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You're listening to part two of Unexplained,

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Season seven, episode eighteen,

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A Dance with Mister d.

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It is late October in fifteen

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fifty eight. Queen Mary

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is bedbound in her chambers at

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Saint James's Palace in London. She

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flitters from bouts of lucidity

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to states of deep confusion in

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the grip of some terrible malady.

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At times, she calls out in

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the middle of the night in distress,

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saying that she has gone blind, she

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is dying. Mary's

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life had not been an easy one. As

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a child, she suffered from constant

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fevers, depression, and anorexia,

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not surprising considering the

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cruelty of her father, Henry

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the Eighth. When

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her mother, Catherine of Arrogant,

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was ostracized after Henry jettisoned

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her for Anne Boleyn, Mary

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was forbidden from seeing her, and,

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as he did with her mother, Henry

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often threatened Mary with

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death, and it was no empty threat

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at that. He called

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her illegitimate and denied

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her the right to call herself a princess.

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When Mary's mother finally succumbed

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to illness in fifteen thirty five,

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Mary was denied the opportunity

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to say her goodbyes. As

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Mary lay dying in October

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fifteen fifty eight, some believed

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she'd finally succumb to the melancholy

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that had dogged her all her life,

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though it is more likely she was suffering

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from an aspecse vily virulent strain

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of influenza that swept across

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Europe that year. Towards

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the end, she would come round from

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bouts of fever to tell of the

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extraordinary dreams she'd been

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having and the visions of young

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angelic children she'd

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seen dancing around her

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bed. In the

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early hours of November seventeenth,

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a deep gasp escaped her lips,

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her rib cage expanded for one

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last time, and then

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her body was still. The

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queen was dead.

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Earlier that month, the Catholic

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Mary amended her will to

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confirm that her sister, the Protestant

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leaning Elizabeth, would be her

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rightful successor, and

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so a week after Mary's

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death, Elizabeth arrived in

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London to a rapturous reception

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from her supporters. As

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city dignitaries stood in line to

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greet her, Elizabeth offered

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her hand to be kissed by each of them.

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One after another, took it and

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planted a soft kiss on the outside

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of her glove. But when Elizabeth

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got to Catholic Bishop Edmund

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Bonner, John Dee's employer

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and the man who'd done so much to

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root out Mary's Protestant enemies,

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she withdrew her hand before

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he had a chance to take it. Elizabeth

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herself had at one point

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been held under arrest in the Tower

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of London, accused of plotting

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against Queen Mary.

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It was not a good sign for Bonner

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or his fellow Catholic bishops and

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their associates. But

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while many would soon find themselves

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exiled or imprisoned indefinitely,

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John d miraculously

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once again escaped to

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the worst of it. Chief

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among Elizabeth's immediate concerns

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was selecting a date for her coronation,

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and the stakes could not have been higher.

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Though she had no immediate realistic

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challenges to the throne, her position

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was a precarious one. A

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deeply unsettled nation was

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about to welcome its fourth monarch

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in just over five years. That

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Elizabeth was female only

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made the job of asserting her authority

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or the more difficult. Many

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openly despised the sheer idea

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of women in positions of power or

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as influential Scottish minister

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John Knox put it, such

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a thing was repugnant to

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nature. On top

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of that, where a series of strange,

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unsettling prophecies coming

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from across channel in France, made

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by a man named Michel de

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Nostre Dame or Nostrodamis.

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He predicted that when Elizabeth took

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the throne, England would suffer

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many calamities, weepings

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and mournings, with civil unrest

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in which the lowest in society would

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rise up against the highest. Like

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most people of the time, Queen Elizabeth

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was deeply superstitious and convinced

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of the power of astrology. She

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wanted to make sure that the day of

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her coronation was one that could

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give her the most luck for a successful

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reign, one that the very

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stars in the sky had

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picked out for her. She

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needed not just someone

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of high learning to calculate it

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for her, but someone with a

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suggestion of sorcery and

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arcane knowledge about them, someone

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who people felt would bring more

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more than mere logic to the equation

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to help prevent the dire predictions

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from coming true. There

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was nobody better for it

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than John d At

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the time d still lived in

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Upton, just outside of the city

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of London. There, the local

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children was said to run screaming

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from him in fright. Such was

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his growing reputation as a magician

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and conjurer. Only

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a few weeks after Mary's death, d

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received the request to make a judgment

