A recent post on the DailyGrail site (www.dailygrail.com) features an except from DARKLORE VOLUME 7 entitled “The Enigmatic Doctor Dee” written by Robert M. Schoch. The Elizabethan polymath and Magus is one of Danny’s favorite Hermetic personages (as evident by his choice of arcane symbols), especially his work entitled the “Hieroglyphic Monad” and diary entries of angelic (Enochian) communications (see “A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed Between Dr. Dee and Some Spirits”). The question is: Were portions of these occult activities involving what might be a pre-deluge language actually cryptographic messages (see “Steganographia”) concerning political intrigue in the Queen’s court? Read the article and decide for yourself.
Related to John Dee and his experiments with the Enochia is the latest Danny Carey tee, “TRANSMUTING CORONZOM 333”, designed in part by yours truly.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
TRANSMUTING CHORONZOM (333)
AS THE SEEMINGLY MALEFIC (OR MISCHIEVOUS) “DEMON OF DISPERSION” AND “DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD” IN ENOCHIAN AND THELEMIC MAGIC, CHORONZOM (333) IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE FINAL OBSTACLE BETWEEN THE ASPIRANT AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT RECEIVED UPON REACHING THE SUPERNAL TRIAD BEYOND THE LOWER QABALISTIC SPHERES. THEREFORE, IN THE OCCULT SYMBOLISM DEPICTED, “THE GUARDIAN OF THE ABYSS” REPRESENTS INDIVIDUAL SELF-PERFECTION THAT IS ACHIEVED BY A PHYSICAL TRANSMUTATION (I.E. THE PERFECT DIGESTION OF ALCHEMICAL GOLD). FOR THOSE ENDOWED WITH OXYOPIA, CHORONZOM HINTS AT AN ENDOGENOUS MYSTIFICATION INVOLVING THE DEATH-BORN SUBSTANCE OF A BURIED PHILOSOPHY. THE TRIPLE FIRE-TONGUE OF THE MORTIFIED CIRCLE OF THE SELF-DEVOURING SERPENT (UROBORUS) BECOMES THE SMOKELESS FLAME THAT FEASTS OR BURNS AWAY A CERTAIN MEMBRANE THAT ACTS AS A PROTECTIVE SHELL IN THE HUMAN ANATOMY. IN ORDER TO BE REDEEMED FROM BASENESS, THE ILLUSIONS OF MANIFEST REALITY WOVEN BY CHORONZOM MUST BE APPREHENDED AND TRANSMUTED.
i want to understand.....but my brain is unwilling
oh well, not always do i understand a t.o.o.l song,
nor do i need too
Uhhhhhh...sounds like a cool shirt
Uhhh, you said COOL! Hmm...Uhh
I have read the Robert Schoch essay in Darklore 7. It's interesting to consider the possibility that Edward Kelley did not exist and Dee's journals are a magical allegory. Honestly, Kelley had such a bad reputation and I do wonder why someone employed by the Queen would even record associating with him. It's like, "Excuse me, I need to talk to angels with the help of this criminal." ...
It's worth considering that the word "angel" comes from the Greek word for messenger. Today, we thing of demons as bad but the Greek and pre-Enlightenment understanding of daemon was a personal guiding spirit.
Before the Romantic era, feats of creative genius were not attributed to their human creator but to the creator's guiding spirit/genius/daemon. All art and science was considered to be channelled.
And it thus has been transmuted upon a t-shirt... sweet!
WELP; I might be a big dumb bug with a small brain, but I love me some T00L
I was able to look up close at one of Dee's old math books in a museum. I didn't want to touch it so I had the main handler turn a few pages. I understood some of it but it was full of beautiful motifs, mostly the same one repeated. I asked if she knew what it symbolized but she didn't know.
I love danny...holy shit!! ?