If you read the email that is causing controversy (and ridicule) throughout the World of Thelema, then you noticed that I took a little trip to the UK recently.
My wife, Liz (whacky, but yep, this chick's got a wife) and I spent the first few days in London. Wonderful town. Friday in the early afternoon we went to Treadwell's occult bookstore. This is the oldest existing occult book shop in London, and was one of Aleister Crowley's favorite haunts. I picked up a rare-ish copy of John Dee's Five Books of Mystery, and checked out a copy of the original Golden Dawn foundation cypher. We caught the space rock band, Muse's first Wembley Stadium gig on Friday night. What a party that was. Matt Bellamy and the boys were magnificent as always. On Saturday, the 11th, we did a big open-topped, double decker bus tour of London in the morning and in the afternoon visited the British Museum. We checked out the famed Rosetta Stone, and other many amazing exhibits, but obviously, if you're reading this then you know the real reason we went: The John Dee Collection. They have Dee's famed shewstone, a piece of ancient polished black obsidian mirror which scholars believe to be of Aztec origin, but the Elizabethean wizard claimed was given to him by the Archangel Uriel. They have the case Dee used to carry this. They had his crystal ball. His wax pantacle of the art, and the smaller pantacles used under the legs of his scrying table. There are two particularly interesting facts that must be reported in regard our visit to the Dee collection. Liz installed brand new batteries in the camera (pictures forthcoming) but as soon as she finished filming the items in the Dee collection the batteries died. Later while viewing the pictures, we noticed a few peculiarities in the pictures of the shewstone. There were words that appear to be Enochian, and a strange face next to Liz's reflection in the black mirror. Different images and apparfent messages in each picture. We have not yet determined exactly what the words are, but, no, there were no banners or such behind us that could have been reflected, nor were there other people. Mysteries, indeed.
Next time: Stonehenge, Glastonbury, and Avebury...
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