“Oh, my G_D how profound are these mysteries!” – John Dee
Kelley holds the shew-stone with the mist forming fast. The white vapors shoot upwards around the volumes on upper shelves and form a circle as if to task. The days are still some colder but the winter will not always last, voices moving in their language, numbers show me, show me, something past.
For what is the speech of angels?
I set upon a voyage in a hinterland of sleep, a cauldron of air so cold at first, I thought I would freeze. A self-taught journey from places of the deep, to find the ever after answer in the library of John Dee. Symbols all around me some painted legend in the sky, a coat of many colors as millennium flew by. The whispers of the angels said they were drawing nigh, and then my soul dropped from the star filled sky. Like the star, not yet of morning, summoned to a rite of old, my bare feet feel so frozen in the library I well know. It is about the phantoms, and it is about the truth, the long search of the symbols to find if what angels speak is truth. Moreover, in it all, yes in it all I am speechless.
For here among this sceptered place, with pages from strange worlds, candles burn until morning light, all time has come unfurled. The figures of the two men turn as if to see, but then I see them looking upwards, they do not see me. The coven of the angels falls without light or human sound, they whisper in the shadows who is willing, to stand higher ground. Their bodies are like different lights, some common, some spark with sound. It could be some are seraphim, some light daemons who have come unbound. Moreover, in it all, yes in it all I am speechless.
I stood so indecisively, surveying an unreal play. The ghost of Dee and Kelley asked their questions from a book displayed. An esoteric experiment, to know the power of G_D, to wonder at the wisdom, imparted in what they caught. The scene of simple symbols invoking that realm in which the angels play, to not know that they had reached any reason, only the gray at the end of the day. Moreover, in it all, yes in it all I am speechless.
So, this is a little something that happens now and then, I disappear in airs of thought to a library where time stands still. I ask the light around me what is that of shapes and wills, and still I have no answer, and perhaps I never will. Moreover, in it all, yes in it all I am speechless.
For what is the speech of angels? – 01.30.2019 – דָנִיֵּאל
Dearest Daniel,
This is spiritually beautiful. I could feel the this throughout, every word. One of your best.
❤
Ruby
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Thank you Ruby, I am humbled as always I am by your kind compliments. I am thrilled you found it to be one of my best. Hopefully your corner of Michigan is staying warmer than what the weather map is showing. Take care my friend.
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Oh Daniel, it has been so cold here, I have not left the house all week, but a warm up starting today so there is a silver lining. 😉 You are welcome. Your writing is something I look forward to. ❤ Ruby
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This is fine work Daniel. I am a great fan of the study of John Dee, and your words do his work well.
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Thank you Brian. My wife like you has an interest in the works of John Dee. It was from her interest that I originally began to think about doing this piece.
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Sounds like your readers owe the wife a bit of thanks. 😉
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Hi Daniel
This is amazing work. The dream cast quality takes me to a place that is filled with mystery and wisdom, and leaves me wishing to be able to remain. The song as well is fitting. ❤ A
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Hi Abigail, thank you very much for your wonderful comment. I think I am attracted to that dream like scene in writing so I am very happy that is the way you see it. Thank you. 🙂 John Dee is a good character to work with for such a type of writing. 😉
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Hi Daniel,
You are welcome. I followed the links you had in the post on John Dee. Apparently a very mysterious historical figure. I always learn from your writing. Thank you and have a great weekend. A ❤
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Daniel this was a fascinating read. I love the ideas you come up with. Each post is always a winner. 🙂
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Thank you so much for your kind words Jane I appreciate you reading and commenting.
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My pleasure Daniel, I am always curious about what will be written of next. 😉
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This is going to sound self indulgent but me too. 😉
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Ha ha, now that is rich. ❤
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This was wild, you write a mean sonnet! 😉
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Thank you very much for your kind comment. I appreciate the compliment very much.
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Welcome…:)
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Daniel is genius. I adore all the floating metaphors, there are many layers to this post, and I am sure to be investigating them all. Thank you for a fascinating read. ❤
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Hi Qwen, Very kind of you. I like the term floating metaphors, sounds relaxing somehow. 😉
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Your welcome Daniel, I am not sure if I coined that word but yes it does sound relaxing. 😉
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❤ this you always write a cerebral piece. 🙂
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Thank you Jerri, I appreciate your compliment.
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Your welcome Daniel.
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A great jump into the mystery of John Dee here Daniel. A solid work of prose and as always you deliver on the question, and the understanding of the futility in what man endures to sometimes understand. What is the language and will of the almighty. Well done.
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Hi Steve, Thank you my friend for your wonderful comment. I couldn’t agree more with your use of the word futility, I sometimes wonder is it up to us to understand or accept, something that is not understandable. Kind of a theme I have been on recently.
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Interesting thought to ponder Daniel. Some of us will no doubt go down with the ship trying to understand how it floats, or does not as the case may be. 😉
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Daniel the way you summarized the quote from John Dee that you began with is a work of art. I enjoy reading your work, and found this post to be one of your finest. Keep up the great work.
