The War of the Angels E-Book

Jesús Ariel Aguirre

• Herausgeber: Editorial Autores de Argentina
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1513

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

A mysterious object has been stolen from the British Museum. A group of religious fanatics intends to use it to give life to an evil creature, using an old lost language, that of angels. Adams, a young priest, together with the old chaplain Martin, will seek the help of Professor Thomas Dee, who knows Enochian, a language created by his great-great-grandfather John Dee. In search of a forbidden book, they will begin this adventure that will take them through Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Russia, Turkey, Mexico and Antarctica itself. Following in the footsteps of Lovecraft and his Myths, they will seek the answer in the Necronomicon and other Grimoires that will teach them to close the evil portal. They will come across characters like Nostradamus, Rasputin, Alice Crowley, Van Gogh and Merlin. They will also delve into the mysteries of Kabbalah and Alchemy. They will analyze the Crusades, the Holy Inquisition, the Cathars and the Essenes. Only the Angels will be able to help them with their difficult mission that will take them through great libraries and unveil the mystery of the great Cathedrals.

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JESÚS ARIEL AGUIRRE

The War of the Angels

Aguirre, Jesús ArielThe War of the Angels / Jesús Ariel Aguirre. - 1a ed. - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires : Autores de Argentina, 2023.

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Table of contents

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 - JOHN DEE

CHAPTER 2 - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FRANCE

Stargate project

Opening the Portal to the Abyss

nyarlathotep ( The Dweller in Darkness)

Invocation of the Four Gates from the world of the Spheres

History of saint bartholomew

Desecration of the tombs of the Saint–Denis basilica

Necronomicon

CHAPTER 3 - The Escorial

The Escorial

The Escorial Monastery and its long history

The library of El Escorial

Dewey Decimal Classification System

The pantheon of El Escorial

Rudolf II

Maximilian II

CHAPTER 4 - ENOCHIAN MAGIC

Sigillum Dei Aemeth .

Holy Tabula

Liber Scientia Auxilii et Victoria Terrestris .

Bonorum Angelorym Heptarchicorum

Badges of Creation

The Four Elemental Tables

Keys Angelicae

The Aethyrs

The Terrestrial Plan and the Watchtowers

CHAPTER 5 - Enochian Keys

The Seals of the Tablets

The Elementary Tables

First Enochian Key

Second Enochian Key

Third Enochian Key

Fourth Enochian Key

Fifth Enochian Key

Sixth Enochian Key

Seventh Enochian Key

Eighth Enochian Key

Ninth Enochian Key

Tenth Enochian Key

Eleventh Enochian Key

Twelfth Enochian Key

Thirteenth Enochian Key

Fourteenth Enochian Key

Fifteenth Enochian Key

Sixteenth Enochian Key

Seventeenth Enochian Key

Eighteenth Enochian Key

Nineteenth Enochian Key

CHAPTER 6 - The Aztec Mirror

The pyramid of the sun

Main monuments of Teotihuacán

The entrance to the underworld

Underground chamber in Teotihuacán.

Where was the Mirror of Tezcatlipoca?

Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City

Aztec calendar

Aztec gods

The Aztecs and the myth of the 13 skies

The Mystery of Pakal (the palenque astronaut)

CHAPTER 7 - SPECULARUM

Aleister Crowley

The cabal

Book of zohar

Vision and voice

THE 30 AETHYR

The Life of Alister Crowley

Marline

CHAPTER 8 - THE SECRET OF THE ANGELS

Los Angeles Ranking

The Archangels

The Angels

The fallen angels

British museum

Henoc

Qumran

The book of enoch

The Observers

The sons of God and the daughters of men

Epic of Gilgamesh (the giant)

The true identity of the Anunnaki

The seven beings Abgal or Apkallu

Sumerian King List

Kiskanu (The Tree of Life)

Pantheon of Sumerian Gods

Demon Classification

Demonic Hierarchies

List of fallen angels

The Clavicles of Salomonun

The 72 demons

The Names of God

The 72 Geniuses of the Kabbalah

The 7 Heavens in the Scriptures

The spheres of heaven

CHAPTER 9 - FALLEN ANGELS IN ANTARCTICA

The Great Old Ones

The Deep Ones

Outer Gods

Archetypal Gods

Minor races

Leng Plateau

Kadath Land of Dreams

Myth Connections

Necronomicon

CHAPTER 10 - ANCIENT GRIMOIRES, THE AUTHENTIC BOOKS OF MAGIC

Book of Saint Cyprian

Honorius book

Grimoirium imperium

Solomon’s clavicle

Great grimoire

The sixth and seventh books of Moses

The fourth book of occult philosophy

Book of the shades

Corpus Hermeticum, Attributed to Hermes Trimegiste

Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of the Witches)

