Dee image

[dev]

Check this John Dee image out:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h18/deviadah/forum/SDA.gif

:cool:

[m1thr0s]

that's actually fairly well known, but it's a very nice copy...very clean...

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[fr.novumorganum]

key to enochian

[frater luciferi]

i like it!

[m1thr0s]

i like it!yeah...this is some of Dee's best work though...he's got a whole lot of other stuff in publication that is downright embarrassing by way of contrast...

but especially for his time...he was clearly a mathematical genius...

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[vitriol]

even more amazing when you see the wax seals with this sigil on it!!!

[fr.novumorganum]

have you seen them in the british museum? i've been dying to get to london.

[crossoflight]

have you seen them in the british museum? i've been dying to get to london.

Sorry for the poor quality of the image. The John Dee display at the BM isn't very extensive and it's hard to photograph through the glass cabinet.

[fr.novumorganum]

thanks!

[crossoflight]

thanks!

You're welcome. Searching through a small portion of my extensive but somewhat disorganised photograph archive, I came across this as well.

The British Museum really is an excellent resource, and entrance is free as well (I understand this is not generally the case with museums and galleries outside Britain). Also, the 'world renowned' Atlantis Bookshop can be found on aptly named Museum Street, a two minute walk from the entrance to the museum.

http://www.theatlantisbookshop.com/

[Radiant Star]

I recently visited Mortlake in London. In the library was a display recounting Dee’s life and a short walk from there took me to St Mary the Virgin Church on Mortlake High Street, where Dee is said to be buried in the chancel St Mary’s Church Mortlake (http://www.mortlakeparish.org.uk/stmary's/history.html)

I went to look for John Dee’s house which was opposite the church, it is no longer there, but here is an impression of the possible site of it taken from the Barnes History pages.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/Tisha5/AF/JohnDeeHouse.jpg

[fr.novumorganum]

thanks for the pics, and very nice to see you again!

[Amur]

No offense but this brings to mind a book of Terry Prattchet were a teenager is for the first time about to summon a demon and has a shitload of talismans and protections so that he can barely be even seen only to summon up poor bad magician Rincewind :laugh: Old magick is old, we need better alignments with the current microcosm and macrocosm as the world currently lies.

[m1thr0s]

I can relate to that perspective Amur, although it's a little trickier than it may appear on its face. People often need to go over the historical trail as a means or working their way up to the present. Unfortunately, many seem to make the mistake of confusing past and present...*romanticizing* the past and overlooking the tremendous advantages that only exist in the NOW...

Also the hazards will have changed markedly and in most cases become a great deal more urgent... The world was not a *nuclear powder-keg* in Dees time...he wouldn't have even had any rational ability to envision a world like that, despite his being one of the foremost scientific thinkers of his day... Things like the Internet...not even the most forward of thinkers would have been able to estimate that one...

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