Well, I can't pass up this opportunity to plug my new book of poetry,
though it is still awaiting a final proof (I've been waiting for quite a
while). "The Key of Dee" is about John Dee and his relationship with
Edward Kelley, and it follows the stages of alchemy. We are using symbols
from Dee's "Monas Hieroglyphicas" and got permission to use the portrait
of Dee for the cover. I have also made a CD, with different people
reading the different parts. Fun! I was hoping to have it for Kazoo, but
it's not looking good -- maybe! Marianne Micros
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Genevieve Guenther wrote:
> Actually, this site is quite wonderful for people who are interested in
> the 16th and 17th C English magic because it links to transcriptions of
> MSS on magic from the BL, such as Add. MS 36674 and Sloan MS 2731. The
> transcriptions are incomplete, and they fail utterly to indicate how the
> MSS were annotated (the first four articles in Add. 36674, for example,
> were heavily annotated by Gabriel Harvey -- I'm considering writing a
> short piece, half in jest, entitled "How Gabriel Harvey read his magic").
> On the other hand, they do attempt to reproduce the paleographical
> features of the original texts, which is a nice touch. At any rate,
> skimming over the handbooks on the site gives you a really good sense of
> how pragmatic, or even sordid, much Renaissance magic really was. In the
> handbooks there's little about discovering the holy mysteries of the
> heavens -- much more about getting reluctant women to sleep with you, and
> having spirits show you were treasures were buried...
>
> Cheers,
> Genevieve Guenther
>
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, David Wilson-Okamura wrote:
>
> > I can't vouch for the scholarliness of the editions used, but if your
> > ears perk up when you hear the names Johannes Trithemius, Heinrich
> > Agrippa, Athanasius Kircher, Giordano Bruno, and John Dee, check out
> >
> > Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica
> > http://www.esotericarchives.com/esoteric.htm
> >
> > This site is a member of the "Enochian WebRing" so you know it has to be
> > good! Also includes "Reginald Scot's collection of magical texts: A fine
> > example of Elizabethan English." Doesn't have anything about Merlin (I
> > mean John Dee's) crystal ball on the homepage, but I'm sure it's in here
> > somewhere. And there are pictures, too: angelic sigils, planetary
> > sigils, several magic circles, and Dee's holy table:
> > http://www.esotericarchives.com/gifs/gifs.htm
> >
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> > Dr. David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [log in to unmask]
> > English Department Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c
> > East Carolina University Sparsa et neglecta coegi. -- Claude Fauchet
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