Voynich manuscript

The Book of Soya

Necronomicon, the “cursed book”

CHAPTER 11 - LEON SPAIN AND THE NECRONOMICON

Leon Cathedral

Spanish version of the Necronomicon

‘Call of Cthulhu’

HP Lovecraft

The gods of myths

CHAPTER 12 - THE AGE OF CATHEDRALS

Urban temple

What mysteries do gothic cathedrals contain?

Golden age of pilgrimages (11th, 12th, 13th century)

Devil’s Towers

Circles of Dante’s Underworld

Book of nod

Tower of Babel, Nimrod

Location of the Seven Devil’s Towers

Great cathedrals

Great Cathedrals in France

CHAPTER 13 - PRAGUE

The Church of Our Lady before Tyn

The Astronomical Clock and its curse

Rudolf II and alchemy: his education in Spain with Felipe II

Prague Castle, nest of alchemists

Edward Kelley, Rudolf II’s favorite alchemist

Other alchemists at the service of Rudolf II

The House of Faust: alchemy and enigmatic characters

The Clementinum, more than a library

TAROT – The Book of Thoth

Major Arcana

CHAPTER 14 - RASPUTIN AND THE TSARS

Saint Basil’s Cathedral

Rasputin

Rasputin’s prophecies

Saint Petersburd

Tsars and Emperors of Russia.

Hermitage palace

CHAPTER 15 - THE CRUSADES, THE END OF THE TEMPLARS AND THE CATHARS

Origin of the Crusades

Templar and hospitalarians in the peninsular reconquest

The warrior monks of Jerusalem

The qualities of the Templar

The Templar Crusade

The origin of the “Vera Cruz”

Sator the great enigma

The fall of the Templars

Baphomet

The Cathars and Templars

The “cathar country”

The crusade against heresy

The last Qatar

The treasure of the cathars

In search of the grail

Maria Magdalena

MErovingian dynasty

CHAPTER 16 - AVIGNON

The largest gothic palace

Nostradamus

The true centuries and prophecies

Van Gogh

The starry Night

CHAPTER 17 - IN SEARCH OF THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM

Belgium

Cologne (Koln)

The perfect cathedral

The Holy Inquisition

Index

Coven

Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri

The pact

The curse

Possession

CHAPTER 18 - METEORA MONATERIES AND THE BASILICA OF SAINT SOPHIA

History of the Meteora Monasteries

The Basilica of Santa Sofia (Santa Sapienza)

The coexistence of Christians and Muslims

CHAPTER 19 - IN SEARCH OF LOS ANGELES

Colonna Palace: Story of a family, of Rome and of Europe

The battistero di san giovanni in florence and its impressive mosaics

CHAPTER 20 - TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY, AND ABBEY SAINT MICHELL

The book of kells

Trinity College Library

Mont–Saint–Michel

Prayer of invocation to Saint Michael the Archangel

REFERENCES

Dedicated to

My godchildren Sebastian and Milo Tomas, also my nephews Ulises, Isabela, Lourdes, Alexis, Maycol, Viviana, Milena, Leonardo and Benjamin, my true angels.

Foreword

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell”

(Angels are bright still, though the brightest have fallen)

William Shakespeare

Introduction

The British Museum is a freezing place in winter, on a cold London night three people enter the museum, the Enlightenment Gallery and steal a piece worthless to some but with a lot of history, an obsidian mirror.

Very close to there, in an abandoned church, the Holy Trinity Church of Marylebone, located in Westminster, whose stained glass windows of the Holy Trinity seem to watch over the dying stay of a creature. A strange sculpture by the artist Paul Fryer, a mixture between beauty and the grotesque, trapped between steel cables, is the figure of a fallen angel (Lucifer), stripped of its beauty and luminosity, taken from heaven itself, from the realms of the world. divine king. His truly emaciated face and slender body is the way the artist decided to make this macabre sculpture made of wax, the wings are the last vestige of its origin, they are real feathers. Defeated and expelled from heaven and condemned to spend eternity in the dark reaches of hell.

