Dear All
The Dee Opera was indeed an opera, with much serious funding, to be used in
the olympics, incorporating the English National Orchestra; and the quality
of the cast, theatrics, sets and directing was so good I really enjoyed all
of it but Damon Albarn's incongruous busker style commentaries. Stunning
effects, well worth watching and a good afternoon out, but be aware that the
magic you see will be on a par with that of a wicked witch or fairy
Godmother in the local Christmas panto, this is a materialist reading which
conflates necromancy and enochian scrying, focusses on politics and the
mundane aspects of the Dee/Kelley journey, and is in essence a faustian
morality tale. I will write a proper review this week.
Dear Justin
I love this question, but the answer is perhaps something huge we are all
working on together on this list!
"Some say art is a mirror, others a hammer. I can't help but see it more as
a reflexive (sometimes unconscious) spasm responding to the sociopolitical
conditions an artist lives within. If we agree that art is a means of
materialising and holding suspended the immaterial invisible aspects of
being, What does all this spasming around the occult Say about the
conditions of our time?
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