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on what would be the best day for

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Elizabeth to begin her reign. No

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sooner had he received it, d was

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in his library frantically searching

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his shelves for any ancient

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texts to seek out precedents

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and auguries of good fortune

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for the day. Having

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compiled everything he needed, he

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drew up a horoscope and concluded

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that January the fifth, fifteenth fifteen

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fifty nine was the optimum

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day. As

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was explained to the Queen in waiting

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later on that day, Jupiter

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would be in Aquarius, which promised

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impending greatness and statesmanship,

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while Mars was in Scorpio,

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meaning that Elizabeth would have the necessary

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passion and commitment to be

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the country's monarch. Elizabeth

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was impressed. Queen

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Elizabeth's coronation was an all

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day spectacle, involving the

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new queen being taken through the

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throng streets of London on a golden

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litter, essentially a large

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ornate box carried by servants.

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The parade was embellished with a series

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of five pageants designed

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to be essentially brand establishing

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propaganda. The pageant

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themes variously stressed the

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new monarch's virtuousness,

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her Englishness, and her descent

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from a family that had ended years

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of civil war in England.

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The fifth pageant drew parallels

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between her and Deborah, an

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Old Testament prophet who supposedly

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rescued the House of Israel, then

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ruled successfully for forty

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years, and once again

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John D was at the center of

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it all. But not

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long after Elizabeth was crowned,

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D completely disappeared.

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For several years, There was no historical

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record of where he went and what

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he was doing. The most

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likely explanation is that he returned

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to Europe in pursuit of a new

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quest. When known

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accounts of D resume in

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February fifteen sixty three, he

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was staying at an inn called the Sign

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of the Golden Angel in Antwerp,

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Belgium. This time,

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it seems D's quest was

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to understand the Kabbalah, a

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mysterious text containing ancient

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Hebrew knowledge based on mathematics

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and mysticism going back to

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the first century. This

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text was said to contain

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the secrets of the universe. Among

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its most important insights was

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the apparent role of angels,

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who were said to provide the key to

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understanding God. Antwerp

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was a bustling merchant town as

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well as home to numerous printing presses

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and publishing houses, with the booksellers

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galore, which was why

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D was there. He was

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hunting a rumored copy of one

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of the most secret valuable

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manuscripts of the age,

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of which there were said to be only three

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or four copies in existence,

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Called the Steganographia, It

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was written by a German abbot called

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Johannes Trithemius and

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was essentially one of the first

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ever works on cryptography

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the science of codes. D

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finally got his hands on a copy

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and spent a feverish ten days

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copying it out. The

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book outlined an elaborate system

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for sending messages between two people,

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like an early version of the Second

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World War German code making

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machine, the Enigma, except

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rather than utilizing a machine,

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this system required the user

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to utilize an incantation to

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summon spirits, who would

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then communicate the coded

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transmissions between sender

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and recipient. After

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finding the steganographia, John

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D was eager to return to England

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and determined to make his way

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into Queen Elizabeths in a circle.

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He excitedly wrote to one of Elizabeth's

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key advisers, William Cecil,

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describing the mysterious book and

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its rituals. He

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believed it would be of great use

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to the nation as it could help decipher

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other texts like the Book of Souger,

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thought to contain a divine message

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from God, which was supposedly

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written in the first ever language

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that was spoken by Adam,

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the first human being. But

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Cecil, who had no time for

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or belief in codes that required

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invoking help from spirits, was

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unimpressed. D

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finally returned to England in June

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fifteen sixty four and made

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renewed attempts to secure a post

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at the Royal Court. He

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approached William Cecil again and

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offered to take on the role as the Queen's

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court philosopher. D

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described how his years of travel,

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his great knowledge, and his acquaintance

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with many of the great thinkers of the day

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meant that he was ideal for such a post.

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He promised to bring the wealth of Renaissance,

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Europe's finest thinking to

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England, but again Cecil

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was uninterested. Under

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ThReD D made his way

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to the Queen's court at Greenwich Palace,

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accompanied by a noble woman who'd

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offered to reintroduce him to the Queen.

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A short time later, the tall and

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slender D, with his long, pointy

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beard, found himself in the royal

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presence chamber, surrounded by

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courtiers who chatted politely

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among themselves as gentle

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music from minstrels suffused

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the room. Then eventually

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he was brought before the sumptuously

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clothed, bejeweled and

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heavily perfumed Queen. Bowing

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deeply, John D produced

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a book from the folds of his gown.

