In the political history of Europe in the early modern period, John Dee (1527-1608), a famous English thinker, geographer and mathematician, has a large place. The name Dee is associated with the development of a new imperial ideology, which formed the basis of later colonial empires, ideas about the special purpose of the New World, as well as an attempt to combine magic with world politics.
John Dee for a long time was a confidant of the English Queen Elizabeth I. On the one hand, he prepared astrological forecasts for her, and on the other hand, he was directly involved in the secret foreign policy Elizabeth, both in relations with France and in the ongoing struggle for colonies with Spain. Interestingly, Dee signed his secret messages to Queen with the pseudonym "007".
It was John Dee who coined the very term "British Empire" and developed the concept of England's rights to colonial conquest and world domination. In 1577-78. he developed this idea in his treatises. By empire, Dee meant the totality of Britain and its colonies. Dee also emphasized the importance of the British resettlement in the colonies and the corresponding migration policy of the state. Dee emphasized that the British Empire was superior to any earthly monarchy since the creation of the world and could become a universal monarchy.
So Dee openly juxtaposed the nascent British Empire with both the Christian ideal of a "mystical universal city" to unite the whole earth, and a "cosmopolitan government" to govern it. Thus, Dee immediately gave the British Empire a worldwide, global character. In this regard, he spoke about the concept of "citizen of the world", about cosmopolitanism within the empire. And this led to the development of an imperial feeling among the British themselves.
Dee considered his imperial concept in the context of the general mystical unity of the world. In search of symbolic "keys" to understanding this unity and interpreting it, incl. in real world politics, Dee wrote perhaps his most famous treatise, The Hieroglyphic Monad. http://www.levity.com/alchemy/monas_r.html
The most important task on the way to creating an empire, Dee considered the discovery by the British of new navigation routes and the colonization of newly discovered territories. He studied ancient maps of the world in detail, studied geography in detail, and was familiar with the leading cartographers of that era, Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius.
All this made Dee a consultant on British navigational projects. He was involved in compiling the route of the first English circumnavigation of the world, made by Francis Drake in 1577-80. John Dee was also one of the main developers of the so-called. Northwest Way - the passage from England to Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of Canada. Dee prepared a description of Greenland and Canada for the expeditions of Martin Frobisher in the 1570s, who tried (however, unsuccessfully) to follow this path. Dee repeatedly discussed the idea of the Northwest Route both with Queen Elizabeth I herself and with her leading dignitaries, in particular with Secretary of State Francis Walsingham.
In addition to practical benefits, Dee also emphasized the mystical significance of the annexation of the New World territories to the British Empire.
Dee also emphasized that the first conqueror of the islands around Greenland was also said to be King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, who traveled the world in search of the Holy Grail. And since Arthur was the English king, it is England that has the right to dispose of the New World.
At the same time, Dee was also developing the Northeast Route - the road to China through the Arctic Ocean and related trade contacts between the British and Russia. In the 1570-80s. he interacted with the "Muscovy Company" (Muscovy Company), specially established by the British in 1555 for trade with Russia, and prepared sea charts and possible navigation routes on her order.
Beginning in 1581, Dee performed regular magical rituals to summon angels in a crystal mirror.
It was made of polished obsidian (volcanic glass), brought by the Spaniards from distant Mexico. Apparently, it was a real relic, which the Aztecs once used for the same thing as John Dee - for divination. This version is supported, for example, by such a curious fact: the name of the all-seeing and all-knowing Tezcatlipoca - the god of volcanoes and obsidian volcanic glass - means "smoking mirror" in translation.
The properties of the obsidian Aztec mirror were so unusual that Elizabeth herself came to her teacher's home to get acquainted with this magical instrument. Apparently, the mirror was actually worth such attention. Records of that time have been preserved, telling that John Dee, who did not part with this mirror, observed in it the events that took place from him at great distances. For example, behind how the mob, incited by envious people, burned down his “witchy” house with a unique collection of old manuscripts, rarities and a camera for “mirror visions”.
But it just so happened that in 1842 the Walpole collection was sold under the hammer. During the sale, a magic crystal for twelve pounds (according to French sources - for 336 francs) was bought by a person who preferred to remain anonymous. Despite all the searches undertaken, neither this mysterious man nor the black mirror of John Dee could be found.
According to John Dee himself, from intelligent beings of inhuman nature - an elf girl named Madina and "angels" with the names Ave and Raphael - he also learned a mysterious language. This happened after one day the "angels" showed him some kind of table in the crystal with letters, numbers and symbols. It was a very strange alphabet, the records on which still arouse the keenest interest of researchers. After all, this most amazing invention of John Dee was, in fact, the first known artificial language in history (or perhaps the first known language extraterrestrial civilizations?). Dee himself called it Enochic - the language of Enoch, which "is spoken by the angels and the inhabitants of the Garden of Eden." Today's scientists consider it to be an absolutely complete system with its own alphabet and grammar, completely unlike any other human language.
