In his further on life he completed a name for himself as an astronomer and mathematician, but in the manner of turned to the occult to understand knowledge.
In the 1580s he began scrying to try to dispatch angels with the help of "shew-stones". The dart to the vigor shows his dark mirror and a crystal ball that he hand-me-down for that handling. Dee's dark mirror and some of his other items are most recently in the British Museum.
He teamed up with a scryer called Edward Kelley (or Kelly). En masse they wrote down knock of the Enochian spoken language - ostensibly the spoken language of the angels - revealed via their scrying sessions.
The British Museum website says about the mirror: "The mirror, completed of highly-polished obsidian (volcanic screen), was one of heaps Mexica cult belongings and reserves brought to Europe as the occupation of Mexico by Cort'es among 1527 and 1530. Mirrors were ally with Tezcatlipoca, the Mexica god of rulers, warriors and sorcerers, whose name can be translated as 'Smoking Wonder about. Mexica priests hand-me-down mirrors for foresight and conjuring up visions. Dee had an pay envelope in optics and visual mirrors or spectacles as described in his private autobiography and works. he was likewise inquiring in psychic phenomena and, from 1583, worked with Edward Kelly as his medium. Kelly would see visions in the 'shew-stones' of 'angels' that communicated by pointing to one courtyard as option in tables of sophistication and veiled symbols, which Dee and Kelly transcribed."
To person concerned Dee's bicentenary, you can knit John Dee enthusiasts for Dee Tea either at St Mary's Place of worship, Mortlake High Side road, London (and the Clear at Needlework Court), or the Ashmolean Archive, Oxford, from 3pm-5pm for tea and chat. All earnings mood go to the John Dee medal to be located in the church. For better knock, hang around in http://johndeemortlakesoc.org/
Acquaintances and olden related posts:
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/11/review-witchfest-international-2009.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/11/witchfest-international-2008.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/05/review-of-witchfest.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/01/review-occult-london.html
http://www.britishmuseum.org/
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight objects/pe mla/d/dr dees magic.aspx
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight objects/pe mla/d/dr dees mirror.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Dee
