Terence McKenna
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…There are about 40 alchemical texts and all the greats are in here: lull Villanova, Michael Meyer, Basil valentine, Kramer, Edward Kelly and so forth. The place to begin, I think, is obviously with the question: who is Hermes Trismegistus? What are…
…it. He had other methods too he had wax tables and sigils. But finally into his life came a very mysterious character named Edward Kelly, and some accounts say that Edward Kelly had no ears, which indicates that he had had his ears removed for being a…
…wax tables and sigils. But finally into his life came a very mysterious character named Edward Kelly, and some accounts say that Edward Kelly had no ears, which indicates that he had had his ears removed for being a charlatan and a montebank this was a…
…had had his ears removed for being a charlatan and a montebank this was a common punishment in the provinces of England. So Edward Kelly was a very dubious character, I think. For one strong piece of evidence that he was a shady character was: John Dee…
…scryer, the person who could look into the that the angels and the entities coming and going in the show stone were putting forth Kelly revealed to Dee that the angels had instructed him to hit the hay with Anne, and this was a great crisis in their…
…was done, we read so you know, hanky panky didn't begin with the golden dawn, believe me in 1582 Anne Dee, 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 of these…
…into the mysteries of the hieroglyphic monad. Well then he was able to get out of bohemia and he went back to England. Kelly who had made much more extravagant claims, Rudolf kept at work on the alchemical opus and Kelly became more and more desperate…
…and he went back to England. Kelly who had made much more extravagant claims, Rudolf kept at work on the alchemical opus and Kelly became more and more desperate to escape and one night in 1587 he crept out on the parapet of this bohemian castle and…
…who elaborated the angelologic language called enochian, never actually wrote or discussed the book that he had received from Kelly. It is definitely not written in enochian. Enochian when grammatically analyzed by computers, has a curious relationship to 16th…
…written in enochian. Enochian when grammatically analyzed by computers, has a curious relationship to 16th century English. But when Dee and Kelly traveled to Europe they were talking up Roger Bacon, who was a 14th century English Monk who had dabbled in…
…up a real bacon manuscript because they were too valuable to him. So for 14 000 gold ducats this thing changed hands and Kelly and Dee and Ann were able to pay their bills. And Frederick had I'm sorry, Rudolph had immense resources because of his…
…patronized astrologers, magicians, alchemists. The reason John Dee had such a long stay at Friedrich's court was because his companion, Edward Kelly, claimed to be able to perform the alchemical opus and the King more or less placed them under house arrest…
…as a favor since he had patronized them very heavily. And when they were unable to, Dee was able to talk his way out of it. Kelly had been the one who had made the major claims and he was kept there and actually died in an effort to escape. He fell…
…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 manuscript because…
…fade in the months after he received the stone until a strange personage came into his life in the spring of 1584, and this was Edward Kelly. Now Kelly was a much younger man than d and d was married to a much younger woman, Anne D, and Kelly was of…
…months after he received the stone until a strange personage came into his life in the spring of 1584, and this was Edward Kelly. Now Kelly was a much younger man than d and d was married to a much younger woman, Anne D, and Kelly was of the rascal…
…Well for the next many years the show stone was the major guiding force on Dee's life and a guy came to him named Edward Kelly and Edward Kelly Legend has it that he had no ears, which in England at that time meant that you had committed some…
…next many years the show stone was the major guiding force on Dee's life and a guy came to him named Edward Kelly and Edward Kelly Legend has it that he had no ears, which in England at that time meant that you had committed some infraction in the…
…off. So then if you met somebody with no ears in a big scheme you knew to keep your wallet in your pocket. So this guy Kelly had an immense facility with this show stone I mean he could just sit down with it and it is one of the most puzzling and…
…undiscussed episodes in the evolution of western thought. The straight people just say: whoa this is a bunch of crap. You know this guy Kelly first of all Dee was married to a much younger woman named Ann Dee and at one point in the ten years or so…
…Dee was married to a much younger woman named Ann Dee and at one point in the ten years or so that Dee and Kelly were together the angels of the show stone gave very explicit instructions so this guy was a sharpie for sure. However, it's very puzzling…
…thing. Well for the next many years the showstone was the major guiding force on Dee's life and a guy came to him named Edward Kelly, and Edward Kelly Legend has it that he had no ears, which in England at that time meant that you had committed some…