Fragments of recordings made by John Dee in this mysterious language have come down to us. Researchers are amazed by what they contain mathematical knowledge, the level of which was much higher than that which existed at that time. Contacts with the "angels" continued for several years, and all this time John Dee received from them amazing knowledge for that time.
The most amazing thing is that this magical stone did not disappear, as is often the case with legendary relics. For four centuries it has passed through the hands of different people and is now kept in the British Museum. The administration does not allow unauthorized persons to use it or explore it.
From conversations with angels, Dee received confirmation of his own higher destiny for knowing the secrets of the world. So, on March 11, 1582, Archangel Uriel told him: "Go ahead: God has blessed you ... The whole world begins with your deeds ... Angels in my power will be at your disposal." A few days later (March 14, 1582), Archangel Michael showed Dee the magical Ring of power over the world (the sword of the archangel suddenly became fiery, and the Ring appeared from this flame). Michael declared that none of the people up to Dee had seen this Ring since the time of the Hebrew King Solomon, and that with the magical help of this ring, Dee could gain world power.
In addition to the ring of power, the angels gave Dee and the sacred Stone of Power (a magical crystal for contact with a higher power), "the most intimate part of the Roman heritage." With this Stone, as the angel Karmara told John Dee, he would surpass all the kings of the earth. This Stone was passed into Dee's hands by an angel appearing from the western (sunset) window of his room, which gave rise to the title of Gustav Meyrink's novel about Dee - "West Window Angel". We also note that in this story with the receipt of the sacred Stone, associations with the Holy Grail are quite obvious.
Dee's contact with the angels took place in the thoughts of his medium, and the medium perceived the angels' utterances in his mother tongue, in English. Also in these visions, the angels used Hebrew and Latin letters and phrases for Dee. But on March 26, 1583, the angels began to reveal their special language to Dee, passing on its letters. They specifically emphasized that no man had yet understood this language, except for Adam before his fall.
It is interesting that the "Angelic Speech" dictionary compiled by Laycock went through several editions and is widely used by researchers of Dee's legacy. The English scholar Stephen Skinner says that the study of this dialect has helped some of the researchers to draw a lot of useful information for understanding the English language of the Elizabethan era and its older varieties.
However, despite this phrase recorded in Dee's diary, his later commentators suggest that this language was the original world language of people, which disappeared after the destruction of the Tower of Babel described in the Bible and the appearance of various human languages. Dee also assumed that the biblical seer Enoch spoke to God in this language. Therefore, the language itself received the name Enochian or Angelic in historiography.
In total, the angels gave Dee nineteen spells in this language (about 250 words). Modern linguists who studied it noted that the lettering of the "angelic" language resembled the letters of the ancient Ethiopian language (now the sacred language of the Ethiopian church). As for vocabulary, small parallels with Sanskrit (ancient Indian) and ancient Egyptian languages stood out, i.e. one of the oldest known human languages. Separate words had much in common with Hebrew, Latin, and there were also Slavic roots. John Dee was also given to understand that the knowledge and use of this language gives man mystical power over the world.
Naturally, one can take different attitudes to Dee's testimony about his contacts with angels, about the special power over the world that they can bestow. You can believe this or not. From a historical point of view, in any case, it must be emphasized that against the backdrop of many magicians, astrologers, alchemists, occultists who tried to influence world politics, John Dee's proposals seem to be one of the most holistic and had a significant impact on the development of political thought in Europe. Therefore, his work deserves serious attention.
He died in 1608. John Dee hid his notes in a cedar chest with a double bottom, and for a long time they passed from hand to hand, undetectable by anyone. Only half a century later, a certain Mr. Jones accidentally discovered the secret. Some of the manuscripts burned after that, as the maid undertook to lay baking sheets with manuscripts for baking pies. But the other part fell into the hands of Ellios Ashlon, naturalist and mystic. He became interested in the find and began to collect Dee's diaries, scattered throughout the archives of Europe. In the seventeenth century, Dee's written legacy was published, and the whole world learned about the secrets that the double-bottomed chest kept.
But I want to convey my thoughts more from the point of view of science and then draw a parallel with esotericism, thereby showing that many practices in esotericism are based on scientific methods and knowledge of our ancestors.