In that abandoned place, the Church of the Holy Trinity, three people untie and cut the cables that support the sculpture, supported by three light poles arranged in a triangular position, there are three, the symbolism of the Father, the son and the Spirit Holy, these three hold the ropes that hold the morning star prisoner. The dome represents heaven itself and in each stained glass window a saint that gives the impression that they are looking at the fallen Angel, the cables prevented the figure from falling, this evokes an eternal fall in which it is. As best they can, they wrap the stolen sculpture in a canvas and get lost in the night.

CHAPTER 1

JOHN DEE

“Whoever does not understand them, study or remain silent”

JOHN DEE

The snow reflects the bright sunlight on the streets of London’s harsh winter, the police have been perplexed, they do not understand why such a macabre sculpture has been stolen: who would want it? In what sense?

The Investigators, the Scotland Yard policemen and two religious, enter the Holy Trinity. They are photographing the place and comparing with photos from before the robbery, they try to reconstruct what has happened, while they look at the images they go on to carefully analyze the figure, in the center of the composition of Paul Fryer, the haggard, consumed face was observed, with very marked features and skull bones. It is a tense and relaxed figure at the same time, with an intense look, but turned off with his large eyes but full of evil and hatred, they are yellow that stand out with the blackness of his eyelids, they also reflect pain. From his body, two enormous feathered wings emerge from his back in a flight position, recalling his divine origin but in eternal agony, in an endless fall. Specialists know the artist who wanted to capture the deepest and darkest feelings of the sculpted creature.

Known as the Lucifer of Morningtar, it is the best–known work of this artist born in 1963, who stands out for his hyper–realistic mixtures of Mythology, religious iconography, Literature and Science, where we find the classic dualities of Christianity such as Heaven and Hell, Earth and Purgatory (Dante Alighieri). His compositions capture multiple feelings and elements that remind us of the dream world, death, suffering and vital anguish.

On the floor of the old Church where the sculpture hung, the specialists managed to see a drawing painted with a red color like blood, it is an indecipherable glyph, a mixture of Chinese characters and hieroglyphics, no language known to them. But an old priest named Martin, who was in the place says:

—That, is the language of angels!

—Of the Angels? they wonder.

—Yeah! he answers.

—“Enochian Language.”

Everyone gapes at each other, perplexed.

Frederick, the Scotland Yard investigator and surveyor, smiles and says:

—As if that language existed.

They quickly upload the glyphs onto a tablet and while they fail to find an answer, they do discover that it is written in the Enochian language.

—You were right!, says Frederick looking at Martin embarrassed.

He answers:

—This is an ancient language that was created by a royal astrologer at the court of Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th century.

—John Dee, managed to dare from a mirror, says Adams, the young priest who took care of the old Martin who said it was Enochian language, managed to communicate with entities that he believed were angels and they gave him a language, that of angels.

But what meaning do these characters have in that old Church? where the Lucifer Morningstar hung suspended.

A specialist approaches Frederick, and whispers in his ear: surely it is related to the item stolen days ago from the British Museum, the black obsidian stone mirror.

—Clear! there is the answer.

—That is the mirror that John Dee used to communicate with the angels, says Frederick Dauhausentz, a security expert, and a career soldier in the British Army.

As they return to the Scotland Yard Corps headquarters on Victoria Embankment, an annex building to the Palace of Westminster.

Adams says that there is an expert in hieroglyphs and ancient languages, and he is the descendant of the great John Dee. This is the archaeologist and Egyptologist Thomas Dee. He surely as a relative of Dee, the royal astrologer, has the answers we need, so they go looking for him at the University of Oxford where he is a professor.

“Funeral masks have been used through the centuries to protect the face of the deceased since the ka must be able to recognize his face in order to bring him to life, according to the beliefs of various cultures and religions. The mask could be made of gold, wax, plaster, clay, leather... and the most varied techniques have served to obtain the mold of the honorable deceased. His face stayed with us. The face of the deceased was smeared with oils and the plaster was placed on it to take the mold that would later be used to portray it cold. Museums around the world display funeral massacres.”

