They say they bored a hole in the space time box, which you can see here is a kind of joke since that is a woman, the seduction of the man being the prime objective of the fallen in the real Book of Enoch, not the counterfeit by that name of Dee's invention. The real book was only just discovered among the scrolls, last century, Narcotics and hallucinogens were a staple of their work. They say Babalon Working snared an elemental in 1946 using the "Angelick" language Edward Kelley used to snare Dr. Dee's wife Jane. The "Enochian" knock, knock, accompanied by Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto and the obligatory nine knocks begat a wind storm and a pasty face, says Parsons, the most devastating experience of Parson's life. This ushered in "UFO/ET" phenom via the soon after Roswell crash, Ken Arnold and George Adamski (et al) sightings, giving birth to the modern "UFO" mythos," Blah de blah. (Paul Rydeen. Jack Parsons and the Fall of Babalon ). (And he ordained him priests for the shrines, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made. II Chron 11.15). The piety of science, industry, art, lit celebrating itself, as part of the entertainment industry, an arrogation of significance, illustrates the so called Enochians L Ron Hubbard and Jack Parsons taking credit for saucers. The syntax and grammar of the Enochian language are highly similar to the English language (Donald Laycock).
Enochian language would be as useful in deception as Georgie Yeats' language of automatic writing was for Bill Yeats, (W. B.), that is, it got her her way. Dr. Dee you see, by the way, could not himself scry, hence could not know whether anything true came or went. He didn't have CERN or DWave. He had to take Edward Kelley's word. Kelley's word was that the spirits wanted, that is for Dee's wife Jane to go to bed with Edward Kelley. They tracked her menstruals in Dee's diary. This is well suited as a Romantic occasion, part rebel polytonality, part sarcasm. What could be more romantic than comparing overturning all nations, states and governments of the world, as Dee's title read, opening up earth to all those rebel captives incarcerated in time for their adjudged end, and his own cuckoldry? Is it needed to spell it out? The supplanting of Jane's husband with Kelly is a miniature of supplanting earth with Satan! A Lord Byron among us! A True and faithful relation of what passed for many years...…Tending (had it succeeded) to a general alteration of most states and Kingdoms in the world (Casaubon). What it Altered in the world is more and more obvious. So if the disordered minds of Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard were able to bring about the new fall of the earth from this, admittedly a little redundant, and always under the tutelage of the Oleander Families, then it was a ripe fruit ready on its branch (like stars ripe as figs?). These overturners never seem to acknowledge they have one who will dash them in pieces, which issues involved SF writers Van Vogt, Heinlein, Sprague de Camp, John Campbell, Ron Hubbard of course and Aleister Crowley, and others. We know however that the true savior comes not at the bidding of any of these or of science or the Vatican. See Caroline Letkeman on transference abuse, an active principle in these dominances, here and Gerry Armstrong on Hubbard here
John Dee is fathered with much of this so the windy points that overlook the mystical canyon on view of Dr. Dee stem more from a desire to
rehab the occult, as if he had the empire of L. Ron Hubbard behind
him, “holyness, phoniness, feeblemindedness’ (E. M. Butler). These
“investigations” always revolve around sex as its own tale as if it
concerned Osirus
and Isis. So Dee is praised as a scientist, savior of the English fleet and his
mystical cuckoldry
is a mere scandalous story. His northwest passage, and Queen Elizabeth's title deed to the new
world
are not mentioned any more than the mumbo jumbo of his True Relation, of which C. S. Lewis writes: “the tragic-comical
human story in his True Relation has to be picked out from reams of stuff as
fatuous as is reported from any modern séance” (12). If only Mr. Lewis had lived
to the internet age he could have learned how Dee
then “began to write truly remarkable, albeit sublime, works that he maintained
were the product of angels who spoke in language known as Enochian.” (Andrew
Gough). That Lewis thinks these “reams of stuff fatuous” seems to
credit Dee’s Kelley’s ghost Madimi, who showed “herself all naked.” Like Dee she also has her own opera (Bruce Wolosoff). Madimi you will not recall was the one Kelley said
dictated this stuff off a wejee. Yeats to some extent, as well
as Crowley followed these mixed species of
interrogation, their wives in place of Dee’s
Kelley. See Yeats
and Baal. Dee kept meticulous records of
Jane’s trysts with Kelley in his Dairies even as Yeats was forever writing down every
word of their apocalypse in place of the intercourse that his Georgie really
desired. Georgie it is thought used these sessions to get Yeats love, and
Kelley no doubt had the same desire for Jane. Gough calls this the Apocalypse Working,
taken up later by Crowley and of course Hubbard and Jack Parsons busily summoned the
Archons, the Babylon Working they say, as if the Apocalypse needed to be
provoked to come in its time. Will it out? It will out! But it was not to any
of these that He
gave the power to become the sons of God, which is not to say Dee didn’t
translate Trithemius or preface Euclid. Among science worshipers no one is
more exalted than the pure dee mathematician who led them all to the
Stargates! Holy cow. People line up. The witch Robert Hardy will illuminate
you about Dee.