The works of our Russian scientist - astrophysicist, Professor Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev turned out to be very interesting for me. There are a lot of articles on this topic, on the basis of which I describe my vision of this scientific theory and experiments related to it. The essence of Kozyrev's theory is that the main idea is the difference between cause and effect in time. Kozyrev argued that the flow of time is two funnels, one of which folds space - this is the cause, the next unfolds - this is a consequence, moreover, these two funnels are here and now at the same time, representing a constant process of convolution and development of the surrounding space. The distance from cause to effect is the course of time, which separates them from each other. Kozyrev said that: "The world in which the course of time is opposite to ours, subject to the action of the same forces, should be equivalent to our World reflected in the mirror." If we assume that the entrance to the funnel is a concave mirror, then, having placed ourselves in the focus of the concave mirror, we voice a question or want to see the consequences of this or that mistake, committed here and now, then our consciousness, penetrating through the passage or tunnel, will hear what will be the answer to our question or will see the development of events due to a perfect mistake. Continuing Kozyrev's theory, scientists in the 90s conducted experiments on curved and spiral mirrors made of a special aluminum alloy. Some of them contained a laser. What is the peculiarity of concave mirrors besides the fact that they reflect energy invisible to the eye and amplify it? When working with "Kozyrev's mirrors", very interesting events were recorded. Experimental volunteers, standing in the focus of a concave mirror, that is, in the focus of their personal reflected energy flows, suddenly experienced strange visions. Some received visions that refer to their past, others - to the invisible, due to separation by distance, the remote present, others - to the future. It should be noted that a device similar to Kozyrev's mirror existed more than 4 centuries ago, and they called it the egg of Nostradamus. Being in it, Nostradamus received information from the future and the past. According to legend, the secret of this device, constructed from plates of polished metal, was revealed to him by the Knights Templar. Today, throughout Russia and in the states bordering it, mirrors are used in divination, magic, and even healing. And the successful experiences of these traditions are confirmed by scientific evidence, which suggests that, for example, mirrors coated with warm-colored metal coatings, such as brass or bronze, absorb cold negative energy flows, transforming them, and reflect, enhancing warm, positive and healing energy flows. In practice, for treatment, such a mirror is placed in a sunny place, saturating it with the energy of life, and then the patient is allowed to look into it. As a result, a person receives, if not a recovery, then certainly an alleviation of the course of the disease. Black concave mirrors are used more often to enhance clairvoyance. The black surface of such a mirror does not allow a single photon to pass through, thereby reflecting and amplifying the energy flows of the person in focus by almost 100%. In the British Museum in London, there is an Obsidan Mirror belonging to John Dee, the famous astrologer, mathematician and astronomer who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries. According to this scientist, one day, an unearthly creature appeared before him, which left him an obsidan mirror, and told John Dee that with the help of this polished piece of rock, he would be able to see the future and communicate with beings of other dimensions. Today, alas, the employees of the British Museum do not allow inspecting and experimenting with John Dee's mirror. Information on the topic of talking with spirits, recorded by John Dee in his diary, now called Enochian magic, can be found on Wikipedia.
If you analyze the many reports of alien contact, it turns out that the aliens never demand their recognition from the general public. Most often, they generally avoid communication or limit the scope of contact to a very small circle of people (or even one person), and the choice sometimes seems random, and sometimes simply incomprehensible. But in the case, which will be discussed below, the choice was absolutely justified.
It's about the English John Dee(1527-1608). For his time, he was a man of exceptional erudition and a generalist in terms of the number of sciences in which he was engaged. It could be compared with M. V. Lomonosov and Leonardo da Vinci, but the direction of his activity was somewhat different.
John Dee (this is his real name, not an abbreviation, and in English it is written as Dee) is known both as a great mathematician and an outstanding philologist, had a wide knowledge of geography and navigation. According to his idea, the Greenwich meridian is accepted all over the world. He was a naturalist, a chemist (more precisely, an alchemist) and a mechanic (he built the first robots in Europe - mechanical animals).
He was engaged in optics and translations from ancient Greek and other languages. Later, he made a living as an astrologer, and, apparently, he treated each of these activities with the same seriousness and scrupulousness. Because of his vast knowledge and skills, he faced an unthinkable number of accusations, including espionage and witchcraft.
One day Dee found a manuscript of Trithemius called "Steganography" in one of the bookstores. For that time it was one of the most mysterious books on the practical issues of magic. The scientist studied it for a long time and even supplemented it by developing his own methods. And he achieved such results, which, it seems, he himself did not dream of.
As a result of intensive studies in steganography, John Dee - not in a dream, but in reality - a certain creature appeared, surrounded by radiance. Considering that only the 16th century was coming to an end, it was quite excusable for Dee to call him an angel, and in our time this creature would be called an alien in 90% of cases.
Another unusual exhibit is kept in the secret vaults of the British Museum: a very large and perfectly polished piece of coal that can be used as a mirror. The exhibit is not allowed to be studied and used, but in vain, because the analysis of its physical and chemical properties would allow us to find out what, at least, the origin of the stone - earthly or not.
Apparently, the stone was unusual. The scientist wrote that he was left by an angel who appeared to him, and said that, looking into this mirror, Dee would be able to see other worlds and communicate with the mind of non-human nature. John Dee actually communicated with these creatures and recorded his conversations, some of which were published as early as 1659 by Meric Casabon under the title "True and reliable evidence of what happened between Dr. John Dee and some spirits."