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It was the Monus Hieroglyphica,

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a controversial text containing

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what many considered to be pagan

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magical ideas, including

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astrology, cosmology, and

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mathematics. It was

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a huge gamble that could easily

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have repulsed the Queen, but instead,

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she was intrigued. She

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asked D to stay and disclose

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the book's secrets to her.

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John D and Queen Elizabeth sat

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side by side as D patiently

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took her through the text Elizabeth

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was entranced as D proceeded

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to explain all about the strain

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astrological symbols it contained.

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After that, D gained regular

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audiences with the Queen, the

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kind of access that was most unusual

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for someone who wasn't of noble

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birth. Over the next

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few years, he was frequently called

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to court to converse with her, including

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on matters of some intimacy, such

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as her proposed marriage to the Duke

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of Anjou. It

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was said that the pair developed their own

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code language to relay messages

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to one another, and that they even

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used code names for each other. In

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his diaries, D used the

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capital letter E topped

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with a crown whenever he wrote

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about Elizabeth. The

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Queen who called D at this time

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her special eyes denoted

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him with two zeros to represent

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eyes, followed by D's

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favorite mystical number seven.

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D became the first double O

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seven agent in Her Majesty's service.

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It was said that Elizabeth had

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a strong sense of the cosmological

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forces supposedly acting

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on her, and that she felt D

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provided the kind of mystical revelations

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to help her govern which other

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members of her administration could

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not. She took to referring

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to D as my philosopher.

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When a strange wax effigy

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of the Queen was found under a

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tree in Lincoln's Inn Fields

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in the center of London, stuck

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all over with pig bristles, John

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D was called on to determine

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its meaning. When

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the Queen suddenly fell ill of

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an undiagnosed mystery illness,

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D was once again called

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to determine its severity. And

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when one night an

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unusually bright star was

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observed in the sky, it

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was D who was asked to decipher

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what it meant. Despite

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John D's devotion to the Queen and

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what some believed was a magical

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hold over her, he was never

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offered the official position of court

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philosopher that he so desired.

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Nonetheless, D continued

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his studies of astronomy, astrology,

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alchemy and magic, with the

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ultimate goal of understanding

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the truth of the universe. In

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fifteen sixty six, D moved

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in with his mother, who lived in

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a ramshackled, sprawling cottage

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in Mortlake, a village by the

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Thames about eight miles west

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of London. On moving

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in, D set about

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arranging the massive collection of books

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and manuscripts he'd amassed on

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all his train. Among

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them was Johannes de Burgo's occult

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text Treatise on Magic

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and Secretum Secretorum

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are treatise on the Nature of Immortality

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attributed to Aristotle. Before

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long, D's mother's cottage

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was transformed into one of the largest

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libraries in Europe. It

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was so big, D even added

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extensions to the building, as

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well as acquiring neighboring buildings

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to house all the material. Neighbours

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spoke of laboratories that he'd also

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set up, full of all kinds

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of apparatus containing unknown

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substances that bubbled away

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mysteriously. No

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one saw his inner sanctum, though,

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D's most private study, where

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he stored his magical equipment and

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books like Heinrich Cornelius

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Agrippa's fifteen thirty one

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Tome Diaculta for Low

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Sophia about the powers

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of magic. This

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was a time of growing interest in

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alchemy, a medieval type

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of chemistry which its adherents

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insisted could transform elements

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and materials into other elements

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and materials. The major

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focus was to find a method

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of converting base metals into

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gold via a secret ingredient

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known as the fabled Philosopher's

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Stone not an object as

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such, but rather a chemical

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concoction. If one

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could establish the correct recipe for

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it, they could be wealthy beyond

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their dreams. It was also

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rumored to make anyone who drank

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it immortal, though

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no one knows exactly what D was

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doing in his laboratory. In the

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early fifteen seventies, he fell

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seriously ill. Much

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of alchemy revolved around the

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use of mercury, which is a high

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toxic substance. D

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would eventually recover, but by

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the time he was well enough to continue

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his work, he was broke once

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again. In desperation,

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he wrote to the Queen's court and

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was granted another patronage

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of a few hundred pounds per annum, But

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it wasn't enough because

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D had set his sights on a new

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series of experiments. For

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these, he would need enough money to

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dedicate months and months of his time

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concentrating solely on the task

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at hand. If

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successful, he would have the power

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to grant anybody whatever

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they wanted. In

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November fifteen seventy seven,

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something strange appeared suddenly

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in the night sky, as

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bright as the moon. It was some kind

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of celestial object that seemed

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to shimmer from a burning fire

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inside a dazzling cloud, with

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a vast dusty tail stretching

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out behind it. Observers

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all over the world were mystified

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and horrified in equal measure.