Descartes and Bacon are alleged to have been disciples of John Dee, the mystical cuckold, Elizabethan astrologer-mathematician. Dr. Dee got a makeover of the hugest kind courtesy of the John Dee society and countless internet ramblers, but the only way Descartes and John Dee are associated is in Famous Figurine Opera. Being fair to a man is not to chose selective details in making him holy or not. Dee to his embarrassment kept meticulous diaries of everything the Society would not like to know about his magic. Among his revelations were the menstruation of his wife and her trysts with Edward Kelley. Dr. Dee is a lesson in demoing your work yourself before you die. He had no Tatham like Blake to burn it for him. Micelangelo burned his, but Dee’s got kept, which compromises all his traditions as a master of math and magic, as if he were a lost pill.
A hired gun really who fueled political intrigue at court in high society by feeding prejudice with high sounding rhetoric. If his admirers see this kind of self serving rhetoric in those they despise they call it character assassination, as Dee did the Spanish "title" to the new world. This is like reading Kierkgaard to prove him a monk…just whatever you want, so why not have King Arthur establish a British Empire because one spurious Geoffrey of Monmouth says he took Ireland, certainly that justifies the British taking India. Helped by Dee the English are long infected with empire, Madog of Wales, Arthur, Brutus all took lands in the new world, so he said, so the Queen’s foot was in the door. Instead of lauding Dee’s prowess at chiromancy one should look at the flood of British empire over the earth and think about the brutes of Rome in this day, Obama’s drones, bring in the new world order.
Descartes and Bacon are alleged to have been disciples of John Dee, the mystical cuckold, Elizabethan astrologer-mathematician. Dr. Dee got a makeover of the hugest kind courtesy of the John Dee society and countless internet ramblers, but the only way Descartes and John Dee are associated is in Famous Figurine Opera. Being fair to a man is not to chose selective details in making him holy or not. Dee to his embarrassment kept meticulous diaries of everything the Society would not like to know about his magic. Among his revelations were the menstruation of his wife and her trysts with Edward Kelley. Dr. Dee is a lesson in demoing your work yourself before you die. He had no Tatham like Blake to burn it for him. Micelangelo burned his, but Dee’s got kept, which compromises all his traditions as a master of math and magic, as if he were a lost pill.
Spiritual masters have a history of cuckolding and seducing their
students depending on how the term applies. Far greater numbers than
that even have been metaphysical cuckolded. Modern precursor of wife swapping.
Cuckolding usually refers to the master not the mistress, when his wife
is taken by another in all the vigor of Italian renaissance comedy to
much laughter and taunts of "becco! Cornuto!" Men in clubs maybe. "The
Marriage Game." Metaphysically we can say whole countries and religions
have been cuckolded, but leave that to the enterprising graduate
dissertation.
Peter Hawkins says Francis Bacon was an early student of Dee. In the opera by Damon Albarn, John
Dee, they call him an
astronomer, but he was an astrologer who talked to angels, he thought, and for sure he cast horoscopes of every occasion. His
Enochian, scrying mirror is not like the Hubble space telescope, but it is in the British Museum.