Some of the records are kept as a manuscript in the British Museum. Unfortunately, everything we have is only a small part of what the scientist wrote down. Most of his books were burned when Dee was accused of witchcraft.
Fragments of these books are written in a special language that has no analogues or "relatives" on Earth. To give an idea about it, here is a short passage - a spell with which you can become invisible: “Ol sonuf vaorsag goho iad bait, lonsh calz vonpho. Z-ol I ta nazps".
According to certain characteristic combinations of sounds, the language is associated either with Hebrew, or with Vietnamese, or with Basque, or even with Scandinavian. Apparently, Dee either developed the rules and vocabulary of this language himself (at a time when artificial languages were almost never thought of), or the same angel really “gave” it to the scientist.
John Dee called it the Enochian language, guided by the fact that Enoch, according to legend, was the mysterious beings from heaven. Dee identified these beings with the "angel" who appeared to him, and apparently not by accident.
The fact is that in both cases (both with Enoch and with John), mysterious creatures that came from somewhere above gave people valuable information. But this is just what we know indirectly, because in the surviving books about creatures it becomes known only that they have telepathy and the ability to move through time. The idea of time travel was new for that time. This once again suggests that Dee was not a charlatan.
The scientist immediately realized that the creatures with whom he maintained constant contact had a large stock of information, in particular in the natural sciences. They gradually communicated this information to John, and he wrote it down. And there are many interesting things in these records. Dee reported that, it turns out, Mercator's globes (for his time - the most advanced geographical instruments) give only a very approximate idea of the planet and the location of geographical objects on it.
Further, he writes that in fact the Earth is not a ball, but consists of many spheres superimposed on each other. These spheres are aligned along another dimension, and because of this, Greenland, for example, at some points extends into infinity. Hence John Dee's persistent advice to Queen Elizabeth that England should conquer this island.
Some propositions that are ahead of their time are also expressed by Dee in regard to mathematics. Recall that at that time only Euclidean geometry was known, and other theories that did not refute it and at the same time built on a different principle appeared more than three hundred years later. Some interesting information is also given on mechanics, psychoanalysis (that is, on a science that did not exist then) and other areas of knowledge.
We have given some examples illustrating the amount and quality of information suddenly revealed to John Dee. One could, of course, assume that he came to all this on his own, but it should be noted that he had neither the prerequisites nor the opportunities for this. One version remains: the knowledge was bestowed upon the scientist by supernatural beings. And if we do not believe in God, then it is quite logical to assume that these creatures were representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization.
What is strange is that since then no one except John Dee has been able to establish a connection with other worlds through the “mirror”, although an entire organization was created at the end of the 19th century to work with Dee’s books and his teachings – the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
This once again shows that in addition to our ardent desire to meet with representatives of another civilization, no matter how different from ours it may be, the ardent desire of the representatives of this civilization is also important.
Like Abbot Trithemius, John Dee really existed. He was born in 1527 and died in 1608. And his life was so amazing that novelists in their writings described it better than most biographers. These novelists were Jean Rey and Gustav Meyrink. John Dee was an outstanding mathematician and expert in classical philology; he put forward the idea of the prime meridian - this is the Greenwich meridian. He brought to England from Leuven two Mercator globes and navigation instruments. Thus, he was at the origins of the maritime expansion of England.
Thus, Dee gave rise to the accusation, which I do not share, that he was a pioneer of industrial espionage, since he brought to England for Queen Elizabeth many secrets of navigation and the secrets of making various things. Dee was undoubtedly the greatest naturalist and classical scholar at the same time, and marked the transition between two cultures that in the 16th century were perhaps not as divided as they are today.
John Dee was engaged, as we will see in a moment, in completely different things. Even at the time when he brilliantly studied at Cambridge, to his misfortune, he began to make robots; he released a mechanical scarab at a theatrical performance, sowing panic in the hall. Expelled from Cambridge for practicing witchcraft, he went to Leuven in 1547. There he met with Mercator. He became an astrologer and made a living by compiling horoscopes, then he was arrested for a magical attempt on the life of Queen Mary Tudor. Later, Elizabeth released him from prison and gave him some mysterious assignment on the continent.
It was often written about him that a clear passion for magic and witchcraft only served as a "cover" for his real occupation - espionage. I am far from convinced of this.
In 1563, in an Antwerp bookshop, Dee found a manuscript, probably incomplete, of Trithemius' Steganography. He added to it and seems to have developed his own method, almost as effective as Trithemius's.
Simultaneously with the publication of the first English translation Euclid, and with the study of the possibilities of using telescopes and binoculars in the English army, he continued research related to Steganography. What happened on May 25, 1581, exceeded all his expectations.