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Thank you Scott. I am happy you liked this. I suppose the quote from John Dee summarizes many of my own spiritual answers and questions. 😉
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As it goes for me Daniel. Thank you.
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The library was an amazing post. Do you ever do dream interpretations?
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Hi Lily, thank you for reading and commenting. I am stumbling around in my own dreams most of the time, trying to understand what they mean. 😉
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Daniel, I can identify, was hoping you might be able or know someone who does interpretation. 🙂
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Hi Lily, if you can find someone in your vicinity, referred hopefully through a friend that would probably be your best bet. I am a little Leary on line. I wish you the best in finding someone.
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I appreciate your guidance and will follow up on it.
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Daniel — I’ve been reading Rabbi Leo Baeck this week, and your post reminded me immediately of this Baeck quote:
“No word which tries to name or compare Him can reach to His being. Devoutness must therefore in the end become silence.”
take care!! jen
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Thank you Jen for that. I think sometimes for me I try to understand things that are of a curious nature to me, I always find myself left speechless at the answer, or lack of many times. My latest prayer is to be satisfied in that I do not understand but know that it is.
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This was beautiful Daniel! ❤ 🙂
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Thank you very much Lisa, my apologies for such a late reply.
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Very well written, you have a gift.
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Thank you very much for your kind compliment. It is greatly appreciated.
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I know I commented on your FB page over how amazing I think this piece is, but it deserves praise here as well. To be speechless in the presence of Hashem’s presence is to understand. Shalom, Heather ❤ ❤ ❤
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Thank you Heather for your wonderful comment. You are right. Hashem’s presence always demands reverence and speechlessness. Thank you for reminding me my friend.
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My pleasure Daniel . 🙂 ❤
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“Moreover, in it all, yes in it all I am speechless.” this phrase contains much. I enjoyed this piece very much Daniel.
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Hi Carmel, thank you for your wonderful comment. I am thrilled you liked this piece.
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Daniel this is another amazing piece. John Dee outside of holding significant historical value in English History, also holds significant value in spiritual, science and philosophy history. As always I enjoyed your take on his value.
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My dear friend Wang, thank you so much for your comment. I can tell already that we share a great interest in John Dee and his significance. 😉
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“For what is the speech of angels?” I liked the answer 😉 Well done.
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Thank you Ginger for a wonderful comment. I am happy that you liked the answer, maybe even more so that the question interested you. 😉
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Hi Daniel
I am like that as well, the question often interest me more than the answer. Wishing you the best.
Ginger
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I could not agree more with John Dee’s sentiments at the beginning of your wonderful piece. You could have well placed the quote again at the end of this work.
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Hi Darrin, Thank you for your comment. You are correct the quote could have fit very well at the end and perhaps in the middle as well. I do appreciate your insight my friend.
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Very welcome, this is a topic I hope to read more from you on. A solid hint there. 😉
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Daniel, I am waiting for the day, that you reveal your secret, until then I will comb through your lyrical words looking for clues to as how you know such things. This was great. 😉
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Hi Ryan, You know as well as I do that there is no secret just curiosity, but I thank you all the same my friend for goading me on. Wishing you a great rest of the week.
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It is the same with me Daniel more times than not curiosity has nearly killed this cat. 😉 It is safer to read about your curiosity. 😉
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Wonderful writing Daniel, the presence of such metaphysical activity in a dream must mean something marvelous in your life is at work. I would be speechless as well.
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Thank you Lynette for another wonderful comment. I do appreciate you reading my work, and commenting. I think each day is a marvelous one in my life, and I am fortunate enough to get to share it with wonderful readers such as yourself.
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your welcome Daniel, I agree I try to practice appreciating my blessings each day that I receive no matter in what strange forms they arrive in. 😉
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There is a greatness that becomes even greater my young friend when you study the mysteries of old. Dee was well into the future and knew things I am sure even our own theologians and philosophers could only wish to know. You have done Dee’s vision justice with your fine post. Bill
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Hi Bill, I agree, John Dee was well ahead of his time, in the same league with Nostradamus and others of the period. The great Enlightenment got all of the attention but these fellows were more deserving in my honest Opinion. 😉
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Very right Daniel, the mixture of metaphysics with philosophy and those matters of spirit far outpaced the pure secularist that were to come.
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This is fantastic. ❤ it.
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I Thank you Gigi for your wonderful comment. I am so happy you liked this. Have a great rest of the week my friend.
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Interesting!
I have (for over 30 years, now) a silver bracelet, set with a cut, polished obsidian stone. I rarely wear it, but ponder it from time to time. The day’s grey end has become my hair.
Lovely prose, Daniel.
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Hi Resa, I love obsidian, I bet you might could see many things through that stone. It no doubt would reflect the most wonderful things that are you. Grey is wonderful in my book. Of course I would think that I have plenty of grey hair myself. 😉
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Absolutely love this!
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Thank you Tellina, so happy you liked this piece. 🙂
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🙂 Your welcome…
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Loved this, like your writing style.
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Hi Amy, welcome to my blog, I am happy you commented and liked this post. Have a good day.
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Thank you for your warm welcome Daniel, I look forward to reading more. 🙂
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