Man, thanks for the article!
A lot of us here who have any interest in the history of Western occultism probably have some awareness of
John Dee, but i for one did not know anything of his son's role as an alchemist. John Dee's life story is insane for it's twists and turns, and tragic for the losses he encountered from his experiments. I recently read
Jason Louve's occult-leaning biography of him, John Dee & the Empire of Angels, which deals also in part with his role in the creation of the British Empire while in Queen Elizabeth's court and the whole
immanentizing the eschaton thing, a game that some Western leaders have more or less openly engaged in since...:?:
But like the article points out:
His father, John, “put a lot of pressure on Arthur as his firstborn son. He named him after King Arthur. He was going to be his father’s legacy,” says Piorko. Dee “found himself to be in his dad’s shadow a lot” and was constantly trying to prove himself. Discovering the recipe to the Philosopher’s Stone was one moment when he stepped out of the elder Dee’s shadow, at least momentarily.
So yeah, apparently
Arthur Dee found the Philosopher's Stone, something I don't think his father ever succeeded in doing, and recorded his secret in this cipher, which the article's subject(s) de-ciphered. Cool...:thumb_up: I wish the article had some images of the pages in question, I tried looking it up (Sloane 1902) but no images online.
But where is the formula for the elixir?
I guess you have to buy their book to get the formula to everlasting wealth and life...
(certain divinitory methods) are all so close together in HOW they work and WHAT they mean, that there is mutual inspiration as one possibility or universal inspiration from the great secret as the other.
Ideas cross-pollinate as they travel with people across spaces, yes. Tarot is a great example of seeding an idea with many others from different times and places creating a whole set of dialects within a cultural language. But divination emerges in the first place from something innate within us as humans; if all cultures were islands, all would have some form of it in use at some time, I think. I imagine they were using divination at Altamira 40,000 years ago, it is something people do, informed by a deep need to see the unseen and illumined by the light that shines through the mystery from the eternal source. Perhaps the
secret is conscious and the inspiration arises separately but universally in conscious
ness as a way (for the secret/consciousness) to know itself across vast experiences?
Not so much Enochian Chess, but I have played with cards or runes or sticks for most of my life, since very young. I use my tarot cards regularly, and typically incorporate them into any other visionary or ritual action I may be doing as a way to open my receptivity. I think the various methods are great tools that can be translated and used on many levels, from visionary to decision-making, esoteric to psychological, and so,... yeah. All this is again kinda off topic for the OP;
poor Arthur, he just can't ever get out from under that titanic shadow of his enigmatic creator of an occult language of a Dad.