A superhuman, or at least inhuman being, appeared to him, surrounded by radiance. For simplicity, John Dee called this creature an angel. The angel left him a black mirror, which is still kept in the British Museum. This is a perfectly polished piece of coal. The angel told him that, looking into this crystal, he would see other worlds and be able to make contact with intelligent beings of a different, non-human nature. Amazingly modern idea! Dee recorded his conversations with these non-human beings, and part of them, entitled "A true and faithfull relation of what passed between Dr John Dee and some spirits", was published in 1659 by Meric Casabon. Another part of the recordings of the conversations remained unpublished, the manuscripts are kept in the British Museum.
Most of the records made by John Dee and the books he prepared were, as we shall see shortly, destroyed. However, enough fragments remain to reconstruct the language spoken by these beings, which Dee called the Enochic language.
This language was either the first known artificial language or the first known non-human language. In any case, it was a complete system with its own alphabet and its own grammar. Some of the texts in the Enochic language that have come down to us contain mathematical knowledge, the level of which far exceeds that which existed in the time of John Dee.
Enochic language formed the basis of the secret doctrine of the famous society late XIX century "Golden Dawn".
Dee soon saw that he was not able to remember with sufficient completeness the conversations he had with strange guests. No devices for mechanical recording of speech had yet been invented at that time. If John Dee had a phonograph or a tape recorder at his disposal, it could change his own fate and even - who knows? the fate of the whole world.
Unfortunately, John Dee came up with an idea that killed him. Although the idea itself was perfectly reasonable: to find a person who would look in a magic mirror and talk to unearthly creatures, while Dee would take notes in the meantime. Unfortunately for him, Barnabas Saul and Edward Talbot, both assistants Dee hired one by one, turned out to be inveterate scoundrels. The scientist managed to get rid of Saul, who seemed to be a paid spy for Dee's enemies, quite quickly, but Talbot, who changed his surname to Kelly, infiltrated his life seriously, so firmly that he seduced his wife, drove him all over Europe under that pretext who wanted to make an alchemist out of him, ruined him and finally broke his life completely. John Dee died ruined and defiled. King James I, who succeeded Elizabeth on the throne, refused to give him a pension, and Dee died in poverty. The only consolation is the thought that Talbot, aka Kelly, died in February 1595 in Prague while trying to escape from prison. He was so tall and fat that the rope he had woven, unable to bear his weight, burst, and he broke his arms and legs. A fitting end to one of the worst villains history has known!
Despite the patronage of Elizabeth, Dee and in last years life continued to be persecuted, his manuscripts, along with most of the archive, were stolen.
True, it must be admitted that John Dee fell into poverty partly through his own fault. Dee first told Queen Elizabeth that he was an alchemist, and then asked her for money. Elizabeth of England quite reasonably answered him that since he knew how to make gold, he was able to take care of himself. As a result, John Dee had to sell his huge library in order to somehow feed himself, and still he died, one might say, of hunger.
History has preserved mainly the incredible and picturesque episodes from his joint adventures with Kelly. There, in particular, for the first time there is an exchange of women, which has now become so common in the United States.
But this cheap episode obscures the real problem, the problem of the Enochian language, the problem of Dr. John Dee's books that were never published.
Jacques Sadoul, in Treasure of the Alchemists, does an excellent job of stating the alchemical side of Dr. Dee and Kelly's adventures, so I refer the reader to it.
Let's go back to the Enochic language and talk about what happened next. And first of all, let us dwell on the persecution that John Dee has been subjected to since he announced his intention to publish his conversations with angels. In 1597, in his absence, unknown people inflamed a mob that broke into his house. Four thousand rare books and five thousand manuscripts disappeared forever, many records burned down. The persecution continued later, despite the patronage of the English queen. Completely broken and dishonored (later Madame Blavatsky will be brought to the same state). John Dee died in Mortlake at the age of 81. Once again, for the umpteenth time, the Men in Black plot appears to have succeeded.
Author of an article on John Dee in the excellent English encyclopedia Man, Myth and Magic"("Man, Myth and Magic") quite rightly notes: "Documents about the life of John Dee exist in abundance, but in order to understand and interpret his biography, very little has been done."
But there is more than enough slander against John Dee. At the time of rampant superstition, they claimed that he was a black magician. In our rationalistic age, it is said that he was a spy, and magic and alchemy served as a front for his real activities. This point of view is shared, in particular, by the English Encyclopedia, which we quoted above.
Turning to the facts, we will first of all see in the highest degree a gifted person, capable of working twenty-two hours a day, fluent in speed reading, a first-class mathematician. In addition, he was a connoisseur of optics and its use for military purposes, he designed automata, understood chemistry.
At the same time, Dee, apparently, was a naive and gullible person. The story of Kelly clearly proves this. However, it is also possible that he made a very important discovery, perhaps the most significant discovery throughout the history of mankind. It seems to me quite probable that Dee, through telepathy, clairvoyance, or some other psychic act, came into contact with non-human beings. Considering the level of his contemporary thinking, it is only natural that he attributed these beings to angelic origins rather than thinking that they came from another planet or another dimension. But his interaction with them was enough to learn the inhuman language.
