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False, lying Spirits and Angels of Light ambiguous mediation in Dr Rudd's seventeenth-century treatise on angel magic.(Report)
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Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
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June 22, 2008
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- Asprem, Egil
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INTRODUCTION
"His only (but great and dreadful) error [was], that he mistook false lying Spirits for Angels of Light, the Divel of Hell ... for the God of Heaven." With these words the seventeenth-century scholar Meric Casaubon (1599-1671) introduced and condemned the famous angel conversations of John Dee (1527-1609) and his scryer Edward Kelly (1555-97), describing them further as "a Work of Darknesse." (1) Casaubon did not dispute Dee's good intentions with the magical experiments, or his self-conception as a pious Christian. The problem was rather the doctor's gullibility when faced with what, in Casaubon's view, were obviously evil spirits masquerading as angels.
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