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You're listening to the fourth and final part

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of Unexplained, Season seven,

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episode eighteen, A Dance

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with Mister d John

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d stood by the barge's rail

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as it drifted slowly around a

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bend in the River Thames,

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soaking up a last lingering

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view of his beloved Mortlake

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House and library. It

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was late September fifteen eighty

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three, and Dee, along

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with his wife Jane and their children,

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and his scrier Edward Kelly and

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his wife Joanna, was on

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his way to Europe. It

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was hard to leave his home, and

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it wasn't just the books, rare

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artifacts and laboratory equipment

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he had to leave behind. The

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home contained significant and treasured

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memories. It was where his children

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were born, the Queen had visited

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him there, and it was where

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his mother had died. But

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more important than any of that,

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it was where he and Edward Kelly communed

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with angels, and they

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were on a roll. Stopping

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now risked ruining all hope

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of completing his investigation of

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the angels and Nokian language

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and unlocking the secrets

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of the universe. For

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all he knew, leaving Mortlake

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could mean severing all contact

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with the other side, but

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In the end, D felt he had

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no choice, and Kelly was quick

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to reassure him that all would be

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well. Only

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a few months before, D and

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Kelly delivered news from the angels

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to post Prince Albert Laski

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that he would soon be crowned

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King of Poland. Shortly

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after that, D received

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the dire warning from the spirit

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child Madimi that his

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life was in immediate danger. After

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telling Prince Laski all about it, the

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Prince, still glowing from

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his own more optimistic prophecy,

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proposed a solution. D

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should return with him to Poland, where

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he would look after him for the foreseeable

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future. And so one

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night, under cover of darkness,

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D and the rest of his group took

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off from Mortlake with the Prince. They

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sailed through all of London, past

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its many mullioned windows, the

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Tower of London, and under the

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narrow arches of London Bridge,

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piled high with houses. The

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smell of smoke from chimneys drifted

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over the river, and sounds of laughter

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spilled from taverns before

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fading as the boat slipped

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away downstream.

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As night blended into dawn and

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a dull red sun rose up

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over the horizon, they arrived

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at the coast. From

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there, the travelers boarded a faster

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vessel and set off in light winds

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towards the low countries of Europe,

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but the gentle weather didn't hold.

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By midnight, it had become so

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stormy their boat was driven

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back to England. Forced

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to abandon ship, Dee slipped

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and fell into the deep, stinking

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estuarine mud as he and the

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others made their way to shore.

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Like the players in an ill fated Shakespearean

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drama, they waited four days

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for the storm to die down before

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reboarding the ship. On

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September twenty eighth, they finally

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reached mainland Europe, where

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they promptly hired wagons and

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set off for Poland. All

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safe and sound for now.

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John D's traveling party, minus

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Prince Laski, who had business to attend

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to elsewhere, made tortuously

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slow progress across Europe,

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but D was happy despite

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leaving England. The communications

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with the angels continued unabated

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most nights. As they trekked deeper

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into the continent, D and Kelly

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consulted the spiritual beings.

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Some of Kelly's apparent visions were

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disturbing, however, including

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predictions that D's Mortlake

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home would burn to the ground, and

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that D's wife Jane would

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die horribly. Back

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in Mortlake, around the same time,

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a group of scholars broke into D's

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house. They didn't burn it

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down, but they did ransack

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his library, taking hundreds

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of his most treasured books and other

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possessions. It didn't

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bode well for Jane,

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but Kelly also delivered to D

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what he described as the Kabbala of

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Nature, a long stream of

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so called divine data. D

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was ecstatic. It felt as

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though they were only months away from discovering

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God's own blueprint for the universe.

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Day after day, the traveler's

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temporary lodging rooms were filled

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with the feverish scratchings of D's

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quill, racing to record

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Kelly's supposed transmissions.

