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Chapter 5 : Angels of the Apocalypse
1 The Enochian Effect
Between the years 1582 and 1589 the English scholar John Dee
(1527-1608) conducted a series of ritual communications with a set of
disincarnate entities who eventually came to be known as the
Enochian angels. It was Dee’s plan to use the complex system of
magic communicated by the angels to advance the expansionist
policies of his sovereign, Queen Elizabeth I. At the time England lay
under the looming shadow of invasion from Spain. Dee hoped to
control the hostile potentates of Europe by commanding the tutelary
spirits of their various nations. 39
It is not surprising that the man behind the Enochian workings, John
Dee was remarkable for his time, though in modern terms his
credulity would seem untoward. It does, however, give us pause to
consider how much the supposed rationality of the present day is
merely a veneer over the primitive worldview we have inherited from
our ancestors. Nevertheless, it is interesting to observe that Dee’s goals
were not, as it were, spiritual rapport with the angels he sought to
contact, but were of a much more mundane – on a grand scale
certainly – purpose.
Dee … was aided by an equally extraordinary person, Edward Kelley
(also spelled "Kelly"; 1555-1597), (who was interested in unlocking)
the secret of the red powder 40 so that he could manufacture more of it
himself. It was on this quest for alchemical knowledge that he sought
out the library of John Dee in 1582, and it was primarily for this
reason that he agreed to serve as Dee’s seer. 41
So we see that Kelley, in his way, was as practical and driven as Dee.
As previously noted, Kelley was reputed to have had his ears cut off,
39 The Enochian Apocalypse by Donald Tyson in Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to
Magick and the Occult, Richard Metzger, Disinfo 2005
40 In alchemy, a substance used to complete the transmutation of lead into gold.
41 Tyson, ibid.
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