c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…you the history of that you probably know it. A e wade is derived from the enochian the enochian is the revelation to John Dee of an earlier magic. And when we look in the literature of the pre Christian Jews in Jerusalem and especially in Alexandria…
…situation were in fact being guided and directed in the formulation of early science by disincarnate entities. In the case of John Dee the great flower of Elizabethan Science he actually had commerce with angels and all sorts of entities of this type over…
…happened and when it happened in a short span of time and we can study the history of that time let us say between John Dee and newton in England and we can study everything that went on. We still don't understand what went wrong because none of the…
…you the history of that. You probably know it. A e waite is derived from the enochian. The enochian is the revelation to John Dee of an earlier magic and when we look in the literature of the pre Christian Jews in Jerusalem and especially in Alexandria,…
…was a revival of ancient star magic this is something I know Ralph has studied and I hope we can take up John Dee and others connected with particular stars and invoked the spirit of that star to connect with that intelligence, asking for its guidance,…
…if considered at all, by the astronomical community but one which I propose we might consider here this evening. Ralph what was John Dee Trying to do? Perhaps that's a historical fact maybe you could fill us in on it. Yes, well the star magic idea…
…the polar constellations. They have a lot to say about the morphic field, but I forgot to answer your question about John Dee and his conversations with angels and maybe now I see that might be appropriate here, because mathematics was interpreted by him…
…somehow by the human infection. We might reach out here for a more radical solution to the problem, following the ideas of John Dee. So this is sort of how he did it traditional means there are the nine celestial spheres and there are the nine…
…people have individual angel guardians and so on. So I mean this was the accepted world view of everybody in the time of John Dee and he was a major expert of this view but his intention was, like ours to get in contact with these intelligences as…
…there's a short segment in here about the rosicrucian conspiracy. We were both fascinated with this conspiracy that John Dee and other alchemist type folks created documents that claimed there was this powerful underground secret organization that would…
…work as a scholar of literature, his reading of gnosticism his reading of alchemy, his understanding of for example, John Dee, the Elizabethan Alchemist and magician and the English philosopher martin. His reading of James Joyce, in particular pinnacle's way,…
…two years previously, the sale of the vonage manuscript to the emperor being dated to 1586. Two years previously, John Dee, the great english navigator, astrologer, magician, intelligence agent, occultist. Wait, I still am back on Frederick. You mean what…
…more later, was fomenting at this very period right under the surface. And Frederick patronized astrologers, magicians, alchemists. The reason John Dee had such a long stay at Frederick's court was because his companion, Edward Kelly, claimed to be able to…
…his feet one moonlit night when he was trying to sneak out of the castle. But I anticipate my story because I think John Dee and Edward Kelly are probably, if they were not the. I certainly think they were the people who sold the emperor the vonage…
…puzzling events in the whole history of science generally, is the afternoon in July of 1582, when, at Mortlake in his study, John Dee was distracted by a brilliant light outside his window and stepped outside to receive from a creature he described as the…
…Now, we actually hear no more in anybody's diaries or letters of the gospel of St Dunstable. However, Arthur Dee, the son of John Dee, writing some 30 years later and reminiscing about his father, said that from the time he met Kelly, he spent a great…
…yesterday as the source of all the magical codes in the Middle Ages. If you're interested in a brilliant but fictional treatment of John Dee and Giordano Bruno, I'd like to recommend a novelty to you. It's called Egypt, spelled a e g y p t. It has…
…to my mind, a giant figure casting an enormous shadow over the landscape of alchemy and modern science, is the Englishman John Dee. John Dee united in himself the complete spirit of the medieval magus and the complete spirit of the modern scientist. He…
…mind, a giant figure casting an enormous shadow over the landscape of alchemy and modern science, is the Englishman John Dee. John Dee united in himself the complete spirit of the medieval magus and the complete spirit of the modern scientist. He invented…
…that were top secret. The French, the Spanish, must be kept away from this stuff. And these were navigational instruments created by John Dee that allowed him to locate himself anywhere on the globe. But John Dee was a man who, on a late summer evening…