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D would then spend more long hours

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collating them with his notes from previous

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seances in an attempt to

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assemble what he now saw as an

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apparent cosmic code that

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was coming from the Garden of Eden

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and written in the language of Adam,

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just one remove from God themself.

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After five grueling months of travel,

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encountering floods, blizzards, and

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storms along the way, D's

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party arrived in Krakoff, the

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then capital city of Poland. For

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the while, Kelly continued

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to pour forth alleged angelic

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formulas, but then in

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mid April, Kelly announced

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he would cease communicating with the angels

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altogether. He became

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suddenly despondent and even

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discredited some of his own visions,

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claiming that malicious spirits were

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playing tricks on him. One

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night, whilst crying with Kelly and

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Prince Laski, D received

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angelic instructions that he

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should go and see the Holy Roman Emperor

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Rudolph the Second in Prague,

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but D was reluctant. All

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around him in Poland, violence

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had erupted in the streets when Polish

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military commander Samuel Sparrowsky,

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a popular member of the Polish nobility

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and affiliate of Prince Laski's,

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was executed. Barovsky

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had been accused of plotting to

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kill the King of Poland, Stephan

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Barttori. D was

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beginning to wander if his own

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association with Prince Laski,

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who had ambitions to take the throne,

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put him and his family's lives in danger.

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Then D's son Rowland, fell

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gravely ill and almost died

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a few days later, as D

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and Kelly conducted another seance,

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Kelly claimed to receive an angry

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message from the angels. They

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said that D's son's illness was

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a punishment for not heeding

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their original command, and

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so on the first of August fifteen

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eighty, D and Kelly

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set out for Prague.

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On arrival in Prague, the capital

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of what was then Bohemia and the larger

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Holy Roman Empire, its

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medieval streets intrigued D

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and Kelly. It was a city

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bursting with classic Bohemian

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charm, the buildings covered

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with mysterious stone carvings, their

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walls painted with strange dioramas.

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Taverns with names like the Unicorn,

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the Blue Star, and the Vulture lined

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the endless labyrinthine alleyways.

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They soon found lodgings with the Emperor

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Rudolph's physician, the Dais

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Hyak, who also happened

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to be Central Europe's foremost astronomer.

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D hit it off with Hyek immediately,

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who invited him and Kelly to use

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his study to continue their scrying.

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Those seances produced a

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series of intense apocalyptic

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visions. The spirit

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Medimi appeared once more with

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another dire warning for D. Satan

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himself was intent on destroying

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him and his family if they didn't

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relocate to Prague immediately. She

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also told him that he must

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tell the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph

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the Second that an angel of

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the Lord had rebuked him for his

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sins. Doing

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such a thing would risk the wrath

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and outrage of one of the most powerful

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people in the world, but with

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the recent near fatal illness

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of his son still fresh in his

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mind, D felt he had

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no choice but to oblige or

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else risk further retribution from

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the angels, and

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so after some careful worded

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letters, D secured an

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audience with the emperor. After

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being met by his chamberlain, a

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nervous and trembling D

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was led through the twists and turns

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of the emperor's elaborate palace. Much

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like Kublai Khan's stately pleasuredome,

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it was a place of wonders, full

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of curiosities, including

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narwal bones, a mandrake

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root in the shape of a man, the

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dried remains of a dragon, along

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with works of fine art, and

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an extensive library. The

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emperor even had an African lion

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that he kept outside, whose

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roars echoed across the palace

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precincts all day long. Finally,

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D was led into the Emperor's inner

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sanctum, where he found Rudolph

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waiting for him. Taking

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a deep breath, he delivered

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the unpalatable message. Just

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as the angels had demanded my

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grace, the angel of the Lord

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Hath appeared to me and rebuked

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you for your sins. He said, if

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you'll forsake your wickedness and

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turn into him, your seat shall

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be the greatest that ever was. The

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entire court was stunned by his

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impertinence. The

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Emperor stared at Dee in silence

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as D's forehead began

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to beat with sweat. Rudolph

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was a stout man who looked even

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larger in his padded doublet

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and pantaloons. Though

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D didn't know this, it was

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said that he had a succession of mistresses,

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several illegitimate children,

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affairs with his head butler, and

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several of his valets. Perhaps

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it was all that that played on his mind

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during those endless seconds of

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silence, for rather than

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get angry, he agreed that

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on balance, the rebuke was probably

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deserved and that atonement

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was needed. D was

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enthusiastically accepted

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into the Emperor's court circle, and

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the Emperor offered to do whatever

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he could to support him financially.

