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It's one thing to talk to angels, another thing to get answers.

Can somebody explain why it is interesting that Dee had a polished piece of Mexican obsidian, probably plundered from some Spanish galleon some privateer raided? I guess it is interesting that modern lab analysis can identify the mine a piece came from, but it is not as if Dee ever actually got any inforation out of it. Do we even have any idea which privateer, or which galleon?




The obvious connection would probably be Drake. The reason that is interesting is that the Aztecs preserved a lot of history, like the Mayan Calendar. It would mean then that Dee was trying to invoke something tied into that Epoch of history, which is Enoch--hence his developed system of Enochian.


- “I can call spirits from the vasty deep.” - “Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?”

Henry IV Part 1

We might wonder if Shakespeare was needling John Dee, here.




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