Pointing on the board that projected a grid photo of various masks. Thomas continues: “from China, Indonesia, Greece, Iraq, Iran, Mexico, Colombia or Peru are known, for example in Mexico that of Pakal the Mayan ruler who with a green hue that stood out from the jade, in Macedonia the golden mask of the king Agamemnon, the list would be endless, that of Julius Caesar, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte or Ludwig van Beethoven himself, but without a doubt the best known was that of the child king Tutankhamun”.

This is how Thomas Dee lectured in front of a crowd of perplexed students who listened to them.

Adams interrupts Thomas Dee as he is leaving his class and informs him that the mirror his distant relative used to create the Enochian language has been stolen.

Thomas smiles a little, his eyes with a different and disturbed look do not think the same, he knows that he will have to embark on another adventure.

—“Yes!”, he says convinced.

The Enochian comes from the private journals of my great–great–grandfather, who in addition to being a mathematician and astronomer was a personal geographer and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England. We owe it to him to have invented and coined the terms “Greenwich meridian”, “British Empire” and even “spy agent 007”, that is how kings of the time called him, thinking that he was a spy agent for the British crown , but he was also a scholar in religion, philosophy, Kabbalah, and Hermeticism. I fascinate his time for his works, although unfortunately the vulgar confused his works with witchcraft. He was in fact a true magician who based his knowledge on his own mystical and scientific experiences. We know perfectly well his life because he had an intimate newspaper. There we find his relationship with Elizabeth I of England. The aura that surrounded him allowed his works to be in public libraries which sometimes turned against him. Under the term of Enochienne magic (in reference to the sacred language of the Ancients). I also copy and translate various manuscripts at the request of the Vatican, Rome, Florence and Vienna with the help of his student and collaborators. Among the manuscripts that he most adored were found particularly the Steganographia of Tritemius (Polygraphie et universal escriture cabalístico, Paris 1651) in which Paracelsus was also inspired.

In 1577 he received a visitor from Persia and some time later he began the work entitled the Hieroglyphic Monad , which is one of the largest writings (according to 24 theorems) and that I possess part of the original, says Thomas. He pauses for a drink and continues. On the cover of this document we find the Egyptian symbols that Rosa Cruz uses today. The circle with a center also served as a signature at that time for the secret fraternity that met to work on Egyptian hermeticism. Robert Fludd and Francisco Bacon belonged to this Order and John Dee was considered the Magician or Legate of this fraternity in the 16th century.

Thomas concludes that the Enochian name is the language that was revealed to them as part of a series of angelic messages, the purpose of which was to elevate human magic to a whole new level. The Enochian survived in the journals and notebooks of John Dee who believed that the patriarch Enoch was the last man to know all the possibilities of that language. The idea that an antediluvian angelic tongue existed was quite common in John Dee’s time, not without some logic. If the angels interacted skillfully with humanity, as certain passages in the Bible make clear, then it was possible that this interaction took place in a kind of “common tongue”, a low and degraded language for angels, but quite complex for humans. men This was the language of the Creator, the angels are capable of speaking it, like Adam, but not with nuances and subtleties typical of the divine palate. Men have to make do with harsh and inaccurate pronunciation. Later languages, like Hebrew, sound like baby babbling in the face of Enochian intricacies. After the embarrassing episodes of the Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise, but they took the Enochian with them, gradually it was degraded until it became what we know today as proto–Hebrew, with few links with that original language of the angels.

The generations after Adam considered that Enochian should not be a common language, but a secret language, spoken and written only by the wise men and priests, so they hid it.

The first mention of the Enochian occurred in 1581. John Dee noted in his diary that God sent an angel to directly communicate his intentions. In 1582 John was joined by the then unknown Edward Kelley in an assistant capacity. Apparently, together they managed to contact that angel, who revealed to them some rudiments of that lost language that in honor of Enoch they called Enochian and wrote down in a book, which they later published called Liber Loagaeth (the book of divine speech ) . It basically consists of forty–nine tables headed with the forty–nine letters of the Enochian alphabet plus some additions and comments from the recipients.

The second set of Enochian texts was received by Edward Kelley, a year later in Krakow Poland. This is the most interesting corpus, since it is accompanied by an English translation, which provided the foundations of the Enochian vocabulary. The text consists of forty–eight poetic lines known as Claves Angelicae (Angelic Keys). These keys, or keys, are the starting point for an entire magical system based on the word.