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After a few months in Prague, D

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and Kelly returned to Krakoff, where

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they resumed their seances with the Angels.

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Germanico Maluspina, an

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ambassador for the Pope, arrived

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in the city about the same time. Malaspina

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saw D and Kelly at best

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as inconvenient foreigners, but

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at worst a dangerous influence

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on the Holy Roman Emperor's court.

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In May fifteen eighty five, D

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learned that Malaspina had

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presented Emperor Rudolph with evidence

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that D had been involved in necromancy

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and other prohibited arts. The

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following day, D received

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a decree he'd been

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banished by Rudolph from all

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of Bohemia. Luckily,

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the banishment didn't last long. After

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four months hauled up in Germany, D

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and Kelly were permitted to return

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to Bohemia, after which they

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were invited to stay at Trebonne

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Castle, one hundred miles south

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of Prague, home of Villam

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Rosenberg, Bohemia's most

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powerful and wealthy nobleman and

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one of Europe's most enthusiastic

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patrons of al chemical

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research. The Renaissance

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style castle boasted tall

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white walls, numerous towers

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and turrets, and sat in the

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middle of lush meadows and fish

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ponds. And from the back

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of it, thick plumes of black

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smoke rose up into the air, come

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from several silver mines that

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Rosenburg had opened after

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vast quantities of the precious

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metal were discovered on his land.

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The mines were making Rosenburg rich,

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but he wanted more. With

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the help of John d Edward

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Kelly, and the supposed angels,

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Rosenburg embarked on a systematic

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alchemical quest to turn

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base metals into gold. Rosenburg

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built a laboratory for the two men,

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who spent the next few years pursuing

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this quest. For months,

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d and Kelly worked together, experimenting

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with all manner of formulations, involving

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combinations of salts, rare

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earths, horse manure, and

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even menstrual blood. At

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some point, Kelly revealed to

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D that, with the help of

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the angels, he'd finally cracked

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the secret of the Philosopher's He

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called D over to his station so

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he could witness it for himself. D

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watched as Kelly took a small

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pinch of an unidentified red

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powder, supposedly a portion

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of the Philosopher's stone,

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then dropped it into a crucible containing

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one and a quarter ounces of mercury.

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D watched wide eyed as

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the elements began to melt and fuse

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together, until a dull

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yellow substance began to form

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liquid gold. From

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that day forward, everything

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had changed. Rumors

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of Kelly's alchemical prowess spread

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fast. By the time this

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story had reached the English court,

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it was said that one ounce of Kelly's

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magic powder could produce almost

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two hundred and eighty thousand ounces

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of gold. Edward

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Kelly acted fast on capitalizing

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on his apparent alchemical skills.

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His wealth and fame began to grow,

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while his reliance on John d

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began to diminish. In

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early fifteen eighty seven, Kelly

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told D that he'd received

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word from the angels that his scrying

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powers were no longer needed, and

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that they'd passed them on to D's

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seven year old son, Arthur instead.

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A little confused by the sudden

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turn of events, D nonetheless

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persevered with Arthur, but

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after two weeks it was clear

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that his young son hadn't

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been endowed with any kind of

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supernatural talent. At all. D

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pleaded for Kelly to return, much

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to his delight, two weeks later

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he did. It

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was only a few days after that

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that D and Kelly were once more gathered

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around a crystal ball under

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candlelight. After

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a series of incantations, Kelly

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claimed to see the young child figure

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of Medemi appear again

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in the glass. The

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girl was wearing a cloak he sat,

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and she was pulling it to one side,

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revealing a naked body underneath.