…this stuff. And these were navigational instruments created by John Dee that allowed him to locate himself anywhere on the globe. But John Dee was a man who, on a late summer evening in Mortlake, in his house in Mortlake, outside London, the angel Gabriel…
…return to Spain from the new world, he brought a number of objects with him that he had collected in central Mexico. And somehow John Dee got his hands on this thing and it was, for him, a television screen into the logos. And he used it over a…
…astrological malefic influences. It was protected. And when we talk later about the alchemical aspirations of the Rosicutians and John Dee and Frederick the elector palatine of Bohemia, we'll see that this impulse toward an alchemical kingdom returns again and…
…here. The only non hebraic magical language that I may mention will be Enochian. And Enochian was an angelic language channeled to John Dee and used by him in his magical evocations. And then later it was taken up by Aleister Crowley. Crowley and the…
…build a bridge from the otherwise nearly incomprehensible high magic of the late Paleolithic. We can get it as near to our, as John Dee, who died in 1604, we can discover that it's no further away from us than the beginning of the 30 years war. And,…
…way. I mean, this is what alchemy turned into. And in the 16th century, people like Gerhard Dornan and Robert Flood and John Dee and Michael Centivorgius and all of these people were on the trail of what they called the lapis, or the philosopher's stone.…
…This is the age of Shakespeare and the Rudolphine court in Prague. This is the age of Arkamboldo and John Dee and Robert Flood. And, you know, that incredibly complex, psychedelic, manneristic mishmash that those late Renaissance people put together.…
…of a generation old plan to create an alchemical reformation that had been hatched in the mind of the english alchemist and mathematician John Dee. And the ending of the story is not a happy ending, or perhaps it is. I mean, we can talk about that on…
…their weight. They're all out there, you know, Proclus and Plotinus and Plato and hypatia and Henry Cornelius Agrippa and John Dee and Robert Flood and Eliaphus Levy, they're all out there pulling for us. And every shaman and shamanist, every magician…
…magical symbols. And then there became stress on magical alphabets. Enochian is one of these magical alphabets, or languages, rather. John Dee, remember I mentioned the whole ten year episode with the showstone? Well, one of the subjects which these entities…
…John Dee, remember I mentioned the whole ten year episode with the showstone? Well, one of the subjects which these entities that Dee and Kelly were dealing with returned to again and again and again were the Enochian. This language, which they said was…
…strain of magic coming down from Trithemius is the DNA strain, and it is a bit more accessible to people like ourselves. Because John Dee was an Englishman and he wrote in English, and so you don't have to conquer 16th century italian or late Latin in…
…understanding of the world that is genie like that's the image I have when I sit down to it it is all John Dee would have asked of his archangelic messengers he wanted instantaneous information on the political situation in the courts of Europe, he…
…followed a lot of ancient instructions, such as jill was suggesting with the invocation by name and sound, wearing the clothes, John Dee did all of these things and the invocations are recorded and there are many people now practicing this system of angel…
…of angel magic in England and in the United States where the invocations are written down in John Dee's Notebooks. There's the John Dee Society that publishes this material for anybody who wants to try it. But do they do it while looking at particular…
…the stars. So what do they have to say? Well, you have to experience it. Have you been to one of these John Dee Chapters? And what happens? Well the experiences are extremely powerful. People are possessed by the intelligences act out we're not talking…
…and then you use this medicinally. Do you see so that like well that I knew but then how does that relate to the John Dee? Well, this form of angel magic that comes out of Ficino and then is perfected in Campanella takes the idea that you it's…
…Edward Kelly was a very dubious character, I think, for one strong piece of evidence that he was a shady character was John Dee was married to a much younger woman named Andy, who, by all accounts, was quite a beauty. And after gaining Dee's confidence…
…so it was done. We read. So, you know, hanky panky didn't begin with the golden dawn. Believe me, I. In 1582, Ann D. John Dee and Edward Kelly set out for Bohemia. And Rudolph, the mad king of Bohemia, held sway at that time. Now, this is another one…
…and he died at Mortlake in 1606. Elizabeth died in 1604. Shakespeare was happening. Sir Philip Sidney was happening through this period, John Dee reputedly had over 6000 books in his library. He had more books than any man in England. He had books. We…