There are two different versions of the Enochian Alphabet, with the letters in one being slightly different from the other. The first version is found in a Dee manuscript, the first five Books of the Mysteries (Books of Mysteries), and the second, generally the most accepted, is in Liber Loagaeth, Kelley’s own version. It is written from right to left, and may include accents. Some Enochian letters have English letter equivalents and a similar pronunciation, but many of them are pronounced differently. The alphabet is united in the practice of Enochian magic on Angelic Keys. It came to us through Edward Kelly in 1984. That year he wrote in his diary a series of nineteen magical incantations. The Keys comprised forty–eight poetic verses and correspond to various functions within the Enochian system of Magic. The graphic below says Thomas

Dee shows the original letters of the Enochian alphabet with their modern English transliteration roasted in John Dee’s Old English writings.

—What else do we know about the mathematician John Dee?, asks Frederick, from SY (Scotland Yard).

Portrait of John Dee, painted in 1594 by an unknown artist. Image credit https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/john–dee–alquimista–corte–isabel–i–17468

Thomas continues the story of John Dee (July 13, 1527 late 1608 or early 1609) was a noted English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and geographer, who was also an assistant to Queen Elizabeth I. Throughout his life He dedicated himself, for a long time, to alchemy, divination and the study of hermeticism. Dee dabbled in both science and magic. He was one of the most cultured men of his day, and was already lecturing in crowded halls at the University of Paris when he was not yet thirty. He was a fervent defender of mathematics, a respected astronomer and an expert in navigation: he was in charge of the training of many of those who would lead to the rise of England as the great naval power of Europe. At the same time, continue to investigate angels and Christian magic and hermetic philosophy. In fact, he dedicated the last years of his life entirely to these purposes, which did not seem contradictory to him, but rather complements to a broad vision of the world.

Dee was born in London, into a Welsh family, whose surname derives from the Welsh word du (black). His father was a merchant and a minor courtier. Dee attended Chelmsford Chantry School and then between 1543 and 1546 studied at St. John’s College, Cambridge University. His talent was recognized since he was young, for which he was admitted to Trinity College. During the late 1540s and early 1550s, he traveled through Europe, studying in Louvain and Brussels; and giving lectures in Paris on Euclid. He learned with Gemma Frisius and became a close friend of the cartographer Gerardus Mercator, for which he returned to England with an important wealth of instruments and mathematical, astronomical and geographical knowledge. On his return in 1554, he was offered the post of assistant professor of mathematics at Oxford University, which he declined, criticizing the excessive emphasis by English universities on rhetoric and grammar (which together with logic made up the trivium). academic), to the detriment of science and philosophy (a quadrivium made up of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy). In 1555 he was arrested, accused of calculating horoscopes for Queen Mary I of England and Princess Elizabeth. The charges were later raised to treason against Maria, and Dee had to appear in court, where he was forced to be acquitted. However, he was turned over to Bishop Bonner for a religious examination, which further complicated Dee due to his prominent interest in the occult and other areas frowned upon by the Catholic Church. This attack was just one of many that John would receive throughout his life, and on this occasion he would probably escape unscathed, soon turning to a close friend of the Bishop.

After these episodes, Dee prepared for Queen Mary, in 1556, an important plan to preserve old books and manuscripts and found a national library with them, but his idea was rejected, so he dedicated himself to expanding his library in his home from Mortlake, buying writings in England and also bringing them from continental Europe. Little by little, his library became one of the most complete in Europe, attracting scholars and scientists to Dee’s house. When Elizabeth was crowned in 1558, Dee became one of her closest advisers and got to choose the day of the queen’s coronation. Between the 1550s and 1570s, he contributed as advisers on voyages of exploration of England, spreading his knowledge of geography and navigation and the ideology behind the creation of a British Empire. In fact, he was the first to use that term. In 1577, Dee published General and Rare Memoirs Relating to the Perfect Art of Navigation, a book in which he set out his vision of navigation and justified England’s territorial claims in the New World. At this time he met Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Philip Sidney.