The idea of inventing a new language was not current at the time Dee lived and was foreign to his thinking. Wilkins would come up with the first artificial language much later. The system of the Enochian language is finished, and this language is not like any of the languages spoken by people.
Of course, it can be assumed that Dee pulled it from his own subconscious or from the collective unconscious, but this hypothesis looks no less fantastic than communication with beings of extraterrestrial origin. Unfortunately, since Kelly appeared at his side, the conversations have become clearly fake. Kelly made them up from start to finish and got the angels or spirits to say whatever he wanted. And Kelly was neither particularly intelligent nor imaginative. A conversation has been preserved during which he asked one of the "spirits" to lend him a hundred pounds sterling for two weeks.
However, even before meeting Kelly, Dee released a strange book: The Hieroglyphic Monad. He worked on it for seven years, but after reading Steganography he completed the book in twelve days. Statesman of his time, Sir William Cecil, then declared that "the secrets contained in the Hieroglyphic Monad have greatest value for state security.
Of course, they tried to connect these secrets with cryptography, and such a connection probably existed. But it seems to me that the desire to necessarily reduce all the activities of John Dee to espionage leads too far. After all, alchemists and magicians widely used cryptography, and in more sophisticated forms than spies did. I tend to take John Dee's words literally and think that through self-hypnosis, done with a mirror or through other manipulations, he was able to overcome the barrier between planets or dimensions.
Unfortunately, Dee, by his own admission, was deprived of any kind of paranormal abilities. He unsuccessfully hired "mediums", and it ended in disaster.
However, this catastrophe was provoked, used and intensified by the Higher Ones, who did not want everything that he stated in the “Hieroglyphic Monad” in encrypted form to be said in plain text. The persecution of John Dee did not stop until his death. He continued to be persecuted on the continent: the Polish king and emperor Rudolf II were turned against Dee by messages "from the spirits", and on May 6, 1586, the papal nuncio handed Emperor Rudolf a document in which John Dee was accused of practicing necromancy.
He returned to England completely broken, refused further publications, and died in the office of Principal of Christ's College, Manchester, a position which he held from 1595 to 1605, and which does not appear to have brought him satisfaction.
However, there remains one still unanswered question related to this position. Around the same time, the Russian Tsar invited John Dee to come to Moscow as a scientific adviser. He was offered a salary of two thousand pounds sterling a year (a very large amount, equal, approximately as today, to two hundred thousand pounds), a luxurious house and a position that would make him, as the royal letter says, "one of the most significant people Russia". However, John Dee refused. Maybe it was against Elizabeth of England? Maybe he was threatened?
Information about this episode is too vague. However, numerous gossips depicting how Dee, being completely subordinate to Kelly, traveled all over the continent and robbed the rich and noble people, after this refusal they lose all credibility. Perhaps Dee was afraid that the Russian tsar would force him to apply the secrets he had discovered and thereby ensure Russia's dominance over the whole world?
Be that as it may, Dee appears to us as a person to whom beings of non-human nature appeared, a person who learned their language and established a constant connection with them.
The case is completely unique, especially when you consider that we are talking about a person with such a powerful intellect as John Dee.
Unfortunately, from the information that Dee left, nothing can be concluded either about the habitat of these creatures, or about their physical nature.
He simply said that they were telepaths and could move into the past and the future. As far as I know, the idea of time travel appears here for the first time.
John Dee hoped to extract from the angels the totality of natural laws, everything that concerns the future development of the mathematical sciences. The point is not necromancy, or even spiritualism. Dee stood in the position of a scientist who wants to penetrate secrets, but only secrets that have under them scientific basis. By the way, he himself constantly calls himself a mathematical philosopher.
Most of Dee's notes went missing in the fire at his house, others were destroyed in different time different people. Several fragments have come down to us, contained in the "Genuine story of Casabon" and some other surviving notes. From them you can draw extremely interesting information. Dee, in particular, argues that the Mercator projection is only a first rough approximation. In his opinion, the Earth is actually not quite round, it consists of many spheres superimposed one on top of the other, lined up along another dimension.
Between these spheres there are points, or rather surfaces of contact, and thus Greenland in other worlds extends to infinity. That is why John Dee submits numerous petitions to Queen Elizabeth, in which he convinces her that England should take possession of Greenland in order to get the door to other worlds at its disposal.
Another statement: the mathematical sciences are in the initial phase of their development, and one can go much further than Euclid, whom Dee, we recall, was the first to translate into English language. Dee was absolutely right in stating this, his point of view was confirmed by non-Euclidean geometries that appeared later.