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Then she began to speak. D

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hurriedly wrote it down as

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Kelly relayed her message,

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he who commits adultery because

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of me, let him be blessed

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for eternity and receive the

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heavenly prize. Kelly

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appeared repulsed by the instruction

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and what had it meant exactly anyway?

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Adultery with whom

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D and Kelly agreed to forget

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it, But as the seances

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continued, the supposed Medeemi

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he continue to deliver the

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same message in varying formats.

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In a later session, Kelly claimed

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to see the heads of himself

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and his wife Joanna, and D

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and his wife Jane on some

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kind of pillar while Medemi

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performed a ceremony involving

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the grafting of tree branches together.

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He told D that this indicated

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that the four of them were to be

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similarly united. D

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nodded cautiously, Perhaps,

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he wondered it meant they were

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to be united in a godly

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Christian sense, but

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Kelly was adamant Medeemi

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was in fact suggesting that they

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have sex with each other's wives.

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With his complete trust in Edward

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Kelly and the words of the Angels,

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John D relayed this latest

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instruction to his wife.

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Jane was utterly appalled and

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flat out refused, believing

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that something must have been lost in translation.

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Later that night, while D and

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Kelly conducted another seance,

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Kelly once again made contact

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with Medemi. His mouth

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dropped in horror. What

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is it, asked D. Kelly

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turned to D and explained

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sombrely that Medemi had

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just informed him that both England

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and Queen Elizabeth would be destroyed,

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and that D would be pursued by

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the Catholic Church for heresy if

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they didn't carry out the adulterous

19:42

ceremony as instructed.

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It was some time around two in the morning

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when John D broke the news to

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Jane. Jane shook

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uncontrollably and wept loudly,

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berating her husband for his

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unconscionable demand. Meanwhile,

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in Kelly's bedchamber, his wife,

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Joanna was similarly outraged.

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Kelly had married Joanna Cooper

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during the early days of his tenure in

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D's Mortlake house. Around

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the spring of fifteen eighty three. There

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was speculation that Kelly had

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been paid to marry her to legitimize

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her two children, which had

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been borne out of wedlock as the result

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of an affair with an aristocrat. Joanna

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was repulsed by what was being asked

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of her. In

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the early hours of that morning, Jane

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did as she was asked, turning

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to D before leaving her bedroom

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to say, I trust that God will

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absolve me of any shame or

20:55

inconvenience, and

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so Jane and Kelly a lot

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with D and Joanna at

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sex in their separate chambers.

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A few days later, Kelly and D

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summoned the spirits once more. This

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time, according to Kelly, a

21:14

number of figures appeared on horseback.

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Kelly said that one of the figures

21:19

wanted confirmation that

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he had indeed slept with D's

21:24

wife as requested, was

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thy brother's wife obedient

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and humble to thee they asked.

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Kelly turned to D.

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Yes, yes she was. This

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would be the last recorded scrying

21:42

session that D and Kelly would ever

21:44

conduct. Unsurprisingly,

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a rift developed between the two

21:49

men, which only deepened

21:51

when nine months later, Jane

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gave birth to a baby boy. D

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raised the sun as his own

21:59

and ever once mentioned the child's

22:01

paternity in his writings, though

22:04

many suspect the boy was

22:06

not his. In

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February fifteen eighty nine,

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the pair agreed to part ways

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without Kelly. D search

22:17

for the truths of the universe ground

22:20

to an immediate halt. A

22:22

distraught D and his family left

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Bohemia and returned to England, arriving

22:28

back at Mortlake in November of that

22:30

year, it was

22:32

a sad homecoming. D

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arrived to find his house in disarray,

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with many of his most cherished possessions,

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from books to precious artifacts

22:44

stolen. In the meantime,

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Edward Kelly made his way to Prague

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within a year, Capitalizing

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on his alleged ability to transmute

22:55

base metals into gold, he

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acquired lands with a castle and

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nine villages, as well

23:02

as two houses in Prague and

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became a baron In the process,

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he even reputedly turned part

23:10

of a bedpan into gold as

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a present for Queen Elizabeth the First.