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To a number of the Queen's advisers,

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it was a clear portent of doom.

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A few days later, Francis

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Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's

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chief spy, uncovered an

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Austrian plot to unseat the

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queen. As the Queen

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and her courtiers debated how best

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to respond, John d attempted

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to speak with the Queen once again

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to request a recognition as her

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court's official philosopher to

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raise more money for his new experiments.

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Dee was forced to wait his turn for

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an audience, and by the time he

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got it it was clear his chance

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gone. However, visiting

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the Queen at the same time was

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a rather loud, stout, and

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sturdy looking man with a

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fetching mustache.

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The man was Francis Drake,

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a slave trader, privateer,

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and a constant thorn in the side

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of King Philip the Second of Spain,

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whose nation was the leading colonial

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power of the time. Drake

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had come to update the Queen on an

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epic voyage he was preparing to

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embark on that she and

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a number of her associates were financing.

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The plan was to complete a circumnavigation

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of the globe to discover what other

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lands might exist in the world that

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they could exploit, while taking

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out as many Spanish vessels as

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they could along the way. John

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d saw a golden opportunity.

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With all his knowledge and experience of

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cartoggraphy and being close

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to some of the world's greatest cartographers,

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he offered his services in assisting

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the voyage with

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the Queen's full attention. Once again,

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he outlined a scheme for England

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to lay claim to the fabled New

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World in a direct challenge

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to the King of Spain. As

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he told the Queen, it was based

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on some historical and magic research

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that he'd been apparently carrying out for

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a while. It revealed

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that now was the time for her reign to

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shift into a new expansionist

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phase in pursuit of what he

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called a new British

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Empire. The Queen

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couldn't help but be impressed. A

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short time later, Dee presented

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her with his Britannity Imperial

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Limiter, the limits of the British

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Empire. In it, he

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predicted that the English Navy would

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become the key weapon with which

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he could challenge the King of Spain's

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global supremacy. D's

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immediate financial future was

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once again secured. It

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was time to start the next phase

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of his experiments. Thick

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velvet curtains are drawn across

23:24

the windows of a wood paneled study

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to keep out the chill of the midwinter

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night. At its center

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stands a great wooden desk, surrounded

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on all sides by endless bookshelves

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stuffed with books and papers.

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Stacks of books and manuscripts

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litter the desk in untidy heaps

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or pushed to one side.

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In their place are two

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tall, white, flickering candles,

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the only light in the room besides

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that cast by glowing embers

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smoldering in a large stone

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fireplace. Two

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bearded men sit across

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from each other, both gazing

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intently into a large crystal

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orb on the floor between them that

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scatters sparkles of light across

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the dim chamber. The

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men are John d and

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his associate Barnabas Saw,

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and they are sitting in D's in

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a sanctum. It's

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mid December of fifteen eighty one,

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but in that moment, time seems

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to have completely stopped. Huh,

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I see him clearly, says Saul

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in a hushed voice.

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Welcome a Nal, he says

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with a dramatic flourish. An

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Ale was said to be one of the seven

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Angels of creation. D

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was convinced he was the angel

24:55

of Intelligence who roared over

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the entire world. On

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the way Saul describes the entity

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he's claiming to see in the orb, D

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isn't so sure it's him.

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Ask him to identify himself, urges

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D, gazing into the ball, where,

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sadly, unlike Saul,

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he sees nothing. Saul

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hesitates for a moment. Barnabas

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Saul, a self proclaimed Scria

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crystal gazer and channeler

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of spirits and angels, arrived

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at Mortlake a few days before, claiming

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to have rare books to sell to D.

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D had enough knowledge of books

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and booksellers to doubt he had anything

25:41

he needed, but was impressed by

25:43

the man's apparent sensitivity

25:46

for the occult. At

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the time, D was on the lookout

25:50

for a partner to help him with his latest

25:53

experiment, the thing he'd

25:55

been building up to all this time.

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An attempt to contact angels.

