ganebus ihehudz.2

deüne damph.
naxt os
vandeminaxat.
Oróphas vor
mínodal
amúdas ger pa
o daxzum
banzes ordan
ma pres
umblosda vorx
nadon
patróphes
undes adon
ganebus
Ihehudz"

3. Palce duxma ge na dem oh elog da ved ge ma fedes o ned a tha lepah nes din. Ihehudétha dan vangem onphe dabin oh nax palse ge dah
maz gem fatesged oh mal dan gemph naha Lax ru lutúdah ages nagel osch. macom adeph a dosch ma handa.
4. Pah o mata nax lasco vana ar von zimah la de de pah o gram nes ca pan amphan van zebog ahah dauez öl ga. Van gedo oha ne daph
aged onédon pan le ges ma gas axa nah alpod ne alida phar or ad gamésad argla nado oges.
3.
Pronownced
5. Mabeth ar mices3 achaph pax mara geduth alídes orcánor manch4 arseth. Olontax ar geban vox portex ah pamo. agématon buríse mises.

ganport. vdríos pasch. Machel len arvin zembuges. vox mara. gons Ihehusch dah pársodan maäh alsplan donglses adípr5 agínot. archad6 4. mansh.

5. adíper.
dons a dax van famlet a dex arge pa gens.
6. arkad.

6. Van danzan oripat es vami gest ageff ormaténodah zálpala doniton pasdaes7 gánpogan Vndanpel adin achaph máradon oxámax anólphe 7. pasdas.

dan ieh voxad mar vox ihedutharh aggs pal med lefe. IAN lefa dox parnix O droes8 marsíbleh aho dan adeph uloh iads ascleh da verox ans 8. dros.

dalph che damph lam achos9.

9. akos.

10. iah.

11.
7. Amídan gah10 lesco van gedon amchih ax or madol cramsa ne dah vadgs lesgamph11 ar: mara panosch aschedh or samhámpors ascȯ.12 lesgomph.

12. ascȯ,
pacadabaah asto a vdrios archads ors arni. pamphíca lan gebed druxarh fres adma. nah pamphes eä vanglor brisfog mahad. no poho a palgeh with the prick
donla def archas NA. Degel. ouer the ȯ, is
to be
pronownced as
Asto.

8. Vnaem13 palugh agan drosad ger max. fa lefe pandas mars langed undes mar. pachad odídos martíbah v&3769;dramah noges gar.
lenges argrasphe drulthe las aséraphos. gamled cam led caph Snicol lumrad v ma. pa granse paphres a drinox a demphe NA. geníle O 13. vnam.
danpha NA ges a ne gaph a.

14 14. Δ of the
first character
of vlla I dowt.
9. Vlla doh aco par semná gan var se gar on dun. sebo dax se pal genso vax necra par sesqui nat. axo nat sesqui ax15 olna dam var gen 15. ex.
vox nap vax. V̈ ro varca cas nol vndat vom Sangef famsed oh. sih ádra gad gesco vansax ora gal parsa.
16. sem.

17. vdráh.

18. iohed.
gohed,
pronownced as
Iohed,
signifieth One

10. Varo. nab vbrah NA pa uotol ged ade pa cem16 na dax. van sebrá dah oghe aschin o nap gem phe axo or. nec a ve da pengon a moroh
euerlasting and
all things
descending
ah óha aspáh. niz ab vrdráh17 gohed18 a carnat dan faxmal gamph. gamph nacro vax asclad caf prac crúscanse.19 uppon one, and
gohed Ascha is
as much to say
as One god.

19. canse,
signifieth
mightie: and
Crusecanse,
more mightie.
20. the a
produced.

21. the last

h remissly
sownded.

22. This
11. gam. ohe gemph ubráh-ax. orpna20 nex-or napo, gemlo. a cheph can sedló pam-geman ange hanzu ALLA.22 Cáppo-se damo gam-vas word is circled
in the ms.

oro-dax-vá ges-pálo palme pola.23 23. Pola

and Pala
signifie two:
Pola signifieth
two together,
and Pala
signifieth two
separated.

Gals-ange no-témpa-ro sama dan genzé axe. falod amruh ácurtoh saxx par mano gan vax no. gramfa gem sadglá24 loh vrox sappóh iad ah 24. á must
be sownded
oha vnra. long.

25. This se
is the nine and
12. Se25 gors axol ma pa a oh la sabúlan. Caph ardox anpho nad v́ rnah ud ago lan vans.26 v́ xa grad órno dax palmes árisso dan vnra. fortyth word
longing to
vánsample galse not zablis óphide ALLA loh. gaslah osson luze adaö max vanget or dámo ans. leóz dasch léöha dan se gláspa neh. them before.

26. vns.
Sl. 3188