16-01-2026, 12:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-01-2026, 12:43 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(16-01-2026, 10:22 AM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.1.i believe Dee and Kelly actually swap Wives. Only Later Dee decided it was enough for this strange "friendship"
Back around 2000 I read the story above in what I believed was Dee's diary. But it may have been edited...
Quote:2. Did Kelly really murdered a guard?
That did not match may recollection either. Maybe there was confusion with Rudolph's crazy son, who brutally murdered her commoner lover and was then locked up in a castle for life?
As I recall, Rudolph got tired of Kelly's excuses and locked him up in a tower until he would produce the gold he had promised. Kelly tried to escape with a rope improvised from sheets (Queen Elizabeth's men were ready to take him out of the country), but the rope was too short and he broke his leg in the fall. He was locked up again and died from the wound.
Quote:3. Why couldn't Dee decipher Book of Soyga? He created it himself.
Maybe I got the names mixed up. During their seances in England Kelley did create a book with a fake "Enochian" language and script that he said was dictated by the "angels", as part of his fraud against Dee. But the book that Dee was obsessed about, from before Kelley got into the story, had several large square tables of "random" letters. The "angels" could not teach Dee how to read it because Kelley could not figure it out either, hence the excuse that "Dee was not ready for that knowledge yet". Jim Reeds recently discovered that each table was generated from a six-letter seed word by a simple algorithm, that we today would call a cellular automaton. AFAIK we still don't know who created it.
All the best, --stolfi