The operatics and atmospherics of his thought say he
was a good guy who got demonized…like Martin Rees! but after all the fog
and smoke of
Dee’s alleged influence on Queen Elizabeth, it was because he had done
astrology for her sister, Queen Mary, also because he knew some women at
court. He famously designed Queen Elizabeth's pretext to a title deed
to
the new world against Spanish rivals, forged, that is, dissembled, the
Northwest Passage along with “codebreaking” (out of Trithemius). His
websites claim he was at least
MI5 in rank and a 007, that he found the wood for English ships ten
years before
the Armada! When asked to comment on the reputed neoplatonic drive for
moral perfection that Dee is said to have cultivated, a la Ficino or
Agrippa, the director of the opera equivocates badly. Moral perfection
scares them to death. The Opera thinks Dee a pivotal figure in Britain
magic and science. He drew the chart for Elizabeth’s coronation, was a
model for
Prospero, Faust! All puffery. The scandalous stories of wife swapping
are the true thing. see Bacon
and Dee
A hired gun really who fueled political intrigue at court in high society by feeding prejudice with high sounding rhetoric. If his admirers see this kind of self serving rhetoric in those they despise they call it character assassination, as Dee did the Spanish "title" to the new world. This is like reading Kierkgaard to prove him a monk…just whatever you want, so why not have King Arthur establish a British Empire because one spurious Geoffrey of Monmouth says he took Ireland, certainly that justifies the British taking India. Helped by Dee the English are long infected with empire, Madog of Wales, Arthur, Brutus all took lands in the new world, so he said, so the Queen’s foot was in the door. Instead of lauding Dee’s prowess at chiromancy one should look at the flood of British empire over the earth and think about the brutes of Rome in this day, Obama’s drones, bring in the new world order.
Dee's life and work are a farrago of true and false which his friends in
the new age make over into his lauds, but he lacked discrimination of
the true
from the false in his Northwest Passage and British empire, not to speak
of his
continual search to know the occult. He could cast a chart, but who
couldn’t?
He had some powerful friends, but that is the nature of the occult in
politics. Nancy Reagen and such people as heads of state seek to know
the results of their actions
which lack integrity in themselves. Since they have doubt about their
choices
they would shore them up with certainty such as astrologers and self
help
gurus provide. Dee was as unable to tell the
true from the false as Jimmy Swaggart visting
prostitutes Saturday night before church. Dee
took a counterfeiter, Edward Kelley, as his Virgil to the otherworld, and got thoroughly
scammed, even gave him his wife to bed and raised Kelly’s child by her as his
own. This is not the high sounding horn, but a hoot.
When researching Restorations of the Golden Age in New World
Discoveries I held in my
hands in the British Museum the title deed John Dee designed for Queen
Elizabeth for the new world.
At that time I felt sorry for Dee because he lost his books, his estate
and
wandered Europe as if he had no ability to
make his own home. Of course he rather forfeited that by giving his wife
to
Kelley. Now I feel sorry for him because while he spoke the language of
piety he
bypassed that on the continent when it was readily available among the
Mennonists and early pietists and took up magic among the rich and
powerful.
The truth he traded for the false as a life was worse; he needed Kelley
just
because he could not fathom the spirit himself, therefore bought not
just the
spurious spirit of Kelley, but lost it himself, for he could have had in
the true way as a gift. But he could not have sold it or merchandised
it
for power. And if you know the
the Holy Spirit what matter the less?
John Dee, Britannia
online
Elias Ashmole, Dee and Osirus Bacon and Dee
Arthur's
imperial conquests to argue that Arthur had established a 'British
empire' abroad.[37] He
further argued that England
exploit new lands through colonisation and that this vision could become
reality through maritime supremacy.[38][39] Dee
has been credited with the coining of the term British
Empire,[40]
however, Humphrey Llwyd has also been credited with the first
use of the term in his Commentarioli Britannicae Descriptionis Fragmentum,
published eight years earlier in 1568.[41]
Dee posited a formal claim to North America on the back of a map drawn in 1577–80;[42] he noted Circa 1494 Mr Robert Thorn his father, and Mr Eliot of Bristow, discovered Newfound Land.[43] In his Title Royal of 1580, he invented the claim that Madog ab Owain Gwynedd had discovered America, with the intention of ensuring that England's claim to the New World was stronger than that of Spain.[44] He further asserted that Brutus of Britain and King Arthur as well as Madog had conquered lands in the Americas and therefore their heir Elizabeth I of England had a priority claim there.[45][46]
Dee posited a formal claim to North America on the back of a map drawn in 1577–80;[42] he noted Circa 1494 Mr Robert Thorn his father, and Mr Eliot of Bristow, discovered Newfound Land.[43] In his Title Royal of 1580, he invented the claim that Madog ab Owain Gwynedd had discovered America, with the intention of ensuring that England's claim to the New World was stronger than that of Spain.[44] He further asserted that Brutus of Britain and King Arthur as well as Madog had conquered lands in the Americas and therefore their heir Elizabeth I of England had a priority claim there.[45][46]
Francis Yates in The
Rosicrucian Enlightenment suggests that," in Bacon's writings there is
nowhere to be found any mention of Dee…
There is no human illumination except deception.