In 1564, he wrote the book Monas Hieroglyphica (The Hieroglyphic Monad) an exhaustive interpretation from the Kabbalah point of view of a glyph that he himself began, with the intention of expressing the mystical unity of all creation. The writing was revered by many of Dee’s contemporaries, but with the loss of the oral traditions that populated his environment, it is difficult today to decipher the correct meaning of the text. He published a mathematical foreword to Henry Billingsley’s English translation of Euclid’s Elements in 1570, defending the importance of mathematics and its influence on other sciences and arts. As it was aimed at a non–university public, it became one of the most recognized works and was reprinted several times.

By the early 1580s Dee was becoming less and less satisfied with his progress in learning the secrets of nature and his lack of influence and recognition. He then began to search for supernatural ways to acquire knowledge, especially contact with an angel through the use of a crystal ball as an intermediary. His first attempts were unsuccessful, but in 1582 he met Edward Kelly, who impressed him with his paranormal skills and knowledge. Dee took him into his service and began to seek to achieve supernatural contacts with all his efforts, although always from a perspective of Christian piety, accompanying these spiritual conferences with intense sessions of purification, prayer, and fasting. Dee was convinced that this would bring great benefits to humanity, and he wrote numerous books that he said had been dictated to him by angels through these lectures, some of them in Enochian or angelic language. Kelley, on the other hand, is less explicit about his thoughts on these spirit talks, with some concluding that he was taking advantage of Dee’s gullibility, other groups believing that he actually possessed these kinds of abilities, and there are interpretations in between as well.

In 1583, Dee visited the Polish nobleman Albert Laski, who invited him to accompany him on his return to Poland, to which Dee agreed after consulting with his angels. Thus Dee, Kelley, and their families set out in September 1583, but it turned out that Laski was bankrupt and out of favor at home, forcing Dee and Kelley to lead a nomadic life in central Europe, during which they continued holding conversations with the angels which Dee meticulously obtained. He obtained audiences with Rudolf II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and Stephen I of Poland, in which he reprimanded them for their lack of faith. He also tried to convince them of the importance of his communications with angels, but none of the monarchs paid any attention to him. During a spiritual conference in Bohemia in 1587, Kelley informed Dee that the angel Uriel had commanded that the two men should share their wives. Kelley, who at the time was much more popular than her partner, likely used this as a way to break up their relationship. The order caused Dee distress, but she did not doubt its veracity and would have allowed it to be carried out, but soon after she stopped holding the lectures and never saw Kelley again. He returned to England in 1589.

Dee was a deeply pious Christian, but his Christianity was heavily influenced by the Hermetic and Platonic–Pythagorean doctrines that were influential in the Renaissance. He believed that numbers were the basis of all things and the door to knowledge, that God’s work was an act of numbering. From Hermeticism he drew his belief that human beings had the potential to achieve divine power, and he thought that this divine power could be exercised through mathematics. His cabalistic angelic magic (which was hard numerology) and his works in practical mathematics (for example in navigation) were simply the exalted and mundane ends of the same spectrum, and not the contrasting pursuits many might consider today. His ultimate goal was to help bring about a unified world religion, heal the rift between the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches , and restore the pure theology of antiquity. About ten years before Dee’s death, antiques dealer Robert Cotton bought land near Dee’s home and began raiding for papers and artifacts. He discovered some manuscripts, mainly records of communications with angels. Cotton’s son gave these manuscripts to the scholar Méric Casaubon, who published them in 1659, together with a long critical introduction to their authors, entitled A True & Faithful Relation of What pass for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James his Reignes) and some spirits. Being the first public revelation of Dee’s spiritual lectures, the book proved very popular and sold quickly. Casaubon, who believed in the existence of spirits, argued in his introduction that Dee was unknowingly acting as a tool for evil spirits believing they were trapped by angels. This book was largely responsible for the image of Dee that prevailed for the next two and a half centuries: that of a deluded fanatic.

