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Reddit mentions of John Dee's Five Books of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic
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Being a mormon interested in Kabalah, you might enjoy John Dee's Five Books of Mystery, especially if you were really interested in being a Mormon at one point.
For nuts-and-bolts, I always suggest By Names and Images and Modern Magick. However this is ceremonial magic. You will find, however, if you read Agrippa, that natural magic and ceremonial magic do overlap. If you start with Agrippa first, however, you'll have all the theory and none of the practice.
Here is a list of posts (many x-posts) on /r/succubae with the Personal Encounter flair, some of those might be of interest.
John Dee's Five Books of Mystery is a detailed account of John Dee's contact with angels in the late 1500's.
> In which time did he do that?
around 1583
> And what happened to him?
The primary records we have come from his journals, I highly recommend this transcription.
If one is interested in learning the story about how this language came to be and how it has been used over the centuries, I recommend this book. It is highly academic in language and extremely well sourced.