…the next many years the showstone was the major guiding force on Dee's life and a guy came to him named Edward Kelly, and Edward Kelly Legend has it that he had no ears, which in England at that time meant that you had committed some infraction in the…
…off so then if you met somebody with no ears in a big scheme you knew to keep your wallet in your pocket. So this guy Kelly had an immense facility with this showstone. I mean he could just sit down with it and it is one of the most puzzling and…
…puzzling and undiscussed episodes in the evolution of western thought. The straight people just say: whoa this is a bunch of crap. This guy Kelly, first of all Dee was married to a much younger woman named Ann Dee and at one point in the ten years or…
…all Dee was married to a much younger woman named Ann Dee and at one point in the ten years or so that Dee and Kelly were together the angels of the showstone gave very explicit instructions that Dee should allow Kelly to marry Ann and it says and in…
…this was Edward Kelly. Now Kelly was a much younger man than d and d was married to a much younger woman, Anne D, and Kelly was of the rascal class and he in fact in one account is described as being earless, having had his ears removed for some…
…Arthur D the son of John D writing some 30 years later and reminiscing about his father said that from the time he met Kelly he spent a great deal of time trying to unravel a book covered all over with hieroglyphics and perhaps this is the diary or…
…he quickly, from his conversations with d determined the story about the show stone, and they set up a seance situation and Kelly proved himself to be a very adept scryer of the stone from the very first instance. He could describe vast theatrical…
…of diary entries that span the next ten years, dozens, hundreds of spirit conversations and the delivering unto d and Kelly of an angelologic language called enochian, which was composed of non English Letters but which computer analysis has recently shown…
…grammatical relationship to English. But over 4 000 words are known in enochian and they were transmitted by the ghostly apparitions which Kelly channeled to d and d, and some of the messages were theological in nature, many were political and came to them…
…shows all the physical signs of being a 16th century manuscript. I estimate it was done sometime around 1540 and d this means Kelly perhaps obtained it somewhere, otherwise it would have had to have been done later as late as the early 1580s. If d…
…further and further from its roots. But my reconstruction of what must have happened is that in this period when Dee and Kelly were regaling Rudolf with tales of the alchemical prowess of Roger Bacon, that they ponied up this manuscript. Either they wrote…
…is this huge book called a true and faithful relation, which is the day by day seances with these spirits that says Dee and Kelly move all over Europe It's in that that it's recorded. Oh and this is a piece of circumstantial evidence I almost left out…
…of the handwriting in it shows that two hands are involved. It was written by two people. Does this mean it was written by d n Kelly? Is this the hands that we should look for? Can we then, by comparing it to the handwriting of d n or Kelly, get a…
…by d n Kelly? Is this the hands that we should look for? Can we then, by comparing it to the handwriting of d n or Kelly, get a further feeling for their relationship to it? How do you get a hold upon these? You have to write to the office of…
…somewhere an unreadable book, and perhaps this is it and it's almost. I mean if my analysis of it as being a product of d n Kelly has seemed too facile, let me assure you that it is and that not all the facts are covered by that theory. So much of…
…material like an alchemist yes, that's what really alchemy is. It would have appealed to the alchemical imagination of Dee or Kelly or any of their educated, occult contemporaries to use this kind of method. So it's very interesting. What would you say?…
…immense cleverness because often the way the Dee Angels would work is they would deliver very very long messages in Latin Backwards and Kelly would just dictate this stuff at a very rapid speed and Dee would write it down and then they would put away…
…support with money and who should be introduced to who. It was very political. You know what kind of a polymathic talent was Edward Kelly that he could invert whole pages of Latin and reel it off and then have it be reconstructed and make sense also…
…I mentioned the whole ten year episode with the show stone 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 the true language…
…in the ten years or so that Dee and Kelly were together the angels of the showstone gave very explicit instructions that Dee should allow Kelly to marry Ann and it says and in the light of god's will, it was done. It says that in his diary so this…
…immense cleverness because often the way the Dee Angels would work is they would deliver very, very long messages in Latin Backwards and Kelly would just dictate this stuff at a very rapid speed and Dee would write it down and then they would put away…
…support with money and who should be introduced to who. It was very political you know what kind of a polymathic talent was Edward Kelly that he could invert whole pages of Latin and reel it off and then have it be reconstructed and make sense also,…