John Dee
Friday July 18, 2008
Today is the birthday of legendary wizard john Dee. Who was John Dee? He is virtually unknown in modern times, although he has had a profound influence on popular culture- without John Dee, there would be no Harry Potter, no Gandalf, no archetypal storybook wizard bearing a crystal ball...
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Poor guy. When I think about his ultimate fate, I wonder if at the end he felt it was all worth it. One of the things I liked most about him (historically) was that he really was the summation of the pre-reniassance esoteric community.
Interesting! I knew about Queen Elizabeth, and the astrology, but had no idea he had created a mechanical beetle, nor the “007″ nickname. Thanks for a good article!
The funniest thing about this man is that not alot of people know of his Occult history and that he forever change the Course of history(for the worst) which we now live. READ MORE ABOUT THIS MAN, ALONG with EDWARD KELLEY.
Interesting. Somehow I’d failed to correlate that Dr. John Dee and Dr. Hunter S. Thompson shared a birthday.