Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

apocalypse, an event initiated by God and presumably beyond Dee’s
control. 51
This is certainly plausible. Dee after all was a Christian, no matter how
heterodox his ideas may seem (and how much more so they would
have in his day, which was a time when which trials, religious wars
and the burning alive of heretics was, if not an everyday occurrence,
certainly a reality) and he would have been comfortable with the
apocalyptic imagery that the Calls, as translated into English, were
simply saturated with. Now, however, Tyson leaves the road for wilder
environs and we shall follow as best we can.
The description of the Apocalyptic idea as it would have been held by
a man of Dee’s time and education is preceded by the following
exclamation: What (Dee) failed to understand is that the date of the
initiation of the apocalypse is (in the intention of the angels) the same
date as the successful completion of the full ritual working of the 48
Keys. This date is not predetermined, but will be determined by the
free will and actions of a single human being who in the Revelation of
St. John is called the Antichrist 52
51 Tyson, ibid. The idea that the Angels may have been “deceitful” shall come up again when
we attempt to decipher Jack Parsons’ Babalon Working.
52 Tyson, ibid.
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