symbolic 50: dee's enochian evocation
Book 5, Chapter 2.1: "We instruct and inform you, according to this Doctrine delivered, that which is contained in the 49 Tables. In 49 voices or callings, which are the Natural Keys to open those (not 49 but 48, for One is not to be opened) Gates of understanding. You shall have knowledge to move every Gate, and to call out as many as you please, or shall be thought necessary..."
Book 5, Chapter 3.3: "In these keys which we deliver, are the mysteries and secret beings and effects of all things moving, and moved within the world. In this is the life of MOTION, in whom all tongues of the world are moved, for there is neither speech nor silence that was or shall be to the end of the world."
Book 5, Chapter 4.1: "Thus you see the necessity of this tongue, the excellency of it, and why it is preferred before that which you call Hebrew. For it is written that every lesser consents to its greater. Our wisdom shall prove Rhetoric. In this language, every letter signifies the member of the substance whereof it speaks. Every word signifies the essence of the substance. The letters are separated, and in confusion: and therefore, are by number gathered together, which also signify a number. For as every greater contains his lesser, so are secret and unknown forms of things knit up in their parents. Being known in number, they are easily distinguished, so that herein we teach places to be numbered, letters to be elected from the numbered, and proper words from the letters, which signifiy substantially the thing that is spoken of in the center of the Creator."
Book 5, Chapter 4.2: "Even as the mind of man is moved at an ordered speech, and is easily persuaded in things that are true, so are the creatures of God stirred up in themselves when they hear the words with which they are nursed and brought forth. For nothing moves, that is not persuaded; neither can anything be persuaded that is unknown. Without this language, the Creatures of God understand you not."
Book 1, Chapter 3: "Being as dumb, and not able to speak, Adam [having been cast out of the Garden of Eden] began to learn (through necessity) the language which you call Hebrew but not in the form which is now Hebrew among you. Adam uttered and delivered to his posterity the nearest knowledge that he had of God and His Creatures. From his own self, he divided this speech into three parts: twelve, three, and seven. This division yet remains, but the true forms and pronunciations are lost. Therefore Hebrew is not of that force that it was in the original divinity; much less is it to be compared with this language that we deliver, which Adam verily spoke in innocence and which has never been uttered nor disclosed to man since, until now. In this language, the power of God must work and wisdom in her true kind must be delivered."
[Quoted from Geoffrey James' edition of Dr. John Dee's manuscripts. (Llewellyn Publications, 1994)]
writing
This is a reasonably comprehensive list of my published work, both virtual and physical.
THE MISFIT LIBRARY
I am Nine of Thirteen, one of the members of the Misfit Library, a writing collective which puts out a quarterly journal of our respective work. We are scattered across the globe and determined to change the face of the planet one story at a time. The link above will take you to Misfit Central where you can acquire copies of the journal as well as read exclusive online material.
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.
LITERARY REPRESENTATION
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