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Though D had the material knowledge

26:04

of what was required, he knew

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deep down that he wasn't possessed

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with the kind of psychic sensitivity

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that he believed was needed to

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make contact. What

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he needed was a scria, someone

26:20

with the supposed power to communicate

26:22

with other entities. So

26:25

D took a chance on Saul

26:27

and asked him to stay at his house and

26:30

assist him. Before long,

26:32

they were ensconced in his study, chanting

26:35

incantations into the air as

26:38

they worked through spell after spell

26:40

from these many occult texts.

26:44

Back in the study on that mid

26:46

December night, Saul's face

26:48

contorts strangely. Aha,

26:52

a second spirit has now appeared, he

26:54

exclaims. D stares

26:57

harder into the crystal orb, though

27:00

he still can't see anything other than

27:02

the reflected flames of the candles.

27:04

He senses the light glitter and

27:07

flash even brighter as it

27:09

dances in the darkness above the

27:11

men's heads. This

27:13

one is very beautiful, continued

27:16

Saul. He's clothed in

27:18

glittering gold robes. Beams

27:21

of light blazed from his head. He

27:24

has eyes of fire as

27:33

Barnabas Saul continues to

27:35

describe the entity in the crystal

27:37

orb, D can feel the hairs

27:40

rise up on the back of his neck. Now

27:43

this sounded more like a nail.

27:47

I can see characters writ upon the

27:49

crystal in shining gold, explained

27:51

Saul, who hurriedly scribbles

27:54

them down and passes the paper

27:56

to D. It's Hebrew,

27:58

says D, taking excitedly

28:01

ask him if any angel is assigned

28:04

to this stone, presses D, grabbing

28:06

one of the other smaller crystals nearby

28:09

and placing it next to the orb. Saul.

28:12

Julia reports that this second

28:14

crystal would in due course reveal

28:17

the archangel Michael, as named

28:20

in the Holy Scriptures. A

28:22

nail foretells that Michael

28:24

shall appear to thee after Christmas,

28:27

says Saul. He

28:29

says, thou must prepare thyself

28:32

to prayer and fasting, and

28:34

in the name of God, be secret.

28:38

D laps it all up.

28:41

I am a nail. I will take

28:43

my leave now, says Saul, spelling

28:46

out the name letter by letter

28:49

A N N

28:52

A E L.

28:56

D frowns. The

28:59

angel's name was spelt with

29:01

only one N. Either

29:04

the angel didn't know how to spell its

29:06

own name, or Saw had been

29:08

mistaken, or he'd

29:11

been making the whole thing up all

29:13

along. Early

29:15

in the new year, Barnabas Saul

29:18

was accused of committing the crime

29:20

of consulting with spirits. It's

29:23

unclear why D was not included

29:25

in the charge. Perhaps Saul

29:28

had been less secretive in his work

29:30

for other clients. At

29:32

his hearing the following month, Saul

29:34

was acquitted due to a lack of evidence,

29:37

But on returning from court, perhaps

29:40

fearful of another prosecution, Saul

29:43

admitted to D that he neither

29:45

saw or heard spiritual

29:48

creatures anymore. D

29:51

was once again on his own, but

29:54

the news was out that he was

29:56

looking for a spiritual partner to

29:58

fulfill his ambition. Then,

30:01

on the afternoon of March eighth,

30:04

there came a knock at his door. Waiting

30:07

for him. On the doorstep was a mister

30:09

Clerkson, an agent for

30:12

men purporting to be spirit mediums

30:15

looking for wealthy clients. Clerkson

30:18

had brought with him a so called

30:20

friend of his, who he introduced

30:22

as twenty six year old Edward

30:24

Talbot. Perhaps he

30:27

could be the man that D was looking for,

30:29

Clerkson suggested. D.

30:32

Agreed to meet them for dinner the following

30:34

day to discuss the idea further.

30:38

Later that evening, as it approached

30:40

midnight, D was poring

30:43

over a manuscript in his study when

30:45

he sensed a shift in the air. All

30:49

about the room was ablaze

30:51

with a strange red ambient

30:54

light. D rushed

30:57

outside and stared up in

30:59

disbelief. The

31:02

entire night sky appeared

31:04

to be burning in fiery flames,

31:07

as though a great fire had just

31:09

risen above the earth. D

31:13

should have taken it as a sign.

31:20

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A Dance with Mister D. Part

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