Buenos dias amigas y amigos. I remember the original thread and was really jive to the fact that someone had finally broached the subject of Dee. Then, as mentioned above, one of the members of SH1.0 blazed in and dismissed the entire figure of John Dee out of hand and it took some of the wind out of the thread’s sails. (JD755 if memory serves or near enough; crotchety British bloke who could always be counted on to keep it real...) If I remember his position correctly it would have meshed with this:
Thanks for the link, I’ll read it when I can, but absolutely am predispositioned to agree with the premise of a pageantry designed to conceal the mundane, as it were, within a veneer of the arcane.
Setting all of that aside, let’s indulge our imaginations here for moment. If anyone was unfortunate enough to read any of my drivel on 1.0, you’ll recall that I have a soft spot for old school pen and paper RPG supplements. In that vein, one of my favorite publishers of said materials is Steve Jackson Games; creators of the popular Illuminati card game. GURPS, their rule set and line of pen and paper RPGs, although overshadowed by DnD, .et al, is vast and excellent. One of my all time favorites is titled simply, Cabal.
View: https://www.amazon.com/GURPS-Cabal-Kenneth-Hite/dp/1556344295
The following excerpts fill in some of the mythos of the man. First, regarding
history:
Did anyone else find this part intriguing:
“claiming to detect signs of phe-nomenological “reality quakes” as recently as the early 18th century.”?? (Just as a point of reference, this book was published way back in March 02, long before any of our present conceptions of our paradigm had begun to seep into the collective consciousness.) Not to get ahead of ourselves yet cowboys and cowgirls, let’s keep this in perspective, we’re just talking about a game here. You dig? Purely in the context of an RPG:
Skipping over a crap-ton of interestIng content to get to the man, the myth, the...:
There is so much crammed in this less than 200 page book that I would love to hear the members here sound off on. For now I’ll just add an interesting note on Mappamondi in general and Dee’s magnum opus In particular, according to the text:
‘... a mappamond, the
Tabula Perfecta Quat- tuor Regnorum, which works the other way – properly scribed changes to it change the world in response.’ That sounds pretty tight... If Team America could acquire this device It could be used to spread freedom, even to those parts of the world who may feel, ya know, squeamish under Liberty’s mantle... Right, lest it should fall in the wrong hands?
EDIT: Doh, I forgot to include the segment on The Hell-Fire Club:
CHEERS ?
A final post note on 007, just dredging the old memory banks here: 00 = 2 balls + 7 = a cane. Hence, Bond, James Bond was a Tubalcain man. Fair to assume Dee was too?