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Anxious to secure Kelly's apparent

23:18

talents for the English crown, the

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Queen's key adviser, William Cecil,

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implored him to return to England

23:26

with promises of money and lands

23:28

as a lure, but Kelly

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declined the offer. By

23:39

May fifteen ninety one, doubts

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were starting to circulate about the

23:44

veracity of Kelly's self

23:46

proclaimed abilities. At

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the end of April, Bohemia's Secretary

23:51

of State called at Kelly's house

23:54

in Prague to arrest him, but

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Kelly, having seen him coming, climbed

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out of a back window and escaped.

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The Emperor Rudolph was incensed

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and sent out troops to apprehend

24:07

him. He was eventually captured

24:09

and imprisoned before being released

24:11

in the autumn of fifteen ninety three.

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Back in England, D once

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again petitioned Queen Elizabeth

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for a role in her court. Much

24:22

to his relief, she offered him one, but

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only if it was approved by the Archbishop

24:27

of Canterbury, the head of the Church

24:30

of England. Given D's

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sinister reputation for dabbling

24:34

in the occult, the archbishop

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refused. Instead,

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keen to get d away from London

24:42

and the Queen, the archbishop

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set him up with a job in Manchester, where

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he was installed as the warden or

24:49

head of Christ College Church

24:52

known today as Manchester Cathedral.

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D was not a good fit for Christ's

24:58

College, jarring immediately

25:00

with the faculty, who took a dim

25:03

view of his occult practices. However,

25:06

this didn't stop several priests asking

25:09

De for his help. When in early

25:11

fifteen ninety five, a

25:13

report was received regarding

25:16

the unusual behavior of two children

25:19

near Tildesley in Lancashire. The

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children were thought to be possessed.

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A man called Edmund Hartley, who

25:28

some believed was a witch, was

25:30

asked to assist with the matter. With

25:33

the use of some herbs and Catholic

25:36

charms, Hartley had apparently

25:38

cured the children, only for their

25:40

strange affliction to return again

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soon after when the

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children's father, a wealthy

25:47

landowner, asked Hartley to

25:49

intervene again. Hartley

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asked for more money and some land

25:53

in return, but the father

25:56

refused. When

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the children's condition were soon

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after, Hartley was accused

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of somehow being responsible. Now

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as a representative of the Church of

26:09

England who were trying to suppress

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exorcists. John D wisely

26:14

declined the offer to get involved.

26:17

Hartley was accused of being a conjurer

26:20

and execute it. You

26:22

can learn more about this story in Unexplained

26:25

Season five, episode fourteen,

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The Devil's Kiss. Over

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the next few years, D became