John Dee also says that you can create machines that will do all the work for a person. And this, he adds, had already been done elsewhere in 1585. Curious to know what this place is?
In addition, he emphasizes the importance of numbers and writes about the difficulties of higher mathematics. And again, for the umpteenth time, it turns out to be right. Number theory is considered the most difficult area of mathematics, much more difficult than algebra or geometry.
It is very important, notes John Dee, to study dreams. They open to us both our inner world and outer worlds. These completely Jungian views are also well ahead of his time. It is necessary, he believes, to hide from the bulk of the people secrets that can be extremely dangerous. Again, a very modern idea! As modern as the other one constantly present in Dee's personal diary: the knowledge of nature provides unlimited and completely natural possibilities, but a lot of money needs to be invested in research.
To get money, he sought the patronage of the greats of this world and tried to make gold. He did not succeed in either. But if only he found a philanthropist, the whole picture of the world would be different!
Was among all the people Dee met William Shakespeare? I would like to believe so. Many Shakespeare scholars agree that John Dee served as the prototype for Prospero in The Tempest. But, as far as I know, among the anti-Shakespeareans there has not yet been found such a madman who would imagine that Shakespeare's works were written by John Dee. Although Dee seems to me a much more suitable candidate for Shakespeare than Francis Bacon.
By the way, I cannot deny myself the pleasure of presenting here the version of the English humorist A. A. Milne. In his opinion, Shakespeare not only wrote all the works of Shakespeare himself, but also composed the New Organon for Francis Bacon, since he was completely illiterate! This version of the Baconians just pissed me off! After all, they claimed that the works of Shakespeare were written by Bacon.
Let's bury another legend at the same time: John Dee never translated the Necronomicon, the cursed book of Abdul al-Azred, for the simple reason that this work did not exist. But, as Lin Carter more than rightly points out, if the Necronomicon existed, John Dee would clearly be the only person capable of obtaining this book and translating it!
Unfortunately, the "Necronomicon" from beginning to end was invented by Lovecraft, who personally confirmed this to me by letter. It's a pity.
The black stone from another world, having passed through the hands first of Count de Peterborough, and then of Horace Walpole, is now in the British Museum, whose administration does not allow it to be used or examined. It's very embarrassing. If the analysis of the Dee stone were to result in a different isotope ratio than that of terrestrial coal, this in itself would prove its extraterrestrial origin and would greatly puzzle everyone.
You can find John Dee's "Hieroglyphic Monad" or get a photocopy of it. But without keys to various ciphers, without other manuscripts of John Dee burned in Mortlake or destroyed by order of King James I, there will be little use. However, the story of John Dee did not end there, and I need two more chapters to tell what happened next.
Treasures and relics of lost civilizations Alexander Voronin
Black mirror soothsayer and magician John Dee
John Dee (1527-1608) was not only a famous mathematician, astronomer and naturalist, but also an outstanding specialist in occult philosophy and magic, which allowed him to penetrate into many secrets of the Earth and Cosmos. In the last years of his earthly life, John Dee was fond of crystalmancy - divination, contemplation of the future and communication with otherworldly entities using crystals and mirrors. The court astrologer of the English Queen Elizabeth I had a whole set of magic crystals and the famous black stone - a piece of anthracite or another black mineral, one cut of which was polished to a mirror finish. According to some reports, Dee had a piece of obsidian (black volcanic glass) that shone like a mirror.
On May 25, 1581, an incredible event happened in the life of John Dee. A supernatural being of inhuman breed appeared to him, surrounded by a bright radiance. Dee called this mysterious creature an angel. The angel handed the magician a piece of some black material that shone like a mirror crystal. The angel informed Dee that by looking into this mirror, he would be able to see other worlds and make contact with non-human sentient beings.
Beginning in 1581, Dee performed regular magical rituals to summon angels in a crystal stone. To do this, he used the services of mediums - the most famous of all was a certain Edward Kelly. The magician carefully recorded the results of these sessions in his diary. Part of these notes, titled "A true and faithfull relation of what passed between Dr. John Dee and some spirits" was published in 1659 by Meric Casabon. Another part of the recordings of the conversations remained unpublished, the manuscripts are kept in the British Museum. Most of the archive and valuable library of John Dee was destroyed by fanatically minded or deliberately incited people, in whom modern researchers see "men in black."
On March 11, 1582, the archangel Uriel appeared to John Dee, who said literally the following: “Go ahead. God bless you. The whole world begins with your deeds. Angels in my power will be at your disposal."
A few days later, Archangel Michael showed Dee a magical ring of power over the world. The archangel's sword suddenly became fiery, and a ring appeared from that flame. Archangel Michael said that from the time of King Solomon to John Dee, no one had seen this ring and that with its magical help, Dee could gain worldwide power. In addition to the ring, the angels gave Dee and the sacred black stone of power. It was a magical crystal for contacts with higher realms and higher beings, "the most intimate part of the Roman heritage." The stone was handed over to the magician by an angel who appeared in the west window of his room (hence the title of Gustav Meyrink's famous novel The Angel of the West Window). The angel Karmara said that with this stone, Dee would surpass all the kings and rulers of the world.