The only way Descartes and John Dee are associated is in Famous Figurines
The wildly various points of view on Dee stem more from a desire to rehab
the occult he practiced as do they, as if he had he empire of Ron Hubbard behind
him. “Holyness, phoniness, feeblemindedness’ (E. M. Butler) That these scientologist
“investigations” always revolve around sex is its own tale as much as Osiris
and Isis. He is praised as a scientist, savior of the fleet, and his cuckoldry
is a mere scandalous story, his northwest passage, title deed to the new world
not mentioned any more than the mumbo jumbo of his True Relation of which Lewis says: “for the tragic-comical
human story in his True Relation has to be picked out from reams of stuff as
fatuous as is reported from any modern séance.” 12 If only Mr. Lewis had lived
to the internet age he could have learned how Dee
then “began to write truly remarkable, albeit sublime, works that he maintained
were the product of angels who spoke in language known as Enochian.” Andrew
Gough That Lewis thinks these “reams of stuff fatuous.” Nobody seems to
credit Dee’s Kelley’s ghost Madimi, who showed “herself all naked” (who like Dee also has her own, Bruce Wolosoff’s, opera) who Kelley said
dictated this stuff off a wejee. It appears that Yeats to some extent, as well
as Crowley, followed mixed species of
interrogation, their wives in place of Dee’s
Kelley. See Yeats
and Baal. Dee kept meticulous records of
Jane’s trysts with Kelley in his Dairies and Yeats was forever writing down every
word of their apocalypse in place of intercourse that his Georgie really
desired. Georgie it is thought used these sessions to get Yeats love, and
Kelley no doubt had the same desire. Gough calls this the Apocalypse Working,
taken up later by Crowley and of course Hubbard and Jack Parsons…summoning the
Archons, the Babylon Working they say, as if the Apocalpyse needed to be
provoked to come in its time. Will it out? It will out! But it was not to any
of those that He
gave the power to become the sons of God Which is not to say Dee didn’t
translate Trithemius or preface Euclid, among science worshippers no one is
more exalted than the pure dee mathematician who led them all to the
Stargates! Holy cow. People will line up. The witch will Robert Hardy illuminate
you about Dee
King Arthur's imperial conquests argue that Arthur had established a 'British empire' abroad.[37] He further argued that England exploit new lands through colonisation and that this vision could become reality through maritime supremacy.[38][39] Dee has been credited with the coining of the term British Empire,[40] however, Humphrey Llwyd has also been credited with the first use of the term in his Commentarioli Britannicae Descriptionis Fragmentum, published eight years earlier in 1568.[41]
Dee posited a formal claim to North America on the back of a map drawn in 1577–80;[42] he noted Circa 1494 Mr Robert Thorn his father, and Mr Eliot of Bristow, discovered Newfound Land.[43] In his Title Royal of 1580, he invented the claim that Madog ab Owain Gwynedd had discovered America, with the intention of ensuring that England's claim to the New World was stronger than that of Spain.[44] He further asserted that Brutus of Britain and King Arthur as well as Madog had conquered lands in the Americas and therefore their heir Elizabeth I of England had a priority claim there.[45][46]
There is no human illumination except deception.
The only way Descartes and John Dee are associated is in Famous Figurines
Opera,
Dr. Dee
John Dee turns out to have had a makeover of the hugest
kind by the John Dee society and countless books and internet ramblers. He is now credited with the invention of the entire masonic new world order establishment of ritual. He and Crowley. Just as the weakness of Dee's life is never mentioned, one never hears that Crowley traveled across China with his family by camel. One never hears mention of the beauty of his pamphlet publications in the HRC in Austin. The
point would be to be fair to a man not to be selective in his judgment making
him holy or not. Dee to his embarrassment kept
meticulous diaries of everything the Society would not like us to know, his magic,
his “revelations” the menstruation of his wife, her trysts with Kelley. He is
a lesson in demoing your work before you die. He had no Tatham like Blake to
burn it for him. Michelangelo burned his, but Dee’s
got kept. This compromises also his traditions of master in math and magic, as if
suggesting he was a lost pill.
