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PS glad you didn't believe me...because i made that part up about the flashlight...lol..

however, until you can get yourself to merrie old englande you can at least satisfy your curiosity:

The Atlantis Bookshop
49a Museum Street
London
WC1A 1LY

www.theatlantisbookshop.com

 

if you can bring about the apocalypse with $15 paperback, i'll be very impressed!...lol..

It'll be more impressive than you realize. I only paid $6.50 for this copy!

some of dee's magical gear is in the british museum in a really easy to miss display case. it was cool to see....though kind of disappointing in a way. i sort of wanted an eerie blue glow to be coming off it.

That would be so cool to see. But what do you mean there was no eerie blue glow? That's just sad.

$6.50?? arggh...i was had...lol..

the brit museum has a couple of wax seals, a gold talisman (see page 161) a crystal ball and a black skrying mirror.

in the absence of the eerie blue glow, i brought a flashlight with me & affixing a blue filter, waved it around all the while making a strange, ghostly 'wooooooooewwwwwwweooooo' noise about the display until i was asked to leave.

if you do get to see it - immediately across the road is museum street which has 'atlantis books' which is the coolest occult book shop. they give out maps to all the other cool esoteric shops in the neighbourhood. bring plenty of money!  

if you can bring about the apocalypse with $15 paperback, i'll be very impressed!...lol..

(i ripped off most of the 'diary fragment' from 'John Dee's 5 books of mystery' which actually is a transcript of his diaries. very interesting read though heavy going in a 'ye olde' kind of way)

some of dee's magical gear is in the british museum in a really easy to miss display case. it was cool to see....though kind of disappointing in a way. i sort of wanted an eerie blue glow to be coming off it.

I found a used copy of 'Enochian Magic for Beginners.' Haven't gotten to the magical stuff yet, but the history is really interesting. I'm at the part where John Dee's seer/translator/partner/co-wife swapper,  Edward Kelly dies in a fall while trying to escape from the castle where he was imprisoned by Emperor Rudolph II of Bohemia.

by donald tyson? i've got that here <waves copy>. you'll have to let me know what you think of it. i bought it a few years ago having read 'the queen's conjuror' by benjamin wooley (which rocks btw).

i really liked the historical section in tyson's book, though i thought the title to be somewhat misleading - it can be quite dry and technical in places.

my reservation with the book is that mr tyson has proposed that dee was formulating an 'apocalypse working' that would trigger the big one of 'revelation'. utter silliness and self pwnage on tyson's part - especially when he tells you how scary it all is and prints the instructions anyway...lol....

soo...if the end of the world does happen, i will assume someone has been a tad careless with chapter 16  

which book did you get?  

[S T F U]

Dee: After my fervent prayers made to Eris, for her mercifull cumfort and instruction, I did get some ynkling that I were truely shyt out of lucke. Thus did she pwn and rebuke me with much nawghtynes....

I willed, the Skryer (named Malaul) to loke into my great Chrystaline Globe, yf Eris had sent a signe or no. And Malaul loking into my forsayd stone, for to espie a signe, she saw there one. An apple did appere very bewtifull, glittering like gold. Yt had beams like ster beams, blasing and spreading from it. In letters that seemed all transparent gold: which Malaul was able to presently reade:

  S T F U

In the mean space, I, In my Oratory did pray, and make motion to Eris, and her good Creatures for the furdering of this Action.

I sayd: I pray you make these instructions, more playne and evident.

Eris: I have shewed thee perfectly. Behold n00b I teache thee agayne. O how mercifull is Goddess that revealeth so great secrets to a shyt hed of flesh and blud? Thou hast 4 letters: S T F U.

After a tyme, there cam a woman: and flung up an apple and a voyce was hard saying, Fnord. The apple went into the darkness, and brought with it a great white Globe hollow transparent. Then she entered a Bar. The woman seamed to daunce and swyng about the Bar and drunkenly walking, carrying in her hand a little scryd and skiddeth it across the floore.  She taketh it in her hand agayne, and casteth it up onto the rownd Globe and sayd:

Fnord.

Eris: Take heade of punishment for your lak of slakness!

Thus did I take leaue of my Oratory and eate of the hott dogge when....arggargghghhhhhh...........

that's my hyacinth
step not to my best flower!
die you bitches, die!


Next: the worrying trend of floral related violence

discordian enochiana?

my head hurts.


have completed only one passable sentence.


<hauls ass back to occultic salt mine>

<grumble>

['transcendental wisdom, existentialism and cocktails....for dummies']

How'd a lil' ol' bar like you get to be so smart, anyway?

he found a book in my office called

'transcendental wisdom, existentialism and cocktails....for dummies'

it's all pretty textbook stuff...chapter 4 i think.

i am a bat and
politically correct!
your haiku offends.


next: why political correctness in the animal kingdom must be stopped at all costs.

The Discordian Enochian Tablets...


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(::with glee:

well that's my weekend taken care of. the rest of you can drink, dance and have sex.

if i had a literary agent i'd call him/her and tell them to sign you right away.

If anybody can parody John Dee, I'd love to see it...

don't tempt me. i'm dorky enough to try.

teh mang' skrys the aethyrs so you don't have to....lol....

OB - I'm warning you now. Behave or I will instigate a new rule that bar staff must wear really boring & unflattering polyester uniforms...and you know what that means, don't you?


...yes, that's right. No more corsets.

 Trust me, I'll do it!!

LMNO - this story is shaping up rather nicely. And I can tell you that OB is very pleased with his characterization. He's shorter IRL...think you boosted his self esteem.