Another angel named Naphraj taught Dee and Kelly several lessons in antediluvian geography. Nafrazh was very contemptuous of Mercator's maps and showed the occultists several mysterious maps that did not correspond in any way to the geographical ideas of a person of the 16th century. From the notes that have been preserved, it can be argued that the Mercator projection is only the first rough approximation to that real geography, which people do not yet know about. According to John Dee, the Earth is actually not quite round, it consists of many spheres superimposed one on top of the other, lined up along another dimension. Between these spheres there are points, or rather surfaces, of contact, and thus Greenland in other worlds extends to infinity. That is why John Dee submits numerous petitions to Queen Elizabeth, in which he convinces her that England must take possession of Greenland in order to get at its disposal the door to other worlds.
John Dee managed to draw six of these cards. America in those drawings was called Atlantis. Greenland was only a cape of the huge continent Phalangoy, which extended even further to the north and northwest. The angel showed them a more accurate coastline of the large southern continent - later found Antarctica, which was called Tol-Pam, which translates as "the continent of death" or "the peninsula of the continent of death."
Angels or information entities communicated in the so-called angelic language or the language of Enoch. John Dee was shown a table with an alphabet of 21 letters. Modern linguists believe that it was the original single proto-language that disappeared after the destruction of the Tower of Babel. In their opinion, the angelic alphabet includes letters from the ancient Ethiopian, ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek, Slavic languages and, possibly, Sanskrit. The Australian scholar Donald Laycock even compiled an Enochic dictionary, which was reprinted several times. The Enochic language formed the basis of the secret doctrine of the famous society of the late 19th century. Golden Dawn.
After the death of John Dee, his rich occult library and magical objects were sold to private collections. The famous black stone ended up in Horace Walpole's Cabinet of Curiosities. Elias Ashmole, author of The Chemical Theatre, described this relic as follows: “With the help of this magic stone, you can see any face you want, in whatever part of the world it may be, even if it were hidden in the most remote chambers or caves that fit in the depths of the earth." According to rumors, Walpole did not touch this outlandish stone and did not allow others to do so, fearing a terrible magical power that could destroy the ignorant and the uninitiated. In 1842 the Walpole collection was put up for auction and sold to private individuals. The black stone was acquired by a man who preferred to remain incognito. Until now, the location of the famous John Dee crystal remains unknown. Who this mysterious stranger was has not yet been established. At least the famous occultist and magician Dietrich Eckart, who had a significant influence on Hitler, owned a black meteorite stone, which he called his Kaaba. He died with this stone in his hand. But whether it is possible to identify the stone of John Dee and a piece of the Eckart meteorite is unknown. One of John Dee's magic crystals is now in the British Museum, but the administration does not allow unauthorized persons to use it or examine it.
In fact, it is now difficult to judge what the famous black mirror looked like. Most likely, it is necessary to distinguish this blackest mirror from a magic crystal - a crystal ball, which is now in the British Museum. From several sources it is known that the mirror had an expensive gold frame and was placed on a special "sacred" table, allegedly made at the request and recommendations of the Archangel Gabriel himself.
Mirrors are the entrance to a certain a parallel world, their reflectivity is a powerful means of magic, predominantly black. With the help of mirrors, you can cast spells, make the necessary prediction.
A well-known researcher, candidate of technical sciences, head of the information and analytical center "Unknown" Vitaly Pravdivtsev, at the recent Siegel Readings in Moscow, made a report "Fine ecological and informational interactions of a person with mirrors", in which an attempt was made to explain all mirror phenomena from a scientific point of view. Pravdivtsev believes that the surface of the mirror due to certain physical properties It is capable of reflecting all kinds of radiation, primarily coming from the person himself. Using a mirror, you can facilitate the transition to an altered state of consciousness. Hypnotists usually put patients into a trance by instructing them to stare motionless into a mirror or at a shiny object.
With prolonged and in-depth contemplation of the surface of the mirror, mental images stored in our minds may appear in it. Sometimes it is even possible to photograph thoughts and hallucinations (the famous experiments of Yu. Eikzenbud, T. Fukarai, G. Krokhalev). Pravdivtsev claims that mental images are emitted through the eyes and, possibly, the pineal gland. If at the same time we stand in front of the mirror, polarized light greatly enhances the radiation of your brain, and therefore we literally see our thoughts, or rather, their energy projection in the mirror.
Mirrors catch not only our radiations, but also images from the information field of the planet. Therefore, they sometimes reflect events that we could not know about. V. Pravdivtsev is convinced that the unique properties of mirror reflection must be found practical use in biology, medicine and other sciences.
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