Bacon was an early student of Dee,
says Peter Dawkins. Dee is also the modern precursor of wife swapping. They call him an
astronomer, but he was an astrologer who talked to angels, he thought, in
Enochian, a scrying mirror like the Hubble space telescope! His operatics say he
was a good guy, who got demonized…like Martin Rees! Fog, smoke, knowledge on
Dee’s influence with Elizabeth because he designed her title deed to
the new world, served as forgeries against Spanish rivals. Dee also forged the
Northwest Passage along with “codebreaking” (out of Trithemius) as if he were
MI5 and James Bond 007. They say he found the wood for English ships ten years before
the Armada! But on the neoplatonic drive for moral perfection, hear them equivocate
that one. Moral perfection scares magicians to death. Opera Doctor Dee by Damon Albarn, makes John
Dee a "Pivotal figure in Britain
of magic and science." He drew the chart for Elizaeth’s coronation. Model for
Prospero, Faust! All puffery. Tlhe scandalous stories of wife swapping are the true thing.
King Arthur's imperial conquests argue that Arthur had established a 'British empire' abroad.[37] He further argued that England exploit new lands through colonisation and that this vision could become reality through maritime supremacy.[38][39] Dee has been credited with the coining of the term British Empire,[40] however, Humphrey Llwyd has also been credited with the first use of the term in his Commentarioli Britannicae Descriptionis Fragmentum, published eight years earlier in 1568.[41]
Dee posited a formal claim to North America on the back of a map drawn in 1577–80;[42] he noted Circa 1494 Mr Robert Thorn his father, and Mr Eliot of Bristow, discovered Newfound Land.[43] In his Title Royal of 1580, he invented the claim that Madog ab Owain Gwynedd had discovered America, with the intention of ensuring that England's claim to the New World was stronger than that of Spain.[44] He further asserted that Brutus of Britain and King Arthur as well as Madog had conquered lands in the Americas and therefore their heir Elizabeth I of England had a priority claim there.[45][46]
His work is a farrago of true and false which his friends in
the new age make over into his lauds, but he lacked discrimination of the true
from the false in his northwest passage and british empire, not to speak of his
continual search to know the occult. He could cast a chart, but who couldn’t.
He had some powerful friends, but that is the nature of the occult politics,
for such people as heads of state seek to know the results of their actions
which lack integrity in themselves. Since they have doubt about their choices
they seem to shore them up with certainty such as astrologers and self help
gurus provide. Dee was as unable to tell the
true from the false as Jimmy Swaggart visting
prostitutes sat night before church. Dee
took a counterfeiter as his Virgil to the otherworld, and got thoroughly
scammed, even gave him his wife to bed and raised Kelly’s child by her as his
own. This is not the high sounding horn, but a hoot. A hired gun really who
fueled political intrique at count in high society by feeding prejudice with
high sounding rhetoric. If his admirers see this kind of self sereving rhetoric
in those they despise they call it character assignation, as Dee
did the Spanish title to the new world. As if reading Kierkgaard one could
excerpt passages that prove him to be…just whatever you want, so why not have
King Arthur establish a British Empire because
one spurious Geoffrey of Monmouth says he took Ireland, certainly that
justifies taking India, the English are long infected with empire, Madog of
Wales, Arthur, Brutus all took lands in the new world so the Queen’s foot was
in the door. Instead of lauding Dee’s prowess at chiromancy one should look at
the flood of British empire over the earth and think about the brutes of Rome in this day, Obama’s
drones.
When researching Restorations of the Golden Age in New World
Discoveries my efforts found themselves holding in their
hands the title deed John Dee designed for Queen Elizabeth for the new world in the British Museum.
At that time I felt sorry for Dee because he lost his books, his estate and
wandered Europe as if he had no ability to
make his own home. Of course he rather forfeited that by giving his wife to
Kelley. Now I feel sorry for him because he spoke the language of piety he
bypassed that on the continent when it was readily available among the
Mennonists and early pietists and took up magic among the rich and powerful.
The truth he traded for the false as a life, but worse, he needed Kelley just
because he could not fathom the spirit himself, therefore bought not just
spurious spirit of Kelley, but lost it himself, for he could have had in the
other, the true way as a gift. But he could not have sold it or merchandised it
for power, however he would have had it. And if you know the power of God and
the Holy Spirit what matter these lesser?
