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| The Magic Seal of John Dee by Colin D Campbell |
Posted by lashtal on  in 13°  :  in 25°  : dies : Anno IVxvii |
The Magic Seal of John Dee
The Sigillum Dei Aemeth
by
Colin D Campbell
Published by The Teitan Press.
First Edition - Limited to 777 Numbered Copies.
Hardcover, small quarto (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches, approx 22.2 x 17.2cm). Black cloth with gilt sigils stamped on the front & rear covers, blind rules, and gilt title etc. on the spine. Color frontispiece and one colour & one black and white plate. Various b&w illustrations and tables in text. Appendixes & index. Teitan Press, Maine, 2009 / 2010. Edition limited to 777 numbered copies.
The Magic Seal of John Dee comprises a detailed examination of the history and structure of the Sigillum Dei Aemeth of the Elizabethan scholar and Magus, Dr. John Dee, as well as a study of its use in the practice of ritual magic. The appendixes include a new transcription and translation of Dee's Liber Mysteriorum Secundus, and an important new translation of the section of the famous grimoire, The Sworn Book of Honorius, that gives details of what is clearly a precursor of the Sigillum Dei.
From the standpoint of a practicing magician, the work has two clear aims: "to demonstrate the importance of the pattern established by Dee's Sigillum Dei as opposed to its implementation, and to bring the Sigillum Dei out of the limited confines of the Enochian temple and into its role as a powerful magickal system in its own right. The recognition of the patterns established in the construction of the Sigillum Dei allow us to view the seal in a new light, not as a static framework decided once and for all hundreds of years ago in the study of a Rennaissance magician, but as one that can be reconstituted in the light of modern interpretation. Furthermore, the seal is, in essence, a system of evocation - the very same method of communication used by Dee & Kelley in its reception. This book explains the nature and method of this approach and how the practicing magician is able to use the Sigillum Dei in the manner in which it was truly intended - as a powerful system of planetary magick."
The author, Colin D. Campbell, is a member of the O.T.O. and long-term student and teacher of the Thelemic, Kabbalistic, and Enochian magickal systems.
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| Crowley puts the IQ into QI |
| Posted by lashtal on in 13° : in 21° : dies : Anno IVxvii |
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My thanks to our regular correspondent, Frater FS, for this piece…
At last, a newspaper reference to Crowley bereft of sex, drugs and rock n roll. The Daily Telegraph (January 2) carried a column from the creators of BBC quiz show QI in which the duo dwell on the topic of magic. AC gets his own subsection under Magick - complete with the K - which reads:
"According to the British occultist Aleister Crowley, adding a final "k" subtly changes the meaning of magic. "Magick", according to Crowley, was 'any act designed to bring about intentional change'. 'We must not exclude potato growing or banking,' he said. 'Let us take a very simple example of a Magickal act: that of a man blowing his nose.' Contemporary occultists tend to apply it less generally, restricting magick to the influencing of events by mystical or paranormal means."
The writers, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, doff their hat to other magicians including French illusionist Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, and the legendary Harry Houdini. Little known but equally fascinating is the reference to Jasper Maskelyne, a stage magician hired by the Government during WWII to create large scale illusions - for example fake tanks and fake railway lines - to confuse the Germans. Given AC's reported role in wartime intelligence, might the pair perhaps have met?
Frater FS
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