26:33

increasingly miserable. The

26:35

world was changing once more and

26:38

fast, leaving him behind. A

26:41

new age was dawning as the

26:43

English Crown sought to expand

26:45

its reach, first through

26:47

colonizing island and then

26:50

with the establishing of its first colony

26:52

in the New World on the island

26:55

of Roanoke. With the

26:57

defeat of the Spanish Armada in fifteen

26:59

eighty eight, England's global

27:01

power and influence would be assured

27:04

for centuries to come. And

27:06

though D, with his predictions

27:09

and assurances to Queen Elizabeth

27:12

not to mention his genuine talent for

27:14

maths and cartography, had

27:16

in some ways contributed to all that,

27:19

it was clear he was no longer

27:22

needed. Not only that

27:24

many of the Old Guard, including

27:27

his friends and supporters, were

27:29

dead or soon to die, And

27:32

in sixteen oh three, perhaps

27:34

his most fervent Queen

27:36

Elizabeth the First also

27:39

died. It

27:47

isn't known exactly what happened to

27:49

Edward Kelly in the last few years

27:51

of his life. Some said

27:53

he found renewed favour with Emperor

27:56

Rudolph in Bohemia, Others

27:58

that he fought against the Ottoman Empire

28:01

for Villain Rosenberg's brother. Another

28:04

story was that Kelly was imprisoned

28:07

again after a dispute with an

28:09

influential alchemist, Having

28:11

then apparently attempted to escape

28:13

his cell by tying bed sheets

28:16

together, he fell from a great

28:18

height, breaking both his legs.

28:21

No one is sure when or how

28:24

Kelly eventually died, only

28:26

that the last reliable report of him

28:28

alive was in fifteen ninety

28:31

eight, living somewhere in what

28:33

is now the Czech Republic, while

28:36

Polish Prince ol Brachtlaski

28:39

never did become King of Poland.

28:44

In sixteen o five, John

28:46

d was still in Manchester when

28:48

the city was hit by the plague, as

28:51

apparently foretold by the Angels

28:54

or those years before. Dee's

28:57

wife Jane, and several of their

28:59

children were infected and

29:01

died horribly Soon

29:04

after, d and his surviving

29:06

children returned to his home at

29:09

Mortlake on the River Thames, where

29:11

he spent his final years in relative

29:14

obscurity. In

29:16

March sixteen o seven, nearly

29:19

ten years since his last sessions

29:21

with Edward Kelly, D made

29:24

one final attempt to recapture

29:26

some of the angelic visions of old

29:29

and finally learned the knowledge he'd

29:31

spent most of his life searching

29:33

for. He used his former

29:36

servant Bartholomew Hickman as

29:38

a schrier, but the visions

29:40

they obtained were only pale

29:42

imitations of what D had

29:44

once experienced. However,

29:47

the angel Raphael did apparently

29:50

reassure D that he would

29:53

soon finally achieve a

29:55

perfect understanding of God's

29:57

hidden knowledge. A few

29:59

years at the age of

30:01

eighty one, John D died.

30:05

Perhaps only then did he

30:07

finally find what he was looking

30:09

for. John

30:12

D was buried beneath the chancel

30:15

in the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin

30:17

at Mortlake. The headstone

30:19

is long gone, but in twenty

30:22

thirteen a memorial plaque

30:24

was installed inside the church. It

30:27

reads, Near this place

30:29

lie the remains of John D. Clark

30:32

in Holy Orders, astronomer,

30:35

geographer, mathematician

30:38

and adviser to Queen Elizabeth

30:40

I. There is no mention

30:43

of magic, alchemy and astrology,

30:46

or all his years spent trying

30:49

does some believe, with some success,

30:52

to commune with angels. There

30:55

are unsubstantiated rumors

30:58

that towards the end of his life I D

31:00

put some of his most precious books

31:03

and notes of angelic code

31:05

in a chest and buried it in

31:08

his garden, in the hope that they might

31:10

one day be discovered and finally

31:12

decoded. Some say

31:15

these books were found, others

31:18

that they have long been lost to time, and

31:21

some say they never existed

31:24

at all. However, many

31:26

of D's treasured books, astrological

31:29

charts, and perhaps more intriguingly,

31:32

recordings of the apparent Andnochian

31:34

language of the angels can still

31:37

be found to this day in places

31:39

such as the British Library and

31:41

the Royal College of Physicians in London.

31:45

A number of his artifacts, including

31:47

a crystal ball and an

31:49

obsidian scrying mirror with

31:52

which he and Edward Kelly are

31:54

said to have once communicated with

31:56

angels and spirits, can

31:58

also be found at the British

32:01

Museum.

32:06

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32:09

Hope and Richard McLain

32:11

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