John Dee, Britannia
online
Elias Ashmole, Dee and Osirus Bacon and Dee
As an early believer in the new world order fables of alchemical man
Francis Yates in The
Rosicrucian Enlightenment suggests that," in Bacon's writings there is
nowhere to be found any mention of Dee…
Dr. Dee
S Spoto. “Showeth
Herself All Naked”.
Daimonic
Imagination
, CSP 2013
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The fourth hour after dinner,
repair here again. And whatsoever you shall read out of this book, receive it
kneeling upon your knees: and see that you suffer no creature female to enter
within this place: neither shall the things that shall be opened unto you be
revealed unto your wives, or unto any creature as yet: for I will lie with you
a while, and you shall perceive that I am sweet
and full of comfort.
52
The spirits demand that in
order for Dee to continue in his occult pursuits of divine knowledge, he would,
essentially, have to engage in sex magic. These new commands on the part of the
spirits, and Dee’s acceptance of them, have often been regarded by serious
scholars as an embarrassment, but his compliance demonstrates just how far Dee
was willing to go in his zealous pursuit of knowledge. This quest is
illustrated in a contemporary rendering of the
Key of Solomon
, where the magus achieves
absolute wisdom:
And when I comprehended the
speech which was made unto me, I understood that in me was the knowledge of all
creatures, both things which are in the heavens and things which are beneath
the heavens; and I saw that all the writings and wisdom of this present age
were vain and futile, and that no man was perfect.
53
Both Dee and Kelley seemed
reluctant to submit to the new cross-marital doctrine, and Dee questioned the
spirits as to their exact meaning, hoping that perhaps they meant a more
metaphorical sharing.
54
The command was issued so
suddenly, and was so out of the norm from the previous expeditions into the
adamic lingua
and numerology, that it seems
that it can only be explained by Kelley’s extreme hatred of the angelic
exercises. Dee noted that Kelley had repeatedly said that he thought they
should not deal with the spirits any longer, and that he had long thought that
they were evil.
55
However, when Kelley’s pleas
(based on the supposed wickedness of the spirits) were ignored, he must have
pushed the issue even further. Dee’s diaries “attest to his fidelity as well as
the abstinence he practised as a means to attain the spiritual purity necessary
for those in search of higher mysteries”,
56
and an
important factor in remaining pure was
abstaining “with great and thorough continence during the space of nine days
from sensual pleasures” and “from all things unlawful, and from every kind of
impiety, wickedness, or immodesty, as well of body as of soul”.
57
Evidence from Dee’s
diaries—where he kept scrupulous records of dates and times of sexual
intercourse, and his wife's menstruation— points to his awareness of these
restrictions when practising magic, as he does not appear at any point to
engage in sexual activity within nine days of beginning a new angelic exercise.
Kelley, knowing Dee, could have invented the commands, never expecting him to
go through with it.
58
Very disappointed at
the turn in Dee’s angelic events, E. M. Butler wrote in 1948 that “[between]
them, he and his ‘skryer’ had also initiated a new kind of necromancy, imbued
with[a] peculiar blend of holiness,
phoneyness and feeble-mindedness”.
59
Though it may seem strange
that Dee accepted the new doctrine which sexualised their magic, he was well
aware of the complications surrounding female demons and there were hints of
sexual magic in his symbol of the Monas, which Dee used in his diaries to
indicate intercourse. Peter French claims this is a sexual symbol of the sun
and moon interlocking “to suggest their conjunction and generative faculty”
60
At the top is “Luna Exalted”,
and Dee writes in his
Monas Hieroglyphica:
It is
therefore clearly confirmed that the whole magistry depends upon the Sun and
the Moon. Thrice Great Hermes has repeatedly
told us in affirming that the Sun is its father and the Moon is its mother: and
we know truly that the red earth (terra lemnia) is nourished by the rays of the
Moon and the Sun which exercise a singular influence upon it.
61
Kelley’s own alchemical
writings developed from theories which were heavy in sexual metaphor, where
sexual union grew out of “the common and universal matter” which “is called
Chaos”—alchemy works with the wetness and dryness of opposing principles, and
Kelley maintains that “all teaching that changes Mercury is false and vain, for
this is the original sperm of metals, and its moisture must not be dried up”.
62
And though they seemed
willing to include sexual
52
Dee
1998: 226-227.
53
Solomon:
12.
54
Parry:
197-198.
