Language is pretty central to any practice, especially if you're piecing traditions together, post-modernism style. The resultant force of any particular magical leverage will be stronger if you pick a consistent linguistic frame. Unless you're deliberately playing with linguistic dissonance for...whatever reason.
Strong linguistic certainty is also very important for grounding yourself if you want to be doing anything useful, particularly for other people. If you're dropping into 5th dimensional tet-a-tets with the Abstracted Avatar of Avocado and Anger, it is a lot easier to come off as "not crazy" and more like "insightful" if you can phrase it in terms that people will understand, and it's easier to establish rapport and etc.
It also keeps your practice from becoming pervaded with bullshit - if you say exactly what you mean and phrase what happens in extremely precise terms, you will find that vague "there was a feeling, and then, a SENSATION!" shenanigans will slowly fade away to be replaced with very specific, identifiable magical artifacts that signal either success or failure of whatever it is you're trying to get to work.
some apocrypha: the most awesome psychedelic-magickal revelation I've ever heard of was something posted on these boards a while ago. Some guy - forget his name - who was a UK citizen of regular Santo Daime patronage, went to an all weekend retreat, took the brew, and received an angelic vision of glory, transcendence, you know the drill. The trick was that he apparently came back with full and intuitive knowledge of Portugese. Which, since he didn't know really any of it beforehand, was just strange and wonderful.
I'm afraid I don't know very much about the particulars of Enochian, have to my parents' regret not learned Hebrew, but I did want to become a linguist for the sake of inventing fictional languages. Had to give it up for physics, but it's something in the back of my mind there.
Here's a question - is the International Phonetic Alphabet, as a virtually universal tool of human verbal expression, a step towards an alchemical language? It certainly looks the part, and practicing your glottal stops and fricatives feels like power words.
Language is such a tricky, fluid thing. It evolves counter to anyone's expectations - most likely, it seems it will run into what Morrison termed MemePlexes, or plain old emotional aggregates, sometime soon. Like water, it makes for a shockingly effective prison. Wonder what you can trap in a 3D holographic hieroglyph. |
