Glimpses of the Left..

Kelly's of a is rooted in his interest in
demons, necromancy, and other occult arts of the He was
with to manufacture gold. An
century engraving from Ebenezer Sibly's A Nw and Complete Illustration
the Occult Sciences Kelly in a of a of a
deceased person. Kelly is in a circle with a companion
(probably Paul Waring), holding wand and a book of in his hands,
with the The scene is at
at night.47 This is the reflection of the rumours about Kelley'S
necromantic pursuits and his inclination to black
The most famous, however, was Kelly's cooperation with John Dee. Dee
and Kelly met in 1582. Before these years, Dee many
eXpeJriITleI1lts, always working with someone else:
"From the records that do survive, we can describe Dee's as follows. '
Dee worked with a Seer, who would look into Dee's " i.e. a
or an Obsidian mirror". Dee would usually each session
The Seer would then look into the Shewstone and describe the )
visions he All the while Dee recorded what the Seer said, and would 1
often address questions to the entity which was supposedly within the crystal. The i
first recorded skrying session, in 1581, began with Dee praying that an angel called I
Anael would appear to Saul in the Dee writes the record of the 1
session as if he converses with Anae!, but we should assume that Saul acted :
in the
him in March 1582 and from that time he was his
assistant throughout sessions and that led to the
foundation of the Enochian system. Dee's reputation in his own day was
not either. He was and at the court,
but at the same time there were rumours that he was a sorcerer, often
a "conjuror." His with Kelly, always considered a black
initiated a great deal of further rumours. Their work was based
on shared duties: Dee acted as an orator reciting prayers in order to evoke
spirits were to manifest in a stone prepared for occasion.
Kelly was the medium: he watched the stone and reported everything he
saw or heard . Dee wrote everything was said.
Waite A.E. The Book