Around the same time, the book True and Faithful Relation was published and some members of the Rosicrucians claim that Dee was one of them. However, it is not clear that a Rosicrucian organization existed at this time, and there is no evidence that Dee belonged to any secret society. Dee’s reputation as a magician and the history of his association with Edward Kelley have made him seem like a seemingly irresistible figure to later fable writers, horror story writers, and magicians. The myriad of false accounts about her life often obscure the facts of her life. A reappraisal of Dee’s person and influence took place in the 20th century, largely as a result of the work of historian Frances Yates, who published new ideas that gave greater relevance to the role of magic in the Renaissance and the rise of Dee. of contemporary science. As a result of this, Dee is now considered a serious scholar and one of the most cultured men in 16th–century Europe. His library at Mortlake was undoubtedly the most important in England, and was considered one of the best on the Continent; second only to that of Jacques Auguste de Thou in the opinion of many. In his role as Elizabeth I’s geographical, astrological, and scientific adviser, he was an early advocate of colonizing North America and considered promoting the idea of a British Empire spanning the New World. During the time that he held power, Dee took advantage of it to promote the development of science, especially navigation and cartography. Gerardus Mercator collaborated closely with him, and had a large collection of maps, globes, and various instruments. In addition, he created and improved instruments and techniques to facilitate navigation in the polar regions. He was also in charge of selecting and training the main pilots of the English navy. He believed that mathematics (which he understood in a mystical way) was essential for the progress of human learning, and it is this quality that brings him closer to the men of later centuries than other contemporary thinkers, such as Francis Bacon, although some researchers affirm that Bacon downplayed applied mathematics in a mystical sense like Dee’s because of the anti–occult atmosphere that prevailed throughout the reign of James I. In any case, the mathematical concepts used by Dee were not similar to those of today and they covered areas that today much of the mathematical community would call numerology. Perhaps Dee’s greatest and most enduring achievement is having promoted mathematics outside of universities. His Mathematical Preface to Euclid’s Works was intended to encourage the study and application of mathematics among people who had been unable to pursue university studies, something that was welcomed by the new and growing class of mechanics and other men. that would create practical applications based on scientific advances.

Dee went so far as to include a series of demonstrations and principles that readers could perform and verify for themselves. Dee was a friend of Tycho Brahe, and took advantage of Copernicus’s works. Much of his astronomical and astrological calculations were based on the heliocentric theory, although due to the danger of appearing as a defender of this new idea, he did not fully embrace the theory. He did apply it to solve some calendar problems, and reforms that were cautiously accepted. On several occasions, the figure of Dee has been associated with the Voynich MS. Wilfrid M. Voynich, the person who acquired the manuscript in 1912, suggested that it may have belonged to Dee, who would have sold it to Emperor Rudolf II. However, Dee’s contacts with the Emperor do not appear to have been very extensive, and there are no diary entries mentioning the sale of such an unusual book. The British Museum owns several instruments that belonged to Dee and are associated with his spiritual conferences:

Dee’s mirror or speculum (Latin for mirror), an Aztec cult object made of obsidian in the shape of a hand mirror. It was brought to Europe in the 1520s and passed through the hands of Horace Walpole.A series of small stamps that Dee used on his practice table (on which he conducted fortune telling).A large and elaborate seal used to hold the crystal ball used by Dee.A gold amulet, with an engraving depicting Dee’s visions.A glass orb, six centimeters in diameter. This object had spent several years unnoticed in the mineral section. Its origin is not confirmed and it is not known if it passed through Dee’s hands. In December 2004, a stone used by Dee to see the future and an explanation of its use written by Nicholar Culpeper in the mid–17th century were stolen from London’s Science Museum, but recovered shortly after.

This is the story of my great–great–grandfather, surely at some point we will have to go back to his wanderings, says Thomas.

At Scotland Yard’s Westminster base, Frederick, Thomas, Martin and Adams begin the investigation that will lead them to the magic mirror. Frederick quickly investigates these religious Catholics since he is a Protestant.

Adams Craig, is a young priest, graduated with honors from the Vatican itself, ordained as a priest for being a patient, trustworthy and discreet person. He also has communication skills. In his youth he had health problems that were difficult to control, which led him to be hospitalized in a neuropsychiatric hospital for study, but he emerged healthy and dedicated himself to the service of the church in New York through episcopate, as a legitimate successor candidate for the apostles and was entrusted with the offices of teaching, sanctifying and ruling. Then he was a priest, as a good candidate for Christ a priest and a good shepherd to administer divine worship and finally he was ordained for the diaconate, at the service of the church for the preaching of guidance and above all, of charity. After going through all these instances, she was sent to Rome to continue her training. Where he graduated as a lawyer and theologian.

While Martin Bellucci was first assigned as a chaplain in Scotland and then was a pontifical delegate for the Apostolic School to attract young people to the priesthood. And he is one of the few who knows how to perform the Roman exorcism taught and authorized only by the Vatican.

His many years have given him the experience and knowledge he has today.