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Angelmas:
An Enochian Sacrament
By Michael Sanborn
Angelmas
Copyright 1995, 2000 by Michael Sanborn.
Acrobat version prepared by Benjamin Rowe, October 14, 2000.
ANGELMAS
I. THE LITURGY OF THE CALL
Congregational response is set in
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Opening
In the name of the Father, + and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Amen.
Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known,
and from whom no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our
hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy spirit, that we may perfectly
love thee and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our
Lord. Amen.
The Prayer of Enoch
Can the vessel of fear, fragility, or that which is of a determined pro-
portion, lift up himself, heave up his hands, or gather the Sun into
his bosom? Lord it cannot be:
Lord my imperfection is great: Lord I am less than sand: Lord, thy
good Angels and Creatures excel me by far, for our proportion is
not alike: our sense agreeth not: Notwithstanding I am comforted;
For we all have one God, all one beginning from thee, and all
respect thee as Creator: Therefore I will call upon thy name, and in
thee, I will become mighty. Thou shalt light me, and I will become
a Seer; I will see thy Creatures, and will magnify thee amongst
them. Those that come into thee have the same gate, and through
the same gate, descend those that thou sendest. Behold, I will offer
my house, my labor, my heart and soul, If it will please thy Angels
to dwell with me, and I with them; to rejoice with me, that I may
rejoice with them; to minister unto me, that I may magnify thy
name.
Then, lo, these Tables I offer unto thee, and unto thy holy Angels,
desiring them through thy holy names: As thou art their light and
comfort, so they will be my light and comfort. Lord they prescribe
not laws unto thee, thus it is not meet that I prescribe laws unto
them: What it pleases them to offer unto me, I will receive. Behold, O
Lord, if I shall call them in thy name, be it unto me in mercy, as unto
the servant of the Highest. Let them also manifest unto me, Howso-
ever I shall call them, and at whatever time.
O Lord, Is there any who is mortal that can measure the heavens?
How, therefore, can the heavens enter into man's imagination? Thy
Creatures are the Glory of thy countenance and thereby thou glori-
fiest all things, but this Glory excelleth and is far above my under-
standing. It is great wisdom, to speak with Kings according to
one's understanding: But to command Kings is not wisdom, unless
it come from thee. Behold Lord, How shall I ascend into the heav-
ens? The air will not carry me, but resisteth my folly, I fall down,
for I am of the earth. Therefore, O thou very Light and true Com-
fort, that canst command the heavens; Behold I offer these Tables
unto thee, Command them as it pleaseth thee: and O you Minis-
ters, and true lights of understanding, who govern this earthly
frame, and the elements wherein we live, Do for me as for the ser-
vant of the Lord. For unto me it has pleased the Lord to talk of you.
Behold, Lord, thou hast appointed me 50 times; Thrice 50 times will
I lift my hands unto thee. Be it unto me as it pleaseth thee, and thy
holy Ministers. I require nothing but thee, and through thee, and for
thy honor and glory: But I hope I shall be satisfied, and shall not die,
(As thou hast promised) until thou gather the clouds together, and
judge all things. And in that moment I shall be changed and dwell
with thee forever.
Asperges
May the Lord purify me that I may worthily perform his service.
In the strength of the Lord do I repel all evil from this his holy altar
and sanctuary, and from this house, wherein we worship him; and I
pray to our heavenly Father that he will send his holy angels to build
for us a spiritual temple through which his strength and blessing
may be poured forth upon his people; through Christ our Lord
Amen.
The Oration to God
O Almighty, Aeternal, the True and Living God: O King of Glory: O
Lord of Hosts: O Thou, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, and of all
things visible and invisible: now (even now, at length) among others
thy manifold mercies used and to be used, toward us, thy simple ser-
vants, we most humbly beseech thee, in this our present petition to
have mercy upon us: to have pity upon us, to have compassion upon
us: who, faithfully and sincerely, of long time, have sought among
men, in Earth: and also by prayer, (full oft, and pitifully,) have made
suit unto thy Divine Majesty for the obtaining of some convenient
portion of True Knowledge and understanding of thy laws and ordi-
nances, established in the natures and properties of thy creatures: by
which knowledge, thy Divine Wisdom, Power and Goodness, (on
thy creatures bestowed, and to them imparted) being to us made
manifest, might abundantly instruct, furnish and allure us, (for the
same), incessantly to pronounce thy praises, to render unto thee
most hearty thanks, to advance thy true honor, and to win unto thy
name some of thy due Majestical Glory, among all people, and for
ever. And whereas it has pleased thee (O God) of thy infinite Good-
ness, by thy faithful and holy Spiritual Messengers, to deliver unto us
long since an orderly form and manner of Exercise Heptarchical:
how, to thy Honor and Glory, and the comfort of our own poor souls,
and of others thy faithful servants, we may at all times, use very
many of thy good Angels, their counsels and helps: according to the
properties of such their functions and offices, as to them, by thy
Divine Power, Wisdom and Goodness is assigned, and limited:
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