Is there an easier way to have a look at all of John
Dee's writings on his Enochian work, without going to
the British Library?
And on another post
>Here are the 5 factors:
>1. There is a cosmic order which permeates every
level of >reality;
I prefer chaorder (as in following the order produced
by the 'chaos' of chance and so called random
phenomenon, rather than any rational order), as we
can't know what a cosmic order is other than how it
might manifest in practise, but I have no real
problems with that other wise.
>2. This cosmic order is the divine society of the
gods;
Hmmm, the only gods I'd recognise are those that are
part of me.
>3. The structure and dynamics of this society can be
discerned in the movement and patterned juxtaposition
of the heavenly bodies;
Discerned imperfectly by a tiny minority with the
intuitive skill for accurate interpretation, yes
maybe.
>4. Human society should be a microcosm of the divine
society;
Ummm, whose invented this divine society then. In most
cultures 'divine society' is just a projection of a
very arbitrary and usually corrupt human society,
which is used to justify it.
>5. The chief responsibility of priests and kings is
to attune human order to the divine order.
Ummmm, thats the chief responsibility of every
individual in their own unique lives.
On the whole I'd say trying to organise society causes
more trouble than its worth, its far more 'divine' for
each individual to follow their own intuition, and
fall into the 'natural order' of things, for want of a
better word (I'm no essentialist!), then everything
synchronises quite well on its own in my experience.b
:)
The view in the five points seems somewhat Platonistic
too in that there's an implication of a fixed,
transcendental order.
While I'd argue that view has been long debunked to
point of risibility, and that any 'natural order' is
more like an orderly transformation of pattern in that
great endless flux of
energy that makesup reality, and is conditioned by our
own minds as much as any underlying 'laws'.
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