Room 1 / 6, Enlightenment: Religion and Ritual
Case 20 (Magic, Mystery and Rites)
British Museum - London

Case 20 Religion and Ritual (Magic, Mystery and Rites), Room 1 / 6, Enlightenment: British Museum, London, containing artefacts belonging to the sixteenth century alchemist Dr John Dee, is the site of tests carried out as part of HEXEN 2039 research.

Case 20 is on permanent display in the Museum. The case contains John DeeÕs: Obsidian mirror, Aztec, AD 1325-1521 From Mexico, large wax disc, small wax discs, quartz sphere ÔSphere No. 5: Crystal ball' and gold disc.

Dr John Dee (1527-1608/9) Alchemist, mathematician, astrologer, kabbalist, occultist and magician. Active in British military and diplomatic affairs. John Dee was 'Queen's Intelligencier' to Queen Elizabeth 1 and a close associate of Sir Francis Walsingham, founder of the British Secret Service.

In 1582 Dee's crystal, through contact with angelic spheres, revealed the keys to the Enochian language. The angel instructed Dee and his friend Edward Kelly to point to specific letters which when reversed backwards and forwards revealed messages.

The crystal was used to fortell events of a political and military nature, for example regarding the fate of the British Empire and the Spanish Armada.

Dee's practice of military/political scrying for Walsingham and Queen Elizabeth 1 is a precursor to the 1972-1995 US Military remote viewing program. The Enochian language was later studied by Aleister Crowley and US rocket scientist Jack Parsons of the O.T.O. In 1994 the Enochian letters were used as glyphs to operate the arc angle in the MGM film 'Stargate' one year before the US remote viewing program, 'Stargate', was made public.

A series of remote viewing drawings were made in the presence of Dr John DeeÕs scrying crystal at the Science Museum, London and experiments were made using Dee's Aztek/Obsidian mirror at the British Museum.