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What a Heptarchic Royalty Entry Covers

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A Heptarchic Royalty entry records a single king or prince of De Heptarchia Mystica, the sevenfold angelic government John Dee recorded assigning a ruling pair of figures to each day of the week, part of the same documented sessions with Edward Kelley that produced the wider Enochian system. Joseph Peterson's critical edition of Dee's diaries separately transcribes this shorter Heptarchia material, cross checked against the fuller diary record, giving a documented primary basis for the names and roles this section of the system assigns.

An entry records a figure's documented rank, king or prince, and which day of the week the Heptarchia assigns to their rule, since the system's own structure ties each figure to a specific place in that sevenfold division rather than leaving the assignment open.

Where the primary diaries record a specific instruction or function for a figure beyond simple rulership, an entry states it as the diaries themselves record it rather than filling in an unstated role, since the Heptarchia is itself a documented, bounded text within Dee's larger corpus, not the whole of it. An entry also notes, where Peterson's edition specifies it, each figure's particular documented office or function beyond bare rulership, since the Heptarchia assigns distinct recorded roles to its kings and princes rather than treating them as interchangeable placeholders.

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John Dee's Five Books of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic
John Dee; Joseph H. Peterson (ed.), Weiser Books, 2003View the Source
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