55
Dee
1998: 216-217.
56
Feingold:
550-551.
57
Solomon:
14, 79.
58
Fenton:
209.
59
Butler: 172.
60
French:
79 fig. 14.
61
Dee
1947: 18.
62
Kelley:
8,22.
S Spoto. “Showeth
Herself All Naked”.
Daimonic
Imagination
, CSP 2013
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symbolism in their alchemical
and Hermetic philosophies, when it came to feminine spirits, Dee was more
anxious. In1583, when he comes in contact with Galvah, a female spirit, he
writes that “Tritemius sayeth that never any good angel was read to have appeared
in female form”. Galvah reassures him that angels are “neither man nor woman.
Thereforemay those that are the eternal ministers of God in his proportion of
sanctification take unto them the bodies of themboth”.
63
In 1968, Richard Deacon
shared this same discomfort and annoyance around the introduction of female
spirits,and when remarking on the language of the “angels” that Dee encounters
he says:
The vagueness of the angelic
pronouncements sometimes irritated Dee; the angels seemed to have all the unpredictability
ofthe female species, whether they were of the male or female sex, and they had
the habit of orating at great length in oftenincomprehensible language.
64
The elite occultism of Dee’s
time was meant to be a male-dominated endeavour with male scryers, magicians
and spirits,and deviation from this masculine ideal threatened chaos. Robert
Burton wrote that devils and demons would propagatewith witches and wicked
women, thereby creating new generations of demons, and also that female demons
would luremen into unholy unions, suggesting that women’s ravenous sexuality
caused the continuation of evil.
65
In the
Key of Solomon, the “Guide of these Demons
is Ashtaroth or Astarte, the impure Venus of the Syrians, whom they
representwith the head of an ass or of a bull, and the breasts of a woman”,
66
further connecting
feminine sexuality, the bestial andthe demonic.Women were not allowed in the
realm of elite occult practice, and—along with animals and
labourers—wererepresented by demons. The occult magic of Dee and the
continental philosophers engaged in a strict hierarchy whichplaced man above
animal and woman, and the learned philosopher above the labourer; any attempt
to corrupt thishierarchy threw the philosopher’s world into disorder. These
hierarchies were maintained in the journey “upwards”,whilst the aspiring
gnostic simultaneously tried to keep the uninitiated from progressing
heavenwards. When Dee beganpublishing his research, he became worried that it
would open the upper rungs of the ladder to those unworthy of it: “OhGod!
Pardon me if I have sinned against Thy Majesty in revealing such a great
mystery in my writings which all mayread, but I believe that only those who are
truly worthy will understand”
.
67
In this sense, the animal
demonic and the feminine demonic are bound together and are perhaps inseparable
when examining Dee’s conversations with angels. While it is tempting, given the
anxiety about animals and humans in this context, to look at these
transformations from a Deleuzian becoming-animal/becoming-woman perspective, I
think there is something more going on here. As the animal and the woman both represent
lower forms than the higher man, especially the educated occult philosopher,
perhaps these manifestations of women and animals are the demonic threat to
Dee’s pious reaching towards the heavens, and towards a transcendence of his
human self into the higher spheres of the divine. Anxiety surrounding the
feminine and the animal in Dee’s rituals then exposes the vulnerability of the
magician to influences which would weigh heavy on him, like the negative
influence of the stars, hindering him from progressing in gnostic insight.
Understanding the theological background of Dee’s philosophy raises interesting
questions when trying to interpret the eroticism present through much of his
theoretical and practical occultism. However, since the occult practitioner may
expend immense energy attempting to control the objects lower down on the scala naturae, then it is possible that
ascension from the mundane can only occur through an abandonment of the
worldly. Dee’s abandonment of worldly goods and pleasures is in line with this
abandonment of his prized possession, his wife. Only after he relinquishes this
final object from his guarded collection can he be truly be free from the
earthly, the mundane, and the sensual. Perhaps instead of looking at it as
engaging in sex magic with a multitude of sexual partners, it was this
abandonment of the earthly that put this practice in line with the philosophers
he so much admired. [there is the naked
at last. Turning a person to a possession. Turning a man into a spiritual whore]
63
Dee
1998: 91.
64
Deacon:
128.
65
Burton:
150-153.
66
Solomon:
111.
67
Dee
1947: 29.
“SHOWETH
HERSELF ALL NAKED”
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