symbolic 49: voices from beyond
In the late 16th century, Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly composed one of the greatest tracts of occult mythology. Dee, who was a scientist with a certain amount of cachet in the Elizabethan court, became convinced of the existence of angelic spirits. What he sought was the ultimate grimoire, the text which would unlock for him the secrets of the Divine. Like the other prophets -- Solomon, Moses, Abraham -- he believed that God would reveal Himself to the spiritually devout.
And, while Dee was prepared to be the receptor of such divine intelligence, he found that he did not have the sight. The scrying stones -- the objects in which the angelic hosts appeared -- were dark to him. He required the presence of another, someone more properly attuned to the vibrations of the scrying stones, in order to transcribe the tongue of the angels. He required a charlatan. He got Edward Kelly.
Kelly was nearly illiterate, a drifter who wanted nothing more than his palm filled with silver and a hot meal in his stomach. He didn't care for the spiritual possession which came over him when he looked in the magic stones. He didn't understand the full import of his divinely-channeled speech. Or, as some will argue, he understood all too well and his relationship with Dee was strictly that of a con artist working his meal ticket. Kelly is, then, either a fool with an open pathway in his brain or the most brilliant inventor of nonsense history has ever seen.
Your choice. It's all a matter of what you want to believe.
Dee believed him. Dee fervently believed that what Kelly saw and spoke of was the presence and message of an ancient and spiritual host. Dee heard the voice of angels from Kelly's mouth and learned of their desire to resurrect the true art of Magick which had been lost to man. The angels wanted to teach us about the true nature of the universe and how to shape it to our will. They wanted to teach us the barest fraction of the power of God.
These angels have been on earth before. Genesis 6:4. "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown." It is the presence of these giants -- the Nephilim -- and their sorcery which led to God's decision to wipe the slate clean and start over.
In 1582, the silver-tongued angels come back. And this time they're talking to men instead of the ladies. They are impregnating the men with ideas.
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THE MISFIT LIBRARY
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SYMBOLIC
I wrote a column for OPi8.com's Transmit blogs: journals of the new dark underground. SYMBOLIC tracked the novel I was working on, referencing the process and the research materials which mad up the backbone of the work. In addition, SYMBOLIC busied itself with ruminations and considerations on the nature of language and communication. And a wee bit of mythology. The first 100 entries of SYMBOLIC can be found here on this site as well as at OPi8.com.
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